When stickball champion, Slade Locklear, is denied financial help from his college to take his team to the World Series Stickball Games, he must ask his reluctant ex-best friend, Makaiyah Henderson, to help him fundraise enough money to go to the championship. *** Slade Locklear is Oklahoma's reigning stickball champion, and his team is closer than ever to competing in the World Series Stickball Games. There's just one problem-without funding, they're not going anywhere. After his college dean turns him down, Slade is forced to seek help from the one person he never thought he'd have to face again. Makaiyah Henderson. His childhood best friend. Makaiyah has always carried the weight of the world on her shoulders. Brilliant, driven, and fiercely protective of her Afro-Indigenous roots, she's dedicated her life to uplifting her community and fighting for representation in a world that never allowed for it. Helping a former stickball star who once broke her trust was never part of the plan. But when the opportunity arises to raise funds for the stickball team after her college denies them, Makaiyah agrees. Reluctantly. Through three fundraising events, Slade and Makaiyah are forced back into each other's lives. Working side by side reignites more than old memories, but unresolved wounds don't disappear just because feelings resurface. As the championship draws closer and the pressure mounts, they'll have to decide whether they can rebuild what was broken between them, or let the truth about their past cost them everything they've worked for.

Lee Do-hyun is South Korea's most famous actor-and its coldest. Quiet, intimidating, and fiercely protective of his one-year-old son, he's fired every nanny he's ever hired. Lyric Thompson, a bubbly foreign exchange student at Yonsei University, is just trying to survive Seoul with a part-time job and enough money to eat something besides ramen. After literally crashing into Do-hyun, she somehow ends up working as his son's nanny-the only person the child instantly loves. Now the grumpy actor and the sunshine college student are forced into each other's lives, where late nights, chaotic routines, and one adorable baby slowly turn cold walls into something warmer.

The heavy smell of cigarette smoke couldn't even mask the metallic smell of aged blood beneath the floor boards. These were dangerous men. Boys with knives and painted skin.. ~ We laid in the darkened room letting the comfortable silence cover us. His tattooed hand lightly stroked the moist skin of my arm. Yuji was beautiful.. "I'm going to hell..." He said nonchalantly. My eyes danced along his strong jawline and shoulder length, tapered hair. Currents of silky, onyx hair. "I've touched such a pure soul with unclean hands..." He sat up, climbed to his feet and grabbed his silk robe from the door, concealing the Oni and blossoms that adorned his back. [Completed 02/27/20] *************************************************** Warning: This book is rated M for mature. This novel will include sexual situations, violence, and crude language. Let's try to be adults about this. If I catch you copying my book, I'll sue.

He rules empires. She just wanted to be invisible. Ebony Johnson, 27, is shy, plus-size, and brilliant - but she'd rather drown in spreadsheets than be seen. Her plan at VeroTech Global? Keep her head down, survive her first corporate job, and never end up on the CEO's radar. Then she spills matcha on his $3,000 suit. Min Jae Park, 35, is obsidian in a tailored suit. Cold. Ruthless. Untouchable. The Korean American heir who took his immigrant parents' startup and turned it into the highest-selling tech empire in the world. He doesn't date. He doesn't smile. He destroys. Until her. She's 5'1, dark brown skin, curly hair, honey-colored dress, and eyes that refuse to meet his. Innocent. Introverted. Everything he should ignore. Instead, he obsesses. He calls her "Honey" to get under her skin. He rewrites company policy to keep her close. He memorizes her coffee order, her schedule, the way she bites her lip over numbers. She wants to be invisible. He wants her seen - only by him. But Min Jae has an empire to protect, a legacy built on 40 years of sacrifice, and a boardroom full of enemies. And Ebony has Philly roots, a protective family, and three best friends ready to vet him like the FBI. He's the storm. She's the calm he never knew he needed.

A reclusive crown prince appoints a common thief as his bodyguard, plunging them both into deadly intrigue, court scandal, and most dangerous of all: love ***** Blue Sanlanh was a common thief rotting in a dungeon until Prince Camleang Bo takes a shine to her-and appoints her as his personal bodyguard. Blue has no use for royals, but she does have use for their money. But she quickly realizes that the most dangerous aspect of the Anachakar Court isn't the assassination attempts, vicious gossip, jousting tournaments, or masquerade balls... ... it's Prince Bo, because his threat isn't to her life--it's to her heart. ★ 2017 Watty Awards Shortlist ★ 1st Place Romance Winner of Wattpad Oscar Awards CONTENT WARNING: This story contains strong language, period-typical violence, sexually explicit scenes, and discussions of abuse.

Jackson has lived his entire life in the cold, a hollow shell of a boy carved out by years of cruelty. He was a ghost until Mira looked at him. She was the first person to offer a hand instead of a fist, and in that moment, she didn't just save him-she claimed him. He doesn't just love her; he worships the ground she walks on and hates the air she breathes that isn't his. She thinks it was a chance encounter. He knows it was the beginning of the end

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓤𝓷𝓽𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝓣𝓻𝓾𝓽𝓱 ------------------------------- She wasn't looking for trouble. But it found her in the form of Nikolai Sokolov. Inayah's life was simple: keep her head down, make her dad proud, and stay out of messy situations. But when a random encounter turns into late-night texts, private rooftop dinners, and stolen glances that feel like fire-she finds herself tangled in something way deeper than she expected. Nikolai is smooth, quiet, and way too dangerous for his own good. He's got secrets he can't tell, enemies he can't see coming, and a past that's been chasing him for years. But the moment he meets Inayah? Everything changes. What starts as innocent flirtation spirals into obsession, chaos, and passion that burns way too hot to handle. But nothing stays perfect for long. Enemies are watching. Exes are lurking. And when secrets explode... love might not be enough to save them. ------------------------------- ⚠️ Warnings: • This book includes strong language, steamy scenes, emotionally complex characters, and messy drama. • If you love dangerous men, bold women, mafia secrets, and wild-ass plot twists-this one's for you. • Not your typical love story. Enter at your own risk. 🖤

When career-driven, commitment-phobic Nia is named guardian of her late sister's two children, she must choose between returning to her carefully constructed life or staying in a small town to raise them, a decision complicated by a charming neighbor who threatens to derail both her exit strategy and her heart. *** Sharp-tongued, unapologetically ambitious Nia Sinclair has spent her life building walls and a wildly successful marketing agency in New York City. Nia treats relationships like business deals: strategic, temporary, and never too close. Her boyfriend-an older, wealthy media executive-is no exception. But Nia's carefully curated life unravels when her estranged sister dies in a car accident and Nia is named as legal guardian to her two children. Nia plans to drive upstate, sort things out, and be back in the city by Monday. But things go sideways fast. She struggles to connect with the grief-stricken kids-sassy teenager, Mimi, and her autistic little brother, AJ. The paternal grandparents are completely unsuitable guardians. Everyone in the small town is in everyone else's business. And then there's Jack-the tall, charming neighbor with a Southern drawl, calloused hands, and the annoying habit of always being helpful. Nia suddenly finds herself picturing a life completely different from the one she's known. Now she has to choose: go back to the life she built with care and calculation, or stay in the town that dismantled her walls-one kid, and one neighbor, at a time.