In Verde Arzu's powerful second novel, Promise Keeper, Chandon Kilpatrick enters Franklin University, a historically Black college, with a quiet vow: to live life on her own terms-not her grandfather's, not the world's, just her own.But one heated argument with Corey-the sharp-tongued president of the Black Student Union-goes viral, and Chandon is once again labeled the girl who isn't "Black enough."Determined to reclaim her narrative, she joins the campus LGBTQ+ group and ...

Taylor has room for exactly two things in her life: improving her performance as a college basketball player and maintaining the grades she needs to stay on the team and someday play in the WNBA. But when she meets the beautiful and confident Melony, Taylor's whole way of life is called into question. RAINBOW is a coming-of-age queer love story with a Love Jones kind of vibe. It's the first of many queer Black novellas by the author Verde Arzu.

In Verde Arzu's powerful second novel, Promise Keeper, Chandon Kilpatrick enters Franklin University, a historically Black college, with a quiet vow: to live life on her own terms-not her grandfather's, not the world's, just her own.But one heated argument with Corey-the sharp-tongued president of the Black Student Union-goes viral, and Chandon is once again labeled the girl who isn't "Black enough."Determined to reclaim her narrative, she joins the campus LGBTQ+ group and ...