BENEATH THE GOLDEN VEIL

"They called her Tare-ere (Lover Girl). But in the end, love was the very thing that destroyed her."Tare-ere Okoro was born into a life of shimmering gold. As the daughter of a Lagos mogul, she lived in a world where pain was a foreign concept and privilege was her birthright. When she married Jide Adeleke, a man who worshipped the very ground she walked on, her fairy tale seemed complete. He showered her with diamonds, devotion, and the promise of a future as bright as the Lagos skyline.But the gold began to tarnish the moment Tare-ere fell pregnant.As her body buckled under the weight of a high-risk pregnancy, the "Lover Boy" she married began to vanish. Jide, a man who only loved perfection, was repulsed by the messiness of her struggle. Guided by the toxic whispers of his mother, the formidable Mama G, Jide’s adoration turned into cold neglect. He outsourced his husbandly duties to expensive gifts and late night business trips, leaving Tare-ere to face the darkness alone.The tragedy culminated in a blood-stained hospital room. After a traumatic emergency C-section, Tare-ere woke up to a deafening silence: both of her twin babies were gone.Plunged into the abyss of postpartum psychosis, Tare-ere’s reality fractures. In a final act of betrayal, Jide allows his mother to whisk a broken Tare-ere away to a remote village, far from the reach of her own mother, TK. There, amidst the smoke of ritual cleansings and the cruelty of "prophets" who see madness as a sin, Tare-ere’s light begins to dim.Beneath the Golden Veil is a haunting exploration of grief, the stigma of mental illness, and a mother’s desperate race against time to save a daughter from a tradition that has already condemned her.