China Doll

She restores broken things, but the truth buried inside a shattered doll could destroy everything she has left.

Mashayla Blake knows how to uncover beauty beneath damaged furniture and cracked porcelain. When a murdered woman is discovered carrying Mashayla’s identification, her fragile sense of safety splinters, pulling her into a deadly conspiracy connected to Second Harbor—an admired housing organization built upon stolen names, missing women, and secrets powerful people will kill to protect.

Every clue leads Mashayla closer to her mother’s suspicious death and back to Ladasha Carlesse, her former social worker and the woman she once loved. Ladasha claims she wants to protect Mashayla, but every confession exposes another betrayal. Their attraction still burns, yet rebuilding their trust may be more dangerous than following the evidence.

With witnesses disappearing and records going up in flames, Mashayla must decipher the clues her mother concealed inside a shattered porcelain doll and a stolen cabinet before the conspiracy erases her next. Exposing the truth could return homes, identities, and power to countless women, but surviving may require Mashayla to risk her heart on the one person who has already broken it.

CHINA DOLL is an emotionally gripping Black lesbian romantic-suspense novel filled with murder, stolen identity, institutional corruption, resilient women, dangerous secrets, and a hard-earned second chance at love.