Before Love Kind of Love

Moira never expected to fall in love with the girl she was being paid to befriend. Her life was busy as it was. She was working odd jobs. Blackmailing her boss. Riding her yellow bicycle around Nyika town. Helping her older brother Zane pay for medical school. Like the sun clinging onto the evening sky, Nalia lingered in her life. To Moira, Nalia was in every sip of wine they shared every night. The rainy walks home. The soft kiss by the riverbank. The last sunflower dipped in gold. Phone calls under the moonlight. Badly cooked noodles fixed with peanut butter. In between love, there was the heart-tugging work for CMD. The old woman she helped find her missing daughter. Looking for a widow's love letter swept away by floods. . She gets pulled into cases involving missing people, stolen history, and small objects that mean far more than they seem to. Then there is ordinary life. Lunch at Gav's hotel. Her boss getting arrested for fraud. Shared meals on the floor of dorm rooms. Math homework that did not stop terrorizing her. Money worries. Oranges shared with Jerry. Nalia's father, who seemed larger than life. Parents too lost in their art to take care of her. A childhood painting that made her heart ache. Before Love, Kind of Love is an intimate story about what happens when you slowly stop surviving and start choosing.