Amaya Lewis knows the law better than she knows herself. At only twenty-seven, she's the rising Black star of civil litigation-sharp-mouthed in court, soft-hearted in life, and determined to protect the people the world forgets. But when she takes on Elijah Ward, a former Army sniper threatening to expose illegal missions and buried military casualties, Amaya steps into a battlefield she can't see. Within days, she becomes a high-value liability-and someone in the government signs her name on a quiet, classified order. Kairo Holt has followed orders his whole life. No hesitation. No questions. No guilt. He's the weapon they call when they don't want fingerprints on the outcome. Kairo is playing both sides. Amaya doesn't know she's sleeping next to the very man sent to end her. And the deeper he falls for her, the more impossible the mission becomes. Because he can't serve two masters forever. And when the crosshairs finally close in, Kairo has to decide: The job... or the woman who made him hesitate.

With returning home after years away from the death of her grandmother on her birthday. Violet must face her old best friend, Kwame who she despised with her whole gut. Though when staying here in the place she didn't want to come back to, she begins to have dreams of her past about the actual truth on what happened on April 17th.

*slow updates* Between raising his son and dealing with nonstop baby mama drama, love is the last thing on Messiah's mind. But when he meets Kaiser and Beautifull, everything he thought he knew about relationships is challenged, and nothing will ever be the same...

After moving to Chicago to start a new life, Sveya isn't looking for nothing beyond a fresh start. Between church, school, and learning how to exist without losing herself, her life feels limited...until she meets Solomon.

Samir Johnson has seen it all, survived it all, and buried more than most men could carry. To the world, he is the polished face of a multimillion-dollar tech company, a quiet, cold-hearted visionary with money, power, and control wrapped neatly in a designer suit. But behind the scenes, Samir is known as Saint, and in the streets he rules alongside his best friend Elijah, better known as Bishop. Calculating, distant, and feared, Samir has built a life that looks solid from the outside while everything beneath it quietly rots. After losing his fiancée and unborn daughter in a tragic car crash, then losing his mother not long after, grief hollowed him out in ways no amount of money and power could fix. Love feels like something he no longer deserves, and with his mind caught in a constant war between living and letting go, Samir has been spiraling for longer than anyone knows. Stationed in Atlanta with his brothers, he makes one final attempt to find peace by turning toward the church, hoping maybe God can reach a place in him nobody else has. Then he meets her, and everything changes. Harmoni Sinclair has always belonged to the church. Raised by a devoted pastor, she grew up with faith woven into her bones and carried that strength with her into adulthood. She remained active in the church as a Sunday school teacher while also building a life as a preschool teacher, believing in kindness, purpose, and the kind of love that feels safe. It was there she met her husband, and what began as something beautiful ended in heartbreak when a robbery gone wrong stole him from her life. Four years later, Harmoni is still carrying grief that never fully loosened its grip, trying every day to find the light at the end of a tunnel that seems to stretch on forever. Then she meets Samir, a man burdened by ghosts, silence, and pain so heavy. What begins as two broken people standing in the wreckage of their separate losses unfolds into something unexpected, healing and beautiful.

What happens when 19 y/o Naomi's past catches up to her present? Will it make or break her? Inpressive Rankings #1 realisticfiction #1 hoodlove #1 yaromance #1 Naomi #1youngadult #2 badboygoodgirl #3 drugs #4 urbanfiction #5 trauma #5 Toxic #7 love #8 friendstolovers #81 lovestory

He's a boxer. Non-verbal. Silent but powerful. She's a woman of distrust. Introverted. Weary and nervous. Terrible circumstances brought them together. That same miserable occurrence joined them together for eternity. In holy matrimony of course. This is an ORIGINAL NUNU novel. A/N: SLOW BURN ROMANCE T/W: Mentions terms like MUTE, and MUTISM.