Rooted in You, Angola: A Black Travel Romance

By Davita Marché McKelvey

She came to Angola to build futures. He came chasing legacy. Neither expected love to find them first.

For nearly five years, Asha Blake has led a women's cooperative in Luanda while completing her doctorate in public health. Her focus is clear: uplift the community, protect the center she helped build, and finish strong. But when a luxury development threatens the neighborhood's fragile balance, everything Asha's worked for is suddenly on the line.

Enter Mateus Oliveira: Portuguese-Angolan real estate developer, heir to a legacy he's still trying to define. He's smart, sharp, and laser-focused on completing his flagship project. But the land next to it is causing headaches he didn't plan for-and the woman fighting to protect it? She's not backing down.

Their connection is tense, charged, and magnetic. But as a reluctant partnership turns into something deeper, Asha and Mateus are forced to confront not just each other-but the history, grief, and power struggles buried beneath the soil they stand on.

Rooted in You, Angola is a slow-burn Black travel romance about legacy, land, and falling for someone on the other side of the fight.

Perfect for readers who love:
✨ Diaspora love stories rooted in culture and place
✨ Slow-burn tension and emotional heat
✨ Angola's rhythms, rivers, markets, and matriarchs
✨ Real stakes, soft longing, and unexpected joy
✨ Black women leading, loving, and choosing themselves first

This is Book 6 in the Black Travel Romance series.
Collect them all and fall in love in a new country every time.
Each story is a standalone, but the journey? Unforgettable.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FC6X4GHN
• ISBN13: 9798285088325
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"