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Some inheritances come with more than a house attached.

When interior designer Folake Alabi’s estranged grandmother dies, she leaves behind more than a crumbling house on the Epe lagoon, she leaves behind a condition. Ninety days to restore it, or lose it for good. It should be simple: fix the roof, sell the land, and get back to her polished Lagos life and the wedding everyone’s already planning for her.

But Adisa House isn’t finished keeping secrets.

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Beneath a loose floorboard, Folake finds a locked chest of sixty-year-old love letters. Folake starts to understand why her own mother grew up feeling like the least-loved daughter in that house, and why a woman two streets over, selling hand-dyed indigo cloth at the market, has a face she can’t stop noticing.

The closer Folake gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to go back to the life waiting for her…. or the man expecting her to return to it.

What the Water Kept is a novel about the debts silence leaves behind, the cost of chasing a beautiful life over a true one, and what it takes for a family to finally let the truth surface — sixty years late, but not too late.

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