Cordially, Senegal

She came to Senegal to become someone’s wife. She found herself first.

Andrea McCall has always had a plan. Marriage by twenty-five. Children by thirty. A beautiful home, a steady husband, Sunday dinners, soft femininity, and a life that finally made sense. When she finds a yearlong Wife School program in Senegal, it feels like purpose arriving with a passport stamp.

Then she lands in Dakar and learns the truth: the school never enrolled her. The emails were fake. The thirty thousand dollars she wired is gone.

Humiliated, furious, and stranded with four rose-gold suitcases and no backup plan, Andrea marches into Senegal’s cybercrime division determined to get her money back. There she meets Lieutenant Ibrahima Diouf, a sharp, disciplined investigator who has no patience for fantasy and even less for American dramatics.

But Andrea is not as fragile as he first assumes.

As the case pulls them deeper into Dakar’s heat, family courtyards, Wolof and French conversations, Islamic practice, and the sacred rhythm of Touba, Andrea begins questioning the dream she built her life around. Ibrahima believes in order, evidence, duty, and restraint. Andrea believes in love, marriage, beauty, and being chosen. Neither expects the other to become the complication they can’t stop wanting.

Cordially, Senegal is a slow-burn Black travel romance about tradition, desire, self-worth, and the courage to want honestly. Set against the pulse of Dakar and the spiritual gravity of Senegalese family life, it asks one dangerous question:

What if the life you planned was only the beginning?