The Montreval Collection

She built the standard. Now she must defend the life it was meant to hold.Simone Bellamy has fought too hard for authorship of her own life to surrender it now.When Claire Dupont places a $6.2 billion, seventy-two-property international collection within reach, Simone’s Savannah architecture studio must prove it can carry the weight. The first five flagship projects begin in Paris, Milan, and St. Barts-but the investors demand safeguards that could quietly strip Bellamy Architecture of its authority.As Arthur Thorne and Marcus Vance exploit every fracture, an old claim from Atlanta threatens the foundation of everything Simone has created. With Evelyn Cross leading the legal front-and Nadia, Josephine, Claire, and Maya holding the inner circle-Simone must defend more than a contract. She must establish who owns the vision and what no institution has the right to take.Beside her, Elias offers neither rescue nor restraint. He offers structure.In a world of private rooms, strategic silences, immense wealth, and beautiful buildings carrying hidden loads, Simone and Elias must decide whether an empire can become something greater: a life capable of holding them both.The Montreval Collection is a sophisticated contemporary novel about Black love, female ambition, architectural legacy, protected access, and the power of building wealth without surrendering ownership. Set across Savannah, Atlanta, Paris, Milan, and St. Barts, it is the first full-length novel in the Bella Musa Stories.