Close your eyes. Breathe in. Feel the air turn thick, heavy with cigar smoke and expensive cologne. You can almost taste the whiskey on his tongue, can't you? General Marcus "Reign" Blackwell is power wrapped in ink and royal blood. He commands armies, breaks enemies, and fucks whoever he wants-until he sees *her*. Dr. Aaliyah Monroe. Quiet. Brilliant. Curvy African-American goddess who codes weapons in the dark. Shy smiles. Soft voice. Vanilla skin that glows under fluorescent lights. One breath of her scent and the untouchable general unravels. He dreams of her every night. Strokes himself raw imagining her thighs wrapped around him. Watches her sway to R&B in her apartment through shadows he shouldn't cross. Calls her *dove*, *tiny momma*, *my wife*-long before she ever says yes. She thinks it's temporary. He knows it's forever. He kneels for her. Begs for her. Cries for her. Marks himself with her initials while she sleeps. And when she finally rides him-slow, commanding, glasses slipping down her nose-he sobs her name like prayer. This isn't love. This is obsession carved into worship. This is a man who would burn the world just to hear her giggle and boop his nose. But when the first fight comes... When she needs space and he needs her closer than air... Will his dove fly away?

Zyera Ambers minds her business. Cody Whittaker is the business at elite Aethelred University. Heir to a fortune and drowning in privilege, he's used to getting everything-and everyone-he wants. When the one person who doesn't acknowledge his existence captures his twisted fascination, a quiet obsession is born. Now, the king of campus will stop at nothing to make the scholarship artist his most prized possession.

The ring is on. The radios are live. And the town is hotter than ever. Sage Woodson-almost-Stapleton thought surviving a car crash and taming Liberty Creek's grumpiest Fire Captain was the hard part. She was wrong. Now, she's the Chief Nursing Officer of a hospital facing budget cuts, she's planning a wedding with a mother who thinks "glitter" is a color, and her fiancé, Captain Connor Stapleton, is working overtime to catch an arsonist targeting their town. The honeymoon phase is over. The power struggle has begun. But they aren't the only ones bringing the heat. Chloe Woodson has taken over the 911 Dispatch center, and she has a voice made for sin and an attitude made for war. Her favorite target? Lieutenant Javier Ramirez. Javi likes his fires contained and his women manageable. Chloe is neither. Their radio arguments are the town's favorite form of entertainment, but when the headsets come off, the friction between them turns into a different kind of spark one they are desperate to keep hidden from Sage and Connor. With a serial arsonist closing in on Station 1 and secrets piling up in the Woodson house, the squad has to pull together before everything they've built goes up in smoke. New couples. Old enemies. Same massive trucks.

He blocked her in. She shut him down. Now, the whole town is waiting for the explosion. Sage Woodson didn't come back to Liberty Creek to fall in love. She came to bury her grandfather, sell his estate, and get back to her life as a high-powered Chicago ER nurse. She has a plan, a timeline, and zero patience for the locals. Especially not for the arrogant Fire Captain driving a midnight-blue F-150 who thinks he owns the road. Captain Connor Stapleton is used to being the hero. He's used to respect. He is not used to a curly-haired tourist publicly questioning his manhood in a crowded coffee shop parking lot. They were supposed to be enemies. But when Sage inherits her grandfather's rusted-out 1969 Chevelle, she realizes the only mechanic in town skilled enough to save it is the very man she swore to avoid. A wager is struck: Connor has one week to get the engine running. If he fails, Sage leaves for good. If he succeeds? She owes him a date. But late nights in a humid garage have a way of blurring the lines between fighting and flirting. As the engine roars to life, so does a possessive, feral hunger that neither of them expected. Connor doesn't just want a date. He wants to ruin her for anyone else. And Sage is realizing that the only thing scarier than leaving... might be staying. Small town. Big truck. Massive attitude.

Nori Michaels has heard horror stories about the south from every family member possible. They were even more appalled when they were informed that Nori managed to get a very well paying job in Texas for a very influential white family. They saw it as a death sentence. Nori saw it as an opportunity. She was too ambitious for her own good. Nori thought she could handle anything thrown at her until the house owners brute of a son comes to stay for while. Oh Nori was not prepared for him...

❝𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝.❞ In which an intern has a sex contract with her boss. || MATURE CONTENT || Cover by @vanillalust

She grew up in their house, best friends with one brother... and now she's tangled up with the other. A summer wedding, a secret romance, stolen kisses, and the kind of love that could ruin everything.

Aaliyah never planned on catching the eye of Leo Ramirez. A quiet, brooding basketball player who looks at her like she's trouble & like he'd burn the whole world for her.

Brent Clyde has been homeless for three years. He goes to different shelters every night. His family kicked him out when he turned down a marriage proposal. His friends left him after they found out that he is now homeless. The only thing Brent has right now is his guitar he had since he was a freshman in high school. Brent is a 26 year old man who is living on the streets. One day Brent passed out from hunger in the freezing cold in front of a major company. Faye Curtain is a 24 year old black woman. She is the CEO of her own company, Curtain Company. Faye had to work to where she is now, Nothing was handed to her. To the world Faye is known to as a sold hearted princess. She's only nice to you if she's close to you. She has fired six assistants in the past two years. A lot of things is coming up and she needs one right away. When Faye was walking out of her company building she sees a man half dead at her entrance. What happens when a ice princess and a homeless man meet? Will Faye ignore him or help him? As some of you already know, I like to write in the guys point of view more than the girls. So this book will have more of Brett POV than Faye POV. Cover By: @ihavenocluesoo

And she fell in love with the darkness, so much, that she became darkness itself Started Aug 9, 2019 Finished December 15, 2022