Bittersweet 

The Brooks Legacy Begins Here.

Some stories break you open. Some stories remind you what you deserve. Bittersweet does both.

Zari Brooks has spent years doing everything right: focused, disciplined, and determined to build a life that honored her father’s legacy and her own ambition. When a devastating betrayal shatters her engagement and exposes fault lines she can no longer ignore, the version of herself she’s been performing starts to fall apart.

What follows is quieter, sharper work: choosing peace over performance, truth over pretense, and wholeness over the stories she inherited about what a “good” Black woman is supposed to hold.

Bittersweet is an intimate, character-driven novel about grief, trust, and the slow courage it takes to return to yourself after everything has asked you to disappear.