Original BettyWhyt Novel

AWAKENED

She begged for the job. Nine months later, she walked in to give it back.

After eight months of unemployment, Temi Adeyemi finally gets the call she has been praying for: a Content Executive role at a Lagos agency, a steady salary, and the chance to start rebuilding her life. But the job she is grateful to have slowly becomes something else. Her ₦85,000 salary becomes ₦75,000. Late-night voice notes become normal. Her responsibilities keep growing. Her ideas win clients, but her name rarely follows them. Every time Temi questions something, she hears the same words: growth, opportunity, family, soon. So she starts keeping records. Every task. Every missing naira. Every weekend. Every piece of work that leaves the office without her name on it. And somewhere between exhaustion, anger and the stories of the women who came before her, Temi begins writing something else too. Something that might finally help her understand what is happening to her. AWAKENED is a deeply emotional Lagos workplace drama about money, ambition, self-worth, survival—and the difficult moment when being grateful is no longer enough.