Bride Price of Blood: The Mountain’s Secret

Midnight rain pounds the zinc as my wife guards her bride price like gold, refusing to save her own mother in the hospital. One IOU, one broken phone, and curses fly as family turns enemy, and tradition becomes a weapon. Tonight, I must choose: betray my marriage vows or let blood spill—because in this house, money is thicker than love.

Trapped by a mother's deadly greed, a young man faces the haunting of his beloved sister, sacrificed for money and status. As family secrets turn into curses, he must survive a night where tradition, betrayal, and the supernatural collide. Will he escape his mother’s sins, or will the ghost bride drag him into the grave?

After paying ₦2.8 million bride price, Chijioke travels home for Christmas to seal his engagement—only to face a greedy in-law council demanding millions more, plus a house for his fiancée’s brother. Humiliated, abandoned by Ngozi, and driven to the brink as his father lands in hospital from the stress, Chijioke must choose: lose everything for love, or fight a family ready to sell their daughter like cattle. In a world where tradition becomes extortion, how much can one man sacrifice before he breaks?

On New Year’s Day, my cousin slammed his BMW key on the table, daring anyone to match his pride in a high-stakes card game. With my fiancée’s wedding gold and our future apartment on the line, I risked everything to defend my family’s dignity after he disgraced my father in front of everyone. As the stakes soared—money, houses, even bride price—one wrong move could destroy my love, my home, and my father’s honour forever.

Princess Adaugo returns home with a secret that could destroy her royal family’s honour. Forced to choose between her love for Musa Bello and her duty to the kingdom, she faces betrayal, gossip, and the heavy price of peace. In a world where a woman’s worth is traded for war, will Adaugo’s heart survive the storm?

Tunde faces shocking betrayal on his wedding day when his girlfriend’s parents demand an outrageous ₦50 million security deposit, threatening to shatter his dreams and disgrace his family. As tensions rise and hidden resentments erupt, Tunde must choose between family honor and the woman he loves. With every moment, the risk of losing everything grows, and what should be a celebration turns into a battle for dignity and true love.

When hunger drives Lilian from her aunty’s house, she’s dumped with the proud Okoli family—forced to fill an impossible clay jar before they’ll call her wife. Every kobo is earned with blood, sweat, and public shame, but just as the jar fills, her engagement is switched to an even poorer rival family. With her pride and savings in hand, Lilian must choose: suffer for a loveless marriage, or ride away in a battered keke, dignity ringing louder than any wedding bell.

After ten hard years as a househelp, Ifeoma returns to her village with only her pride and dreams. When she’s faced with a marriage proposal from Musa—the so-called 'old bull' of a powerful, dramatic family—she must battle gossip, jealous co-wives, and her own fears to claim happiness. But in a world where bride price means everything, will love or tradition win?

On her wedding day, her drunk husband loses ₦380,000 at a rigged family card game. The crowd demands payment, shame threatens to bury her parents, and her new marriage hangs by a thread. But when she sits at the table and reveals a secret no one in the village knows, the real game begins—because this bride is ready to gamble everything to save her family’s pride.

I betrayed Musa for money, broke his heart, and hid the child we made—now, six years later, I’m begging at his wedding while our sick son fights for his life. His new fiancée wants me ruined, and my shame is public, but Musa still doesn’t know he’s a father. If the truth bursts out under the Ibadan sky, whose heart will break first—his, or mine?

On Kemi’s wedding day, a stranger storms the crowded family shop, warning that a deadly spirit bride hides among them. As thunder crashes and fear grips the village, old secrets, forbidden love, and juju rituals threaten to turn celebration into massacre. If the truth behind the red veil is not revealed before nightfall, no one will survive to see the dawn.

After watching his innocent sister betrayed and destroyed by her best friend and eight wicked groomsmen, he dies helplessly—only to awaken on the night it all began. This time, he must outsmart their evil tradition, protect his sister from ritual disgrace, and expose the friend who sold her out. In a village where even joy hides poison, can a brother’s love rewrite fate, or will the hill’s dark customs claim them again?