23 New Books by Black Women You Should Add to Your Reading List

The second installment in the Belles series, The Everlasting Rose picks up with Camellia Beauregard trying to help Princess Charlotte and restore her rightful place as queen of Orléans. Together with the Iron Ladies, a society that rejects beauty treatments entirely, she uses her powers and connections to restore peace to the kingdom . . . and has to make sacrifices along the way.