Miles From Home (A Nigerian Youth Novel)

What’s It About?

In 1989, a violent schoolyard brawl at St. Charles Middle School in Maryland, USA leads to the expulsion of 15-year-old Myles Adewale. With tensions rising at home in the United States, he is sent to live in Nigeria and enrolled at Gateway College, a boys’ boarding school tucked deep in the inlands of Ibadan.

What awaits him there is far from ordinary. Beneath the surface of school life lurk sinister forces, men empowered by darkness, desperate to see him fall before he ever finds his footing.

At first, Myles is completely unaware of the spiritual undercurrents swirling around him. He throws himself into adjusting to boarding school life, splitting his time between learning the ropes of survival from his new crew of JSS3 classmates: Ladi, Michael, Wale, and Nnamdi, and trying to win the heart of Ifeanyi, a radiant 16-year-old from St. Teresa’s Girls whose light brown skin and scattered freckles stayed with him long after she smiled.

Unfortunately for Myles, the deeper he settles into this strange new world, the more it begins to unravel. Troubling, surreal encounters start to pierce the veil of the ordinary, and after a startling angelic visitation, Myles can no longer deny that something far greater and more dangerous is unfolding.

As he begins to embrace a mysterious calling, he finds himself stepping into a spiritual war that will forever reshape his understanding of friendship, destiny, and the meaning of home.

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

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