Multiple bestselling romance author, Tomilola Coco Adeyemo, has announced her next novel, Efun’s Jazz. The novel, slated for release later this year, will be her third with leading Nigerian publisher, Masobe Books.
Efun’s Jazz follows Nicole Oyetunji, who is tired of surviving a life that no longer feels like her own. Married for ten years to a man who resents her success and with a longing for motherhood that remains unanswered, she returns to Osogbo hoping that faith, ritual, and ancestral intervention might repair what love has slowly broken. But Osogbo has other plans.
Against the backdrop of the Osun Osogbo festival, Nicole meets Adelaja “Laja” Kolapo, a powerful businessman weighed down by grief, prophecy, and a past he has never fully confronted.
Their connection is immediate and unsettling, stirring desires Nicole has long buried and raising questions she is no longer sure she wants answered. As divinations are told and destinies begin to collide, Nicole must reckon with the truth of her marriage, the cost of self-denial, and the possibility that love can be both terrifying and freeing.
The novel, which was previously published as a short story series on Pan-African literary website Brittle Paper in 2022, quickly became a fan favourite in Nigeria’s literary space, propelling Adeyemo’s literary career.
Efun’s Jazz explores the themes of forbidden love, culture, Yoruba spirituality and its place in our modern lives. It is slated for release on August, 11th 2026.
