Sunday Best — Keena Renée

Nia Bennett has spent her whole life being the woman everybody can count on. The problem is, she's starting to wonder what's left of her when nobody needs something.

At forty, Nia knows how to manage executives, fix a communications crisis, organize a church ministry, and make the impossible look suspiciously easy. Being dependable has built her career, earned her trust, and made her indispensable.

It has also exhausted her.

When Greater Promise Church asks Nia to help straighten out its increasingly chaotic communications operation, she agrees to ninety days. Just ninety. She'll build the systems, clean up the brand, teach people to submit requests before the last possible second, and return to her regularly scheduled life.

Then Malcolm Reed walks into it.

The handsome architect working on Greater Promise's proposed community center is calm, observant, and annoyingly good at noticing when Nia is fixing things that were never hers to carry. As their connection deepens, Malcolm challenges her in ways she didn't expect—not by asking her to do more, but by making space for her to simply be.

Meanwhile, a career opportunity forces Nia to reconsider what success actually looks like, an old love of writing begins demanding room in her life, and the church project she thought she was there to rescue starts teaching her something instead.

Maybe being needed isn't the same as being loved.

And maybe the life Nia wants doesn't require becoming someone new. Maybe she just needs to make room for the woman she already is.

Sunday Best is a warm, funny contemporary novel about Black faith, grown love, ambition, friendship, boundaries, community, and the quiet courage it takes to stop proving your worth and start living like you already have it.