Some secrets don't just disappear. They simply wait. Twenty-four-year-old Amara McMichael has spent years fighting for a better future. Between university, family struggles, and the pain of losing her mother, love was the last thing she expected to find. Then she meets Malik-a successful Jamaican-American businessman returning home after years abroad. He is everything she never thought she needed. Until she discovers the man who feels like her future may be connected to the past that destroyed her family. The Rush is a Jamaican contemporary fiction novel exploring love, ambition, migration, family, and the consequences of the choices we make.