Tori Sage Scott built her name controlling narratives, protecting reputations, and keeping athletes and entertainers looking untouchable. In her world, emotions are liabilities and boundaries are everything. Nahmere Kaden Lennox is a franchise player with the league in his hands and the spotlight glued to his every move. Winning is second nature. Discipline is survival. Scandal is not an option. When business throws them into each other's orbit, the rules are clear: keep it professional, keep it clean, keep it quiet. But chemistry doesn't follow contracts. Behind tunnel walks, late-night calls, and flashing cameras, their connection turns reckless. Every stolen moment risks headlines neither of them can afford - yet walking away feels impossible. Because off the court... control slips, walls fall, and desire stops playing fair. And in a world that feeds on scandal, one wrong move could cost them everything, except each other.

In a city ruled by rival kings, the most dangerous place isn't the streets. It's Red Palace. A velvet playground where fantasies are bought, secrets are traded, and desire is curated with precision. Inside those walls, enemies sit shoulder to shoulder, drinking from the same glass, pretending they don't want what stands at the center of it all. Maddam. Nayla Waters doesn't sell herself. She sells temptation, illusion, and power, commanding every room with a voice that can stop violence mid-breath. Men come to Red Palace chasing pleasure. They leave addicted to the woman who controls it. The night rival kingpins Dayvon Moore and Easton Benett walk into her empire, they expect indulgence. They don't expect her. One look is enough to ignite something territorial, obsessive, and impossible to ignore. Now two men who have spent years circling each other like predators are drawn to the same woman who refuses to be claimed. Under Maddam's roof, no one pulls a weapon. But desire is its own kind of war. And when kings start craving what they can't own, the Palace becomes a battlefield dressed in silk, where loyalty is tested, pride burns hot, and every glance feels like a promise that could ruin them all. Red Palace sells fantasy.Because in Maddam's world...You don't fall in love. You surrender.

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.

August Smith has survived by following orders and trusting procedure. As a decorated intelligence operative, she understands that discipline is the difference between control and chaos, life and death. Her world is built on classified files, sealed missions, and emotional distance. Fraternization is forbidden. Curiosity is dangerous. Feelings are a liability she cannot afford. Carter Bernard is power wrapped in uniform-high-ranking, precise, and untouchable. His authority extends beyond rank into operations that never reach official reports. When August is placed under his command as a protected asset, the rules become harder to define. He is not supposed to look at her twice. She is not supposed to react when he does. But every briefing tightens the space between command and compromise. As missions escalate and secrets stack higher, the line between handler and asset fractures. What begins as controlled proximity turns volatile, threatening careers, clearances, and lives. In a system built to eliminate emotional risk, August and Carter must decide what's more dangerous: breaking protocol, or obeying it. Because in this chain of command, love isn't just forbidden. It's disqualifying.

When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. What was supposed to be nothing more than a quirky one night stand, turned into something twenty three year old, 𝗦𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿, couldn't just walk away from. As affection turns unpredictable and emotions deepen faster than trust, Sade is forced to confront the difference between what's being promised and what's actually being given. Torn between the comfort of lies and the fear of being alone, she must decide how much of herself she's willing to lose holding on to someone who only knows how to offer 𝗦𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀. - ESTDEC25.

She's 30, controlled and lonely. He's 25, reckless and unforgettable. HR fixer Sanaa Wright breaks her own rule when she falls into a secret situationship with Zaire Collins, the fine, toxic head of security at the club she's hired to clean up. When the contract-and whatever they were-ends, they go their separate ways. Years later, she lands a big new project and finds Zaire at the table again-older, richer... and wearing a wedding ring. Now they have to work together like nothing ever happened while time, temptation, and old feelings refuse to stay buried.