The Price of Arrival
What Would You Sacrifice to Succeed?

In Umude, success is never questioned.A new house. A black jeep. Money is handed out in public. A man who once struggled is suddenly called respected.“He has arrived,” people say.But when a young woman disappears near an abandoned building, Chinedu begins to ask the question everyone else avoids.Are these incidents connected?The answer pulls him into a web of fear, sudden wealth, missing people, and powerful men who have learned how to make silence look like wisdom.The truth is not hidden because no one sees it. It is hidden because too many people benefit from looking away.As more names vanish, Chinedu must decide how far he is willing to go for justice — and whether exposing what lies beneath the village will save his community or destroy what is left of it.The Price of Arrival is a dark crime thriller about greed, silence, power, and the price people are willing to pay for success.