She's used to being the punchline. He's ready to burn down the theater. Journee Doyle has perfected the art of invisibility. As a plus-size woman in a world obsessed with size zero, she knows her role: be the funny friend, the hard worker, and the one who takes every insult with a smile. By day, she's a ghost. By night, she waits tables at the prestigious Nocturne Crown Hotel, serving Manhattan's elite while trying to forget she exists. Until the night she can't. A backhanded compliment from a billionaire guest and a "clumsy" spill of red wine by a jealous waitress leave Journee humiliated in a room full of people who refuse to look her in the eye. She flees, thinking it's just another scar to hide. She's wrong. Someone was looking. Andrés Morales-the elusive, ruthless CEO of the Nocturne Crown empire. A man who rules New York from the shadows. To him, Journee isn't invisible. She is inevitable. Andrés saw the insult. He saw the tears she tried to hide. And when he rewinds the security tape, his fascination snaps into a dark, primal obsession. He doesn't just want to comfort her; he wants to ruin anyone who ever made her feel small. When a custom gown arrives at her doorstep, sent to an unlisted address, Journee realizes this is no fairy tale. It's a hunt. She thinks he's playing a cruel game. She thinks a man like him could never want a woman like her. So she runs. But she's forgetting one thing: Andrés Morales owns the city. And he loves a chase. He doesn't want her to fit into his world. He's reshaping the world to fit her.

"You lying bitch," he snapped, rounding on her in front of the doctor and two nurses who'd just entered with follow-up forms. "You really thought you could pull this off, didn't you? Trap me?" Her eyes widened, horror dawning in real time. "I didn't-" "You think because I took you in, because I cared about you, that you could play me?" His voice rose. "Ambrose, please stop-" "I trusted you," he hissed. "I defended you. Against my mother. Against everyone." She shook her head violently, tears pooling. "It's your baby. I never cheated on you, I-" He laughed coldly. "You expect me to believe that? Some girl from nowhere, clinging to a family she'll never belong to?" His words were knives now, each one carving into her chest.

In a world where power and seduction intertwine, Roulian Enrique, a charismatic mafia playboy, experiences a blow to his ego after crossing paths with Ginevra Barone, a strong-willed escort who is immune to his charms. Her rejection results in a cat-and-mouse game between them, that ends in a fateful night that thrusts Ginevra into the dangerous mafia underworld she tried to escape. As she navigates this new reality, she attracts the attention of both Roulian and his unstable rival, Salomon Siffredi, forcing her to tap into her inner strength. Meanwhile, Roulian grapples with his growing feelings for Ginevra amidst the chaos of loyalty and betrayal. Their tumultuous relationship evolves into a fierce love that challenges everything they know, pushing them to confront their pasts and the darkness surrounding them. 2022/2023©

Gorgeous Symone Riley had no worries in her life until being betrayed put fear in her pure heart. But soon, she learns after meeting a kind stranger what fear really is.

Book three to becoming Luna. Read becoming luna first then finally queen.

He was danger. She was innocence. He was fire and she was the water that wanted to put him out. But what happens when his fire spreads and she ends up getting burned? __ Nadiyah Valentino was everything anyone could ever want to be. Independent, successful, and shockingly beautiful. Her do-gooder attitude and confidence is what scares most men away from the African-American - Italian beauty .. every man except Giovanni. When mafia leader Giovanni meets Nadiyah at a club, from the moment she slapped him across the face he knew one thing and one thing only - she had to be his. He was willing to do anything and everything to claim her as his own. Will Nadiyah fall for his bad boy approach or will Giovanni have to force her to be his, find out in Dangerous Hearts!

An excerpt previously published in Love Journey's AMBW Anthology: Shades of AMBW: Asian Men and Black Women Short Story Collection, this tells the story of a man eating fox, who meets a young human woman and the two instantly fall in love. However, tragedy stuck the two lovers and the immortal creature wanders around the human realm with only one desire and that was to be human. He has to marry his 'Fox Bead Bride' in order to do so. Centuries later, a young woman, who resembles the Gumiho's old flame, Amari crashes into the Gumiho's life and everything finally falls into place, or so the Gumiho thought. Is Amari what the Gumiho had been searching for and will she fall in love with him in time for him to be able to turn human? This story entails of these character's journey to find everlasting romance, through trials and tribulations, scorned love, revenge, jealousy and those that seek the Gumiho's bead for greed. Can these two star crossed lovers stay together or will their relationship fall apart, forcing the Gumiho to remain an immortal being for all eternity?

Olivia dating a guy her family hates.

All Ty ever wanted was to make it in life while having a strong, Black educated man beside her to support her dreams. The only thing Ty wants more than those two things is to travel the world and to experience other cultures. After stacking up funds for over a year, Ty finally has enough money to take a dream vacation to Shanghai, China for her 25th birthday. Her plan is simple, go to Shanghai for 9 days, party her fucking life away, and bring her ass right back home to the streets of West Baltimore. However, things are never that simple, and when all hell breaks loose while her two best friends and herself are on the other side of the world, they find themselves in trouble and unable to make it back home. When all hope is lost, Ty meets a guy named Lei who offers to help her and her friends return to the United States in exchange for a date. It seems like a harmless proposal, so Ty agrees to his offer without knowing the shit she is about to get herself into.

Gabrielle Thompson is a hard-working woman, a single ant in a large colony. Somehow she is noticed by her boss, owner and CEO of the world renowned Dragonoff Corporation. Vincent Dragonoff has had his eye on Gabrielle for a while now, but not entirely for the reasons she thinks. After agreeing to work closely with her absolutely dashing boss, she gets much more than she bargains for when she finds out that he is actually a vampire intent on acquiring her as his own. All the while, he struggles with remnants of his dark past. How will Gabrielle come to terms with being exposed to a world of the supernatural? Will Vincent let his inner struggles affect his chances of winning Gabrielle? (BWWM, corporate vampires) (For audiences 18+, sexually explicit content and strong language) Cover by: @loyallyric