Rich & the Ratchet is a raw, electric, and emotionally fearless novel about what happens when money, power, love, and unresolved trauma collide.

Devon Youngblood is the richest Black man in America—an icon of excellence, a hedge-fund legend, and the public face of Black wealth done right. On television he is flawless: a devoted husband, a disciplined father, and a man rebuilding the Black community with billions. But behind closed doors, he is haunted by old wounds, hidden desires, and a secret life that threatens to destroy everything he’s built.

When a scandal erupts and exposes his private world, Devon is forced into a reckoning that reaches far beyond the headlines. His wife must confront her own identity outside of a perfect marriage. His children begin to see him not as a myth, but as a flawed man. And a loud, toxic media machine cheers him on for all the wrong reasons—while tearing down the very people he claims to love.

As Devon’s empire teeters, he begins a painful journey back toward himself, back toward his people, and back toward the values he once buried beneath success. Through therapy, faith, family, and hard truths, he must decide whether he will remain trapped in a fantasy built on insecurity—or finally grow into the man he pretended to be.

Rich & the Ratchet is not a story about scandal.
It is a story about healing.
About Black love.
About legacy.
And about a powerful man learning, at last, how to choose the right queen.