Pretty, Paid & Healing
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A coming-of-age romance about healing, ambition, and stepping into your softness without losing your power.
Freshly graduated and crowned valedictorian, Nyla Moore has her whole life ahead of her. With a full scholarship, her own apartment in Atlanta, and a plan to one day open her dream café, everything seems to be falling into place. But what she didn't expect was to fall-headfirst-into love.
Enter Caleb, a rising rapper with a checkered past, a soft heart, and a name the streets never forget. They cross paths at her uncle's club during a graduation party turned grown-and-glamorous, and from that moment on, nothing is the same.
In a new city, far from home and expectations, Nyla is learning what it really means to figure it out. From college pressure to family legacy, from balancing goals with love, to redefining what "strong" means for a soft-hearted girl-this is the season of becoming.
Love wasn't the plan, but it might be part of the purpose.
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