Neema Lekishon, 22, builds school desks from cartons in Kajiado to pay her father's debt. Broke, brilliant, and invisible. Adrian Ole is Nairobi's most ruthless billionaire CEO. Cold, possessive, and used to buying everything - except her. When she takes a night job as his office cleaner, he sees her as just the village girl who fixes furniture. Until one rainy midnight, he finds her building a tiny wooden desk for his 6-year-old daughter who refuses to go to school - because she has no desk. For the first time, the billionaire who owns everything can't buy what he feels. He offers her a contract: Be his fake fiancée for 3 months to secure a billion-shilling investor, and he will fund 500 desks for her village school. She hates him. He needs her. One office. One contract. One tiny desk that will change everything. Enemies to lovers. Fake engagement. Forced proximity. Single dad. Billionaire romance with an African soul. Will the girl who refused to be sold for 500 cows sell her heart for 500 desks?

My name is Emma Carter. 24. Desk girl on Floor 7. I caught my husband Ryan cheating with my best friend Chloe in my bed on our anniversary. With my red scarf on the chair. Ryan said, "You are just a desk girl. You count desks. Chloe counts money." That night I slept under my desk on Floor 21. His boss found me crying at 2 AM. Alexander Black. 35. Billionaire CEO. He hates cheaters. He said, "Marry me. One year contract. I need a wife. You need revenge." I said yes. Now my cheating husband is my husband's junior. My ex-best friend is my intern. And I am Mrs. Black, living on Floor 21. But my billionaire contract husband has one rule: Don't fall in love with him. Will I break Rule #4?

19-year-old Neema had one dream: to become a teacher in Eldoret. But in her Maasai village in Narok, a girl's dream is worth 50 cows. Her father has already taken the cows from 62-year-old Mzee Koinet to marry her off as his third wife. On the night before her forced marriage, Neema runs away with only her KCSE certificate and 500 shillings. In the cold streets of Eldoret, she must survive as a househelp, fight for a college bursary, and prove that a book is worth more than 50 cows. When she falls in love with Daniel, a Kikuyu boy from her class, her village calls it a curse. Can she break the ancient curse, save her mother, and build a school for girls like her? Or will the red beads pull her back to the village? A powerful African love story about courage, culture, and a girl who said NO.