Ama is a 24-year-old Ghanaian nursing student in Accra Ghana. She wears black and red waist beads — a secret from her grandmother that binds her soul to one man only.She thinks her Italian husband is perfect. Rich. Obsessive. He worships her beads.Until her birthday night, when she finds a second set of identical black and red beads in his safe — worn, faded, with another woman's name engraved.He has done this before.And the other woman is dead.He told Ama the beads were a tradition. The truth? They are a mark. A claim. And in his family, once a woman wears them, she can never take them off. Not even in death.Now Ama must escape this man from Italy to Ghana. But how do you run from a husband who knows every secret your waist beads whisper?A dark, steamy, possessive billionaire romance with an African queen who refuses to be owned.