num_pages: 134
description: **Let It Shine originally appeared in The Brightest Day: A Juneteenth Historical Romance Anthology. This version features the original story as well as a bonus short story No Valley Low.***Sofronia Wallis knows that proper Black women dont court trouble by upending the status quo but its 1961 and the Civil Rights movement is in full swing. Sofies spent half her life being prim proper and reservedas if that could bring her mother backbut the nonviolent protests happening across the South bring out her inner agitator.Ivan Friedman has devoted his life to boxing loving the finesse of a well-delivered punch and the penance of receiving one. His family escaped from Europe before the horrors of WWII and Ivan decides to help fight injustice in their new country even if it goes against all his instincts as a fighter.When Ivan and Sofie meet they realize that their pasts are intertwined andwith the sparks that fly between themperhaps their futures will be too. With everything in their society lined up against them will Sofie and Ivan be able to beat the odds? Or will their chance at love be destroyed by the tumultuous times they live in?
language: None
title: Let It Shine
publisher: Seditious Sisters