Noelle's journey home for the holidays takes an unexpected turn when icy roads lead to a fender bender. Stranded and with everything closed, she reluctantly accepts a stranger's invitation to find solace in his home. Little does she know, this impromptu Christmas celebration would ignite more than just a spark. Amid frustration and simmering attraction, Noelle and her mysterious companion embark on a surprisingly festive holiday that will leave them both forever changed. Discover the irresistible collision of emotions as two strangers find unexpected warmth in the midst of winter's chill. Published | December 2023 Completed | January 2024 Edited | June 2024

Paige Bueckers is supposed to be starting over. Rookie season. New city. The Las Vegas Aces. A clean slate after years of pressure, expectations, and being everyone's golden girl. Instead, she wakes up in a Vegas hotel room with a pounding headache, a championship ring tan line... and a wedding band on her finger. Married-legally, undeniably married-to Karsyn Vega, a sharp-tongued, effortlessly cool West Coast girl who teaches hip-hop to teenagers and lives her life to the beat of music, not headlines. Karsyn is everything Paige isn't supposed to get tangled up with right now: grounded but wild, confident without trying, completely uninterested in basketball fame, and way too good at seeing through Paige's polished, media-trained exterior. What started as a drunken, laughing-it-off mistake after one reckless night in Vegas suddenly becomes impossible to ignore as Paige tries to balance practices, press conferences, and rookie pressure-while quietly sharing texts, accidental moments, and a growing connection with the one person who knows her at her messiest. As the season begins and the spotlight intensifies, Paige must decide whether this marriage is just another mistake to clean up... or the one thing in her life that feels unexpectedly, undeniably right. 💍🏀✨

Valentine is 22 and just graduated college with a PHD in Child Development. After her parents died on her birthday and she was thrown into the foster system she developed a passion for kids and their mental capacities. Her life was regular to her nothing out of the normal or too outrageous. She didn't have friends besides her work buddy who was a bit eccentric. She didn't have a boyfriend because of her fear of abuse after her last boyfriend and foster family. She was plain, dull, and simple. Until she met Quincy Quincy was a known felon in the neighborhood. He murdered two cops in a shootout but thanks to great lawyers he got out in 6 years. Then he went back for armed robbery after someone stole from him and he stole it back (in blood) that got him 4 months. His last crime was assaulting a teacher because allegedly the teacher made a threat at his 11 year old daughter. The man barely made it out of a coma and didn't sue or get police involved lucky for Quincy because he was on his third strike anymore and he wasn't coming home. He only heard Valentine's voice once and ever since he'd been keen on making her his.

Ameera has always kept to herself. Living life sickle cell means everyday comes with challenges most can't even see, she's learned it's easier that way. School is a place where she minds her business because everyone thinks she better than but they don't know what she battling. Bryan is the bad boy everyone talks about. He always into fights, he constantly getting suspended. People assume he doesn't care, but the truth is, nobody has cared enough to ask if he's okay. Misunderstood and unnoticed, he hides the soft side no one sees. Then Bryan notices Ameera. At first just curiosity, small conversations, and shared moments that feel impossible to ignore. Slowly, walls began to crack, secrets are shared, and a quiet friendship turns into something neither one expected. A slow burn of trust, laughter, and love unfolds proving that sometimes the people who are the most distant can become the ones who matter.

Kaia is a powerhouse attorney - fierce, passionate, and determined to see Black women win. In the courtroom, she's unstoppable.. but at home her marriage is falling apart. Behind closed doors, Kaia struggles to hold together a relationship where she's the only one fighting to make it work. Exhausted and lonely she crosses paths with Saint at a welcome home party- a smooth, charming, man that reels her in. What starts as a steamy passionate affair quickly spirals into something deeper, forcing them both to confront the consequences of their choices and the complicated reality of love, loyalty, and desire.

a step father that can't help but to notice how beautiful his wife's daughter is.

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Sanaa Wright is Miami's best HR fixer. When a company is falling apart, she's the one businesses call to clean up the mess and she delivers results in four months or less. So when one of her long-term clients asks her to rebrand his struggling lounge, she takes the job without hesitation. She just doesn't expect to walk in on day one and leave with a broken ankle-courtesy of one of his employees. Zaire Collins. Known across Miami as the protection, Zaire owns one of the top security firms in Florida, trusted to guard nightclubs, bars, and high-profile events. Control is what he does best. But the day he accidentally breaks Sanaa Wright's ankle changes everything. Determined to make it right, Zaire goes out of his way to take care of her... even if that means giving Sanaa more access to him than anyone else has ever had. And the closer they get, the harder it becomes to keep things strictly professional.