After ten years of marriage, Asabe and Adam remain childless. Fueled by desperation and a long held secret, Adam marries a second wife. Fatima is very young and beautiful, but she has no affection for her new husband. She locks her bedroom door at night and avoids him at all costs. Despite the jealousy and bitterness that can often exist between co-wives, Asabe and Fatima become as close as sisters. Wanting the happiness of her new consort as well as her husband Asabe encourages Fatima to see the good in Adam. With time, Fatima learns to love her husband and becomes pregnant with twins.As fate would have it, Adam's son is not destined for this world. He dies moments after his birth and Fatima follows closely behind him. Asabe promises Fatima to become a surrogate mother to the twin daughter who survives. On the very same day, Adam's business is destroyed by fire. Desperate to rebuild and to have a son, Adam makes a deal with a wealthy businessman named Abu Kareem. The deal? To marry Sauda, Abu Kareem's spoiled divorced daughter in exchange for the funds necessary to rebuild.Read An Unproductive Woman to learn how Asabe finds the strength to live with the cunning, deceptive, and willful Sauda, and to learn what secrets Adam has withheld that would explain his unreasonable longing and pursuit of a son at all costs.