Black Rose: Zariah

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 wasn’t just connected to the powerful Laurent family empire. She helped build it. Now the seat she protected for decades belongs to her daughter. Pulled into a world of inherited power, buried bloodlines, and dangerous family politics, Zariah finds herself caught between two Laurent brothers fighting for control of the empire: Victor, the ruthless heir who rules through fear, and Dominic, the strategic son trying to turn the family legitimate while hiding secrets of his own. But the deeper Zariah digs into her mother’s past, the more terrifying the truth becomes: The Laurents didn’t just hide her from the family legacy. They hid the family legacy inside her. As betrayal closes in and old ghosts begin resurfacing, Zariah must decide what kind of woman she’s willing to become — before the empire decides for her. Beauty. Betrayal. Blood. Black Rose: Zariah is the first novel in a dark, emotionally layered trilogy about power, loyalty, inheritance, and the dangerous women born from family secrets.