The temptation. The desire. A forbidden love; so tempting, filled with lust and desire. A battle within yourself, telling you it's wrong but feels too good to stop. A awaited scandal to happen. Leaving a trail of tears and trouble behind. Sadé Noelle, a beautiful twenty six year old woman with a charming personality is meant with an opportunity to an architecture company as an assistant. Thrilled about the opportunity, and what seems like her life falling into place is met with one more problem. Her handsome, very older, and single boss. Omarion Wilson, a handsome thirty six year old widowed man. Focused on nothing but work and his family, causes a bump in the road. Firing another assistant and is in a deep need for a new one. Not truly seeing anyone fit to match his perfection, until Sadé walks in. Being perfect in more than just one way, stunned by her, his cold begans to defrost.


Jay raised his son alone. He doesn't ask for much-just stability, loyalty, and the kind of life you build with your own hands. Then Sofia arrives in Nick's life, and everything becomes complicated. She's beautiful and intelligent in a way Nick doesn't appreciate. Jay sees it immediately. He also sees the danger in looking too long, in feeling too much. She's off-limits. Untouchable. His son's girlfriend. But knowing something is wrong and being able to stop it are two different things. What unfolds between them is raw, intense, and impossible to ignore-a collision of forbidden desire and the bonds that are supposed to hold a family together. A dark, gritty novella about temptation, loyalty, and the impossible choices we make when everything we love is on the line.

Zora grew up without knowing what the real meaning of love actually meant meeting Trayvon changed her outlook on love, stages of life, grief, and growth. Fame and questions they can't always answer. The what if's and maybe's that surround the world stayed wondering but they knew and kept each other close.

In a city where loyalty is rare and danger is currency, two women live on opposite sides of survival. A soft-spoken tattoo artist with a steady hand and a guarded heart spends her nights turning pain into art. Her shop is her sanctuary no drama, no trouble, no attachments. Then there's the other woman a feared drug dealer with a reputation that makes people cross the street. She moves fast, thinks faster, and trusts no one. Their worlds collide over something small... a tattoo appointment that wasn't supposed to mean anything. But nothing stays simple when secrets run deep, enemies get closer, and feelings start to blur the lines between survival and surrender. Because in a city like this, love isn't just risky... it's dangerous.

Janelle isn't searching for love-she's searching for survival. Growing up between Miami grit and New York ambition, she knows the rules of the game: never trust too easily, never get too comfortable, and never let your guard down for a man. But then there's Malik. Dangerous, magnetic, and carved straight out of every bad decision a girl swears she'll never make twice. One night is all it takes-one dinner, one kiss, one glance that lingers too long-for her carefully built walls to start crumbling. And Malik? He's hooked from the moment she walks into his world, leaving him restless, addicted, and craving more. As their worlds collide-his empire built on shadows, hers balanced between loyalty and survival-Nelle is pulled deeper into a love she doesn't know if she can trust. Between late-night texts, roses at her door, and secrets she refuses to force him to confess, a spark ignites into something dangerous... something consuming. But in a city where every glance could be a warning and every touch could cost everything, can passion survive the truth? Or will desire become the most dangerous trap of all? A story of heat, hustle, and heartbreak-where the line between power and vulnerability blurs, and love feels as intoxicating as the city itself.

"It all started with a tattoo" This story is a little fast paced