Begonia_Banks
The Brighter Leonard name once meant wealth, prestige, and perfection.
Now it means nothing.
After Alana Brighter Leonard throws away her future for forbidden love, she is abandoned by her wealthy family and trapped in a miserable life with a drunk husband and four children she can barely care for.
For Celestine Brighter, the eldest daughter, survival becomes a full-time job.
Between raising her siblings, enduring poverty, and carrying the resentment of a childhood ruined before it even began, Celestine is determined to become everything her mother never was: responsible, successful, and untouchable.
But escaping the cycle of destruction is harder than she imagined-especially when the same passion that ruined her mother may already exist inside her.