Touré knew she couldn't stay in Sierraville; there was too much heartbreak there. She'd left her hometown and everything that came with it and hadn't looked back. Now, after twelve years of excuses, her family isn't taking no for an answer. Obligated to go back for her grandmother's "moonstone birthday celebration," she prepares to face her past-and face her past she does. Michael "Spade" Jackson tried the love thing twice-once with his first love Jade, and a second time with his shotgun bride of nine months. Now he's sworn off love unless it involves his daughter. He doesn't need it. After taking over his father's construction company, he has everything he needs in a town as small as Sierraville. He's settled, and after it's taken him so long to get to this point, he doesn't care to run into any unwelcome distractions. But speak of the devil and she will appear.

Honorable people had long ago become hard to come by for someone who'd experienced such hardships in life like Moira West had. Isolation was her remedy to being hurt by those who claimed to love her, and that remedy came with an overindulgence in drugs, alcohol, and the sorrow that she wallowed in. Her dreams of becoming a chef never wavered, but addiction and a low self-regard hindered her drive to walk the path to success and happiness, the latter she no longer believed she was worthy of. Michael Jackson, a young single father to a vibrant four-year-old, found himself navigating life with no clear-cut goal for his future. He was unsatisfied with where he stood, what he represented, and wanted more for himself and his daughter. The inevitable fate that came with being affiliated terrified Michael, more and more as lives were lost over irrelevant beef that never justified senseless murder. Moira and Michael's relationship started off unconventional and especially rocky, but time and much-needed intimacy made them see that happiness was attainable if you chased it. A Michael Jackson story. © All Rights Reserved. Started: August 24, 2021 Finished: November 26, 2024 Revamping: In progress... Work #2 Thriller era Takes place in Chicago, IL 2020-2022 Cover made by me via PicsArt Highest Rankings: - #3 in #Illinois - #60 in #Chicago - #2 in #SaveBlackCharacters - #18 in #Michael - #24 in #Jackson - #15 in #MJJ - #19 in #MJ - #2 in #MJFanFiction - #7 in #BlackAuthor

Whitney dreads the holidays. Not because she hates them but because the inquiries about her love life are inevitable. Thanksgiving this year was her final breaking point, where two of her siblings got engaged on the same day, leaving her as the only of-age single one and spiking her family's curiosity even more. She knows she won't be going home alone for Christmas but she has no prospects... except her single, soon-to-be-ex co-worker who she's had a crush on for three years. Michael wasn't going to be alone for the holidays... if you counted the hundreds of strangers that he'd be running with for the annual New Years Day city-wide marathon. But if you didn't... he wouldn't be Christmasing alone on account of an ever-strained relationship with his family. That is until his "mean," all business co-worker asks him for a favor.

"Last time I seen my brother, last time I seen the sun..." Full synopsis on first page.