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Rooted in You, Angola: A Black Travel Romance
Paperback
Series: Black Travel Romances(tm)
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 2 2025
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She came to Angola to build futures. He came chasing legacy. Neither expected love to find them first.
For nearly five years, Asha Blake has led a women's cooperative in Luanda while completing her doctorate in public health. Her focus is clear: uplift the community, protect the center she helped build, and finish strong. But when a luxury development threatens the neighborhood's fragile balance, everything Asha's worked for is suddenly on the line.
Enter Mateus Oliveira: Portuguese-Angolan real estate developer, heir to a legacy he's still trying to define. He's smart, sharp, and laser-focused on completing his flagship project. But the land next to it is causing headaches he didn't plan for-and the woman fighting to protect it? She's not backing down.
Their connection is tense, charged, and magnetic. But as a reluctant partnership turns into something deeper, Asha and Mateus are forced to confront not just each other-but the history, grief, and power struggles buried beneath the soil they stand on.
Rooted in You, Angola is a slow-burn Black travel romance about legacy, land, and falling for someone on the other side of the fight.
Perfect for readers who love:
✨ Diaspora love stories rooted in culture and place
✨ Slow-burn tension and emotional heat
✨ Angola's rhythms, rivers, markets, and matriarchs
✨ Real stakes, soft longing, and unexpected joy
✨ Black women leading, loving, and choosing themselves first
This is Book 6 in the Black Travel Romance series.
Collect them all and fall in love in a new country every time.
Each story is a standalone, but the journey? Unforgettable.
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