Cynthia Okoye, a ravishing and intelligent young lady draws men of diverse hues like a magnet. Her beauty is also her albatross. Larry Thompson, an enigma, finds himself helplessly in love with Cynthia Okoye, yet he has a duty to kill her. Cynthia Okoye's life is enmeshed in the traumatic experience of her endowed sick country, Nevoria, where hardship bred by irresponsible governance, myopic parental tyranny, inordinate ambitions and egoism, dangerous desires and endemic materialism, and the rich's insensibility to the plight of the poor are the embers that are fanned by circumstances until they snowball into a great fire. "This is a modern classic novel that exposes a lot of crucial contemporary issues to thoughtful questions; a high class novel that captures virtually ALL the societal problems bedevilling most countries of Africa.

This story talks about a family that fight each other at any given time because of the throne. Every little thing attracts a fight, quarrel and disagreement there by putting shame on the name of the family which took years to build.