Beautiful Scars

Zarallia Monroe has spent her entire life fighting to prove she's enough.

Growing up as the darkest daughter in her family, she learned that love wasn't always given equally. Now at twenty-four, she dances at one of Atlanta's most exclusive clubs, saving every dollar she can to build the luxury skincare brand she's dreamed about since she was sixteen.

Hezekiah Carter is a man everyone fears but few truly know. Behind his reputation, he's carrying the weight of a life he's no longer sure he wants. Falling in love was never part of his plan-until he met the one woman who saw the man beneath the image.

As their worlds collide, love begins to heal wounds neither of them knew how to face. But old secrets, dangerous enemies, family betrayal, and the streets threaten to destroy everything they're trying to build.

Sometimes the deepest scars aren't the ones you can see.

Sometimes they're the ones that teach you how to bloom.