When Ikemefuna is put on a plane from Lagos to Texas, she anticipates her newly arranged All-American life: a handsome husband, a beautiful red-brick mansion in Sugar Land, pizza parlours, and dance classes.<\/p>\n
Desperate to please, she\u2019ll happily cater to her family\u2019s needs. But Ikemefuna soon discovers what it actually means to live with her in-laws. Demands for a grandson grow urgent as her every move comes under scrutiny. As Ikemefuna finds there\u2019s no way out, her new husband grapples with the influence of his parents against his own increasing affection for her.<\/p>\n
As family secrets boil to the surface, Ikemefuna must decide how to scrape herself out of an impossibly sticky situation: a marriage succumbing to generational cycles of pain and silence. In the end, she may be carrying the greatest secret of all.<\/p>\n
An unforgettably delicious thriller, House Woman is about a woman trapped in a dangerous web of conflicting desires, melting in the Texas heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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