Front Burner *The full story is now available for just $2.99 on Amazon and Barnes & Noble! If you've already read the free Wattpad version, I could really use your support through a quick review on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016NTKNVM* Emma Rosen is struggling to start over in a new city, when she meets New York Senator Grant Michaels, an intense man she is unable get a read on. But Emma does not have room for distractions. If she doesn't pull her crap together, she'll have to go back home and submit to the people she left behind. To submit to the control she finally took hold of. As the state senator pursues her, Emma falls hard. She starts to believe she can make it work while hiding from the rest of the world -- and her past. This powerful man opens her eyes to emotions and sensations she's never experienced. But with Emma in tow, Michaels' race for the United States Senate is in jeopardy. Will she become his top priority, while he risks to lose it all? (Mature audiences only)

“Has that ‘curl up with hot chocolate and read’ feel to it.” ~*~*~ Monica doesn't believe in life after death. Obligations, certainly. But, after her husband's death, there hasn’t been much ‘life’ to speak of. Just her kids, her farm, and the man who rents it to run his business, Marshal. She decides to change that. It won’t be like it was the first time. Nothing could be like it was with Jason. But she didn’t quite anticipate how different the dating world had become. The more she learns, the more panicked she becomes until she literally runs from her first date . . . and directly to Marshal. She was just looking for someone to ease the loneliness. What she found was a friend she’d already learned to lean on. But can Monica let go of her picture-perfect memories and embrace a new dream? With a new man?

ONLY CHAPTERS 1-5 ARE AVAILABLE! Seventeen-year-old Diamond Carter has a lot on her plate with a crack headed mother, having to raise her brother, and also going to school. But all that changes when she meets a local thug. Can this thug make everything right in Diamond's life? Read this hood love story to find out. © 2012 Ebony Goddess