Books

Beauty School Drive-By

My Wild Ride Through Cosmetology

What happens when a Black woman of a certain age decides to go to cosmetology school? She comes through with a story worth telling. And reading.

Re-edited, re-polished, and re-released for 2025, Beauty School Drive-By combines the realities of entry-level cosmetology with a hilarious, week-by-week journal chronicling Ms. Chantal’s heartfelt...

Hard Pressed

A broken girl will blossom into a woman warrior.

Dia Fontaine has hit rock bottom and needs a change.

Driven from home by her toxic mother, she encounters a social club of Black women who assist in her healing and transformation.

The social club is a secret society rooted in the history of the Dahomeyan Amazons. During her training process, Dia...