ᴀ ʙᴡᴡᴍ ꜱᴛᴏʀʏ ꜱᴛᴀʀʀɪɴɢ ʙᴇʏᴏɴᴄᴇ ᴋɴᴏᴡʟᴇꜱ x ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ ᴡɪʟʟɪᴀᴍꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴡᴀʟᴇꜱ. 𝐌𝐘 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐒 𝐁𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 @-𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐒𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐑𝐘.

After years of war, blood, and silence, Dayvon Bennett comes home to Chicago for one reason: his daughter, Demi. But when a forgotten school pickup leads him straight to Dakota Williams, his first love and the only woman who knows what happened in those woods five years ago, everything he buried starts breathing again. Dakota is married now, softer, and trying to live clean, but Von still remembers every secret, every lie, and every touch. Between fatherhood, old wounds, and a body nobody ever found, love becomes the most dangerous thing they ever kept.

𝗌𝗁𝖾 𝗌𝖺𝗂𝖽，"𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖽𝗈𝗇'𝗍 𝗐𝖺𝗇𝗍 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗁𝖾𝖺𝗋𝗍, 𝖻𝗈𝗒, 𝗂𝗍'𝗌 𝖺𝗅𝗋𝖾𝖺𝖽𝗒 𝖻𝗋𝗈𝗄𝖾" 𝗍𝗈𝗅𝖽 𝗆𝖾 𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗒𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗌𝗁𝖾 𝗍𝗈𝗎𝖼𝗁 𝗃𝗎𝗌𝗍 𝗀𝗈𝖾𝗌 𝗎𝗉 𝗂𝗇 𝗌𝗆𝗈𝗄𝖾 𝗈𝗇𝗅𝗒 𝗌𝗍𝖺𝗒 𝖺 𝖼𝗈𝗎𝗉𝗅𝖾 𝗇𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍𝗌，𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝗌𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝖾 𝗀𝗈𝗇 𝖻𝖾 𝗀𝗈𝗇𝖾 𝗂 𝗌𝖺𝗂𝖽，"𝖻𝖺𝖻𝗒 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗎𝗅𝖽 𝗄𝗇𝗈𝗐 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍'𝗌 𝗐𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗂 𝗐𝖺𝗇𝗍" 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊!𝐅𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂 x 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐁 𝐌𝐂𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐄𝐋

𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇- Sage Monroe finally opened Sweet Tooth, the bakery she and her late grandmother always dreamed of-only to find herself next door to loud bass, loud weed, and an even louder man who owns the dispensary beside her. Cash Vaughn owns the whole strip, but Sage doesn't care about his money, power, or reputation. All she knows is he's bad for business... and somehow impossible to ignore. Cash doesn't trust anybody outside his bloodline, but Sage gets under his skin in ways nobody ever has. What starts as tension turns into something neither of them saw coming-until betrayal, kidnapping, and a deadly street war threatens to tear it all apart. And when the smoke clears, Cash has to decide if love is worth bleeding for... and Sage has to decide if she can survive loving a man built for war.

𝘐 𝘶𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘐'𝘮 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯, 𝘸𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧𝘧, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬

Our vows were spoken before our hearts had a chance to catch up. Formally, "ARRANGED HEARTS"

Aaliyah Anderson has spent years building a successful career as one of California's top OB-GYNs. Her job has always come first, leaving little time for anything else. After experiencing the worst betrayal of her life, she's convinced that focusing on work is the safest choice. When her best friend, actress and podcaster Ashley Blaine, invites her to the Mufasa: The Lion King premiere, Aaliyah agrees to go just to support her, even though Hollywood isn't really her scene. But one unexpected meeting with Aaron Pierre changes everything. As their connection grows, Aaliyah finds herself torn between the career she's worked so hard to build and the possibility of finding love again. She survived heartbreak once, but giving love another chance could be her greatest risk.

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.

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WE'VE ALL GOT SECRETS. WHAT'S YOURS? Chasity Simmons is known for being sharp, composed, and by the book. As a defense attorney, she keeps her distance-never getting too involved, never letting the lines blur. But this case is different. Something about it hits too close to home. And the deeper she gets, the harder it is to keep her image intact. Because Chasity isn't just hiding the truth about the case ... She's hiding the truth about herself.