Malik Carter hasn't let anyone close in three years. Not since he lost his husband and became a single father to their son, Kai, overnight. He keeps his world small on purpose - work, Kai, and the hardware store on the corner of Maple Street. Elijah Brooks just bought that hardware store. He didn't move to Birch Hollow looking for anything except a fresh start and a shop that didn't remind him of his old life. He definitely wasn't looking for a quiet, broad-shouldered widower who shows up every Saturday for wood glue and small talk, or the seven-year-old who's already decided Elijah is his new best friend. Neither of them is in a hurry. That's the point. Over one slow, easy year of Saturday visits, treehouse lumber, town fairs, and a boy who keeps finding reasons to bring "Mr. Eli" home, two careful hearts figure out that love doesn't always show up like a storm. Sometimes it just quietly restocks the shelf you didn't know was empty.

Based in 2020, outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia Capri Laurent, a 19 year old community college student pursuing a degree with no real end goal in mind. Living at home with his parents, sister and baby bo, his life isn't as easy as it appears to be. Having his son at the ripe age of 17, Capri has to make ends meet for his kid, especially when the mother wasn't exactly in the picture. As if his life wasn't hard enough, after his son is diagnosed with autism Capri isn't sure how their lives will look for them. Playing the cards he was dealt, he grows, like a rose through concrete- with help of course. Harlem Santino, a 20 year old with dreams higher than he can reach. Harlem had always been amazing in sports, you name it- football, soccer, baseball, but basketball owned his heart. It was his passion, what kept the light shining bright in his big brown eyes. With a once in a lifetime opportunity with a full basketball scholarship to GSU Harlem would have been stupid to turn it down. However life had a twisted and fucked up way of making good people hurt. When his mother and only living family member is diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer Harlem is forced to touch bases with old connects and pick up a not so safe side hustle. All while balancing his sport management degree and his grilling basketball requirements. Seemingly both alone in their own ways, who knew that an old hardly in use skating rink, a few joints, and good old r&b story telling would bring two drowning souls together and make life seem all the more bearable.

Their difference in personalities raise the question of who will fold first..

SOMEWHAT DARK/ TOXIC ROMANCE Jasani wasn't no bitch the idea of people seeing him be submissive for another nigga didn't sit right with him but Camron was determined to keep him.. Does jasani love for Camron matter more then others opinions of him?

𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚕𝚞𝚘𝚞𝚜: 𝙰 𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚛 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚋𝚡𝚋 Flawless book 2

Kameron Carter spent three years turning himself into a name the industry couldn't ignore - magazine covers, high fashion campaigns, viral moments, all of it. Fame kept him busy, kept him numb, kept him far away from the one person he could never get over. Saint. He wasn't supposed to see him again. But grief drags Kam back to Chicago, and suddenly the past he buried is standing right in front of him, looking better, looking worse, looking like trouble he still wants. And just like that, everything Kam built starts slipping - the discipline, the distance, the version of himself the world thinks they know. The city is louder, the spotlight harsher, and the internet is watching every move he makes... especially the ones he swears he isn't making with Saint. Between paparazzi flash, industry politics, secret reunions, online chaos, and the kind of chemistry that never learned how to die, Kam finds himself right back where he started: wanting the one man he promised himself he'd never love again. Fame made him shine. Saint makes him unravel. And the line between passion and disaster? Yeah... they're way too good at crossing it.

Animo Bloom - To bloom from within I see you I will always see you even in the darkest places , you are my light that helps me see.

Just writing shit so... Just read!!!!!

Described as a love affair for century to come this wild story follows two men who happen to like each other after one special night together. After that night things become complicated on both ends. But can the two gentlemen over come their own personal obstacles to meet each other at the end. Come along for this long crazy ride.

Quincy was a single dad trying his hardest to provide for his kids while makin sure to spend time with him. he never expected to find love thru his struggles. until Tavaris came along