Some nightmares are easier to run from than to face. Alia Skye has spent the better part of ten years building a name for herself in the music industry. Ambitious, respected, and dangerously close to the biggest promotion of her career, she has everything a woman could want-or at least, that's what it looks like from the outside. Behind the tailored suits, expensive heels, and executive title is a woman quietly coming undone. Alia knows how to bury the things that hurt. A little smoke. A little liquor. A few bad decisions. Anything to keep moving and avoid confronting the pieces of herself she'd rather leave untouched. Then there's him. A powerful rap mogul with the industry at his fingertips and enough charm to make Alia forget every reason she should know better. What begins as an intoxicating romance soon becomes something far more complicated when love, loyalty, infidelity, fame, and business collide. And when the relationship she's fought to protect begins unraveling in front of the entire world, Alia discovers that heartbreak isn't the only thing she stands to lose. Her reputation is on the line. Her career is in jeopardy. And the demons she's spent years outrunning are finally catching up. Caught between the man she loves, the life she's worked for, and the woman she's desperately trying to become, Alia is left with one choice: Sink-or finally learn how to swim.

Jendayi Reed came to New Orleans to build a life-not collect rappers. Yet somehow, the pretty young ER nurse finds herself caught between two Louisiana men who have absolutely no intention of sharing her. Fredo is Baton Rouge smooth. Grown, country, calculated, and generous enough to make "lil lady" sound dangerous. He'll fly her across the world, put something pretty on her feet, and remind her exactly why she keeps answering his calls. Rob is New Orleans pressure. Sweet with her, possessive about her, and quickly becoming addicted to having his baybeh beside him. He'll fill her tank, take her shopping just because, pull her into his chest after a long shift-and look at another man sideways for breathing too close to her. Jendayi wasn't looking for a relationship when she met either of them. So why choose? At least, that's what she tells herself. Because somewhere between expensive gifts, late-night pull-ups, hospital shifts, jealous arguments, soft mornings, crossed boundaries, and feelings nobody was supposed to catch... casual gets complicated.

Amiko loved her life in Louisiana. Shacked up with her longtime boyfriend, Rio, spending his money and playing wifey was enough for her. As long as Rio handled the bills, Amiko handled the house-and she never questioned where the money came from or how long it would last. Until Rio got locked up. With the money running short and bills piling high, Amiko is forced out of the comfort of home and onto a desperate chase for paper. What starts as a way to keep her head above water soon places her in a world she never imagined herself being a part of-where fast money comes with consequences, loyalty has a price, and one decision can change everything. Amiko thought she knew what it meant to hold her man down. But sometimes, being FOOLISH for love will cost you more than you ever planned to pay.

Sometimes, losing everything is the beginning of finding yourself. After love, heartbreak, and betrayal leave her questioning everything she once knew, (Y/N) is forced to choose a new path-one that requires her to rediscover the woman she was before the pain changed her. But healing isn't always peaceful. With pieces of her past refusing to stay behind her and an unexpected future pulling her in a direction she never imagined, she must decide whether she has the strength to love again... or finally let go of everything she's known. A story of love, loss, friendship, betrayal, forgiveness, and self-discovery, this novella is ultimately about coming back home to yourself-and finding peace with the person waiting there. Because everything broken doesn't have to remain that way. Some things can be repaired. Some things must be released. And some things are rebuilt into something even stronger. (Y/N) 📖