Heart Strings

When friendship, fame, and love collide, someone is bound to get hurt.

Njideka "NJ" Bankole believes in logic, order, and emotional restraint.

As the sensible one in her friend group, she is used to keeping her feet firmly on the ground—even when everyone around her is losing their heads over celebrity crushes and romantic fantasies.

Then a chance encounter places her in the orbit of Nigerian music star Ladi Bello.

What begins as an ordinary interview soon becomes something far more complicated. Beneath the fame, charm, and carefully crafted public image is a man carrying dreams, disappointments, and questions of his own. And the more NJ gets to know him, the harder it becomes to keep her carefully guarded heart out of the equation.

But some connections come with consequences.

Heart Strings is a contemporary Nigerian romance about fame, friendship, vulnerability, and the unexpected ways love changes us. Warm, emotional, and deeply human, it explores what happens when the heart refuses to follow the plans we made for it.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Celebrity romance
• Contemporary Nigerian fiction
• Emotional character growth
• Friendship and found family
• Slow-burn chemistry
• Heartfelt love stories

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