Y/N and Michael have known each other since 1996 when they were just five years old and as they grew up together they were inseparable. They eventually graduated high school and chose two different paths. Y/N went away to Spelman college in Atlanta, Georgia as Michael became one of the most prominent black male actors today. With the time spent away from each other they went through their own roller coaster of life along with growing away from each other but know deep down if anything was to go down with either one of them the other would be there in a quick fast and a hurry. But now that Y/N has graduated college and it's time for her to face reality back at home in California with Michael being one of those realities will their friendship crack under pressure? Or will they find exactly what they're deeply yearning for within their friendship? Continue to read to know the ups and down of Michael and Y/N's friendship.

"I had you once, i was hooked. The first time made me want you all the time. I fell deep with your pretty eyes."

Kai "Stingray Moore is a Pro Surfer who has semi-retired to Mission Beach, in San Diego California to try and live out a quiet and reclusive Endless Summer. One of the few Black Pro's to be successful and famous on the Pro Surfing tour circuit, Stingray derived his namesake from attacking some of the largest waves around the world. Older, wiser, and navigating a prickly relationship with his estranged wife, a former model, while raising two energetic young children, his world is turned upside down when a young upstart Black female surfer crashes into his life and takes the surfing world by storm. (Notes: 2-223, I submitted this book to Harlequin "Romance Includes You" mentorship under my pen same Lisa B. Trinidad, bka Lisa Lesonne Bolekaja in real life. Writing this here in case I lose this page and anyone questions who wrote my amazing story about Black surfers!)

Mykell and Dallas were once lovers but decided to go their separate ways and copearent for their son. Now as business partners can they mind the business that pays them or is there more to this duo.

Erik Stevens crashes an annual Spring Break pilgrimage among a large group of friends where he meets Renata Gilliam, a big beautiful social media influencer with an inner confidence that she's too shy to express outwardly among her close friends. Renata is crazy about a popular and handsome university buddy who has friend-zoned her since their freshman year, and Erik decides to help her win over a man who doesn't quite see her as girlfriend material. Sparks fly the wrong way, and Renata juggles two men and some women, too. What has this gorgeous stranger Erik gotten her into, and how does he know Tony Stark, the man she has an interview with during the vacation? [Part of the Pantherverse series-- I put it back up again! This book takes place a few months after "Forty-Seven G"]

Single real estate agent in Cali must fly to New York to visit her less than loving family. Romance and Drama.

Erik N'Jadaka Stevens. Top student in his graduating class at the Naval Academy. The youngest graduate to do so. Erik excels at M.I.T. studying bioacoustics and sonic warfare. Hounded by Tony Stark to become his protege in Malibu, Erik sets out to forge a path that will take him into the military and his ultimate goal: Revenge for his mother and father and the overthrow of the Wakandan Royal House....

Erik has been hired to find an embezzler for an old friend.

Tradition states that he should love a Jabari woman but his heart is saying no.