"I give what I receive, lately, I ain't been feelin' loved at all." - Hunxho Jamouri was never built to save anybody. He's stuck between a past that won't let go and a future that don't know the truth yet. A baby mama who knows his worst habits, his soft spots, and exactly how to pull them. A new woman who feels like peace - until she starts asking the wrong questions. Sa'Raina comes with history. Blood ties. A daughter he barely sees and a bond that never really broke, just turned bitter. Sy'ani is temptation wrapped in calm - fine, quiet, and way more aware than she lets on. This isn't love. It's ego, lust, control - a messy, unspoken arrangement built on late nights, half-truths, and blurred lines nobody wants to claim. Everybody wants something. Nobody's telling the whole truth. This ain't a fairytale. This that hood reality - where sex is loud, secrets are louder, and somebody always pays when a man thinks he can have it all.

Something called love... Ayanna never asked for attention. She's quiet, focused, and just trying to heal from the grief that never really left her. Working late nights at a tattoo shop is how she copes, alone, unbothered, and uninterested in drama. Then Hunxho walks in. A rising rapper with eyes that hold too many secrets and a name that carries weight in more places than just music charts. He's used to women falling over him, used to fast love and fake loyalty. But Ayanna's different. She doesn't flinch. Doesn't chase. Doesn't care who he is. At least, that's what she tells herself. What starts as a late-night walk in turns into a slow-burning connection neither of them expected. But when pain runs deep and loyalty gets tested, love anit always enough. Sometimes the heart wants what it fears the most.

Zenadia Jones is 22 years old and in college. she's living her life as she's coming into her own figuring out what she likes and doesn't in this life she's making for herself .. what happens after a kickback she finds herself feeling tempted by 34 year old chosen wright who also happens To be Nadia's best-friends older cousin ...

Finding a way to love in Oakland .

Asmara My'yanni Dawson has always wanted to help people. Majoring in Social Work, she's almost finished with her senior year of college. She kept her mind in her books and her heart away from love. She didn't swear it off, she just took a break from it after she experienced a major heartbreak her freshman year of college. The guy she thought she was in love with ghosted her, and it was later revealed that her best friend from high school not only slept with him, but had his child as well. She then realized that not every one deserved your trust and your heart, so she kept it on lock, until she met him... Esai Zamier Lewis always felt like the world was against him. Being diagnosed with a mental disorder, surviving poverty, and having to grow up fast, turned him into an emotionally unavailable person. Recently released from prison, Esai is learning to live in a world where his mother and brother aren't in it with him. Coping with promethazine to sleep through the pain, he doesn't realize it's doing more harm than good. Trying to uphold the promise to his mom, he opens his own tattoo shop, Esai's Ink. With the help of his friends and recent love interest, he realizes he's not alone as much as he thought. Follow Asmara and Esai as they both go through life with each other by each other's side. Relationships and friendships will be tested, secrets will be revealed, loved ones will be grieved. Can they survive it all? First book! Enjoy!

When rising rap star Trevon "TreSoo" Wright is rushed into emergency surgery after a near-fatal shooting, he never expects the surgeon saving his life to be Imani Jackson the quiet, brilliant girl he used to tease back in fifth grade. Now a confident trauma surgeon in the heart of Detroit, Imani is everything he never knew he needed: calm in chaos, light in darkness, and the one person who sees past the fame to the broken man beneath. But in a city where bullets fly as fast as dreams, and pressure from both the streets and the spotlight mount, Trevon and Imani must navigate a connection that feels destined but might come at a cost. From elementary school tension to adult reconnection, this emotional, slow-burn urban romance explores healing, second chances, and the kind of love that cuts deeper than any scars.

❝THE SOUL IS HEALED BY HAVING A CHILD❞ 𝐀𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐋 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎

"𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙡 𝙚𝙢𝙤 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙖," he joked. "𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙡 𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙖," I said smiling. Andrew and Zachariah were total opposites. Zachariah raw, savvy, unapologetic, he came 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙮. and Andrew? melancholic, misunderstood, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩. They didn't run in the same circles at all-one had the "𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙥 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮", the other was more of 𝙖 𝙜𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮. yet in some odd universe, in this odd universe, they clicked. Like, really clicked. It didn't make sense to a lot of people, but to them? It just felt right.

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