Travails is a fiction prose that captures the inevitable struggles, intrigues and strategic battles that every successful people often encounter in their craze to attain success and remain at the top tier of success. In the same vein, the story depicts how the power and influence of a woman's love, wit and protective instinct can either destroy or revive a man's fortune. It spans across a variety of themes like ambition, greed, infidelity, sexual-depravity, love, hate, revenge, crime and conspiracy. The book Travails is definitely a suspense filled, captivating and thrilling blend of action/adventure/crime genres of prose in its own right, written with the sole aim of entertaining as well as unmasking some conflicting aspects of human nature.