Ain't No Going Back
A Family Drama
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Narrated by:
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Latasha Kimberly McKinney
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By:
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Corey L. Johnson
Frazier James is already lying to his wife. Unemployed, ashamed, and pretending everything is fine, he's trying to hold his marriage together when a letter arrives that shatters the life he's built.
Nicole Renée Coleman is dead. In her will, she names Frazier as the biological father and legal guardian of Layla — a fourteen-year-old girl he never knew existed.
Layla is grieving and furious. Frazier's wife, Clara, is blindsided and betrayed by the return of a woman they agreed never to speak of again. And then comes the condition attached to the inheritance: if Layla is to claim her family's property — the Kumbaya and Rest Inn in Beaufort, South Carolina — she and her guardian must live there for one full year.
What begins as a legal obligation becomes an emotional reckoning.
Set in a coastal town shaped by Gullah heritage, long memory, and unspoken history, Ain't No Going Back is a quiet, powerful novel about the weight of truth, the cost of avoidance, and the families we inherit — whether we want them or not.
Some inheritances come with money. Others come with everything you tried to leave behind.
©2026 Corey Johnson (P)2026 Corey Johnson