"are we supposed to shine in this light? or is failure inevitable?..." Journi just wanted to keep her head down and in the books and get her family out the hood but her brother just can't seem to stop bringing trouble to her doorstep. So when her brother Raheem takes from the wrong one and goes into hiding, Journi is snatched by the one they call Joker as payback she then must navigate her way through college and the life she tried to escape. Once in his tower she can see he would ruin her in the worst way. She knows escaping is futile but she tries anyway. Yakhir aka Joker owns the streets of Atlanta there's nothing that slips past him so when a low level dopeboy takes something and thinks he can run off he has another thing coming. Joker snatches the one person he cares about, his baby sister to draw him out. Once he has Journi he instantly knows he's not giving her back. She's his to keep. After laying eyes on the sweet, smart and clever beauty he knows he'd paint his city red behind her. Will the inevitable keep them apart? Or will Journi and Yakhir fight for their love after the ruin? Cover Credit: @KYTHEWRITERR

Artez "Murk" Carter was blunt but goofy. A man with an obsessive nature. When his mother gets admitted to the hospital for an unforseen illness. Artez eyes find the sweet nurse. Now she is his. Genesis Martin, the sweet bubbly nurse. Well that's what everyone thought she was but she kept her true nature hidden. Violent and deeply obsessive nature that she swallows down in order to lead the life her parents insist on her living. After catching a patient's son's attention Genesis gets roped into a battle of wits, obsession, acceptance and love?

In Without Warning, healing is the journey neither of them expected. Amina is sweet, soft, and tired of being hurt. Elias is cold, distant, and convinced he's better off alone. Both scarred by their pasts. Both afraid to trust again. But God has a way of placing exactly who you need right in front of you-even when you swear you don't want them. Thrown together without warning, Amina and Elias are forced to confront their pain, their faith, and each other. What begins as tension slowly shifts into something real, something healing, something they never saw coming. Sometimes love doesn't arrive gently. Sometimes it arrives as the very person who challenges you to finally grow.

After her family suddenly relocates from Los Angeles back to New York, Nicole "Nicki" Dubois is determined to leave the past behind. Sweet, sheltered, and focused on her future, Nicki wants nothing more than a fresh start alongside her family. Everything changes when she meets David Easten, the rebellious son of a world-famous preacher. While the Easten family appears perfect in the eyes of the church, David is tired of living under his family's strict rules and hiding who he really is. As Nicki and David grow closer, they find themselves caught between family expectations, hidden secrets, and the truth behind both of their families' carefully guarded pasts. What begins as an unlikely friendship soon becomes something deeper but some secrets were never meant to be uncovered.

Kason "Khotic" Brewster never planned on living long. At seventeen, he buried both of his parents in the same week. His mother died instantly in a car crash. His father held on just long enough to make Kason promise one thing before he passed. Take care of your brother and sister. So that's exactly what he did. Twelve years later Khotic is the man the streets call when things get ugly. Feared. Respected. Untouchable. Everything he does is for the two people depending on him to make it out of the life he's stuck in. He's content with that. Until Beauty Cardwell crashes into his world. Bee is nothing like the women Khotic usually deals with. She's a twenty-five-year-old brain surgeon, a child prodigy who finished school before most people finished learning who they were. She's blunt, literal, and socially awkward in ways people don't always understand. Diagnosed with high-functioning autism, Bee doesn't believe in pretending to be something she's not. She says exactly what she means. And for some reason... Khotic likes that. What starts as a chance meeting turns into something neither of them expected. Bee sees the man behind Khotic's reputation. The older brother trying to keep his promise. The boy who never got the chance to grieve. And Khotic sees something in Bee that the world keeps missing. But loving a man like Khotic means stepping into a life Bee was never meant to be part of. Enemies. Loyalty. Violence. The kind of danger that doesn't care how smart you are. And Khotic knows one thing for sure. Good girls like Beauty Cardwell aren't supposed to fall for men like him.

✩࿐⋆*𝐢 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐭, 𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 ⋆｡ ☆⠀ ╲⠀⠀ ⊹ ⠀. ☆ ⊹ ⠀⠀ ★ . • . . . . • . ✧ . . ☆⠀ ╲⠀⠀ ⊹ ⠀. ☆ ⊹ ⠀⠀ ★ 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤.

Can you be the one help me leave all these hoes? Can you help me stop passin' my body 'round?

Our vows were spoken before our hearts had a chance to catch up. Formally, "ARRANGED HEARTS"

On hold. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐱 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐃𝐨𝐥𝐥 𝐱 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝟎𝟖/𝟐𝟕/𝟐𝟏