Six daughters from four wives, King Omah passionately desires a male-child successor.

A SINGLE SEED OF ALLIGATOR PEPPER from the Sun God priest, mixed in porridge, will make the LUCKY WIFE who eats it to bear the male heir of Ijezah Kingdom.

Selfish queen mother Heziah, fears losing her influence should any of the king's wives, other than her cousin-favorite, beget the heir, and she plots against that.

Quinderella (the unwelcome fourth wife) is blocked from freely eating the porridge. She eats the spillovers on the floor and luckily eats the SEED.

Heziah plots and renders Quinderella unconscious during labor, swaps the baby boy heir with a girl child, and abandons him (Omalingo) by the riverbank.

Rescued, nursed, and nurtured by the hermit of Mother Earth for nearly three years, determining Omalingo's true mother becomes a task that must be done.


Christopher and his family from Delta State, Nigeria, currently live in the United States.

He read Agricultural Education in college, retired as a Merit Grade School Principal, but has a passion for writing. He edited school magazines and has many articles published in several Nigerian newspapers.

A last borne brought up by an aging mother, Amaechi, fondly called, loves tales "by moonlight" and "by the bed," and QUINDERELLA derives from these.