The Hollow Floors of Eko Tower

About this book

In near-future Lagos, demolition contractor Demola Okafor is hired to bring down Eko Tower, a derelict forty-two-story monument to the city’s appetite for redevelopment. Demola knows concrete, compromised structures, and the cost of bad signatures: seven years after losing her left hand in a construction collapse that killed eleven workers, she has learned to take the jobs nobody else wants and ask no questions. Then, behind a sealed wall on the tower’s fourteenth floor, she finds children. Hidden within false ceilings, elevator shafts, and unrecorded spaces is a community of more than three hundred people erased from Lagos’s official map. Led by the formidable former midwife Iya Ifeoluwa, they have built homes, classrooms, gardens, and a fragile democracy inside the building’s hollow anatomy. As demolition preparations make the tower increasingly dangerous, Demola is drawn into a desperate conflict with the corporation determined to erase its inconvenient residents. With her family’s safety, her livelihood, and the truth about her own past on the line, she must decide what a person owes the living when every available choice carries a cost.

Book details

Genres:

Adventure, Urban Thriller, Social Horror, Literary Suspense

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-14

Content rating:

R