Miles From Home (A Nigerian Youth Novel)

What’s It About?

After getting expelled for a hallway fight at Joe Bryant Middle School in Maryland, USA, 16-year-old Myles Adewale is sent off to Nigeria to "get his act together." His destination? Gateway Boys’ Boarding School tucked deep in the red-dirt inlands of Ibadan. His goal? Survive long enough to convince his parents he’s changed and earn his ticket back to the U.S.

But Gateway has secrets.

Beneath the noisy bunks and brutal senior punishments, something older and far more dangerous is at work. A chilling encounter with one of the school’s ancient groundskeepers. Nightmares that leave physical marks. Student who wake up screaming, haunted by things they can’t explain, and classmates who go missing under mysterious and deeply troubling circumstances.

Unbeknownst to Myles, he’s walked straight into the center of a spiritual battleground, one that’s been waiting for him since before he was born.

At first, Myles is just trying to survive the daily gauntlet of dorm rivalries and senior students tyranny. He’s also hoping to win the heart of Ifeanyi, the smart, brown-eyed girl from St. Teresa’s, whose disarmingly beautiful smile and scattered freckles make his stomach do somersaults. But when a mysterious angelic encounter shakes him to the core, he realizes he’s not in Nigeria by accident.

He’s here on assignment.

Now he must choose: return to the life he knew, or embrace a destiny that could awaken his heart, transform his school, and ignite something far greater than himself.

Get ready to jump into this blockbuster Nigerian YA novel as I release a new chapter each week… or whenever inspiration flows and Nigeria isn’t out here trying to drain my soul.

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