"We're going to get caught." I feel his lips trace the curve of my neck.
"Try being less gorgeous," is his breathy response before sealing my lips with his, stealing any response I might make. I hear a moan, realizing the sound is coming from me.
I'm not used to this. Indulging, feeling irresistible.
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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.
Black people with old money. A professional gossip mill. A community formed by need, preserved despite external resistance, and power makers with shadow influence across the globe.
Laurel Glen is the kind of town where everyone's legacy was decided before they were born. Leela was born into it. Braxton had to earn his way in. And now, eight years later, the town is going to make both of them prove it all over again.








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"This book is giving me rich plant aunty vibes."
"I feel like I'm smelling and seeing and reading."
"Oh I'm fully leaned in... LOVING THIS."
"brb gonna CRY." "PERIOD BRAXTON! Wow, I love them."
"I'm going to combust."
"It's 7:16 am and I'm hot. I need a cold shower before work."
"i really hope you let me fight this mama before the end of the book. please, I'm begging!"
Query letters, sample pages, and the full manuscript available upon request.
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