Some loves are felt but never lived. When Sergeant Godfrey Sitali is transferred from Kasama to the small port town of Mpulungu at the tip of Lake Tanganyika, he arrives expecting nothing but heat, fish, and a posting he did not ask for. What he finds is harder to name — and harder to leave. A lake that gets into you. A town that works on its own terms. And a constable named Nayame, from the banks of the Zambezi, who walks the lake road before dawn and sees everything clearly, including him. But Godfrey is a man of principle. And principle, it turns out, is both his finest quality and the thing that costs him most. The LOML I Never Experienced Love With is a story about the love you are certain of and cannot keep — told with honesty, warmth, and the deep patience of the lake it is set beside.