PRETTY MONEY
Everybody paid for her. Until she learned to pay herself.
Zaria "Zee" Banks learned early that beauty opens doors. From South Jamaica Queens to Atlanta, she follows the access, the men and the money, until she has to face the difference between being paid for and getting paid.
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Beauty opens the door. It doesn't sign the lease.
Zee knows exactly what she looks like to the world, and she knows how to use it. The dinners, the trips, the gifts and the men who pay for all of it feel like a life. For a while, it looks like winning.
Then she meets Simone "Money Mona" Baptiste, a woman who has already learned what Zee is only starting to suspect: that everything someone else pays for can be taken back. What follows is a story about the moment a woman stops asking who will take care of her and starts asking what actually belongs to her.
Everybody paid for her. Until she learned to pay herself.
PRETTY MONEY is contemporary urban fiction for adult readers. It is bold, sensual and honest about money, power and the price women pay for the image.
What PRETTY MONEY is really about.
Access
The rooms beauty gets you into, and who is holding the key.
Ownership
The difference between what you are given and what is actually yours.
The Price of the Image
What it costs to keep looking like you have it all.
PRETTY MONEY at a glance.
- Author
- Monique L. Ffrench
- Genre
- Contemporary urban fiction
- Audience
- Adult readers, 18+
- Formats
- Kindle eBook, Paperback (461 pages), Kindle Unlimited
- Published
- September 2026
- Kindle ASIN
- B0HHM18577
- Setting
- South Jamaica Queens, New York and Atlanta, Georgia
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