When Hannah moved in with her boyfriend and the father of her unborn child, she did not imagine that that singular step would lead to her grave. The man sells meat, but Hannah had no way of knowing that he is a butcher in another sense. Hannah also did not know that Fredrick had another girlfriend years ago, whom he killed. He was helped by his sister and her boyfriend to escape the law. His sister’s boyfriend is a senior police officer. A year after their son is born, Fredrick kills Hannah after an argument. This time though, he encounters another woman in the name of detective Chebet. She is tough and smart, and she is determined to send him to prison. Fredrick The Butcher is forced to turn once again to his sister Milka and her boyfriend, Senior Assistant Inspector General of Police William Hawi for help. Hawi doesn’t want to use official channels to help Fredrick this time, so he decides that the best thing to do is to kill detective Chebet and kill in the investigation in the process.

Sarah seems to have it all: a job as a TSC teacher, a good husband, two lovely children and a beautiful home. But her husband starts changing. He stops going to church, starts partaking alcohol and becomes violent. Unknown to Sarah, her husband Robert has been having an affair with their house manager, Fridah, right under Sarah’s nose. Robert’s mother, Isabella, knows about it and has been encouraging her son to leave Sarah for Fridah. For Isabella, everything is about control. She wants to continue controlling her son’s life, but Sarah has been standing in the way. But Fridah is illiterate and naive, and Isabella is confident that she can control her with ease, and regain access to her son’s life.

He was her benefactor. Boniface heard Purity’s moving story about her struggles with her university fees and an ailing father, and he moved in to help. In the process, he became her lover and even married her through a traditional wedding ceremony. He told her he was a widower with two grown daughters. What he didn’t tell her is that he had other children with other women, one of them being his first wife Priscilla who he abandoned in the village after getting married to his now dead wife Sophia. Purity finds that out the hard way when Priscilla’s son Jacob kidnaps her with the intention of killing her. Jacob is bitter because Purity is living in the luxury of his father’s wealth, yet his own mother died because she could not afford medical treatment. When Boniface learns about the kidnapping, he sends his thugs to discreetly kill both his wife and his son. He wants his son dead because he is a nuisance, and he figures that his wife’s death will get him sympathy votes in the upcoming election, in which he is vying for the MP seat.

Michael’s mother, Tabitha, is dying. She has stage one breast cancer, and needs three million shillings to undergo a surgery that doctors are confident will save her live. But the family doesn’t have the money. Michael is a senior civil servant earning close to half a million shillings a month, but he cannot help his mother because he is under the control of his manipulative wife Mercy. She controls every aspect of his life, including his finances. When he tries to break free of Mercy so that he can save his mother, she stabs him in the belly with a kitchen knife, leaving him for the dead.

From the outside, Maxwell is a successful man. He is the Principal Secretary in the department of Trains and Rail Network within the Ministry of Transport, in President Franklin Mwiti’s government. But deep inside, Maxwell is a wounded man. He has never received his father’s love. In fact, his father took every opportunity to remind him that he would amount to nothing. Of course Maxwell has outdone himself and proved his father wrong; but he always has gnawing sense of self-doubt that makes him make costly mistakes in life. It made him fail to marry the woman he loved because he did not think he deserved her. It made him marry the wrong woman because he didn’t believe he deserved better; and stayed in that abuse marriage for too long because he was afraid of leaving. He was bullied by his boss, the President, into signing documents he had not read because he did not have the courage to stand up for his principles. Besides, he did not want to lose his job because he had come to believe that his value as a person is attached to his job. This last error has come back to bite him. It is has emerged that the deal he approved without reading caused the loss of two billion shilling from the public coffers. Suddenly Maxwell finds himself as the villain across the country, staring at the doors of prison. Can the woman he once loved, the one he failed to marry, rescue him?

Fred, a university graduate, was forced by joblessness to work as a shamba boy. While working for the Mwanzias, he fell in love with their house help, a girl called Jackline. They started dating and she became pregnant. Fred stepped up and told her that he would fend for his baby. But he was worried about the means to provide for his new family. Fred joined a fraternity in a bid to improve his financial situation. His recruiters told him that all that would be required of him was to sleep once with the agent he would be assigned, and to surrender ten percent of the profits he would be assisted to get to the fraternity. He agreed and joined. Five years later, he is informed that the Grand Master of the fraternity wants him to sacrifice his son as a show of gratitude. He refuses, and his agent informs him that the fraternity would kill both his eldest child and his wife. Under the circumstances, Fred realises that he has to kill his son, rather than risk losing both his son and his wife.

Mark and his sister Joy are used to being abused by both their parents. But one day thirteen-year old Mark stands up to his mother. He refuses to be beaten and he even defends his sister. When later that night his Mark’s father tries to beat his mother, Mark jumps to his mother’s defense. But Donald, Mark’s father, doesn’t take the challenge quietly; he beats his son so badly that he ends up in hospital. Following the incident, Mark’s mother Agnes moves back to her mother’s house, together with her daughter Joy. That, however, encourages a woman who is interested in Donald’s wealth to make her move. For the woman achieve the ultimate goal of taking over Donald’s property, Agnes has to end up in prison, and Donald has to die. But where will that leave Mark and Joy?

Sheila was brought up in a Christian family. When she got to the university, however, she abandoned the church and turned to a wild lifestyle. She did sober up after completing her undergraduate studies, but she did not return to the church: the way Christians had treated her during her wild days had made her skeptical. Her friend and colleague Stella wins her however, and she joins the church her friend attends. There, she meets a handsome worship leader, and they start dating. In line with their Christian faith, they agree to abstain from sex until they get married. But her boyfriend invites her to his house for lunch one day and then rapes her. In her quest for justice, it becomes clear that the rapist and his billionaire father will stop at nothing in order to cover the crime. They are even willing to kill Sheila and her best friend Stella.

Helena has been a very supportive wife of a pastor; she even shelved her career ambitions to support his ministry. Even when she learns that he is cheating, she does not confront him. But when one of his mistresses, a girl that Helena has seen grow up, begins to disrespect her openly, Helena knows she has had enough. She tells both her husband, Myles and his mistress Summer off in front of the congregation, and then walks out and goes to her parents’ house. But her parents kick her out and tell her to go back to her husband, so she finds herself broke and homeless. As if that is not enough, there is a fanatical goon of her husband who is out to kill her for “pointing a finger at the anointed of the Lord”.

Judith and Jesse are supposed to get married this week. Jesse decides to surprise his bride-to-be, so he buys her the books she has been talking about for a couple of weeks and a bunch of flowers. But when he gets to her apartment, he finds her making love to her colleague, who also happens to be his best friend. A scuffle that follows ends up with Judith fighting for her life in hospital. But that is not the end, because more intrigue follows that involves Judith’s entire family.

What does one do when he/she is betrayed by those he/she holds dear? Does one become bitter and disillusioned? Is it possible to remain optimistic about life? Bradley and Lavender come from different socio-economic backgrounds. Bradley’s family is wealthy while Lavender comes from the ashes of poverty. But they are both betrayed by their families and their lovers because jealousy, ego and the darker traits of the human race do not respect financial boundaries. Bradley was cast out of his family because of marrying Cess, his brother Philip’s house help. Unknown to him, Philip had been carrying on an affair with Cess. As Bradley learned later, his first born child was actually his brother’s biological daughter. But for thirteen years Bradley had no idea, as he reconstructed his life with his wife, away from his wealthy and powerful family. Lavender, on the other hand, was kicked out of her home by her mother and siblings because of joblessness. She was arrested three months later for selling illicit brew, but the OCS liked her and released her on condition that she would become his lover. She agreed. When Philip’s wife Hannah dies mysteriously, and he decides to publicly reclaim his former mistress, Cess, who now happens to be his brother’s wife. He cooks a plot to have Bradley killed, and the man tasked with the murder is Lavender’s boyfriend, the OCS, who is also the father of her second son Mark. Against her wish, Lavender is given a role in the murder of an innocent man.

To the outside world, Grace is an accomplished woman. She is the head of Walleva Academy, which she co-owns with her sister and her brother-in-law. She is highly respected and beloved. Unknown to many, however, Grace has found a notorious hobby: sleeping with her male pupils. She goes on with her affairs for two uninterrupted years. But then her adult on-and-off lover, Ian, who is also her deputy, finds out her secret. Grace decides that there is only one way to keep her secret, save her reputation and secure her freedom: to have Ian killed.