Kicking sand into a black girl's fresh braids probably wasn't the best way to make friends for six-year-old Marshall Stone. In fact, that's how he found a rival. Love Lewis has always disliked the boy that had her mother on a rampage when she came home with sandy hair in the first grade. She thought that would be the first and last she'd be seeing of him. Oh, how lucky she is to continue the rest of her elementary, middle, and high school years with him. Imagine the relief she felt when they began attending different colleges - ten minutes away from each other but far enough for her. Two years of only having to see him at basketball games and the occasional party turned into the result of maybe his worst idea to date. When Marshall Stone decides to rope her into a not-so-well-thought-out plan to fool his father and soon-to-be-step-mother into thinking he has a girlfriend, Love couldn't be more confused. She's sure he has girls falling at his feet, ready to throw themselves at him, completely willing to fake a relationship just for some alone time with him. So why her? Unfortunately, Marshall doesn't even know the answer to that question. But who said you can't find Love when you least expect it? Copyright © MIDNXGHTSUN

#1 Southeastern University Series Natosha Jackson is from the south-side slums of Ridgeport. She's your average bookworm and mathematic fanatic. To pay her dues to the dean of students, she is hand-picked to tutor one of the most notorious football players at Southeastern University, Matteo Four Wittstock. In the town of Ridgeport, the Wittstocks are well-known wealthy people from the north side. Although Natosha wants nothing to do with Four's lifestyle and womanizing tendencies, she finds herself falling into the temptations of lust. While she wrestles with this new fiery excitement in her life, Four becomes enamored deeper than he ever imagined. No one expects the rocky twists and turns that bring these two people together but Four loves a good challenge. And when a game is this good, he's more than ready to play. ***The Southeastern University Collection shows the lives of young adults as they enter, survive and finish off their university experience. The students attending this university are not only dealing with keeping up their GPAs and attending student union meetings. These students are battling ties with addiction, exploring their sexuality, and embarking on past and present family burdens. *** *** These works cannot be read as a standalone. *** WARNING: THIS STORY IS 18+ AND CONTAINS MATURE LANGUAGE AND MATURE CONTENT. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. STARTED: 7/10/2020 Completed. 2022

the ideal we should strive for is peace. strolling in a field of zinnias, taking in their smell, taking in their touch. wouldn't that be lovely? unfortunately, such a field does not exist in the physical. at least not in the current form of the physical. - Zinnia is a woman who only dreams of her ambitions taking her as high as the ceiling of life will let her go. Albeit being only 24 years young, she has grown up in the farmlands of Texas amidst her mother and two older brothers, Travis and Walt, but yearns for a taste of the big city. A city away from the pain of her exes, a city where she could lick her wounds and find her purpose anew. Also, to escape being badgered with a loveless marriage to a man with eyes as wandering as a bee fluttering in the wind. Her eye for detail and her split-thinking gave her the perfect opportunity to make her daring escape to the lovely city in the sun, Miami, Florida. Her new role is small, a Senior Technical Writer at the Miami branch of Wolfe Enterprises, but puts her eyes privy to the information that dwells both in and outside the walls of the glittering building in the Miami skyline. A crooked detail noticed in a document one fated day puts her in the eye of the biggest wig himself, Apollo. Named after the sun-god himself, eyes bluer than the depths of the most beautiful sea, but in their hollowness lies pain. The funny thing about life is, no matter how much one tries to run from their destiny or to avoid the simmering truths, it is that mere avoidance that rears back to hit tenfold. Problems do not go away, they adapt. And nothing stands in the way of life's will. Along with life's love. What seemed to be an innocent mistake, was a mere shift in the cards of life to bring them one step closer to their very own field of zinnias. And what seems to be an impossible pairing is more than a coincidence. May the resilience of the Zinnia be an omen to how their pairing will fare in life's plans for them.

Her name is Misery, and she does NOT want company. *** It's not every day sixteen-year-old Misery Hayes finds a rock band full of pretty boys on her door step. Actually, it's not every day Misery interacts with humans, because being named after an emotion Merriam-Webster defined as "extreme suffering" tended to make one a loner. Well, sort of. You see: Enid Conception Diaz, Youtube sensation and Misery's best friend, has sold her Tuesday afternoons to Blue Vendetta, an extremely popular alternative rock band consisting of one moody lead singer, one tease of a guitarist, one amiable bassist, and the world's most unstable drummer. Can Blue Vendetta help Misery open up? Or will she prove whoever said "Misery loves company" horribly wrong? (2016) Hearties Award (People's Choice): 4th Place (2016)Hearties Award (Judge's Choice): 3rd Place (2017) The Undiscovered Writers Award/ Chicklit: 2nd Place Cover by @-blackrogue

"Do not teach me how to fight when I don't know what I'm fighting for!" • The first year in college was a shit show for Kara which almost ruined her remaining years. With high hopes, she believes second year will be fun and calm for her. Not until Ivan Roy, the transfer student, makes a bold appearance on his first class, making heads turn to him. And being next-door neighbors in a hostel doesn't make it look easy for either of them. What will it take to make the boy who could possibly be a Mafia Lord put her first before his ego, pride and the world she can never fit in? ~BOOK 1~

"I've lost people and found them again. The second time around, things just made more sense. Honestly, timing has a lot to do with everything. Sometimes you aren't ready for each other." - Anonymous After separating for years, Gabrielle Banks finds herself back in New York where it all started with her ex-boyfriend Kolten Pierce. Not wanting to get burned by him again, she agrees to start a non-romantic relationship with him. Old history never goes away and especially secrets never fade. Kolten has been keeping something from Gabrielle, a secret so dangerous that will force her to either stick beside him or turn away for good.

"I thought we agreed on a mutual day of rest?" His large body was within inches of hers, their chests brushing with each breath. "Who ordered the hit?" He growled out and Omisha rolled her eyes. It was an unspoken rule to carry that kind of information to your grave- a rule she was certain Thorn knew. "And here I was thinking you were sort of smart." She remarked as she pressed the auto start button on her key fob. Thorn's hand roughly grabbed her arm and pushed her against her car, her fresh sutures protesting. "Look, if we're not fucking you have to stop man handling me." She groaned as his grip tightened effectively pushing her wound tighter against the car. "Would you be serious for two seconds?" He growled as he angrily searched her eyes for an ounce of information. ------ When an assassin's next hit is a widely feared hitman you'd expect plenty of bloodshed not a toxic romance. *Warning very graphic scenes of violence, death and sex* Full description inside!

COMPLETE 🙂 Finally finding herself and gaining confidence after having a hard young life, Kimone goes off to find herself in the world only to find herself in the same area as a childhood bully that made her life hell. What will come of the two when they end up in each others lives again. ------ "I can't not have you in my life. I can't have you hating me." I was a stupid ass kid. "I don't hate you." she quickly responds. I look up to meet her eyes finally. She doesn't? That's a start I suppose. "I feel sorry for you." ⚠️ This book contains harsh language/ Sexual content/ Suicide triggers. #11 in BWWM - 08/13/21 #1 in White - 09/27/21 #2 in WMBW-08/25/21 #3 in blackgirl 08/25/21 #1 in lies 09/22/21 #1 in Lust 09/23/21 #1 in Wmbw 12/06/21

Danielle Parker is a 20-something year old black woman with a past which may be considered common in the black community. She finds herself working in a strip club to make ends meet, and it doesn't help that she has taste for fine things. Feeling that she deserves a big break after all her years of struggling and being a nobody, Danielle is determined to do whatever it takes to get to the good life and stay there- she doesn't plan on being a stripper all her life and she isn't one to let opportunity slip through her fingers. When Antonio Gold, son of billionaire Phillipo Gold, crosses paths with Danielle, she turns out to be the thrill he's been needing in his life since losing his beloved girlfriend some years ago. Danielle becomes the light of his life and he falls head over heels for the young black woman. Unfortunately, Danielle carries her past with her and nobody can ignore what career she's chosen to take. Further more, the question on everybody's lips is: is she in it for love or for money? She may have grown up without her father in her life but is that the reason she's turned out the way she has, or is it a matter of survival? What will it take for Danielle to realise, herself, if she's in it for his money or for his heart? Warning: STRONG LANGUAGE SEXUAL REFERENCES READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION Copyright of @ayeitslylli 2017 ☆ Cover by @Blxckbiebs ☆

[COMPLETED] 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 They're her boss. She's their assistant. They've been in love with her since the day she first came in for her interview and they will do whatever it takes to make her theirs. ••• "I'm your assistant, nothing more, nothing less." I give the three men a small smile and pick up the folders from the desk. "So stop eye fucking me every time I walk past your office or I'll stab you all in the neck" Phoenix glares. Everest smirks. Miller frowns. With that, I throw them one last warning look before walking out of the room, slamming the door behind me. #1 in poly //17 jan 2022 #1 in Bwwm // 18 feb 2022