The trilogy

Three friends. Three marriages. One honest conversation.

The Three Guys Talking trilogy, in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook. Begin with book one and follow the conversation home.

Book one cover: three wicker chairs behind a glass table where two neckties rest with small flowers, by an overcast sea.

Book 1

My Wife or My Children's Mother?

2017 · 7 hrs 24 min listen

Book two cover: a blue pair and a pink pair of boxing gloves around a heap of mingled shoes, framed on a blush ground.

Book 2

When Ladies Fight Back

2019 · 6 hrs 21 min listen

Book three cover: a framed view of Niagara Falls above a wooden boardwalk receding through tall grass.

Book 3

The Romantic Tragedy

2020 · 5 hrs 31 min listen

The story behind the trilogy

A seriocomic trilogy told through the eyes of three friends, Ray Marshall, Kamal Brown, and Adam Gray, as they navigate marriage, fatherhood, and second chances. Published by Blissful Gardenz Inc, the same garden this site grows from.

Dr. Adeyinka Laiyemo published the novels between 2017 and 2020. In the audiobooks, one narrator, Drew Alan Baker, carries all three.

Read them in order. Each book picks up the conversation where the last one paused.

  1. My Wife or My Children's Mother?2017
  2. When Ladies Fight Back2019
  3. The Romantic Tragedy2020
Book one cover: three wicker chairs behind a glass table where two neckties rest with small flowers, by an overcast sea.

Book 1 · 2017 · 234 pages

My Wife or My Children's Mother?

Ray has been married thirteen years and loves his four children deeply. What he misses is his wife, Desiree, who seems to pour everything into motherhood and nothing into the two of them.

Book two cover: a blue pair and a pink pair of boxing gloves around a heap of mingled shoes, framed on a blush ground.

Book 2 · 2019 · 218 pages

When Ladies Fight Back

The women get their innings. Desiree watches Ray try chores, fitness, and fresh courtship to win her back, and decides what his effort is worth.

Book three cover: a framed view of Niagara Falls above a wooden boardwalk receding through tall grass.

Book 3 · 2020 · 209 pages

The Romantic Tragedy

The conversation reaches its finale. Adam is out of runway: one love is drifting away and the other will not wait forever, so a choice must be made before it makes itself.