Rumi "Rue" Monroe was a girl who grew up too quick and too soon. When her parents died, all she had left was herself, her overworked aunt, and bills they could never quite outrun. Fresh out of a relationship after catching her man in bed with another woman, Rue is exhausted working herself to the bone, drowning in responsibilities, and done with men altogether. She keeps her head down, minding her business, praying life gives her something better than struggle and disappointment. She isn't looking for love, danger, or anything that can break her again. Until she meets him. Nazir "Naz" Creed is the coldest man in the city a quiet storm with a reputation that speaks louder than he ever needs to. Running the streets with his brothers built him an empire people fear and respect in equal measure. Naz moves with precision, loyalty, and violence when necessary, and he's never cared about much outside money, power, and keeping his circle alive. But then he sees Rue. What starts as a chance encounter turns into a collision neither of them can walk away from. Rue's sweetness clashes with Naz's darkness, her broken hope meets his guarded heart, and suddenly the city's coldest man finds himself warming to the one girl who wasn't looking for him in the first place. And the streets? The streets don't like when the wrong people start caring about each other.

Jakai Jones, a grieving widower new to Texas, seeks a fresh start after losing his wife. One night, he has a brief passionate one-night stand with Jewel Smith, thinking it was a one-time thing. Fate intervenes when they cross paths at the hospital where he works, leading to a connection and exchanged numbers. However, their relationship is tested when Jewel's hidden secret is revealed.

Prosper Klarity Athens was supposed to say I do to the man she loved-until the doors of her wedding burst open and a stranger with a devil's smile claimed her as his wife. Kapone Symeer St. James doesn't ask. He takes. And what he takes has already been promised to him in blood. Bound by a vow made before Prosper ever took her first breath, she's forced into a marriage she never agreed to with a man who rules California's streets by fear alone. Kapone is power, control, and calculated violence-everything Prosper swore she'd never bow to. But when lies, betrayal, and obsession start bleeding from inside her own family, Prosper is forced to confront the truth: The real danger isn't the man who claimed her... It's the ones who want to destroy what she's becoming. In a world where love is lethal, loyalty is bought in blood, and obsession is the purest form of devotion-Prosper must decide if she'll keep running from the darkness... Or sit beside it on the throne.

She's beneath him in every way he believes. He mocks her, judges her, dismisses her. Same friends. Same space. Same air. And yet... she's the one who makes him forget himself.

It all began when Revel met a man named Lunatic....

I'm not crazy. I'm just a little 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐃...

Jaqueline Harper was born on a small farm on the country side of Tennessee, about 45 miles From Jackson. When she was about 8, her father got a job offer he couldn't refuse making her, her mother, and little sister leave everything and everyone they knew behind. As the years went on, their lives got busier. The calls and the visits became fewer. Two years went by... five...Ten...fifteen. The horse back riding country girl was left behind in Tennessee only to birth a somewhat slick talking, boujee business woman who hated getting her hands dirty. It was like she had forgotten all about her childhood on the farm. Until Jaqueline receives the call that disrupts her busy big city life and forces her to visit her birthplace. Old memories come back, relationships are tested, and new romance Brews...

*𝙍𝙀𝘾𝙊𝙍𝘿 𝙎𝘾𝙍𝘼𝙏𝘾𝙃* I bet you're wondering how I became a 𝙃𝘼𝘽𝙄𝙏𝙐𝘼𝙇 side chick. Well, let me explain....