Imani Brooks is 25, 5'1", plus-size, glasses, dimples, and done. After two years with a cheating, abusive boyfriend, she cashes out, packs up her pit mix Max, and drives 3,000 miles to the small rainy town she's always dreamed of: Astoria, Oregon.She buys the little blue house with the big porch on Maple Street. She buys Rose's Diner on Commercial Street, closed since 2018. She has a business plan, a recipe binder, and absolutely no idea how to swing a hammer. Enter Rhys Callahan.35. 6'6". Long brown hair, brown beard, green eyes, tattoos everywhere. Ex-Army. Rides a Harley. Owns Callahan Construction - the company his dad built, the company this whole town trusts. He was supposed to give her a quote. Instead he catches her every time she trips over a drop cloth, brings her soup when Oregon rain gives her a cold, and sits in his truck outside her house during a storm just so she won't be alone. He's ten years older. He's never left Astoria. She's never felt safe before. He looks at her like she hung the moon. She's never been looked at like that in her life. With the help of his interior-designer little sister June, Imani's loud Atlanta family watching on FaceTime, her new Astoria girl gang - Aaliyah the flower shop mom, Jo the gay bar owner, and Nia the salon queen - and Rhys's lifelong porch crew of a fisherman, a sheriff, and a mechanic, Imani learns how to stay. Cozy, slow-burn, and healing. Fall leaves, Christmas lights, porch swings in the rain, and a big man who builds her a home with his bare hands. He falls first. He falls hardest. He's not letting her go.

𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡, 𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 wants out of the streets. landing a role in kentrell's viral music video changes everything-but stepping into his world of fame and danger might cost her more than she bargained for.

A connection made reality between a professional NFL running back and a rookie sports photographer.

Averi Watts is an introverted third year law school student. Becoming a lawyer is her dream and her education is her pride and joy. She rarely opens up to anyone besides her family and best-friend. After a long week, she's dragged to a bar where she meets...him Jace Moore is a high school music teacher. His love language has always been music. Prevailing through his troubled past, he is now thriving with his new life. While at the bar with his friends, he can't stop staring at...her

✨Aaliyah Jackson is 25, a single mom, and an ER supervising nurse at NY Presbyterian-used to holding everything together even when she's falling apart. Her daughter, Chole, is five years old, brilliant, and the only reason Aaliyah ever learned how to survive. But the man who helped create her... is also the man who tried to destroy her. Kamari James is 35, a master manipulator with a dangerous ego and a toxic grip on the woman he refuses to let go of. After stealing from Aaliyah and cheating with her own cousin, he thought she'd still come running back like she always did. Until she didn't. And the day Kamari puts his hands on her in a school parking lot... Aaliyah meets the one man he should've never crossed. Malik King is 28-quiet, powerful, and far more dangerous than he looks. A kingpin with legal businesses across the city... and a heart that softens for his mom and his little niece, Nia. When Nia and Chole become best friends, Malik and Aaliyah's worlds collide. And once Malik decides Aaliyah is his to protect... Kamari won't just lose a woman. He'll lose everything. Because a man like Malik King doesn't warn twice. 🖤

Indigo Walker built her career on control. Soft-spoken, brilliant, and emotionally disciplined, she specializes in treating the kinds of minds most people avoid. Her life is structured, her relationship is stable, and her boundaries are ironclad. Then Luv Carter walks into her office. Street-smart. Charming. Volatile. A man with money, power, and a mind that never stops moving. He voluntarily checks himself into treatment after a violent incident that should have destroyed his reputation. Officially, he's there to get help. Unofficially, he's studying her. What begins as routine therapy becomes a quiet psychological chess match. Every session blurs the line between doctor and patient, observation and obsession. Indigo thinks she understands manipulation. Luv knows how to stay ten steps ahead. And the deeper they go, the more dangerous the connection becomes. Because some minds aren't meant to be untangled. And some boundaries aren't meant to survive.

Kartier has to choose between being the princess of the "o" or choose the other side and be with the love of her life even if that means risking her life and freedom to be with him, will she choose his love over her family and friends ?

At Louisiana State University, reputation is everything. Nalani came to Baton Rouge for one thing - her degree. No drama. No distractions. No relationships. Kairo already has everything she doesn't want - fame, attention, and a campus full of girls who know his lyrics better than their textbooks. When a fake relationship turns into the perfect publicity stunt, the rules are simple: no feelings, no complications, no blurred lines. But the one thing they didn't plan for? Each other.