"Mani, you really my peace." ❀*̥˚───❀*̥˚ Imani don't do rappers. Not when attention come before intention, and every smile hide a secret. But when a late night studio session her best friend forces her to go to, puts her in the path of Messiah James, a rising star with a quiet demeanor and a dangerous smile? She starts breakin' all her own rules. Cause sometimes, the one you run from is the one sent to heal you. And ain't nothin' louder than a man who love quiet and choose you soft. She swore she wouldn't fall. He say she ain't gotta, cause she already his.

"Malone... you really think you could love me for the rest of your life?" His mouth pulled into that slow smile she knew too well. "Baby, Ah'm more worried 'bout whether one lifetime gon' be enough." 𓂃 ࣪˖ 𓆸 ♡ 𓆸 ˖ ࣪𓂃 A'neya Mercer knows cameras, Los Angeles, and the wealthy life she was raised in. What she doesn't know is Selah Cross, Louisiana, the small Black Southern town where she was born. When her work as a cinematographer sends her there for the summer to document its people and culture, she expects to capture their story. Not uncover pieces of her own. And she certainly doesn't expect Malone Selah. Tall, dark, handsome, loved, and Southern to his bones, Malone is an old soul cowboy with generations of Selah roots beneath his feet, a man devoted to his family, his land, his people, and the life he's built there. But as Selah Cross pulls A'neya deeper into its history, Malone becomes more than the handsome man who lives across the street from her. She's finding pieces of a life she never knew belonged to her while he faces losing pieces of the only one he's ever known. When the ground beneath both their lives begins to shift, will the love they've planted together in Selah Cross be strong enough to take root? or will they lose it before it ever gets the chance to grow? A Black Southern love story about what we inherit, what we fight to keep, and who we become when love finally gives us somewhere to belong. 𓂃 ࣪˖ ˖ ࣪𓂃 ʙʟᴀᴄᴋ ꜱᴏᴜᴛʜᴇʀɴ. ʙʟᴀᴄᴋ ʀᴏᴏᴛᴇᴅ. ʙʟᴀᴄᴋ ʟᴏᴠᴇᴅ. ʙʟᴀᴄᴋ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀᴇᴅ. ꜱᴏᴜʟᴀᴀɴ.

A black romance about finding peace in the right person, learning to be loved exactly as you are, and discovering that sometimes the quietest love stories are the loudest ones.

𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗶𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁. "𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗺. 𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁. 𝗜 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂.." 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵. 𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹. "𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗺𝗮? 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻' 𝘁𝗼𝗼. 𝗛𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝗳𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻' 𝗯𝗮𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗼."

"just somebody that can make me feel...safe" Dya'mond is a rising celebrity tattoo artist who is in a loving relationship with a celebrity rapper or so she thought but what happens when a scandal drops and she tries to end her relationship? everything goes left and she must run. While escaping she ends up in a small town in South Carolina on the side of the road with a smoking engine, a flat and a dead phone. All she wants is safety and peace. The mechanic who saves her may be that. Rylo is a mechanic and newly turned single dad after his daughter he didn't know he had gets left at his doorstep without a mother in sight. With grease stained fingers, bedroom eyes, soft words, and the perfect little girl trailing by his side. He always desired a family of his own after losing his at a young age. He tries to navigate being a new father and a business owner on his own. That was until he saves a tattooed beauty who wears her heart on her sleeve and is just tired of running. Will she find her safe haven with him? Will he get the family he always desired?

"Love can find you, where you least expect it"

Zavi Noelle is comfortable living quietly, spending most of her time alone with a piano and the melodies she is too afraid to share. DeAndre Harper lives beneath the opposite kind of pressure-a celebrated track star surrounded by people who have no idea how difficult it has become for him to breathe. When anxiety leads them both to the same campus support group, an empty chair brings together two people who never expected to understand each other. What begins with saved seats, early-morning conversations, and a friendship neither of them knew they needed slowly becomes something deeper. But with Zavi learning to use her voice and DeAndre fighting to reclaim a future that demands everything from him, they must discover whether love can grow without either of them losing their own tempo.

I learned that time was never the promise. Love was.

It's a poly book

Two childhood friends, separated by life, find their way back to each other years later. What's starts as something familiar quickly turns into something deeper-but growing up changes everything, and love isn't always easy the second time around.