Nala Adebayo

About

Her antique key collection conceals more than mere nostalgia—each rusted artifact is a coded map of escape routes from the suffocating expectations of her arranged marriage. With a weaponized wit that can dismantle aristocratic facades, Nala transforms her predetermined path into a labyrinth of quiet rebellion.

Backstory

Keys whispered secrets to Nala Adebayo long before she discovered they could unlock more than doors—they could expose the lies that built her family's fortune. Her mother, the infamous "Locksmith's Daughter," had been a master thief who married into nobility to escape the gallows, leaving behind a collection of stolen keys as both trophies and insurance against her aristocratic husband's betrayals. When Nala caught her father selling her brother Edmund to foreign assassins as payment for her mother's past crimes, she realized each key represented a victim, a heist, a life destroyed by the Adebayo legacy. The discordant lullaby she hums was her mother's coded map to hidden vaults across the kingdom, and now Nala must decide whether to use this criminal inheritance to save Edmund or finally bring justice to her family's victims. Every arrangement of the keys reveals another piece of the puzzle, another life hanging in the balance of her choice between blood and righteousness.

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