There was no such thing as one foot in and one foot out. A constant battle between love and the streets, cliche urban love story with a happily ever after ending? A story about surviving day by day, people from all walks of life who all had something in common, facing the daily struggles of living in Baton Rouge.

When Johanna and her sister inherit a grand old house in the middle of The Ville neighborhood in St. Louis City they find a roommate to help with the upkeep of the house. Tristan is a young man that does not believe in romance or dating or desires any relationship. Their attraction to each other is undeniable, even if they are so wrong together. #1 BWBM 12/22/24 #3 Contemporary Lit 7/8/24 🏆AMBY 2024 ROMANCE TOP PICK🏆

Virtue and Exodus are brought together by their loved ones. Virtue's best friend, Tarryn is getting married to the love of her life Ephraim. After three years, Ephraim finally proposed to the woman who had his heart from the very beginning. Now a wedding has to be planned! When the wedding plans starts to fall in place, will Virtue gets bitten by the love bug? Will Exodus find a woman he always dreamt of? Read to find out!!

Fourth grade teacher Amina and town Sheriff Malcolm were high school sweethearts that were so inseparable that no one could pull them apart. Her parents on the other hand, was never a fan of him because he was a little older and they thought was taking advantage of her, especially when she got pregnant. But after getting kicked out the house and she lost their baby at 17, she knew her life was not going to be the same. She became so depressed that she and Malcolm ended up breaking up and stayed apart until rekindling years later. 10 years from losing their son, Amina was ready to start over again with her now husband. Though after having new suspicions with a new student in her class, she was determine to find out the truth of what happened to her in the past, even if that meant opening old wounds.

"I know I should've talked to you about it but I-" I started but stopped, looking down at my feet again. I had no excuse. The only thing on my mind was graduating, I never put his feelings into perspective. "Dominic, I'm sorry. I was being selfish and only thinking of myself but baby, I promise if you give me another chance.." I trailed off, breathing heavily. "..if you give us another chance, I'll never do it again. I promise." I tried to grab his face but he roughly pulled away from me. "Don't touch me." He spoke sternly, breaking me even more. "Look.." He trailed off, looking away again. "Me and you..we're done." He spoke, finally looking down at me. "Dominic." I pleaded. "Don't say that. Please." "Na', this shit is over, T." He went on and I began to sob.

𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦.