She was never supposed to inherit the streets. By day, she's a quiet daycare teacher with soft hands and a patient voice-the one who wipes noses, ties shoes, and protects children the world already abandoned. She lives small on purpose. Keeps her head down. Silence has always kept her safe. Until her brother gets locked up. Overnight, his trap spot is passed to her like a debt she never agreed to pay. She tells herself it's temporary-just long enough to keep the lights on, just long enough to protect his name from being erased by the block. Word spreads fast. A woman is running it now. A quiet one. An easy target. That's when he pulls up. Feared across the city and untouchable on his side of town, he offers protection the only way he knows how-territory for territory, safety in exchange for surrender. He expects fear. Gratitude. Compliance. What he gets is a polite refusal. She doesn't argue. She listens-and says no. The rejection lingers longer than gunfire ever could. As rivals test her limits and the streets grow restless, she builds her own protection. She moves quietly. Studies patterns. Cuts dead weight. Negotiates without threats. Before anyone notices, the block is stable again-not because she's feared, but because she's respected. As war creeps closer and the line between protection and partnership blurs, she must decide whether to accept his help-not as someone who belongs to him, but as an equal who earned it. Because sometimes the most dangerous people aren't the loudest ones. Sometimes, they're the ones who never needed protection at all.

"Why? You already broke my heart once.. I'd be a fool to let you do it again." "We not in college or kids anymore. It's different this time around." ★⁂✫彡 𝐀 𝐉𝐀 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐅𝐈𝐂

Autumn Hayes has mastered the art of performing-onstage, in her relationship, and in the life she never meant to settle for. Under the haze of club lights she moves like a woman in control, but behind the curtain she returns to a man who breaks her down piece by fragile piece. His lies. His fists. His apologies. The cycle that keeps her trapped in a story she never chose. But when one night pushes her past her breaking point, Autumn is forced to face a terrifying truth: if she doesn't save herself now, she may not survive at all. What begins as an escape becomes a reckoning-one that shakes loose the woman she buried beneath fear and survival. As a quiet, unexpected connection enters her life, Autumn learns what it feels like to be seen without being owned, wanted without being controlled. Yet even gentle hands can't heal wounds she hasn't confronted. Autumn Leaves is a fierce, heart-pounding portrait of a woman fighting her way out of darkness, reclaiming the pieces of herself she once believed were lost. A story of danger, resilience, and the moment a bruised woman realizes she was never meant to fall-only to rise.

In the sun-soaked edges of Miami, where the ocean hums against the shore and pastel neon glows like a pulse in the sand, their love flared with a heat that could blister anything it touched. She was ambition in mirrored shades and salt-tangled hair, chasing dreams bigger than the high-rises crowding Brickell's skyline. He was smooth charm with a dangerous undertow, a street-wise whisper of Little Havana who wore his secrets like tattoos beneath a linen shirt. Together, they tore through Miami nights like a tropical storm-loud, electric, impossible to outrun. Their passion was tidal, pulling them back together even when the wounds were raw, even when the apologies sounded like ultimatums. They loved in extremes: stolen kisses on rooftop pools, voices raised on sun-baked sidewalks, breakups that melted in the humidity, and reunions that hit like the first sip of strong cafecito. But Miami hears everything-the clubs murmuring, neighbors side-eyeing, the streets predicting the inevitable wreck. In a city built on heat and hustle, their story played out like a bittersweet bolero: vibrant, aching, unforgettable. In the end, it wasn't Miami that broke them-it was the weight of their own blaze, a love too volatile to last but far too fierce to ever fully let go. - Read at your own risk!

yes, another karinjinsui and daveeast joint.

When single mother Zaina leans on her brother's best friend, Malachi, hidden feelings surface, and love, loyalty, and family collide.

Her voice reached thousands. His love reached her.

The lies have unraveled, the truth is out-and the storm they barely survived has left cracks in everything. Amaya thought walking away from her past would make life easier. But love-real love-has a way of revealing every scar, every buried fear. With Stack by her side, she's learning to trust again, but peace is fragile when old wounds keep bleeding. Especially when you're still figuring out how to stay whole in a world that keeps pulling you apart. Stack is trying to be the man Amaya deserves. The DNA results may have closed one chapter, but a new one is opening-one filled with unexpected responsibilities, shifting loyalties, and a love that demands honesty at every turn. As his past resurfaces and Amaya's career begins to blossom again, the space between them threatens to grow wider.

Sequel for In Between.