The Changing Man

A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school’s decades-old legend in The Changing Man, this debut Young Adult speculative mystery by Tomi Oyemakinde.

Face front. Watch your back. BE BRAVE.

Despite Ife Adebola being in the Urban Achievers scholarship program at Nithercott School, her parents can barely afford the tuition. No matter how much the prestigious boarding school tries to pull her in,
or who wants to be friends with her, like her classmate Bijal, Ife is determined not to get caught up in any of it.

But when another student begins acting out of character, Ife can’t help but wonder if there’s more going on at Nithercott than she realizes. Could there be any truth to the school’s decades-old legend of the Changing
Man? Is there any connection to the missing older brother of her classmate, Ben?

As more questions arise, Ife has no choice but to team up with Ben and Bijal to investigate. But can the trio act quickly enough to uncover who--or what--is behind everything, before they become the Changing Man’s next victim?

Tomi Oyemakindegrew up in London, before being uprooted at the age of 6 to head across the North Sea to the Netherlands. He is committed to crafting stories centered on Black protagonists thriving across genres, audiences & worlds. When Tomi is not busy writing, he can be found daydreaming about his future dog (namely a Rottweiler named Pan) and geeking out over all things anime. The Changing Man is his debut novel.