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?

Follow Journi and Yakhir in the second installment of Within This beauty There is Ruin With Journi laid up in the hospital in a medically induced coma Yakhir must find out who did it and also try to finally get his hands on Raheem. Will Journi wake up? Will Yakhir get rid of his enemies? Will Journi and Yakhir weather this storm called love?

"just somebody that can make me feel...safe" Dya'mond is a rising celebrity tattoo artist who is in a loving relationship with a celebrity rapper or so she thought but what happens when a scandal drops and she tries to end her relationship? everything goes left and she must run. While escaping she ends up in a small town in South Carolina on the side of the road with a smoking engine, a flat and a dead phone. All she wants is safety and peace. The mechanic who saves her may be that. Rylo is a mechanic and newly turned single dad after his daughter he didn't know he had gets left at his doorstep without a mother in sight. With grease stained fingers, bedroom eyes, soft words, and the perfect little girl trailing by his side. He always desired a family of his own after losing his at a young age. He tries to navigate being a new father and a business owner on his own. That was until he saves a tattooed beauty who wears her heart on her sleeve and is just tired of running. Will she find her safe haven with him? Will he get the family he always desired?

"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