After escaping a five-year relationship that slowly turned toxic behind closed doors, she's focused on work, healing, and pretending she's okay long enough to eventually believe it herself. The last thing she needs is distraction-especially not one wrapped in old money, sharp suits, tattoos, and a dangerous smile. Kai Valentine has spent years running from the world his powerful family built. While the tabloids painted him as reckless and impossible to control, Kai disappeared across countries chasing freedom from the pressure, expectations, and cold perfection attached to the Valentine name. Then Zuri becomes his newest luxury relocation consultant. What starts as mutual irritation quickly turns into something far more intense when their undeniable attraction begins cutting through every wall they've carefully built around themselves. Because beneath Kai's arrogance is a man carrying more anger, loneliness, and pressure than anyone realizes. And beneath Zuri's beauty and professionalism is a woman still learning how to trust herself again after love nearly destroyed her confidence. Some people fall in love softly. Zuri and Kai were never going to be those people.

#Romance #Urban. [18+] MATURE CONTENT. Harlem's life changes when she's given a fully funded scholarship into one of the most prestigious universities of New York. She's going to experience the campus life and will come across rough paths that would only strengthen her the more. But most importantly, she finds new love. In someone she never considered her type of man. Adventure, partying, sororities and fraternities, art and crushes await her. "I ain't like other girls. I don't take shit. I'm from the streets. the hood is part of me. But that doesn't mean I don't want to be someone tomorrow. I will be someone." All rights reserved. Copyright 2016/2017©

Vulnerability isn't her strong suit. Healing isn't linear. And the hardest part of starting over isn't letting someone new in. It's finally letting herself out.

Despite the title, this isn't a story about a treehouse. This is a story about love. This is about two people who allowed change and fear to ruin something beautiful. Letting years go by, Only to realize that they should've fought harder for the other. But is it too late? UNEDITED Rankings: #5 in dualpov #7 in dancer #19 in romance

He was supposed to be off-limits. She was never supposed to be his. In a world of wealth, power, and dangerous lies, falling for the wrong person might be the most dangerous thing of all. Mon Cheri - Book 1 of The Endearment Series.

Mira Thompson didn't ask for her life to fall apart, but here she is. Grieving and guarded, she transfers to a new college to outrun everything she's been avoiding. She's definitely not looking for him. Rowan Campbell is all chaos-loud, nosy, way too charming for his own good. The kind of guy who gets under your skin just by breathing. Mira's spent months keeping her heart on lockdown, and somehow, he's the one person who makes her forget why she built walls in the first place. She's scared to feel again. He's not scared of anything. And when they collide? It's messy, intense, and the first thing that's made Mira feel alive in a long time.

A quiet Italian village. A girl trying to save for her future. A man trying to remember who he is. And one summer that will burn itself into their skin. Emma thought this would be just a job. A sleepy little hotel in the northern countryside. A way to save up for art school and escape the weight of expectations. But when she crosses paths with Alessandro - a young American with a camera, a complicated past, and eyes that seem to see through her - everything begins to unravel. Tangled between lingering desires, unspoken regrets, and the raw tension of summer heat, Emma is pulled into a web of feelings that aren't safe... and maybe were never meant to be. He came to find inspiration. She came to find freedom. But neither of them expected this. A story of love, lust, and the inescapable pull of a season that changes everything.

At Deveaux & Associates, nobody survives Imani Deveaux untouched. Cold. Brilliant. Untouchable. She runs Manhattan's most feared corporate law firm impossible standards and a reputation sharp enough to make grown attorneys nervous. Then London Pierce walked into her firm. New Associate. Financially drowning. Desperate to prove himself. He tells himself he only admires her because she's good at what she does. Until late nights turn personal. Until courtroom tension follows them home. Until he meets the side of Imani nobody in the office even knows exists. "We're partners" One sentence One mistake waiting to happen. Because wanting your boss is dangerous. Wanting a woman like Imani Deveaux? Catastrophic

Spellbound verb past tense; past participle: hold the complete attention of (someone) as though by magic; fascinate. *** Soleil has had a crush on Brice for the longest time. She wishes he would notice her. When an opportunity presents itself for her wish to come true, she takes it. But things don't go as expected. She wanted his attention and now that she has it, can she handle how jealous, possessive, and obsessed he gets with her? ☆WARNING: Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it. This is not a fairytale! ♧This is a Dual POV / BWWM tale of dark love

| BOOK 1 of The Soulmate Duet | Jaelle has had a hard life. She's been fighting for most of it. It's all she knows. It's all she's used to. Bruised knuckles and adrenaline. But eventually the fighting gets old, the adrenaline wears off and all that's left is a bone deep ache that she can't get rid of. She didn't expect a break in the madness, a sense of peace in the storm, but that's what happens when Anthony pops into her life. Anthony is miserable. He's jumping from one dead-end job to the next, with no stable end in sight. His existence is so consumed by loneliness that he'd given up hope of ever finding his other half. Until he met Jaelle. Inexplicably, the two form an unprecedented connection. It should be easy for them, but it isn't. Jaelle isn't able to easily give out her trust, Anthony's friends are skeptical of her, and Jaelle's past is an obstacle that Anthony just can't seem to get around. Their love was never supposed to happen, but now that it has, they're in danger of losing it all. EST. 2019 (Rewritten 2022, 2023, 2025) PUBLISHED: 06/27/26 COMPLETED: cover by: @summerafterglow