Seven Days to Pay

About this story

When Leah Mensah finds a final payment notice under her shop door before sunrise, she is given seven days to pay a ruinous debt or lose The Corner Light, the family shop her father built. The document carries a signature that looks like her father's, but not enough to silence the questions. As suppliers demand cash, customers dodge old promises, and a recovery agent tightens the pressure, Leah discovers that poverty is often exploited through paperwork, silence, and shame. With help from her son, her mother, her sister, an old lunch tin of receipts, and a community forced to remember what it owes, Leah creates a simple Promise Board that changes everything. Seven Days to Pay is an emotional suspense drama about debt, dignity, hidden proof, and the small records that can protect ordinary people from powerful lies.

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