Mikayla is a good girl-quiet, guarded, and painfully aware of the limits placed around her life. Shy by nature but rich with ambition, she longs for something beyond the environment she was born into. College becomes her escape, a fragile doorway to a better future, proof that she can be more than what circumstance expects of her. But ambition doesn't pay bills, and the world doesn't wait for dreams to catch up. When money tightens its grip, Courtney is forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: survival often comes with a price. Enters Blaze a man with the power to solve her problems in an instant. He could be her way out... But every favor has a cost, and the question isn't whether Blaze can change her circumstances it's how much of herself she'll have to give up in the process.

Janeisha "Neisha" Bambi has always survived by keeping a low profile. She don't get caught up in the kind of business that comes with bodies, secrets, and street names that echo. But all it takes is one night-one favor for her best friend-to slide her straight into the orbit of Seven "Saint" Carter. Saint is discipline wrapped in menace. A man the streets don't just respect,they fear. The type Neisha promised herself she'd never look at twice. He doesn't chase, beg, or explain. Yet somehow, he does all of this for her. And when that calm, unreadable gaze settles on Neisha, her careful world starts to crack. Now Saint's patience is running out, Neisha's defenses are falling apart and the pull between them is starting to feel less like a choice and more like fate. He's trying to shield her from the life he lives. She's trying to decide if loving him is salvation or self-destruction.

"𝑺𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝑰 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒑 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐? 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓?" "𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘. 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒚 𝒎𝒆? 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇."

"𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝑛𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑦."

"we fell in love the way you fall in leaves." Juwan "Rocky" Rockwell has had a pretty hard life. Between trying to find a way to fend for himself and dealing with the normal hardships of teenage angst, he had nowhere to turn as an adolescent and no time for anything other than taking care of himself. Having been set on survival rather than love itself, Juwan, now twenty-four years old, is ready for a change. He just hasn't realized it yet. Quinn Campbell, a woman accustomed to the moderately luxurious lifestyle that her parents immersed her in, has been passive all of her life. Having been torn between parents who are both demanding and have been divorced since she was nine years old, trying to find her way in the world as an adult has proven to be challenging especially since her overbearing parents have been making decisions for her since birth. One morning, on a whim, she finally decides that it's time to take control of her life. The first step is finding a change in scenery. Who ever would've thought that the second step would be becoming smitten with a man who claimed to never have had a heart? [based on "falling in leaves" from my book of one shots.]

Amanda Alexander returns to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines with fire in her heart and a dream finally within reach. Fresh from the University of the Eastern Caribbean, she steps into her coveted role as an Accounting Lecturer at the St. Vincent Institute of Arts, Science & Technology. Yet, just as she begins to settle in, life stirs the waters in ways she never expected. Between the thrill of new romance, the weight of family expectations, and friendships as deep as the Caribbean Sea. Amanda soon realizes success isn't just about the perfect job. It's about navigating the tides of love, loyalty, and fate. When an unexpected twist shakes her world, she must choose between the life she planned and the one calling her soul. Will she stand firm in the path she fought so hard for, or will the currents of passion and destiny sweep her into something far more powerful than she ever imagined?

🚩🚩🚩 Chris Brown is clearly someone who wears his heart on his sleeve. A very emotional person, someone who loves hard and wants the same love in return. He's someone who wants to find love, but he's looking in all the wrong places. He's dated all kinds of women, from strippers, to singers, to models, to regular women. All he wants is what everybody else wants, to be loved. One night after a show, on the Party Tour, he meets a woman (Shawnie Roberts), it's love at first sight. He does everything he can to make her fall in love with him, but she's battling her own issues, and things don't quite workout. Blinded by love, things quickly progress for Chris, but not for Shawnie, which turns out to be a huge problem for him. Not to mention a certain someone who also becomes a problem for him. With things not going as he planned, rumors begin to circulate about him, and Shawnie. With Chris feeling rejected by her love, he falls back into his old ways. He begins getting in trouble again with police, fighting, lashing out on friends, all while battling his addiction. In the process of all of this, he turns back into a crazed, love sick, stalker, that's constantly Under The Influence. ⚠️Trigger warning ⚠️ ⛔️ Mature audiences & Read at your own risk ⛔️ Drugs Sex Violence Emotional abuse Pregnancy related issues Mental Health Issues This book has a prequel, "Natural Disaster" which should be read after this book, and there is a sequel, "Under The a Influence: N2Deep" which should be read after the prequel. Note: If you start the sequel you might not understand what's going on. Gotta check out the prequel current chapters first. Cover done by me

From the looks of it, Ivory Renee Carter has the life that any grown woman could ask for. She has a successful career, owning her own clothing line. She lives in NYC, having an upscale and luxurious house, which gives her the best views. Not only that, but she is married to Lance Carter- one of the best music producers in the industry and a fairly well known entrepreneur nationwide. On inside of that glamorous life that everyone sees on the outside, stands a whole different reality that Ivory has to face- and it weighs on her every day and night. Her life changes when she mets Cairo Christopher Brown, a musical artist, who is thee the top name in the music world globally. - book one. | copyright 2020 , @𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗸𝗼𝗸𝗼𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀. started : october 2020 finished: march 2021.

"Woah, slow down. What?" I heard him say and I furrowed my eyebrows, looking up. "Ma.." He trailed off and I already knew it was his mother. "That has nothing to do with you." He said and I sat up because I could hear him getting angry. "What's wrong?" I asked him and he put his phone on speaker. "I can't believe you got that little.." She trailed off, too angry to even get her words out. "..whore pregnant, Sage." "And then the little slut gets an abortion, I hope she knows that she will rot in hell." She said and my heart dropped. He hung up the phone on her before she could say anything else. "Baby." He looked at me as I bit my lip, standing to my feet. "Olive." He stood to his feet as well. I quickly walked to the bathroom and closed the door behind me before Sage could catch me. I broke down crying as he stood on the other side of the door. "Babygirl, I love you." "I love you too." I told him, breathing heavily. "Don't cry, love. Nothing she says matters, she's just mad because I love you so much and there's nothing she can say to change that." "Open the door for me please?" I wiped my face before I slowly opened the door for him. "I'm done with her." He said, shaking his head. He pulled me to him, wrapping his arms around my waist as he shoved his head into my neck. "Until she can learn to respect you as my lady, she's out of our life."

"𝑤𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟"☯︎︎-𝚞𝚗𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚗