It is a rainy day in Kibuye in 1962, when Teta is born. She is a spoiled child, the only daughter in her family. Everybody spoils her. Life offers her everything she wants. It even offers her the dream of every girl; love . . . She is seventeen when she meets Kayira. It is love at first sight. Her family agrees. She will get married with the man she loves. But is this her destiny? To be happy and to get everything that she wants? Her destiny was pre-determined when she was born and all she could do was to follow her destiny. Will their love resist her destiny? Will the love that fill their young hearts endure the trials of life? What will happen when AIDS will be there? Will their love be stronger than that pandemic?


Barassa was born in Nyamirambo, Rwanda, in 1987. At a young age she discovered her passion for books. She was sixteen when she started to write manuscripts of novels. She was in a boarding school in Rwamagana and the only readers were her classmates and friends. Since then she is writing . . .