Amara Ezekiel is a twenty four year old girl from Yaba Lagos. She is dark skinned, beautiful in a natural way, with small tribal marks on her cheek and big glasses she wears when she reads. She is broke but very brilliant. She studied English in UNILAG and graduated with first class but she has no job. She lives in one small room where rain enters when it falls. She writes stories for other people on NovelUp to survive. She is stubborn, she talks to herself when she is scared, she never deletes anything from her laptop and she overthinks too much. Her mother died of cancer and her father left them when she was small, so she grew up having to be strong. She wants to be famous so badly and that is her weakness because people can use it to control her.Zara Balogun is the deleted girl. She is twenty four years old too, light skinned, i********: perfect, with a small moon tattoo behind her ear and she always wears white dresses. She is the only daughter of Chief Reuben Balogun who is the richest man in Lekki. She schooled in London and came back to Nigeria and became depressed. Three years ago everyone said she jumped from Ikoyi bridge and died but her body was never found. In public she smiles and looks happy but in her private diary she is dark, paranoid and she believes someone in her family wants to kill her. She keeps secrets, she lies a lot but she also tells the truth in strange ways. She was pregnant two months before she disappeared and she hid the test.Chief Reuben Balogun is fifty eight years old, a big man with big belly, bald head, always wearing expensive agbada and gold rings. He is very calm, he never shouts, but his quietness is more scary than shouting. He went from poor boy to billionaire through oil and land. He has married three wives and has many children but Zara was his favorite. He smiles but his eyes never smile. He controls everything and everyone in his house. He hates disgrace and he will do anything to protect his name. He hired Amara to write Zara's memoir for five million naira but he does not want the truth to come out.David Balogun is twenty nine, Zara's elder brother. He is very handsome with dreadlocks and tattoos, he owns clubs in Lagos and he smokes weed and drinks a lot. He loved his sister Zara more than a normal brother should. He is flirty and dangerous but when he is drunk he says the truth. He was the last person to see Zara the night she disappeared and he was driving the car that night. He feels guilty and he uses drugs to forget. He warns Amara not to trust his father and not to trust him too. He may be in love with Amara or he may be using her to find Zara.Inspector Kunle Lawal is thirty eight, tall with a scar on his eyebrow, always wearing black. He used to be a police officer and he was the one who closed Zara's case as suicide within twenty four hours. Now he works as private security for the Balogun family. He does not talk much, he just watches. He collected money to close the case but his daughter is very sick and needs hospital money so he is trapped. He calls Amara by 2:13 AM every night and says nothing. He knows what really happened on the bridge that night and he is scared someone will kill him if he talks.This is the core of the story. Their lives are connected by one night on Ikoyi bridge and one secret that Chief Balogun has been hiding for three years. Every character has something to hide and something to lose, and that is what makes the story full of suspense.
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