The Corrupt Author
Cedric Long
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What to Expect
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A complex Black female lead
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Powerful themes of identity, trauma, and redemption
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Gritty, emotional storytelling
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Urban literary fiction with psychological depth
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Raw, honest depictions of beauty and self-discovery
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Emotional healing journey
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Powerful female lead
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Themes of beauty and self-worth
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Trauma and resilience
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Deep character relationships
Bela Menina
by the Corrupt Author
Enter the story. Leave changed.
Book blurb
Healing isn't Beautiful... but it's real!
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A successful doctor obsessed with image and validation loses everything that once protected her after a violent attack. As she rebuilds her life, she must face the damage she caused when she held power—and choose whether love, humility, and humanity are worth more than being admired.
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About the book
Bela Menina is a women’s fiction psychological drama centered on identity, self-worth, and emotional reckoning. The novel explores how trauma disrupts the stories we tell ourselves about beauty, success, and control, and how healing requires surrender rather than performance.
Character-driven and introspective, Bela Menina is designed to be felt as much as read—an intimate experience for readers drawn to emotionally honest stories that linger long after the final page.​
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Reader Praise
"Bela Menina is a raw, unflinching portrait of a woman forced to rebuild herself from the ashes of vanity, loss, and public humiliation. Dr. Jessica Thornton begins the story as untouchable, beautiful, powerful, and certain of her place in the world, until a brutal attack strips her of the one thing she believed defined her: her beauty. What follows is a deeply human journey through shame, isolation, and the slow, messy work of healing.
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Long after you close the book, you’ll remember the moment her daughter screamed at the sight of her, the quiet dignity of returning a childhood theft, and the hard-won peace of finally letting go of a twenty-year fantasy. With prose that cuts straight to the heart and characters who feel alive enough to breathe beside you, Bela Menina is a story about more than survival... it’s about choosing to live.
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Heartbreaking, defiant, and ultimately triumphant, this is the kind of novel you press into a friend’s hands and say, ‘You have to read this.’"*
- Books with Curves Book Club Review