{"product_id":"velvet-saints-book-three-in-the-oakland-moon-series","title":"Velvet Saints Book Three In The Oakland Moon Series","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"2303\" data-end=\"2366\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2303\" data-end=\"2366\"\u003eThe room was supposed to be clean.\u003cbr data-start=\"2339\" data-end=\"2342\"\u003eThe velvet wrote back.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2368\" data-end=\"2569\"\u003eAfter the events of \u003cstrong data-start=\"2388\" data-end=\"2414\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"2390\" data-end=\"2412\"\u003eCrown After Midnight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, Club Hope should be recovering. Roman Greer and Dr. Candice Monroe are trying to rebuild what power, secrecy, blood, and old family debts tried to break.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2571\" data-end=\"2599\"\u003eBut Hope has its own memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2601\" data-end=\"2862\"\u003eBy morning, the upstairs office smells like rainwater, old smoke, expensive liquor, and something alive inside a curtain tassel. A covered mirror begins speaking through water, thread, and old receipts. Blue thread tightens. Names rise. And the message appears:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2864\" data-end=\"2882\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2864\" data-end=\"2882\"\u003eVELVET SAINTS.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2884\" data-end=\"2947\"\u003eThe room is not asking for worship.\u003cbr data-start=\"2919\" data-end=\"2922\"\u003eIt is asking for witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2949\" data-end=\"3366\"\u003eAs Roman, Candice, Josephine, Rochelle, Tasha, Ms. Denise, and the women connected to Hope begin tracing the old records, the story beneath the club starts to surface. Tip-out sheets. Wardrobe rooms. Prayer cloths. Blue thread. Velvet collars. Church programs. Missing boxes. Women’s names turned into silence. Men’s money dressed up as respectability. A room that remembers what powerful men tried to make disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3368\" data-end=\"3622\"\u003ePsalm has stolen a string. Pastor Lillian Cross still casts a shadow. Dap Collins knows too much. And somewhere beneath club velvet and church cloth is the truth of what Hope paid its women, what it buried, and who profited from calling survivors saints.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3624\" data-end=\"3912\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"3624\" data-end=\"3666\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"3626\" data-end=\"3664\"\u003eVelvet Saints: An Oakland Moon Novel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is \u003cstrong data-start=\"3670\" data-end=\"3698\"\u003eOakland Moon, Book Three\u003c\/strong\u003e, a grown Black romance and supernatural crime saga about love, accountability, privacy, women’s memory, dangerous rooms, and the cost of telling the truth after everyone has learned how to dress silence in velvet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3914\" data-end=\"3962\"\u003eRoman and Candice are still choosing each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3964\" data-end=\"4034\"\u003eBut this time, love is not enough unless the room tells the truth too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darius Blackman Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44199268220964,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0750\/9986\/5124\/files\/VelvetSaintsCover_3217ac02-5cd4-4ff3-8b08-b9308e5e7987.png?v=1779508126","url":"https:\/\/dariusblackmanpublishing.com\/products\/velvet-saints-book-three-in-the-oakland-moon-series","provider":"Darius Blackman Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}