PerriBriggs
Twenty-seven-year-old Sage Trahan has built the kind of life her younger self used to pray for.
Born and raised in New Orleans' historic Black Pearl neighborhood, Sage is the proud owner of **Bean There, Baked That**, a stylish neighborhood café and bakery where handcrafted pastries, decadent chocolates, specialty coffee, and Southern flavor come together under one roof. A Dillard University graduate and proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Sage is ambitious, creative, educated, hardworking, and determined to make her name without forgetting where she came from.
But beneath the success, Sage is still carrying something she has never truly healed from.
On the night Sage graduated from college, her father, **Detective Syrus Trahan**, was killed in the line of duty under circumstances that never quite made sense.
Syrus was respected. Loving. Charismatic. Protective. A devoted husband and father.
And according to the official story, his death was simply the tragic consequence of police work.
Sage has always tried to believe that.
She has to.
Because the alternative means questioning everything her family has told her.
Sage's world revolves around the women who raised her: her glamorous older sister **Sole Trahan-Nkosi**, a celebrity event planner and florist living in Lancaster, Texas with her professional-boxer husband Jabari and their two-year-old daughter Serenti; her youngest sister **Sahara Trahan**, a musically gifted Atlanta Falcons cheerleader determined to make her own mark; and their beloved Granny Magnolia Lemon, a Shreveport-born, New Orleans-raised culinary instructor who owns the beloved Bayou Flavour Café in the Treme.
Then there is Sage's mother, **Venus Lemon**, a successful jazz vocalist who traded New Orleans for College Park, Georgia years ago and now lives with her wealthy, flirtatious fiancé Pierre Grace, owner of The Executive Ember Cigar Lounge.
The Trahan women love hard.
They argue hard.
They protect their own.
And