Grand Intimation .... They were destined to swim the serene but mysterious back crannies of the Calabar creeks together, Nkese and Mark, ever since the former, as a child, had 'promised' to marry the later only hours after he was born. Experiences more bizarre than real, but real: echoes both past and present, believably effected by a jealous and often malevolent family deity out to exact vengeance for a sacrilege of a generation past; then also the baptisms of sort at a retreat run by the affable Father Cornelius, an excommunication Catholic priest, in the outskirts of town. For any man that crosses her must pay the price. Even so Mark the derailed seminarian out to redeem his beloved, then the local Church (as it will turn out finally when he lays down his life for the salvaging of all in the sequel to Grand Intimation). But for now, pursue he must to the end the salvaging of same heritage of the woman he left everything, and still would much more, for....