UNPRETTY

Danisha grew up learning that women’s bodies were currency and silence was survival. In a thin-walled apartment, she heard desire turn into desperation and learned early what it meant to feel unchosen. By the time she became a brilliant, ambitious professional, she was determined to never be small again—even if the world insisted on defining her by her mistakes.

When a powerful white media executive offers her access, influence, and money, Danisha steps into an industry that profits from broken images of Black women while ignoring her intelligence and vision. One reckless night, one private decision, becomes public ammunition—used to question her talent, her integrity, and her right to succeed.

Instead of disappearing, Danisha chooses something harder: ownership.

As gossip grows louder and judgment sharper, she aligns herself with a Black-owned studio determined to reshape how stories are told. Love enters her life not as rescue, but as partnership—tested by public opinion, old wounds, and the courage it takes to stand fully seen.

UNPRETTY is a raw, grounded novel about ambition, shame, sexuality, and power—about the difference between being exposed and being known. It explores how women survive systems that profit from their pain, how families shape our blind spots, and how real strength lives in the space between fairy tales and destruction.

This is not a redemption fantasy.
It’s a story about truth, balance, and becoming whole anyway.