Black Rose: Zariah (physical copy)

Zariah Kane spent her entire life believing her mother was just a hairstylist from Deep Creek with strict rules about survival:

Keep your head down.
Keep your credit clean.
Keep your name out of mouths that don’t pay your bills.

Then Nia Kane dies.

At the funeral, strangers in tailored suits line the back pews. A wreath of black roses rests beside the casket. And Dominic Laurent, quiet, calculating, and impossible to read, watches Zariah like he already knows who she is.

He does.

Because Nia Kane didn’t just know the powerful Laurent family.

She helped build their empire.

Now the seat her mother protected for decades belongs to Zariah, pulling her into a world of inherited power, buried bloodlines, dangerous family politics, and secrets someone is still willing to kill for.

Caught between two Laurent brothers fighting for control, one ruthless, one dangerously restrained, Zariah must decide who she can trust, what her mother was hiding, and what kind of woman she’s willing to become before the empire decides for her.

Beauty. Betrayal. Blood.

Perfect for readers who love:

• emotionally layered urban fiction
• morally gray romance
• family crime sagas
• psychological tension
• powerful women and dangerous dynasties

Book One of the Black Rose Trilogy