Lady Honey Woods Paperback – March 10, 2026

In Catto County, Virginia, where secrets bloom like honeysuckle, Lady Honey Woods is learning that growing into a woman means reckoning with the girls we once were—and the women we never got to know.Raised by four men in a small rural town—her tender-hearted Granddaddy Beau, her young and restless father Cross, and her two wild uncles, Sweetin and Boss—Lady has always been surrounded by love. But not the kind a girl needs from a mother. Her mama vanished after a one-night chance meeting. Her grandmother, Big Mama, left behind only memories and a name that echoes through every man in their family.Now thirty, and still aching from everything unsaid, Lady begins a journey of memory and meaning—unraveling the emotional inheritance passed down through silence, sacrifice, and Southern tradition.From the porch steps of her childhood to the velvet ropes of The Pearl Lounge, Lady Honey Woods is a soulful, coming-of-age story about girlhood, grief, and the messy, magnificent art of becoming a woman—especially when nobody ever showed you how.For readers who love:Character-driven Black Southern fictionStories about motherlessness and generational healingPowerful depictions of womanhood, family, and self-discovery Read more