In Montclair Heights, disgrace is survivable-if your family has enough silver, influence, and silence.
After a devastating professional scandal forces Simone Carrington to leave New York, she returns to the affluent Black community that raised her-a world of historic families, political ambition, carefully guarded reputations, and secrets disguised as tradition.
When the powerful Tate family offers Simone a prestigious position at their foundation, it appears to be the opportunity she needs to rebuild her life and restore the Carrington name. But inside the foundation's archives, Simone discovers evidence that her late father may have helped create the Tate empire-and that his contributions were deliberately erased.
As Simone follows a trail of missing records, disputed land, buried betrayals, and decades-old alliances, she is drawn deeper into a family whose polished image conceals dangerous truths. Everyone in Montclair Heights has something to protect: an inheritance, a marriage, a political future, or a last name powerful enough to rewrite history.
To reclaim what was stolen from her family, Simone must decide how much she is willing to expose-and whether justice is worth losing the very community she was taught to preserve.
Black Elites is a gripping novel of Black wealth, legacy, ambition, betrayal, and the women who refuse to remain silent when power demands their obedience.
