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Broken Images
Paperback
Publisher: Kinetic Digital Publishers
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some families hand down heirlooms. Sterling's mother handed down survival.
Sterling Dollar Battle has spent his life pinching pennies and burying secrets - the mother lost to addiction, the siblings he's raising in her place, the hustle that keeps their lights on. At Tuskegee University, he's building a different future: a business degree, a fraternity brotherhood, and a reputation as the guy who has it together. Then Roselyn Wright walks into his life mid-pledge, exhausted and unimpressed, and Sterling meets someone who sees past the image he's spent years perfecting.
Rose is chasing her own legacy - a family tradition of sorority sisterhood that comes with its own brutal initiation and its own buried expectations. She's not looking for a distraction. But Sterling isn't like the fraternity brothers she's learned to keep at arm's length, and the closer she gets to him, the more she has to decide whether love is worth the risk of losing herself.
When Sterling's world - the mother he can't save, the streets he can't fully leave behind, and a police stop that threatens to take Rose down with him - collides with Rose's world of privilege and expectation, both of them are forced to answer the same question: how much of who we are is the image we show, and how much is what we survive?
Broken Images is a raw, emotionally charged African American family drama and love story about addiction, ambition, sisterhood, brotherhood, and the cost of building a future out of a broken past. Fans of gritty, character-driven Black fiction and HBCU love stories will find themselves inside every page.
Some images shatter. Others get put back together stronger. Download Broken Images today and find out which one Sterling and Rose become.
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