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In the heart of a bustling Nigerian town, Zainab is known as the quiet, modest tailor with golden hands and a perfect smile. Her clients adore her. Her neighbors respect her. Her life seems flawlessly stitched—until a mysterious stranger walks into her shop and unravels everything she’s tried so hard to conceal.

Beneath the layers of Ankara and silk lies a haunting past, a forbidden love, and a truth that could destroy her family’s name. As old wounds resurface and new desires bloom, Zainab is torn between duty and desire, silence and survival.

How long can she keep sewing perfection when her own life is falling apart at the seams?

A tale of secrets, sacrifice, and the kind of love that dares to exist in the shadows. The Tailor’s Secret is a gripping urban drama that pulls you in, thread by thread.

The Tailor's Secret

The sound of scissors sliced through the silence, clean and certain.

Zainab sat alone in a dusty studio apartment in Enugu, surrounded by half-sewn garments and confidential documents that smelled of sweat, smoke, and secrets. The sewing machine clicked like a clock counting down. The electricity had just returned after 48 hours of blackout—enough time for her to think. Enough time for enemies to move.

Since the exposé at the inauguration, the Bureau had split into factions. Some members vanished. Others switched sides. But whispers followed Zainab everywhere. Not of fame or praise—but vengeance.

The voice behind the Bureau. The one even Raven feared. No photos. No digital trace. Just an encrypted signature that appeared on a leaked memo Obi intercepted from an old hacker group that once tracked state violence during the EndSARS era.

And now, The Architect had issued a bounty.

Fatihah had gone offline for three days.

And the only person left who could help her find the Architect... was the same man who once nearly ruined her life.

Didn't want to feel that old pull.

But Dapo—rotting in Ikoyi prison—was the only link left. He had whispered once about "a man bigger than all of us." A man he feared more than arrest. And if Zainab was going to win this war, she needed that name.

She packed her bag: needles, burner phone, fake ID, pepper spray.

At the bus terminal, she wore a yellow gele and old buba, blending in like another market woman heading for Lagos. Her eyes burned from lack of sleep. Her heart thudded a war song.

But when she reached the prison, something was wrong.

"Transferred. Private security clearance. No visitation allowed."

This was The Architect—cleaning house.

She left the gates and melted into the city.

Somewhere in Lagos, Dapo was being silenced.

And if she didn't find him first, the next stitch she sewed might be the last.

THE WHISPERS IN THE STITCH