Book 1 of the Empress Zima Series. Zima was just a nobody, who had no idea where her life was going when her parents allowed her to be forcefully married to a Japanese Emperor. She was forced to leave her native African village and adjust to a whole different life at The Village of Grace. The new, young, and scary Emperor of The Village of Grace, Emperor Aki is given a arrange marriage with the foreign dark skinned, black women Zima. Emperor Aki is seen as cold, frightening, and emotionless, he has a dark and painful past and no friends. He claims his marriage with Zima has no love behind it but later on he discovers love and affection from his strange foreign wife. Even though Zima was scared about her forced marriage she later on, finds comfort and love in her new home, friends, and husband. As Zima settles in she develops an interest in combat and is amazed by the combat skills from the samurai and ninja's in The Village of Grace. It inspires her become a strong ninja and learn samurai fighting skills, but in the ninja world not everything is what it seems and death, secrets, and danger is everywhere. Power, evil, and wealth are what dominates the ninja and samurai world. Zima knows that there are enemies everywhere and becoming a ninja could cost Zima her life but Zima is determined to become strong, protect the village at all cost, protect her friends, and protect Aki. Warning: This story does contain moments violently graphics. Along with mature, serious themes, and sexual content.

Nadalia Saint An ambitious, outgoing, and level-heded girl attending her first years of university at UCLA. Despite her being what her friends would call an "influencer"(for now). Nadalia's goal is to use that to increase her following and putting her name out for when she becomes an Affiliating Marketer. Aside from school and her work towards a rising career, shes struggling with her inner self which is ironic since shes always so sure of any and everything.. Dakota Moore Known for being creative, straightforward, and playful, shes also attending her first year at UCLA. She uses her creativity and love for painting and customization as a way of self expression and income, spreading her passion by making and selling canvases and custom clothing designs. Her business is kind of small but she's sure it'll grow as time comes and as things become bigger than what she could've asked for. Other then the basics, she grew up to see her once so in love parents marriage turn toxic. Resulting into her own doubts about commitment and love.. <33 Two young women with obvious differences budding over their similarities. A story following first year college students road to prosperity and the unraveling of inner struggles that they contain towards the aspect of romance. And lastly a slow burn of friends to lovers..

A young woman who has a hard time finding her place in this world falls for her superior at work, whose wife is popularly known for being a "difficult", "uptight" and a radical feminist. what happens when her superior's wife one day notices her and takes an interest in her?

Diamant Harris, known by her stage name "Iridessa", is on her way to becoming the new hottest thing in female rap. She has the perfect look, she has the perfect flow, she has the perfect life, and the perfect man. Everything is perfect.... until one day it's not. Her relationship ends in one of the worst possible ways, leaving Diamant broken, hurt, and bitter. She swears she'll never love again, that is until she meets Aurora. And this new feeling, this weird attraction she feels for another woman, scares her- but she wants to see just where it might all go. **Mature Content** More mature chapters are marked with a (*) before the chapter name. ********** This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. I do not own any media content in this book. Started on September 19, 2021 Finished on December 15, 2021

Serendipity: (n) - finding something good without looking for it ******** A bad night & a baby was the started of it all. _____________________ "Delilah!! WAIT!!!..." Cleo said as she pulled Delilah back looking at her "I didn't come in this looking for love..." Cleo said grabbing Delilah hand "But yet, here you are..." Delilah said looking in Cleo eyes "Because I'm fell for you..." Cleo said lowly Delilah grabbed Cleo's face and kissed her Feel free to VOTE & COMMENT💛 Started ~ December 26, 2020 End: December 30, 2021 *None of the pictures in this book belongs to me*

Acura Saint has always felt like she was damaged, through all the things she's been through and all the trauma she tries to keep locked away. Falling in love is the last thing she wants to think about. She can't love another when she can't stand to look herself in the mirror with a smile on her face. She's a person who puts up a facade. But with her she doesn't have to. 𝐞𝐬𝐭: 𝐣𝐚𝐧.𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏

𝑆𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐 "𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡....𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒??" • 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑦𝑎 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑠