Promise Keeper

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(98 100 106 1)>In Verde Arzu's powerful second novel Promise Keeper Chandon Kilpatrick enters Franklin University a historically Black college with a quiet vow: to live life on her own terms-not her grandfather's not the world's just her own.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(98 100 106 1)>But one heated argument with Corey-the sharp-tongued president of the Black Student Union-goes viral and Chandon is once again labeled the girl who isn't Black enough.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(98 100 106 1)>Determined to reclaim her narrative she joins the campus LGBTQ+ group and commits to a bold new cause: fighting to free two Black lesbian veterans imprisoned overseas. Her drive for justice is rivaled only by the complicated pull she feels toward two very different people-her loyal friend Alisha and her frenemy Corey.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(98 100 106 1)>As emotions around the protest rise and her relationships deepen Chandon finds herself drawn back to the promise she made-the one rooted in her father's legacy and the one that demands everything she's still becoming.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(98 100 106 1)>Promise Keeper is a coming-of-age story about racial identity inner conviction and the quiet powerful promises we make to ourselves-and what it takes to keep them.</span></p>