In 1980s Ibadan, Funmi is given in marriage to Odun, a wealthy farmer old enough to be her father. She did not choose him and she does not love him. When she falls for his nephew Femi, the affair is passionate and doomed in equal measure. What follows is not just betrayal. Farmer's Bride is a gripping period thriller about a forbidden love that crosses into murder and the haunting that follows two people who thought they could outrun what they had done.