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Born into African royalty, Thembeka Malope had her life story already written out by the time of her conception, but she had a chance to lead a normal life for a short while.
She moved to New York where she went to school and to make sure that she would not think of her life as the princess Malope. She became Denise Alistair, a soft spoken advertising consultant. But when the chief summons her back home, she knows that her life is about to change.
Written by Bonnie Robles
Published by AmorBooks
Denise Alistair was all smiles as she walked out of the boardroom on Monday morning. That had been one of the most successful pitches of her life. She had done everything by the book and of course, a few tricks of her own. There was no telling when the rules would fail and she knew first hand from the very first pitches of her career that taking the high road in her business always paid off. Denise was an advertising consultant in a market that was already saturated with one too many advertising agencies, after all, how many people did a country need to splash on a couple of posters on your television screens and script some cliché messages for the radio?
It was because of such thoughts that Denise decided to get into advertising in the first place. She needed to get people to believe in advertising again and the…
