ʟᴀɴɪ ᴡᴀꜱ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ ɴᴏᴛɪᴄᴇᴅ. ɴᴏᴛ ᴜɴᴛɪʟ ꜱʜᴇ ʟᴇꜰᴛ. ɴᴏᴡ ꜱʜᴇ'ꜱ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ꜰᴏʀ ᴏɴᴇ ᴡᴇᴇᴋᴇɴᴅ, ᴏɴᴇ ᴛʀɪᴘ, ᴏɴᴇ ʀᴇᴜɴɪᴏɴ... ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ꜱʜᴇ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ꜱʜᴇ ʟᴇꜰᴛ ʙᴇʜɪɴᴅ ᴅᴏᴇꜱɴ'ᴛ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ꜱᴏ ꜰᴀʀ ᴀɴʏᴍᴏʀᴇ. ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ꜰᴇᴇʟɪɴɢꜱ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ꜰᴀᴅᴇ. ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ʟɪɴᴇꜱ ᴀʀᴇɴ'ᴛ ᴍᴇᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴄʀᴏꜱꜱᴇᴅ. ʙᴜᴛ ᴏɴᴄᴇ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴀʀᴇ... ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ'ꜱ ɴᴏ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ʙᴀᴄᴋ.

❛❛ɪᴛ ᴅᴏɴᴛ ᴍᴀᴛᴛᴇʀ ᴡʜᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ sʜɪᴛ ɢᴏ ᴏꜰꜰ ʟᴏʏᴀʟᴛʏ.❜❜ -LⵊL DURK

Seven years ago, Daveon Eastwood lost the love of his life. One rainy night. One phone call. One mistake he's spent years blaming himself for. Since then, he's built walls around his heart so high that no one has ever managed to climb them. Until Milan Carter. At twenty-two, Milan is a rising travel hairstylist with big dreams and a career that's taking her places she never imagined. Love is the last thing on her mind-especially with a man thirteen years older than her. But what begins as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something neither of them can ignore. The more Milan learns about the man behind the guarded smile, the more she realizes Daveon isn't afraid of love. He's afraid of losing it. As old wounds resurface and a life-changing opportunity threatens to pull them in different directions, Daveon must decide if he's willing to stop living in the past for a chance at a future he never thought he'd have. Some people leave your life. Others teach you how to live again.

Can you be the one help me leave all these hoes? Can you help me stop passin' my body 'round?

Aurora Fletcher thought she had seen it all. As a psychiatric nurse, she's spent years helping people navigate trauma, addiction, grief, and the darkest moments of their lives. Then David Blackwell is admitted to her unit under a fake name. A man haunted by nightmares he refuses to talk about and a past he can't escape. Aurora knows he's hiding something. What she doesn't know is that David Blackwell is one of the most powerful and feared men in the city-and four years ago, he lost everything when his three-year-old daughter, Dove, was killed. Now he's left carrying a grief that never healed, memories that won't let him sleep, and a guilt he can't outrun. The closer Aurora gets to him, the harder it becomes to ignore the man beneath the reputation. But David has enemies. Aurora has boundaries. And some secrets are dangerous enough to destroy them both. He was supposed to be her patient. She was never supposed to become his reason to keep living.

After getting kicked out by her parents, Symone is left with nowhere to go and nobody to depend on. Just when she thinks life can't get any worse, she meets Kasai a handsome and mysterious guy who seems too good to be true. What starts as a simple ride turns into something much deeper. But with secrets, drama, and the dangerous life Kasai lives, falling in love won't be easy. Will their love survive, or will the streets tear them apart?

Legally, nothing about their relationship was wrong. Morally? That was a different story. She was eleven years older than him, his professor-and yet, she couldn't resist. Kamron, with his irresistible brown eyes, his honeyed voice laced with a hint of southern charm, and a smile that could stop you in your tracks, had her completely ensnared. Robin had seen the way he captivated everyone around him, and now, fate seemed to toy with her: the boy who embodied temptation living just beside her as her next door neighbor, his bedroom window staring straight into hers. Two forbidden hearts. One impossible desire. Window to window.

For as long as she can remember, Amaris Knowles has seen him. In crowds. In reflections. In the dark when she feels most alone. He's always there-watching, protecting, disappearing before she can get close. She thought he was a figment of her imagination. A coping mechanism. A sign she was losing her mind. Until one day, someone else speaks to him. His name is Kai. He's not human. He's a Watcher-a spirit sent to protect her after a near-death experience as a child. He grew with her. Aged with her. Watched every heartbreak, every tear, every moment she never knew she wasn't alone. But he was never supposed to love her. What was meant to be protection slowly turns into something dangerous, something forbidden, something neither of them were prepared for. Now that his mission is complete, Kai is supposed to let her go. Instead, the closer he gets, the more human he becomes... and the more dangerous loving her turns. Because there's one rule Watchers can never break: never fall in love with the person you were sent to protect. And Kai already has. A love that defies reality. A romance that was never supposed to exist.