A California writer with a broken routine. A Southern contractor with steady hands and a slower kind of love. When Aeluna moves to Louisville to renovate an old house and find her words again, the last thing she expects is Maverick - patient, grounded, and dangerously intentional. What starts as dust-covered floors and one page a day turns into late-night dinners, back porch confessions, and a man who looks at her like she's already home. But falling in love is easy. Letting yourself be chosen is harder. And Maverick doesn't do anything halfway.

One gunshot changed everything. Jade Brooks walked into a bar for a paycheck and walked out tied to the most dangerous family in New York. Rome DeSantis is power without mercy-an heir raised to rule, not protect. But when Jade becomes collateral in a brewing mafia war, he refuses to let her disappear. Now she's trapped inside his world, where safety has rules and desire is a liability neither of them can afford. Ranks: #1 blackandwhite #1 blackfmc #1 interracial #5 bwwm #1 wmbm #1 atmospheric

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞...

He swiped my sweat-soaked hair off my neck, resting his lips against my ear. His fiery breaths blew across my earlobe. My body shuddered once again, craving more of him. "You're not the first woman to think she could seduce me into bed because of who I am, what I write. And you won't be the last." He gave a small chuckle, pulling down my dress, so it covered me. "But," he said in a low growl, "so far...... you're my favorite." Breaths poured from my lips at those words. My heart fluttered inside my pounding chest. His favorite, my brain stuck to his words like glue. Clinging to the small hope we'd continue this somewhere else, more than once. We stayed in that position for a moment before his body heat disappeared from my back. He lit a cigarette in front of me, the flash of the lighter illuminating his flushed, sweat-soaked face. I leaned against the brick wall, finding comfort in the coolness against my heated skin. His eyes met mine again. I didn't think I could move from the spot, but he forced me to when he held up a red, lacy thong in between his fingers. My red lacy thong. Fucking panty thief! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Their worlds collided in a heated, passion-filled hook-up behind a bar, bringing their broken pieces together. And now? Mercy finds herself as C.J. Cole's intern. The very Mr. Cole who wrote the most romantic, erotic books she had ever laid eyes on. How could she manage to keep her panties on around him? Or control herself? Hint: she won't. Mature warning.

❝The FBI Agent with walls of steel and The Mafia Spy who couldn't feel.❞ 🎭 "Can you feel it?" "Feel what?" "My love for you." •♡• Kaya Skeats (real name: Artemis Crawford) could not, actually, feel his love. Because she couldn't feel or express much at all. Suffering from alexythemia, the inability to verbalise, express and place emotions; Kaya was a weapon of seduction honed by the Chicago Outfit. And now she had no more than four months to complete her hardest mission so far. Mixing FBI business with Mafia pleasure. Erex (Rex) Di Castillo had made it his life's mission to bring down a branch of the Outfit. It was justice that the Special Agent of the FBI's Organized Crimes Department sought, not love. As a man who kept to himself, women had no place in his life, not for one night and certainly not for a lifetime. But the deadly beauty with a sharp tongue invading each aspect of his life was making him question things. She was a blank canvas so he became the spectrum of colors in her life. The spectrum of emotions. But with the good... There always comes the bad. And for Erex and Kaya, the game of love, deceit and guns was doomed from the start. -🎭- Thank you for reading, don't forget to vote and comment! (Temporarily on Hold) it's HEA. TWs: violence, SA, mental health issues, crimes, allusions to sex, steamy.

COMPLETED ✅ Dr. Selena Carter never asked to be part of the mafia world-but when her father's mistakes catch up to him, she finds herself in the hands of Dante De Luca, a ruthless Philadelphia crime boss with no patience for complications. He's cold Controlled Deadly She's everything he never expected. What begins as protection quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. trust, desire, and a love neither of them ever planned for. He was never supposed to fall for her.But she became the one thing he couldn't let go. She Was His To Keep

She's been at his hip. Ever since that day he saved her from the mean big kids. That day he saved her, he knew she was his. Even if they were so young. When he left, she felt damaged. Broken. Torn. She thought she would never see him again. 8 years pass... And he's back. And back for her, and her only.

I was just a college girl out with my best friend. He was the older stranger who watched me like he already knew me. One ride home turned into something I can't explain... and something I'm not sure I should want. All I know is this: he's not normal, and nothing about that night was an accident. This is my first book, I've never written before, so please be kind and patient😭💗 #5 - interracial (15 Dec 2025)

B͜͡o͜͡o͜͡k͜͡ O͜͡n͜͡e͜͡ O͜͡f͜͡ T͜͡h͜͡e͜͡ 'S͜͡I͜͡R͜͡E͜͡N͜͡' S͜͡e͜͡r͜͡i͜͡e͜͡s͜͡ ‼️ UPDATED WEEKLY ‼️ 𝐒𝐇𝐄 practically had the world in her hands. With two criminals kingpins for parents, her life was supposed to be full of nothing but power and privilege. They may have taught her how to prosper in the legitimate society, but a tragic childhood event forced her to adapt into the criminal world in a way that ignited a violent fire within her. She made it her mission to keep others from meeting the same fate she did, becoming a savior, slaughterer, and a Siren in every sense of the word, all while mastering the deceptive art of a double-life. She became practically untouchable. Unstoppable. Until him. 𝐇𝐄 was only given one choice in his world: Conquer, and be the best at it. Be the most intelligent man in any given room. The most remorseless killer. The greatest opportunist. In a life where one either ruled, or lived long enough to bathe their hands in the blood of the previous ruler as they took their place, his survival depended upon his ability to be better than the opposition. And all the wicked talent within him meant he always was. Until her. The two of them hid enough secrets to fill an unending void to the brim. But how many unserious smiles and stony expressions can they continue hiding behind before cracks start to form in their acts? ✰(Fairly) Long Chapters ✰ ✰ Chapters marked with * include sexual content ✰ ✰ ✰ This book/its plot is MATURE in every way, not just smut. Viewer discretion is advised. Copyright © 2025 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner except for the use of quotations in a book review.

She ran from the life she was born into. Now, it's come to collect. For eight years, Imani Blackwood built a life far away from the crime empire she left behind. In Paris, she's not a Blackwood-she's Imani Laurent, a respected art curator, mingling with high society and securing priceless masterpieces for the world's elite. Her past is buried, locked away with the girl she used to be. Until Nikolai Petrov walks back into her world. Cold, calculating, and dangerously untouchable, he was the one risk she allowed herself. The man who got too close, who made her feel something real-until she discovered the truth. Nikolai isn't just a wealthy investor. He's the heir to one of Russia's most ruthless Bratva families. And he's known exactly who she was from the moment they met. Now, with her father demanding her return to Atlanta and Nikolai already waiting for her there, Imani is thrown back into a world of power struggles and dangerous alliances. Malcolm Blackwood expects her to broker a deal between the Blackwoods and the Bratva-but Nikolai has his own plans. She swore she'd never let herself love a man like him. She swore she'd never be owned by anyone. But some wars aren't fought with bullets-they're won with the heart. And Nikolai has never lost a battle.