Scions of Legacy – The Powers That Be
Book 1
A Rude Boy USA Spinoff Novel
Power never disappears.
It adapts.
Available February 2026:
Scions of Legacy: The Powers That Be expands the world of Rude Boy USA into a new era, where the consequences of past empires collide with modern politics, media, and influence. The streets that once shaped the Chimera legacy have gone quiet, but the forces that built it never truly left.
At the center of this new chapter are the LeBlanc heirs, brilliant, driven, and raised in the long shadow of a history they did not create but cannot escape. Sophie LeBlanc operates in the corridors of policy, philanthropy, and national politics, where reputations are currency and perception can destroy a family overnight. Her sister Sandra carries the instincts of the past, alert to danger, loyal to community, and unwilling to play polite when truth is at stake. Around them, business, philanthropy, and power intersect in ways that feel clean on the surface and deeply compromised underneath.
When a rising political figure collapses on live television, the shock fractures more than a campaign. Old names resurface. Long-buried alliances reawaken. And the LeBlanc family finds itself pulled into a narrative shaped by unseen hands determined to rewrite history for their own gain. What begins as a crisis of optics quickly reveals itself as something far more dangerous: a coordinated effort by elite power brokers who understand that legacy is the one force that can still threaten them.
Scions of Legacy: The Powers That Be is not a sequel; it is a reckoning. A story about inherited influence, manufactured truth, and the quiet war between community power and institutional control. It explores what happens when the children of survival are forced to confront systems far more polished and far more ruthless than anything their parents faced.
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🏆 Winner of the 2016 Readers’ Favorite Book Award – Fiction/Drama
🏆 Winner of the 2016 Pacific Book Award – Crime Fiction
A sweeping work of crime and political fiction, The Rude Boy USA Trilogy explores the construction, protection, and ultimate testing of power.
Beginning in the underworld of New York City, the trilogy follows the rise of an unconventional criminal enterprise whose influence stretches beyond the streets and into business, culture, and politics. What starts as ambition sharpened by loyalty evolves into something far more complicated as legitimacy, public image, and personal desire collide. As the characters move closer to respectability, the past refuses to stay buried, and every calculated silence begins to exact a cost.
Across three interconnected novels—Rude Boy USA, BunnyWine, and The Tide Is High—Victoria Bolton explores legacy not as inheritance, but as consequence. These stories interrogate who gets power, how it is maintained, and what happens when those who once operated in the shadows are forced into the light. Crime is not treated as spectacle, nor politics as salvation, but as parallel systems shaped by ego, loyalty, fear, and image.
The trilogy traces a full arc: ascent, expansion, and reckoning. It is a story about control and exposure, about love intertwined with ambition, and about the price paid when private choices become public history. Stylish, unflinching, and character-driven, The Rude Boy USA Trilogy asks one central question again and again: what survives when the tide finally turns?
Victoria Bolton 