Nyla Monroe knows better than to trust a man like Kairo Bennett because he was tied to everything she should avoid. But the harder they fight their connection, the deeper it pulls them in. When buried family secrets begin to surface, Nyla realizes the man she's falling for may be connected to the one betrayal she'll never forgive.

Sarai knew how to survive inside the safety of faith, choir rehearsals, and whispered prayers. Jaheim knew how to survive everywhere else. Hardened by the streets and haunted by the belief that God stopped loving him a long time ago, Jaheim never expected peace to look like a soft church girl with gold crosses around her neck and worship in her voice. But the closer they get, the harder it becomes the tension between grace and guilt, love and fear, fath and the lives they've both been trying to out run. Some people find God before love. Others find each other Before the Amen.

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗲..?

"𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟."

Love is a dangerous game.

Kay never planned to fall in love. She's a bartender who minds her business, keeps her head down, and understands that some men come with silence instead of promises. Rome Brewster is one of those men. He's charming, romantic, and dangerous in a way that doesn't need explaining. He shows up. He stays late. He learns her routines without asking permission. He doesn't offer forever-just consistency, protection, and a presence that feels too rare to ignore. What starts as quiet attraction turns into something deeper. Something chosen. Something neither of them names out loud. This isn't a story about being saved. It's about loving someone as they are. About wanting without ownership. About choosing the moment even when you know it won't last forever. Some loves don't come to stay. They come to change you.

Adah lived inside a mind that rarely gave her peace. Some days , her thoughts felt like a crowded intersection-loud, chaotic, impossible to cross safely, she ain't smile often but when she did it was the kind of smiled that held itself together out of habit Ximere, on the other hand, carried his struggles in his body. His illness was real, something doctors could name, measure, and warn him about. But that wasn't the only life he knew. The streets raised him-taught him how to survive, how to move smart, how to never show weakness. He balanced hospital visits with block loyalty, pain with pride. Will the sickness they carry bring them together or will it break them more than they are already broken.

They say every officer has a story. Some are written in promotions. Some are written in scars. Theirs began the moment they met. She thought graduating the academy would be the hardest part. She was wrong. Because no one warned her about him. And no one warned him about her. Behind the Shield A slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance Written by ABB