Bryce August, The Beginning

By Ms. A. Grandberry

Of the 563 billionaires in the US there are only three who are African American. Which makes you wonder how do the rich stay rich? How has wealth been achieved and maintained in some families and not in others? If you were a part of that coveted minority which includes the 1% of African-Americans who has held onto generational wealth since Reconstruction, how would your outlook on life be different? Bryce August is a part of the wealthy Augusts; he's quite knowledgeable that his family has held onto money, power, and status through a controversial method------ arranged marriages. In the Potomac and Baltimore area with lineage from historic New Orleans, the Augusts have a historical legacy of success that has been merged with other prominent people of color. This has led them into the millennium and Bryce, the 21-year-old sole heir to August Enterprises must carry that legacy with the heiress of a pharmaceutical conglomerate, but will he after he falls in love with a beautiful outsider? Will he follow in the footsteps of his father, uncle, grandfather, great-grandfathers and marry for wealth and to preserve generational status or will he risk it all, including a multi-million dollar trust? What other secrets and revelations are revealed through Bryce's struggle with the institution of arranged marriages?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1096962101
• ISBN13: 9781096962106
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"