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She needs a research paper partner, he offers love. *** When Karachi Ejiofor, an academic doctor, finds herself in a desperate situation where she is on the verge of missing out on her promotion, her friend suggests partnering with Jean Blaise, the Dean of the faculty. It should have been the perfect solution to all her problems, Except that it is the one man she has always loathed for using his ‘white privilege’ to get to his position, the one she has called a ‘f**king colonialist’ to his face. Nine days to Christmas, pride and desperation fight for dominance, and the two lecturers at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, who have never had a civil conversation work together towards a common goal; the perfect paper publication. Or can they perhaps get more from their arrangement? *** Will the brief period of close proximity resolve years’ worth of tension and chemistry? And when prejudice meets a terrible first impression, and logic clashes with emotional need, can these two make a mutual choice? Or even most tasking, dear reader, can the romantic French Dean of the Faculty convince a stubborn Nigerian lecturer who has been termed ‘Faculty witch' that he is worth breaking all the rules for? All within 9 days…
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