New Orleans isn't just a city-it's a pulse. A rhythm. A hunger. And nobody knows that better than Arielle Washington, a tired single mother grinding just to make rent in the Desire Projects. Love left her a long time ago, replaced with diaper bags, house keys, and survival. That is, until a new housekeeping job drops her into the home-and world-of ICE the most dangerous man in the streets. ICE doesn't do mess. Doesn't do feelings. But there's something about Ari-her fire, her silence, her scars-that draws him in. And when business gets bloody and loyalties are tested, the line between protector and predator blurs. Because in the Dirty South, nothing comes clean... not even love.

Killing people was easy for Kingston Knight, selling drugs was easy...but falling in love was something he knew nothing about. He watches the way his little sister has fallen in love and wonder if he can ever treat a woman like that? Can he put his guard down to let someone other than family in? Promise Marshall is a little rough around the edges, being raised in a orphanage and running away at the age 16 she had no choice but to dance. With her troubled past that makes her the woman she is now...can she also let her guard down? Can she be that soft girl?

When a girl with a troubled past filled with trauma, Disfunction, and chaos surrounding her...She wonders if the world and God had forsaken her to the life that she had to endure. Moving from state to state living with one foster stranger after the other and never found a home for real. Her best impression is a soft smile and a kind wave. A loveless child that yerns for a love she never knew. If she spoke to you with a sweet voice what would you say? If you looked into her soft brown eyes and seen how broken she was...how would you feel about her? If she wore a smile like a loaded revolver, would you play Russian Roulette??? ☣️Big Bunny Warning☣️ First and foremost I am as unfiltered as it gets. I do have a strong sense of creativity and that means that I will include real life trauma, real life events that can occur such as mentions of sushicide, Sexual Assult, etc. in what I write. I will write about any and everything. If your stomach, heart, and soul can't handle what I write, respectfully push off, side step, and don't read it. I would hate to trigger anyone so you've been warned😵‍💫

Sapphire is a girl who loses her family in a murder. She's the only survivor left and is put into foster homes having to constantly move north. When she moves her final time to Ohio she's already a senior in high school, all the schools before haven't gone well and she thinks this school will be the same. But, what if it isn't? will her expectations be exceeded? or will everything come crashing down? find out in this story filled with romance and drama