LOVING TUCSON

By Kelon Barr

She speaks through beautiful spaces. He speaks without saying a word. Together, they create a language all their own.

At twenty-five, Jemineye Sandes is a brilliant inclusive-experience designer determined to make the world more accessible. Tucson Williams is a non-speaking autistic mathematician, systems engineer, and gifted basketball player whose intelligence is often underestimated by people too impatient to listen.

When a museum project brings them together, professional disagreements ignite into irresistible chemistry. Their romance unfolds through competitive basketball, starlit dinners, hilarious misunderstandings, and breathtaking adventures across the country. But when a ruthless technology executive steals Tucson's lifesaving algorithm, Jemineye and Tucson are pulled into a deadly conspiracy involving armed attackers, sabotaged buildings, and a glass skybridge hundreds of feet above Atlanta.

To survive, they must trust every language they share: sign, text, movement, patience, and love.

Loving Tucson is an action-packed Black love story about disability, adventure, communication, and two extraordinary people who refuse to let the world define what their relationship should look like.

Love doesn't always need a voice. Sometimes it lives in the person willing to wait, understand, and stay.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HNMMBV7F
• ISBN13: 9798163849109
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"