Angelgirl6
I used to think life ended the night Mama died.
That was before I learned grief doesn't bury you-it breaks you open.
Taraji Jenkins never asked to be a queen. She just wanted her family whole again. But after losing her mother to illness and her father to sorrow, Taraji and her little sister Zuri are torn from everything they knew and placed behind the worn brick walls of St. John's Orphanage. With nothing but Mama's cross and her sister's fragile hand to hold, Taraji vows to survive the unthinkable.
But when Zuri is adopted without her, Taraji is left with nothing but silence-and a promise to keep going.
With her soul bruised and hope worn thin, Taraji is sure her journey has come to its bitter end-until a stranger, radiant with warmth and mercy, leads her to the butterfly-laced town of Aponi, where something new begins to grow.
In the arms of a new family and under the shadow of magnolia trees, Taraji discovers that some families are born, and some are built through fire. And sometimes, the most broken girls are the ones chosen to rise.
Beneath the Magnolia Star is a soulful Southern tale of sisterhood, sorrow, second chances, and the quiet miracle of becoming.