Good and Grown. A Second Chance Love Story of Healing, Faith, and Black Womanhood - Joyce Licorish

Cena thought she knew what love felt like... until it broke her.

Fresh out of high school in Indianapolis, still trying to figure out who she was, Cena meets Tahe-and everything changes. For the first time in her life, she feels seen. Chosen. Beautiful in a way she's never believed about herself.

But one night, one mistake, and one misunderstanding changes everything.

What should've been a love story turns into heartbreak, silence, and years of unanswered questions. Left to pick up the pieces, Cena finds herself navigating single motherhood, shame, faith, and the kind of growth nobody prepares you for.

And just when she thinks that chapter of her life is long behind her... life has a way of bringing things back around.

Good and Grown is an emotional African American women's fiction novel that blends a powerful Black romance with a second chance love story rooted in faith, healing, and real-life choices. It is a story of healing, and growth, and becoming the woman you were always meant to be-even if it takes you years to get there.

Because sometimes love doesn't come when you want it...it comes when God is good and ready, and you're Good and Grown.