By night, Amora disappears into neon lights and shadows to become The Temptress, a persona built on seduction, control and illusion. The strip club is her sanctuary, the only place where she dictates the rules and keeps her heart safely guarded behind glittering smiles and practiced movements. Until a private dance puts her face to face with a man she never thought she'd see again. Diego was her childhood best friend. The boy who protected her. The boy who vanished seven years ago, leaving behind unanswered questions and a wound that never healed. Now he's back...and he's nothing like the boy she remembers. Diego is a rising force in the criminal underworld. He's cold, calculating, and feared. His life is soaked in blood and vengeance, driven by one singular goal: destroying the man who took everything from him. Power has hardened him. Violence has shaped him. And love was a weakness he thought he buried long ago. Except Amora was the one sacrifice he never forgave himself for making. Seeing her again cracks something open inside him that he thought was long dead. She was the only person who ever grounded him. The person he walked away from to protect. The one thing that kept him human. As their lives intertwine once more, Amora is pulled into Diego's dark world of loyalty, betrayal, and deadly consequences. The Temptress may know how to survive men, but Diego isn't like the others. He doesn't want a fantasy. He wants her. All of her. And in a world where loyalty can kill and love can destroy, walking away is no longer an option.

Set in the shadowed elegance of 1909 New York, Velvet and Gunpowder tells the haunting love story of Lila Monroe, a quiet, dark-skinned woman whose fragile beauty masks an unyielding will to survive, and Alessandro Volkov, an Italian-Russian military officer turned Mafia boss-dangerous, brilliant, and fatally drawn to her silence. When their paths collide, Lila becomes both his weakness and his weapon. Bound by obsession and circumstance, she is pulled into a world of secrets, blood, and loyalty where love is as lethal as betrayal. As the empire around them trembles under threats from rival families and military rivals, Lila must decide if she can endure the violence that comes with Alessandro's protection-or if she'll be consumed by it. Their passion burns like a forbidden fire-intense, destructive, and beautiful. And in this world of velvet whispers and gunpowder promises... love is the most dangerous weapon of all.

𝟏𝟖+ #𝐛𝐰𝐰𝐦 #𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐨 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝. • 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 •

Nora Reed was invisible her whole life until someone noticed her. In the small town of Rosevein, attention is never accidental. When Nora is drawn into the orbit of Adrian Duvall and his dangerous, secretive family, love becomes a threshold she can't step back from. Vampires. Faith. Hunger. Choice. This is not a story about being saved. It's about what happens when being seen changes you forever.

It started with a wrong number. A call from prison. A voice she wasn't supposed to hear... but couldn't forget. Rain Matthews didn't plan on falling for a man behind bars. Cairo Cross didn't plan on finding what he'd been searching for his entire life but some things aren't accidents. Little does Rain know... she was his long before that call. Before he "accidentally" reached her. Before she even realized she was never truly free from him. Love doesn't always come when you're ready. Sometimes it comes when you have nothing left to lose. 💕

In a city where justice is bought, sold, and buried with the bodies it creates, Salone Baptise does not pray. Salone Baptise, is a criminal defence attorney by title, strategist and cleaner by bloodline, raised by power, and sharpened by secrets. Salone doesn't believe in innocence or redemption. She believes in leverage, in silence, in winning. Orion Rosetti, a professor by day, another by night. As family pressure tightens into a forced marriage, bodies start dropping, and Salone is dragged into a world where control has a cost, and refusal is an act of war. 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭. 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐝. But never mistake her for weak. Because Salone Baptise does not beg. And she never loses without making someone bleed.

Aaira and Aleksei are back and badder than ever..... want to know more.... then you just gotta read it!

Ivy Knight never meant to fall into anyone's orbit. Xavier Blackwell didn't give her a choice. What starts as attraction turns into something heavier. His attention, his presence, the way everything else seems to fade when he's near. Xavier's world is controlled, powerful, and closed off, and once Ivy steps inside it, she realizes there are rules she was never told... and boundaries she can't see until she's already crossed them. People from Ivy's past resurface, familiar and unfinished, but they don't touch her the way they once did. The man she thought she loved feels distant now. The man who unsettles her feels inevitable. Being with Xavier isn't soft. It isn't safe. But walking away feels impossible. And Xavier Blackwell doesn't lose what he wants. *Almost Mine* where attraction becomes obsession, and self-control is just another lie. WARNING: This story is a bit of a slow burn and contains mature content.

She's fierce, independent, and untouchable-never needing a man to define her worth. He's the ruthless heir to a Greek mafia empire, used to taking whatever he wants. When their worlds collide, his obsession ignites into something dark and all-consuming. She becomes the one thing he can't control, and he'll stop at nothing to keep her close-even if it means burning everything else to the ground.

I was just a college girl out with my best friend. He was the older stranger who watched me like he already knew me. One ride home turned into something I can't explain... and something I'm not sure I should want. All I know is this: he's not normal, and nothing about that night was an accident. This is my first book, I've never written before, so please be kind and patient😭💗 #5 - interracial (15 Dec 2025)