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Good and Grown: A Second Chance Love Story of Healing, Faith, and Black Womanhood
Cena thought she knew what love felt like… until it broke her.
Fresh out of high school in Indianapolis, still trying to figure out who she was, Cena meets Tahe—and everything changes. For the first time in her life, she feels seen. Chosen. Beautiful in a way she’s never believed about herself.
But one night, one mistake, and one misunderstanding changes everything.
What should’ve been a love story turns into heartbreak, silence, and years of unanswered questions. Left to pick up the pieces, Cena finds herself navigating single motherhood, shame, faith, and the kind of growth nobody prepares you for.
And just when she thinks that chapter of her life is long behind her… life has a way of bringing things back around.
Good and Grown is an emotional African American women’s fiction novel that blends a powerful Black romance with a second chance love story rooted in faith, healing, and real-life choices. It is a story of healing, and growth, and becoming the woman you were always meant to be—even if it takes you years to get there.
Because sometimes love doesn’t come when you want it…it comes when God is good and ready, and you're Good and Grown.
Fresh out of high school in Indianapolis, still trying to figure out who she was, Cena meets Tahe—and everything changes. For the first time in her life, she feels seen. Chosen. Beautiful in a way she’s never believed about herself.
But one night, one mistake, and one misunderstanding changes everything.
What should’ve been a love story turns into heartbreak, silence, and years of unanswered questions. Left to pick up the pieces, Cena finds herself navigating single motherhood, shame, faith, and the kind of growth nobody prepares you for.
And just when she thinks that chapter of her life is long behind her… life has a way of bringing things back around.
Good and Grown is an emotional African American women’s fiction novel that blends a powerful Black romance with a second chance love story rooted in faith, healing, and real-life choices. It is a story of healing, and growth, and becoming the woman you were always meant to be—even if it takes you years to get there.
Because sometimes love doesn’t come when you want it…it comes when God is good and ready, and you're Good and Grown.
230 pages, Paperback
Published May 4, 2026
About the author
Joyce Licorish
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Joyce Licorish is the youngest of 7 daughters and mother of 2 beautiful daughters and 1 rambunctious son. She recently married film actor Jerome Davis. She was born and raised in the inner-city of Indianapolis, where she was bussed to a primarily white school and saw early on the effects of discrimination and racism.
Joyce, singer, actress, plus model and playwright, takes a turn toward another creative vein as the author of the Heirloom Trilogy - The Forgotten Timepiece, The Forbidden Ring, The Lost Locket. Her debut novel The Forgotten Timepiece shot up to #1 on Amazon in 3 categories.
Best Historical Fiction, Best African American Sci-Fi and Fantasy.
Best known for her direction/production of Oprah Winfrey’s Color Purple Tour, her powerhouse vocal abilities and stage acting, she takes a step away from the microphone and stage towards the pen to create her debut series of novels.
Joyce Licorish is the youngest of 7 daughters and mother of 2 beautiful daughters and 1 rambunctious son. She recently married film actor Jerome Davis. She was born and raised in the inner-city of Indianapolis, where she was bussed to a primarily white school and saw early on the effects of discrimination and racism.
Joyce, singer, actress, plus model and playwright, takes a turn toward another creative vein as the author of the Heirloom Trilogy - The Forgotten Timepiece, The Forbidden Ring, The Lost Locket. Her debut novel The Forgotten Timepiece shot up to #1 on Amazon in 3 categories.
Best Historical Fiction, Best African American Sci-Fi and Fantasy.
Best known for her direction/production of Oprah Winfrey’s Color Purple Tour, her powerhouse vocal abilities and stage acting, she takes a step away from the microphone and stage towards the pen to create her debut series of novels.
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June 27, 2026
Tantalizing Page Turner
A determined, young woman with a heart of gold and aspirations of becoming a singer. Her “helicopter” father was a driving force in her life but, unfortunately, too much at times…
She fell in love and held her own with pride which turned into love and loss and love again! A great pageturner through all the ups and downs. God always kept her best interests at heart, until she had grown enough to carry it the right way to be “Good and Grown.”
A determined, young woman with a heart of gold and aspirations of becoming a singer. Her “helicopter” father was a driving force in her life but, unfortunately, too much at times…
She fell in love and held her own with pride which turned into love and loss and love again! A great pageturner through all the ups and downs. God always kept her best interests at heart, until she had grown enough to carry it the right way to be “Good and Grown.”
June 26, 2026
This was a beautiful coming of age 2nd chance romance for a Christian reader... has some romantic moments but they werent overtly sexual. I highly recommend this book for Christian fiction readers of romance books.
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