A Claim on Cocoa

By Danielle R L Joseph

Before oil, before Carnival, before steelpan, there was cocoa. Once the pride of Trinidad and Tobago, cocoa built families, dreams, and futures. But what happens when the land that bore your legacy becomes the battleground for truth?

Amara Mahabir has everything she thought she wanted: a promising legal career in London, designer heels, and a reputation for winning impossible cases. But when a message from home shatters her careful world, her father attacked, a journalist classmate dead, and the family land under threat, Amara is forced to return to the place she once left behind.

Back in Rio Claro, the hills whisper of secrets, sabotage, and land deals soaked in corruption. Her siblings are divided, her father is fighting for his life, and the boy she once loved, now a man with eyes full of history, walks back into her life with questions and unfinished promises.

As Amara digs into the legal mystery surrounding her father's land, she unearths more than forged documents. Family truths, political power plays, and the buried cost of ambition rise to the surface. And in the quiet spaces between justice and forgiveness, she must decide: what do you fight for when everything you love is on the line?

A Claim on Cocoa is a powerful debut novel about inheritance, identity, and the ties that bind us to land, legacy, and love. Set against the lush backdrop of Trinidad and Tobago, it's a story of homecoming, reckoning, and the quiet revolutions of the heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FHHWVQ7C
• ISBN13: 9798292403067
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"