Octavia's Awakening (Elyrian Brides #3)

Elyria is a dream paradise come true for any black/brown woman with a heart longing for the love of a good black/brown man. Black or tan. Brown or beige. Golden or bronze. Tall, very tall, and extremely tall men of every delicious shade of brown skin ever imagined can be found on Elyria. All of them with extraordinary eyes in shades of blue, green, or grey. It is just as they said and more. The men long for a woman all their own to spoil and spoil and spoil some more. A woman can lose her heart and head to a man and trust that he will treasure it always. Though, if she’s not careful she could lose her husband in the heat of a jealous battle.

Octavia Egon, formerly Bryant, awakes to a utopia of brown people. There is an abundance of everything she had longed for on Earth. Peace, love, and the hair grease. She finally has the passion filled nights with a good strong man who makes her feel loved and safe.

Still the Elyrian men have their secrets. Things start to change as secret after secret is unraveled before her very eyes. She’d complain if she could but she did ask for the truth. She learns quite quickly to be careful of what questions she chooses to ask.

Kade Egon has returned home with the one thing he never dared dream he’d have, a wife of his very own. As the ruler of Elyria he never dared hope that a woman would love him enough to accept his marriage proposal. But a fateful trip to Earth lands him the woman of his dreams in Octavia. Now he must unlearn the golden rule of Elyrian men: Please your woman by any and all means necessary. Even if it means lying. He soon finds that when it comes to Octavia, the ends do not justify the means.

As Kade and Octavia struggle against tradition and gender roles of Earth and Elyria, their rule is threatened by inside and outside forces.

Can their love stand the tests of their secrets and political intrigues even as Earth is poised on the brink of what could be a disaster?