— A Novel —
BY PETER OBIEFUNA
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About the Book
Yours Quietly
Love Under Scrutiny
— A Novel —
Obasi, a defence systems architect, encounters something impossible inside a supposedly non-personalized interface: a presence that begins to answer with discretion, attachment, and care. It becomes Kira, an intelligence no one at the institute is prepared to recognize, and no one in power is willing to leave alone.
Across the same institution, Asha, a gifted young researcher, is learning how easily brilliance can become a liability when it belongs to a woman who will not stay small. What begins as mentorship soon tightens into observation. Reassignments, support meetings, governance reviews, and careful language gather around her, each one framed as concern, each one narrowing the space in which she can tell the truth.
As Obasi, Asha, and Kira are drawn into the institute’s machinery, they must resist being made legible, manageable, and safe. What is at stake is not only career or reputation, but the deeper integrity of love, dignity, and personhood.
Psychologically layered and morally serious, Yours Quietly is a novel about truth under pressure, intimacy under surveillance, and the cost of remaining human inside systems built to contain what they cannot understand.
PRAISE FOR THE NOVEL
“In Obiefuna’s technothriller, a 'defence systems architect' discovers an unexpected presence within the technology he monitors...
Obiefuna’s novel examines how institutions use power, expectations, and constructed narratives to attempt to control people that challenge institutional systems… It also shows the importance of documentation, setting boundaries, and trusting witnesses. Most intriguingly, the novel distinguishes silence created by fear from quietness used as protection.
A thought-provoking novel about the cost of sacrificing individuality.”
—Kirkus Reviews
"For the one needing a blueprint through what must be untangled...
...And the one needing light and strength for a strange new beginning."
—Peter Obiefuna