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Ain't No Going Back
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 26 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Frazier James is already lying to his wife. He is unemployed, ashamed, and pretending everything is fine when a letter blows up his life.
Nicole Renée Coleman is dead. In her will, she names Frazier as the biological father and guardian of Layla, a fourteen-year-old girl he never knew existed.
Layla is grieving and furious. His wife, Clara, is blindsided and enraged that the woman they agreed never to mention has re-entered their marriage in the most devastating way.
Then comes the catch. If Layla is going to inherit her family's property, the Kumbaya and Rest Inn in Beaufort, South Carolina, she and her legal guardian must live there for one full year.
What starts as a legal obligation becomes a reckoning. In a coastal town shaped by Gullah heritage and long memory, Frazier, Clara, and Layla are forced to face the secrets they protected, the grief they never named, and the family they never planned.
Some inheritances do not come in money.
They come in truth.
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