Broken Rose

BROKEN ROSEby Vincent MorrisBorn in the shadows of a white family’s wealth and raised in the quiet dignity of a Black mother who cleans their homes, Rose grows up knowing two truths: she does not belong to their world, and she will never be saved by it.Her father is a powerful white real estate mogul who never claims her. Her mother is a soft-spoken, deeply faithful Black woman who teaches Rose how to survive with grace, silence, and purpose. From an early age, Rose learns how power really works—not through speeches or protests, but through ownership, access, and control of systems designed to keep people like her invisible.Instead of breaking, Rose studies.She studies language.She studies money.She studies land.She studies the quiet ways wealth moves and the even quieter ways it is stolen.As Rose rises from a poor Southern town to elite Black academic spaces and high-level development circles, she doesn’t chase fame, revenge, or validation. She builds something far more dangerous: infrastructure. A blueprint to reclaim Black neighborhoods before outsiders strip them bare. A strategy to return not as a victim—but as an architect.Meanwhile, the man who once denied her becomes irrelevant.Rose isn’t trying to confront the past.She’s trying to outgrow it.Broken Rose is a powerful, slow-burn literary drama about identity, generational wounds, hidden lineage, Black motherhood, and a young woman who turns abandonment into ambition and silence into strategy. It is not a story about begging for a seat at the table—it is about building a new one and deciding who gets to eat.A gripping, intelligent, and emotionally grounded novel about becoming the kind of power no one can ignore.