Can't Resist Her

Curator’s note

This novel was donated by a lovely supporter of our library!

Synopsis

Two very determined women—in love, at odds, and risking a lot on a second chance.

After years away from home, Summer Graves is back in Austin, Texas, to accept a new teaching position. Of all the changes to the old neighborhood, the most dispiriting one is the slated demolition of the high school her grandmother founded. There’s no way she can let developers destroy her memories and her family legacy. But the challenge stirs memories of another kind.

On the architectural team revitalizing the neighborhood, hometown girl Aiko Holt is all about progress. Then she sees Summer again. Some things never change.

Neither can forget the kiss they shared at their senior-year dance. Neither can back down from her unwavering beliefs about what’s right for the neighborhood.

For now, the only thing Summer and Aiko are willing to give in to is a heat that still burns. But can two women with so much passion—for what once was and what could be—agree to disagree long enough to fall in love?

About the author

Kianna Alexander has always loved the written word. For as long as she can remember, she read as much as she could, as often as she could. Cereal boxes, newspapers, product packaging. Ebony, Essence, and Jet Magazine. Billboards. She loved it all. 

When she was sixteen, she picked up my stepmother's copy of Night Song, by Beverly Jenkins. The cover showed an obviously historical image of a black couple, against a beautiful backdrop, locked in a passionate embrace. What she read inside blew her mind, and to this day Kianna credits that book with planting the seed of desire to write romance.