AleiaBennett

Legacy in Bloom is a contemporary Black romance with the emotional second chance of Seven Days in June, the familial obligations of King of Wrath, and the emotional stakes of Kennedy Ryan's Skyland series.

Leela Carter spent eight years at a London consultancy after escaping her controlling Jamaican-American family — and the arranged marriage designed to keep her in line. When her work rival Nadine torches their biggest account, Leela is sent home to Laurel Glen to clean up the mess. She finds Braxton Hall — the bashful bartender she was forbidden to love — no longer an outsider, and no longer interested in her.

Braxton built a restaurant empire and became a father to his late business partner Sean's son, Diego. He never stopped loving Leela. He just stopped believing it was worth putting himself — and his son — in the crosshairs of her family's plans.

When they're thrown together on the Peach Elite board, old feelings bloom the moment they have air to breathe. It would feel instant if it were not so long overdue. But Leela's family and James won't let them settle into a happiness they don't control — and someone is willing to burn everything Braxton built to make sure of it.