The Zookeeper

A paradise has, by definition, walls. Adaeze Okonkwo is content with her quiet life caring for otters at a wildlife sanctuary in Lagos. Then, on the morning the world officially becomes one federation, a stranger arrives at her gate with an impossible request. Drawn into the hidden machinery that safeguards civilization, Adaeze discovers a secret older than she ever imagined—one tied to her grandmother, a legendary architect of the institutions that keep humanity from destroying itself. Beneath a vast library that contains every book ever written lies a single forbidden document, a failsafe designed for a crisis that was never supposed to come. As a threat emerges capable of unraveling the foundations of the global order, Adaeze must choose whether to remain the keeper she has always been—or become the only person who can alter the future of the world. Blending the moral depth of speculative fiction with the quiet suspense of a literary thriller, *The Zookeeper* is a sweeping novel about knowledge, power, responsibility, and the ordinary people who stand between civilization and catastrophe.