"Do you want to graduate cum laude or do you want someone to make you come loud?" "Can't I have both?" Salina Smith a young, smart, driven black woman studying law who gets more than she bargained for hooking up with a white undergrad student. Can she manage to graduate cum laude and then pass the bar without being distracted by her feelings? [Highest rankings] lawschool #3 (12/27/22) interracial #2 (07/30/23) blackwoman #4 (08/26/24) library #8 (08/25/24) older #28 (12/27/22) blackandwhite #1 (07/30/23) bwwm #3 (7/30/23) white #24 (8/02/23) law #40 (8/02/23) hookup #1 (12/30/23) POC #3 (8/30/24) Started January 2022 / Finished December 2022

Kansas, USA, 1980. A young man in a small rural town looking for adventure might miss the true chance right in his own backyard. [Highest rankings] #1 wheat (8/21/23) #3 prairie (02/06/23) #4 farmer (03/08/23) #12 kansas (02/05/23) #16 rural (04/03/23) #21 field (02/22/23) Started September 2022 / Completed May 2023 --- Inspired by "That Summer" by Garth Brooks

Bittersweet is a poisonous plant in the nightshade family. It has been used for medicinal purposes since ancient times but can be fatal in the wrong amount. Bittersweet exists on a balance between sweet and bitter, medicine and poison, life and death. Venus Lyth is a self-loathing vampire lives day to day, getting by only feeding when she can't resist. Another vampire's crimes lure in the attention of a vampire hunter. Can Venus avoid getting killed herself and get close enough to the hunter without the predator becoming the prey? Can she avoid falling for her forbidden feelings? #7 vampirelove (03/27/23) #12 humanxvampire (04/18/23) #22 Venus (02/24/23) #25 dusk (09/04/23) #55 antihero (02/24/23) #60 blonde (03/22/23) Started January 2023 / July 2023

Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1640 A young Puritan woman named Hester Prynne learns her husband is missing, presumed dead. She is secretly glad to be able to maintain her independence until she seeks comfort from a new minister, Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. Despite each knowing that their strict religion bans any relationship between them, the pair cannot help but develop a deep bond, and each face a different consequence for it, namely a Scarlet Letter. --- If you have ever read The Scarlet Letter: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne and thought to yourself, what romance? How did these two goody goodies commit the sexual sinning needed for this plot to happen? Well, friends, I have given it a lot of thought, and trying to mimic the diction of the source material, I present my interpretation of the romance and maybe you will be a little sad that these two lived in such a society they couldn't ever be happy together. (September 2023) #1 17thcentury (9/05/23) #2 publicdomain (9/05/23) #2 scarletletter (9/05/23) #1 puritan (9/11/23) #4 reverend (9/05/23) #2 1600s (9/11/23) #8 colony (9/08/23) #9 minister (9/11/23)

Natalia Whittaker has a special talent for growing plants. So much so that her skill and reputation name her the Plant Queen of the Queen City. However, she has always struggled with connecting to people the way she does nature. Her love life is non-existent, but when an old crush comes back into her life, she has to choose being smart and letting temptation bloom. #1 risky (10/05/24) #2 succulent (8/24/24) #5 risky (8/24/24) #6 blooms (8/24/24) #7 landscape (8/24/24) #10 orchid (8/30/24)