This is a story about hope, persecuted love and the strength in needing others. Nigerian sixteen year old Jade Olawuyi, has problems from her past that's holding her down from living her best life. They keep coming back as monsters and demons in her head, snatching happiness from her till she became her own chaos. But at the nick of time, at the point when everything was about to fall apart completely in her life and she was going to lose it all, someone new waltzed into her life. Someone unexpected, someone truly beautiful. She brought light and happiness into an otherwise pretty dark world, including Jade's, and somehow she made everything make sense again. She was pretty funny too. Maple and Light is a story exploring the power of friendship, family, love and companionship; the power and danger also of hate, mental illnesses, demons in one's head, and homophobia on the African continent; and the extreme levels we all can truly go, when we see a glimmer of light and hope in the darkness, to make it bigger, last longer, and permanently ours for life.