Jayda moved to Houston for a fresh start quiet, neurodivergent, and completely new to a fresh life. When her cooking video catches the attention of Roman, a wealthy single father with a dangerous lifestyle, she takes a job as his private chef. What begins as a simple arrangement turns into something deeper super fast. For the first time, Jayda feels truly seen. But does falling for Roman come with risks? Sometimes the right person teaches you how to love... and how to be loved.

How do you know when love stops feeling safe? Lanai came to Atlanta carrying more pain than luggage, determined to never again let a man have the power to break her. She wanted peace. Softness. A life untouched by the version of herself she left behind in New York. Then she met Phoenix. A man made of control, silence, money, and secrets. A man whose love felt warm enough to heal her... until it slowly began to consume her. Because sometimes the people who love you the hardest are also the ones capable of hurting you the deepest. And when grief, obsession, and attachment begin blurring together... how do you tell the difference between being loved and being possessed? ✧🩷

The Story Of Two People That Live Two Totally Different Lives But Met Through A Career Opportunity... Will It Be Destiny Or Will Their Dedication To Their Lifestyles Hinder Them ???

ɪᴍᴍᴀ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏꜱ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ʏᴏᴜ , ᴡʜᴇɴ ɴᴏʙᴏᴅʏ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ʏᴏᴜ 🦋

He's known to the streets as Kairo - untouchable, feared, crowned by chaos. But to Amara, he's just Zephir. A quiet personal trainer trying to leave his past behind. A man learning how to be soft without losing his strength. As their worlds slowly intertwine, Amara must decide if she's brave enough to love a man with shadows in his past... and Zephir must choose between the crown he was given and the future he wants. Because some love doesn't rush. Some love heals. And some love is only soft with one person.

Stories of love, growth, and becoming, found in the space between who they were and who they're becoming. Sequel to Between Us.

12 years later .... The Yara and Knox are still doing this thing called life together.. now with teens and a pre teen that they were Raising In a loving yet chaotic home .. although family is the most important thing to them will pressure create diamonds or burst pipes .. especially when secrets come to surface over a decade Later .. will the Monroe family be able to persevere through ? " you said you would never fucking lie to me!" Yara yelled at Knox throwing things upon finding a necklace in the attic .. " ya calm down .." Knox tried to reason with his wife "Who's fucking necklace is it ?" Yara snapped but her voice was still just above a whisper She was livid and her mind was everywhere.. " ma come on ." He said avoiding answering her " Knox I will leave with my children and send you papers before you can blink so please think before lying ." SHe said poking his chest with her finger " it's your assistance?" " what the fuck no , Stop with the insecure shit no one is cheating on you !" Knox barked " all of this for nothing huh ? This how much we mean to you ? " yara voice cracked " it's karmas ." He said above a whisper looking her into her eyes seeing her shatter before him sending a gut punching feeling .. He never meant to hurt her nor for her to eventually find out .. " Knox please tell me it's not true .." Yara asked no receiving an answer which gave her all the confrontation she needed .. " I had to do what I had to do ya you staying down or what ." He said bluntly now that the cat was out the bag He couldn't undo the shit he did .. " I need a moment Knox I'll be back and when I come back I want everything laid out on the table or I swear on my babies you will be served with papers by Friday ." Leaving him there alone and in his thoughts " fuck !" He yelled throwing the glass vase Will love be enough for the two to weather the brewing storm and re has old wounds ?.. find out in Stay Down..

Before she was the "Queen of the Heights," draped in floor-length chinchilla and cold diamonds, she was just Aura Rose Grant-a senior at A. Philip Randolph High with a GPA as sharp as her tongue and a habit of chewing on her No. 2 pencils until they splintered. The year is 2012. The air in Harlem smells of exhaust, street-corner souvlaki, and the impending summer heat. Aura doesn't spend her nights counting stacks of "dirty" laundry in a penthouse; she spends them in the dim light of her grandmother's kitchen, hunched over a cracked dining table. The story follows Aura during the final, sweltering stretch of her senior year. While her classmates are fixated on the Senior Spring Formal and who's dating whom, Aura is navigating the subtle, heavy pressures of a neighborhood that feels like it's shrinking. She's balancing the expectations of her grandmother, who sees her as the family's "way out," and the magnetic pull of the streets she calls home.

Kason "Khotic" Brewster never planned on living long. At seventeen, he buried both of his parents in the same week. His mother died instantly in a car crash. His father held on just long enough to make Kason promise one thing before he passed. Take care of your brother and sister. So that's exactly what he did. Twelve years later Khotic is the man the streets call when things get ugly. Feared. Respected. Untouchable. Everything he does is for the two people depending on him to make it out of the life he's stuck in. He's content with that. Until Beauty Cardwell crashes into his world. Bee is nothing like the women Khotic usually deals with. She's a twenty-five-year-old brain surgeon, a child prodigy who finished school before most people finished learning who they were. She's blunt, literal, and socially awkward in ways people don't always understand. Diagnosed with high-functioning autism, Bee doesn't believe in pretending to be something she's not. She says exactly what she means. And for some reason... Khotic likes that. What starts as a chance meeting turns into something neither of them expected. Bee sees the man behind Khotic's reputation. The older brother trying to keep his promise. The boy who never got the chance to grieve. And Khotic sees something in Bee that the world keeps missing. But loving a man like Khotic means stepping into a life Bee was never meant to be part of. Enemies. Loyalty. Violence. The kind of danger that doesn't care how smart you are. And Khotic knows one thing for sure. Good girls like Beauty Cardwell aren't supposed to fall for men like him.