Rude Boy USA
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Winner of the 2016 Readers’ Favorite Book Award – Fiction/Drama
Winner of the 2016 Pacific Book Award – Crime Fiction
Rude Boy USA introduces a bold and unconventional crime saga set in New York City during a period of social upheaval, ambition, and transformation.
At the center is the Chimera Group, a stylish, multiracial criminal enterprise operating beneath the surface of legitimate finance and investment. Known on the streets as the Rude Boys, its leaders blend charisma, strategy, and ruthless discipline as they build power across boroughs while carefully avoiding the attention that destroys lesser organizations. Loyalty is currency. Image is protection. Silence is survival.
As the group rises, the novel follows the personal histories and private fractures of the men who make Chimera possible—veterans, outsiders, strivers, and protégés bound together by ambition and shared risk. Their choices ripple outward, touching families, communities, and rival factions, revealing how violence, racism, addiction, and desire quietly shape the architecture of power.
Set against the backdrop of late-1960s New York, Rude Boy USA is not a celebration of crime but an examination of it—how empires are built, how loyalty is weaponized, and how respectability is often the most dangerous disguise of all. Stylish, expansive, and unsentimental, this first installment lays the foundation for a trilogy that traces the long consequences of power once claimed and never fully surrendered.
BunnyWine
The Second Book of the RUDE BOY USA Trilogy
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BunnyWine expands the world of Rude Boy USA, shifting the story from the streets of New York to the volatile crossroads of wealth, politics, and reinvention.
After leaving the criminal life behind, John LeBlanc and his wife, Bunny, retreat to Jamaica to rebuild on their own terms. What begins as exile becomes opportunity as business, influence, and ambition quietly take root. A luxury wine brand, a reimagined corporate empire, and deep ties to local communities offer the promise of legitimacy—but power, once claimed, never fully releases its grip.
As Bunny comes into her own as a force behind the scenes, the lines between love, loyalty, and control begin to blur. Political unrest, international influence, and the lingering consequences of past alliances threaten the fragile balance they have constructed. Back in New York, lives once touched by the Chimera legacy continue to fracture, exposing the human cost of ambition and abandonment.
Set against the backdrop of 1980s Jamaica and a city in decline, BunnyWine explores transformation without erasure, desire entwined with authority, and the uneasy truth that reinvention often carries the same risks as the life left behind. This second installment deepens the trilogy’s examination of legacy, revealing how power adapts, how history follows, and how ambition rarely spares innocence when it matures.
The Tide Is High
The Final Book of the RUDE BOY USA Trilogy
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In The Tide Is High, the long arc of power, loyalty, and ambition reaches its reckoning.
After years of exile, acquittal, and reinvention, John and Bunny LeBlanc return to New York determined to reclaim what was once theirs. The city has changed, the rules have shifted, and the past is no longer content to stay buried. As old alliances resurface and new ambitions take shape, the line between legitimacy and control grows dangerously thin.
What began in the shadows of organized crime now presses against the public world of business, media, and politics. A single act of violence sets off a chain of exposure that threatens not only an empire but also the carefully curated image that has kept its leaders untouchable. Journalists dig, rivals circle, and enemies long believed silenced begin to echo again.
The Tide Is High is a story of return and consequence. It explores what happens when power seeks permanence, when private loyalty collides with public scrutiny, and when survival depends not on force, but on what can no longer be hidden. Stylish, unflinching, and deeply character-driven, this final installment closes the trilogy with a meditation on legacy, what is built, what is lost, and what remains when the tide finally turns.
Scions of Legacy: The Powers That Be (Book 1)
A Rude Boy USA Spinoff Novel
(Available February 16, 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.
Scions of Legacy: The Public Trust (Book 2)
(Pre-order here. Available September 2026)
Power is easier to win than it is to hold.
After a hard-fought victory, Sophie LeBlanc arrives in Washington as the newly elected congresswoman from New York’s 13th District, carrying the weight of her family’s complicated legacy and the expectations of a community that trusted her to protect it. The campaign is over. The real work begins now.
Inside Congress, Sophie quickly learns that power is rarely loud and never simple. Alliances are unspoken, favors are remembered, and reputation often matters more than truth. As she introduces her first major legislation, a housing bill rooted in Harlem’s survival rather than Washington optics, Sophie discovers how quickly idealism collides with institutional self-preservation.
At the same time, the scrutiny intensifies. Old narratives resurface. Quiet warnings arrive disguised as advice. The line between cooperation and compromise grows thinner by the day. Navigating this new terrain means deciding who to trust, what to protect, and how much of herself she can afford to expose.
Supported by her fiercely loyal family and her inner circle, Sophie must confront a central question that no orientation prepares her for: in a system built on power, how do you remain accountable to the people who put you there?
Scions of Legacy: The Public Trust is a sharp, character-driven political drama about governance, ambition, and the cost of integrity. It is a story about what happens after the win, when the spotlight fades, and the real test of leadership begins.
Author Victoria Bolton 