Ride and Seek: Crestfallen Ride and Seek: Crestfallen, Book 1, (Paperback)

<p><b>Bullets fly. Loyalties are tested. And running is no longer enough.</b></p><p>Lagos, midnight. Cab driver Rome drops his passenger at her gate, walks her inside, and finds her father lying dead on the foyer floor. The housekeeper has been shot. The guards are dead. <i>And the men who pulled the triggers are still in the house.</i></p><p>The passenger is Tiaraoluwa Domingo, a women's rights lawyer who has been raising hell on Lagos Twitter for years. The dead man is her father, the legal heavyweight Banji Domingo. The killers, it turns out, have been waiting for him for almost thirty years.</p><p>What follows is a sleepless run from Lekki to Victoria Island, through tinted SUVs and gunfire, past a corrupt detective in stolen sneakers and a tanker crash they were never meant to walk away from. Rome takes a bullet. Tiara loses a father, an uncle she trusted, and the version of her family she thought she knew. By morning they have one tank of fuel, two stolen guns, a flash drive, and a name that will not let either of them sleep again.</p><p><i>Bio Crest.</i></p><p>A multinational pharmaceutical giant. A "charity" drug trial run in Kano in the 1990s that killed forty-seven children. A settlement that bought their families' silence with a few million dollars while the real numbers ran into billions. And a Nigerian operation that never actually stopped. One being run, right now, out of a children's hospital that does not officially exist.</p><p>Banji Domingo spent his life building the case that would bring them down. He died with the evidence still hidden.</p><p>As innocent lives hang in the balance, Tiara and Rome realize that survival will require more than escape. To stop the bloodshed, they must confront the monsters Banji Domingo fought years ago, and finish a battle that was never truly over. The aunt who raised Tiara. The bodyguard she trusts. The lover she is just beginning to want. Every one of them is tangled in family secrets and old loyalties she never knew existed.</p><p>Set against the electric backdrop of modern Lagos and the haunted ground of 1990s Kano, <i>Ride &amp; Seek: Crestfallen</i> delivers a gripping African crime thriller filled with conspiracy, heartbreak, and explosive action. A story about justice, betrayal, the price of speaking, and the kind of love that survives a fleet of black SUVs.</p><p><i>For readers of Femi Kayode, Oyinkan Braithwaite, and Karin Slaughter, and anyone who believes a single stubborn truth can still bring down a giant.</i></p><p><i>Now also a comic series.</i></p><p><b>The hunt has begun.</b></p>

• Ride and Seek: Crestfallen Ride and Seek: Crestfallen, Book 1, (Paperback)
• Author: Sally Kenneth Dadzie
• ISBN: 9798184347264
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-27
• Page Count: 168