What We Thought We Wanted

Four women. Four desires. One question nobody answers honestly: What do women really want?

Amara wants marriage, children, and the certainty of being chosen.

Nana wants success, independence, and the confidence to stop making herself smaller.

Zainab wants luxury, security, and freedom—without surrendering herself.

Chioma wants true love, a happy home, and a life built with someone she loves.

They have been inseparable since their days at Queen Amina Girls' School. Now, more than twenty years later, they are successful women navigating friendship, careers, family expectations, love, heartbreak, money, body image, and the quiet compromises adulthood demands.

But when one unforgettable dinner forces them to admit what they truly want, the lives they've carefully constructed begin to shift.

Relationships are tested. Old insecurities resurface. Opportunities arrive at inconvenient moments. And each woman must confront an uncomfortable truth:

Getting what you want means very little if you lose yourself trying to keep it.

Warm, witty, emotional, and deeply rooted in female friendship, What We Thought We Wanted is a contemporary women's fiction novel about four African women learning that love, success, marriage, and independence aren't destinations—and that sometimes the hardest thing isn't knowing what you want.

It's having the courage to choose it.

Book One in the What We Wanted series.