Everyone in the community, Black or white, believe young Tinsley to be guilty of Nova’s murder everyone except for Duchess Simmons, Nova’s best friend and daughter of the first Black police captain, who begins to doubt the certainty of Tinsley’s guilt. The same night of Nova’s murder, a video of Tinsley McArthur, the teenage white socialite Queen Bee of the community from an old money family, circulates threatening to murder Nova and dump her body in the cemetery she spent her weekends rehabilitating to get back at her for stealing her crown and legacy. However, on the night of her coronation, she is found dead in a local, former slave cemetery that she was, ironically, trying to preserve and worked on. The Black Queen tells the story of Nova Albright, a young Black woman who was going to be the first Black Homecoming Queen at Lovett High. The Black Queen is a 2023 Young Adult literature debut novel by Jumata Emill published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
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