"The Importance of Being Kept" is the third interracial business romance trilogy which consists of our favorite characters from "Loving Mia" and "Kept" combined. Kaitlyn and Taylor's twin sons, Darren and Bryan have grown up to be very important business men in California. They run their own security business in the Financial District and live in most expensive penthouse in the city. Mia, Kale, and Aidan's fraternal twins, Kia and Brandon, have just graduated from college with business degrees. Kia is proud to be 23 and ready to start her life. Brandon already runs a club in the city. When Kia tries to leave for New York with her best friend Kaylee, all hell breaks lose with these two families. Please read the Introduction for a more detailed description of the story. A romantic comedy filled with passion, drama, and love.

Taylor found her at a hotel while he was on a business trip. She was in desperate need of help. He was in desperate need of an assistant. He thought he was doing a good deed by taking her in. He had no clue the woman who started out depending on him, would end up making him depend on her in more ways than one. Kaitlyn thought her life was finally over when he ex-boyfriend left her to defend for herself at a hotel. Completely out of money and nearly starving, she realizes she would end up on the streets. However, when a handsome man approaches her offering her a job and a new life, she finds herself "kept."

Mia Shannon struggles to adjust to her life in San Francisco after moving there from the south. It's hard being the only black girl at the company she works for and even harder when she's the personal assistant to two of the most wealthiest, gorgeous men white men she's ever seen. Mia finds herself having feelings for both her bosses and realizes nothing can ever become of them except to exist in her fantasies. Kale and Aidan fell in love with Mia the moment she walked into their office for an interview for the personal assistant position. It took them almost four years to get close enough to Mia where she was comfortable enough to be around them as best friends. Now they want more and they are determine to make Mia the only woman in their life.

Katy Fairchild is an orphan and knows that no respectable man will marry her. But when a storm throws her into the arms of a mysterious stranger, will she fight society's opinion of her low status to pursue a forbidden romance? ***** At the age of nine, Katy Fairchild was brought to the small village of Wilshire to live with her distant relations, the Banes family. Brought up as a companion to their daughter, Eliza, Katy has lived a life according to her low rank and limited opportunities, and without complaint. But one day when she is nineteen, she gets caught in a dangerous storm with a handsome man who is unlike anyone she's met before. The encounter throws Katy into a world she never knew. For the first time, a better life may be just around the corner, but is she prepared to fight for it? [[word count: 70,000 - 80,000]] Cover designed by Cil Ojumo

Abigail Roberts built her life on grit and tenacity. She raised her brothers after their mother's disappearance and opened a cozy little pub in small town Stonebridge, Connecticut. The only problem is that the pub is crumbling beneath their feet and she needs what she doesn't have-money-to fix the place she's worked so hard to build. Declan Fitzgerald has never forgotten the fiery Abigail. So when he returns home from New York for his mother's annual Autumn Harvest Party, he's happy to help secure a replacement caterer and heads straight for the Plumber's Pub--a place he's well aware Abigail runs but has never seen for himself. With secrets of the past brimming on the horizon beside a storm, Abigail swallows her pride and accepts the catering job. But this time when she sets foot on the opulent estate, she will not be intimidated by the Fitzgeralds as she once was, and she will not go quietly into the night as she did before. Under the mists of chilled rain and surrounded by twinkle lights of the extravagant party, the past and present combust with long-held secrets, deep desires, and love that has never faded through the seasons. SPECIAL NOTE TO READERS: Each book in the One Night Collection is a standalone novella, featuring new characters with a story all their own, that takes place over the course of one night. The exception to this is One Summer Night which features a fun roundup of all the main characters in the collection as they come together for a fabulous Fourth of July celebration. One Night Collection ONE AUTUMN NIGHT ONE WINTER NIGHT ONE SPRING NIGHT ONE SUMMER NIGHT ***ALL RIGHTS RESERVED*** #Wattys2016