Names We Inherit: Secrets and Obligation | A AMBW Billionaire Romance Kindle Edition

Xola Grier does not chase happy endings. She chases proof.Six feet tall, curvy, and sharp enough to cut through a lie, Xola built her career reuniting families because she never had one to return to. Raised as a ward of the state in Atlanta, she learned early that names can be taken, changed, and buried, and that truth is never free.So when Avery Moore, a wealthy mixed-race woman, hires Xola to find the Japanese mother she has been separated from for more than forty years, Xola takes the case for one reason. Time is running out.Avery’s father, Leon, is dying. Dementia has been stealing him piece by piece, but one memory keeps surfacing. The woman he loved, the woman he lost, the mother Avery deserves to meet before grief makes it impossible.The trail pulls Xola to Japan and onto a luxury sleeper train headed north, an elegant sealed world of soft leather, polished wood, and private doors. It is the fastest way to reach an isolated town where paper records are thin, faces are familiar, and outsiders are noticed.It is also where she meets Kyoya Kiryu.Kyoya is a wealthy legacy heir with a body built like discipline and a life built around obligation. He is on the same train for his own reason. His father is dying back in their ancestral hometown, and Kyoya has not been home in years, not since a falling-out that left duty in one hand and resentment in the other. He chose the sleeper line because flying is too fast for what he is about to face, and because privacy is the only place he can stop performing.Xola is everything Kyoya was never allowed to want, unapologetic, fearless, and impossible to ignore.Kyoya is everything Xola knows better than to trust, controlled, powerful, and carrying the kind of family weight that breaks people.As the train carries them deeper into Japan, attraction turns into something neither of them planned. Late-night conversations. Guarded confessions. Heat that does not feel temporary. But the closer Xola gets to the truth, the more resistance she meets, polite walls, missing records, and a silence that feels practiced.Some secrets are not lost.They are protected.And when the past finally surfaces, it will not just change Avery’s life. It will force Xola and Kyoya to decide what they are willing to burn for truth, for love, and for the right to choose their own names.Names We Inherit: Secrets and Obligation is a full-length, emotionally intense AMBW romance set in Japan, featuring a curvy Black heroine, a wealthy Japanese hero, high-class tension, family secrets, suspense, on-page heat, and a hard-won HEA. Read more