Andreatumblin Stories

## TRUE BLACK LOVE ### By Ilianna Binoche Africa Kenyatta Anderson has spent her entire life proving people wrong. Too dark. Too curvy. Too outspoken. Too ambitious. Now she is the brilliant construction powerhouse behind more than two hundred million dollars in contracts-and the woman powerful men depend on while refusing to give her the respect, recognition, or ownership she deserves. Professionally, they call her **Kee** because Africa is apparently too Black, too bold, and too unforgettable for the rooms she dominates. But success has not silenced the voices that taught her to question her beauty. Money cannot heal the wounds left by colorism, family betrayal, workplace obsession, and men who desired her body without knowing how to cherish her heart. Then she meets Israel Nathaniel King. Israel is a devoted father, reformed player, healthcare professional, and man of faith still carrying the damage of a marriage he tried to force into perfection. His former wife abandoned him and their children-but Israel is not innocent. He ignored her truth because he believed love could change what she never wanted. When Africa challenges him over her mother's failing care, Israel does something no man has ever done. He listens. What begins as a professional confrontation becomes a slow-burning connection between two wounded people learning that love is not rescue, possession, sacrifice, or fear. But when Africa walks away from the company that exploited her, launches a construction empire under her full name, and becomes entangled in Israel's complicated family, she must decide whether she can build a future without disappearing inside it. Israel may love her. His children may trust her. The world may finally learn her name. But Africa must answer the one question no man can answer for her: **Can she love herself without needing anyone else to prove she is worthy?** **TRUE BLACK LOVE** is a powerful contemporary Black romance about colorism, body acceptance

## A FINAL REQUEST BEFORE SAYING GOODBYE ### An Emotional Story of Surrogacy, Sacrifice, Forbidden Love, Faith, and the Family Grief Created **KYLIN** I am no savior. I could not save my husband, our unborn child, or the family members who died while I sat behind the steering wheel. Yet somehow, I have become responsible for a dying woman's final dream. Ruthanne Yates did not ask me for money. She did not ask me to pray harder, cure her cancer, or promise that death would not come. She asked me to carry the children her body could no longer create-with my egg and her husband's sperm. And against every warning screaming inside me, I said yes. --- **RUTHANNE** Cancer has stolen my strength, my future, and every child I once carried beneath my heart. Now time is running out. I know what I am asking of Kylin is unimaginable. She would become the biological and birth mother of the babies my husband and I have prayed sixteen years to hold. But I am no longer afraid of what the church will call wrong. I am afraid of dying before hearing someone call Rhys *Daddy*. So I make one final request. Give us the children we were never allowed to keep. And when I am gone, do not let the family we created fall apart. --- **RHYS** I have spent years preaching faith to grieving people. Now my wife is dying, another woman is carrying my children, and the church I helped build believes the miracle growing before them is proof of adultery. They want Kylin gone. They want me removed from the pulpit. They want Ruthanne's final act of love buried beneath scandal. But the truth is more complicated-and more powerful-than any rumor. Three wounded people said yes to an impossible family. Two babies are coming. One woman is running out of time. And before Ruthanne takes her final breath, she will ask us for a promise that could bind our lives together long after hers ends. **A FINAL REQUEST BEFORE SAYING GOODBYE** is a deeply emotional, interracial family drama abo

**SOUTHERN SECRETS SOCIETY: THE SEDUCTION** *Some secrets don't stay buried. Some desires should.* In Loveall, Arkansas, everybody knows how to smile, how to pray, how to keep quiet, and how to bury a truth before it has time to breath. Jolie Alise Betancourt is a gifted young Black artist with a scholarship dream to free her from her sleepy town, strict parents, and one rule drilled into her bones: never trust a man with a devilish smile, too much money, and too much power. Then she meets Stephen Benjamin Collier. Ben is a respected white attorney with a beautiful brown brick house, a broken past, and a conscience that knows better than to want the teenage artist who steps onto his porch looking for yard work and leaves with his attention. He tells himself he is helping her. Guiding her. Protecting her. But desire has a way of dressing itself up like salvation. As Jolie's talent pulls her closer to the future she deserves, Ben's world begins wrapping around her like velvet and barbed wire. Every stolen glance becomes a warning. Every quiet conversation becomes a confession. Every rule Jolie was raised to obey starts cracking under the weight of what she feels for a man who knows he should walk away. But Loveall is watching. Behind church smiles, kitchen gossip, old money, racial lines, and Southern manners, something darker has been moving for years. Young women have vanished and malice continues to lurk around for its next victim. When Jolie's eighteenth birthday opens a door neither she nor Ben can close, their secret calls maliciousness by her name. Their feelings become Evidence. Leverage. Dangerous. Because in the Southern Secrets Society, love is never just love. It is power. It is scandal. It is a trap waiting for the wrong person to tell the story first. **A Southern Gothic romantic suspense filled with forbidden desire, small-town secrets, interracial tension, buried murders, and a love story that could ruin everyone it

## REBIRTH: GAENGSAENG Yeong-sik Han did not come to America searching for love. After losing every woman who ever felt like home, the Korean widower builds his life around one rule: **survive without needing anyone.** He works. He studies. He keeps his apartment dark, his routines strict, and his heart locked behind years of grief. Happiness is dangerous. Attachment always ends in loss. And love is a luxury he refuses to risk twice. Then Polly Bennett walks away from nine pounds of fish-and straight into his carefully controlled life. Polly is a vibrant Black bakery owner with flour on her clothes, laughter in her voice, and wounds hidden beneath every joke. After a former lover betrayed her, stole from her, and nearly destroyed the business she sacrificed everything to build, Polly learned how to turn pain into sugar, survival into success, and heartbreak into light. When she recognizes the loneliness Yeong-sik is determined to hide, she decides he needs a friend. He disagrees. But Polly does not disappear easily. What begins with shared bus rides, forgotten fish, and an unwanted friendship becomes late-night conversations, cultural misunderstandings, Korean language lessons, Southern desserts, and a love neither of them believed they could survive. But when Yeong-sik is called back to Busan to fulfill a promise, their future fractures across two countries. He cannot abandon his duty. She will not erase the life she fought to rebuild. Can two wounded hearts create one future without sacrificing themselves-or will grief steal the rebirth unfolding before their eyes? **REBIRTH: GAENGSAENG** is an emotionally powerful Korean and Black interracial romance about grief, healing, chosen family, cultural connection, second chances, and discovering that home is not always a place. Sometimes, home is the person who teaches you how to live again.

## **SUN SHINE ON ME** **A Southern small-town redemption romance by Ilianna Binoche aka Novia Kane** Soliel French ran from Ainsbury, Arkansas with shame in her throat, fear in her bones, and secrets the whole town pretended not to see. Dallas was supposed to save her. Instead, it swallowed her. After a failed marriage, a lost child, bad choices, dangerous men, and a life that dragged her name through darkness, Soliel returns to the one place she hates almost as much as she needs it. Broke, broken, and too tired to keep running, she accepts help from Miss Joyce, an elderly family friend who offers her a housekeeping job and a small chance at peace. But peace is hard to find inside a church when church people were part of the reason she stopped believing. Then she starts singing. *"I sing because I'm happy... I sing because I'm free..."* The hymn slips out before she can stop it, and one man hears the pain hiding behind her angelic voice. Luciano Gabriel Moretti is not from Ainsbury. He is a minister with a dangerous family name, a prayerful spirit, and eyes that see too much. When he asks where she attends church, every warning bell inside Soliel screams for her to run. She knows men. She knows compliments. She knows how quickly sweet words turn into cages. But Luciano is not trying to use her. He may be the first man brave enough to stand between her and the monsters still hiding behind closed doors. In a town built on silence, secrets, and Sunday-morning lies, Soliel must decide if redemption is worth the risk of being seen. And Luciano must decide if saving one wounded woman will expose the sins of his own family. **SUN SHINE ON ME** is a haunting, emotional, addictive Southern romance about trauma, faith, forbidden attraction, small-town secrets, Christian redemption, and a woman fighting to believe she is more than what happened to her.

RomePi™ Webisode Productions brings you a Curvy Sci-Fi Romance Community Episode created by Andrea T. aka Ilianna Binoche and found exclusively on Wattpad... for now. 😂😆😎 #CelebrateBlackStories #DISCLAIMER #BWWM #Diversity #InProgress #EyesLipsFierce In a world where tattoos hold greater importance than currency, a mythical being appears who is believed to have died out over 400 years before their time. The being has no ink on her body, and without ink, it is impossible to determine where she fits in society. She is labeled a Nii or None Inked Individual. Her existence sparks controversial questions that no one has dared to ask since the last recorded Nii was spotted. The leaders must find her and deal with the threat that she posses before changes they have no desire to address incite a desire for changes which has been subdued... UNTIL NOW!!!

**LITTLE BLACK MAFIA PRINCESS** *An enemies-to-lovers Black mafia romance dripping in danger, bloodlines, betrayal, and forbidden power.* Suki Anna Rey is not a helpless mafia bride. She is the spoiled, lethal, curvy Black daughter of an East Texas crime kingpin-raised on guns, designer clothes, family loyalty, and the kind of secrets that get people buried before sunrise. Then Dominicus Antonio Cantania walks into her father's house. DAC. The Ferryman. A cold, blue-eyed mafia butcher with the right and wrong bloodlines, Cantania power, and a reputation that makes grown men lower their voices. He is dangerous, controlled, ruthless... and suddenly, Suki's forced husband. What starts as a mafia arrangement turns into a war. Old blood feuds rise from the grave. Hidden heirs crawl out of the shadows. Family secrets expose the truth behind Suki's bloodline, DAC's real father, and the reason every powerful man wants to control the Little Black Mafia Princess. But Suki is done being traded, claimed, protected, or moved across anybody's board. They wanted a bride. They got a bloodline. They wanted a bridge. They got a storm. And when Valerio Cantania tries to steal her, break DAC, and crown himself king, Suki must decide who deserves to stand beside her-and who deserves to fall. A dark mafia romance for readers who love **forced marriage, enemies to lovers, Black heroine romance, interracial mafia romance, possessive antihero, powerful heroine, family secrets, forbidden love, crime family drama, betrayal, revenge, arranged marriage romance, Wattpad mafia romance, BWWM romance, and dangerous love stories**. **She is not his property. He is not her savior. Together, they are war.**

Essense is one of those black women you'd expect to only date powerful rich white men. Not only is she highly educated and wealthy, Essense believes women should stick with their own kind. The problem that she faces is the lack of her kind who can handle a melanin queen such as herself.

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RomePi™ Webisode Productions brings you a Curvy Sizzilin Southern Romance Community Episode created by Andrea T. aka Ilianna Binoche and found exclusively on Wattpad... for now. 😂😆😎 Coming soon... "Not my brother..." When a sister finds that one of her closest friends has a crush on her brother, she must warn her not to pursue that crush. She knows her brother is a hoe and a womanizer. She would hate to see her BFF get hurt by a man who loves only one person... HIMSELF. Even if that man is her brother.

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*He Loves Me Body & Soul* by Ilianna Binoche is not just a romance-it's a raw, emotionally devastating collision between two broken people fighting to survive the ruins of their lives. After a life-changing tragedy leaves Gwen Chaney trapped in a wheelchair, the woman who once felt beautiful, desired, and unstoppable is forced to confront a reality she never asked for. Every day feels like punishment. Every mirror feels cruel. And every glance at the wheelchair beside her bed is a brutal reminder that the life she loved is gone. Consumed by grief, shame, and exhaustion, Gwen begins to wonder if death would hurt less than waking up to another day inside a body she no longer recognizes. But somewhere beyond her pain... another shattered soul is drowning too. Jacob Quinn is the kind of wealthy Southern man women dream about-handsome, powerful, and dangerously capable of getting whatever he wants. But money means nothing when your heart died with the woman you loved most. Haunted by memories of the lover and best friend he couldn't save, Jacob buries himself in work, rage, and silence while the weight of loss slowly destroys him from the inside out. Then fate places Gwen and Jacob in each other's path. She believes she is no longer worthy of love. He believes love only exists to leave scars. But the closer they get, the harder it becomes to ignore the fire building beneath their grief. In a world filled with judgment. RomePi™ Webisode Productions brings you Curvy Interabled Romance Community Episodes created by Andrea T. aka Ilianna Binoche and found exclusively on Wattpad... for now. 😂😆😎 ⛔️TRIGGER WARNING: This story is MATURE. It contains descriptions of an Interabled relationship/sexual acts/violence. There are explicit depictions of sexual acts written within the context of this story. If this is offensive or triggering for you, please do not read this story. Thanks.⛔️ #DISCLOSURE #CelebrateBlackStories #EyesLipsFierce #BWWM #Dive

They say poetry is soft. This isn't soft. This is marrow. This is memory. This is the sound a woman makes when she refuses to die quietly. BROWNISH is a raw, unfiltered collection of musings in B-minor-where love letters are written in trembling ink, battle cries echo from childhood wounds, and resurrection songs rise from the ashes of shame, silence, and survival. Through the eyes of Andrea Tumblin-also known to readers as Ilianna Binoche/Novia Kane-this nonfiction poetry collection dares to speak what many only whisper: the ache of being misunderstood, the weight of generational pain, the fury of invisibility, and the holy rebellion of choosing to live anyway. These poems do not beg to be liked. They demand to be felt. If you've ever swallowed your truth to survive... If you've ever loved harder than you were loved back... If you've ever covered your eyes, ears, and mouth just to make it through another day... This book is your mirror. This book is your matchstick. Come for the love letters. Stay for the resurrection. Somewhere between brown and becoming- you will find yourself.

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Hannah Smythe has spent her entire life trying to convince herself that being "cared for" is the same as being loved. It's not. She's the girl who blends into the background, the one with too many questions and not enough people who stay long enough to answer them. Now, she's being shipped off to college-no safety net, no family, just a suitcase full of doubts and a heart that's already cracked. Then there's Tanner Garrett-the guy everyone wants to be. The one with the movie-star smile, the perfect grades, the girlfriend who's homecoming queen, and parents who never stop bragging about him. But behind the perfect grin lies the truth: he's exhausted from pretending. Because perfection isn't peace-it's pressure. And Tanner's one wrong step away from breaking. When Hannah and Tanner's worlds collide, their carefully built facades begin to crumble. She teaches him that it's okay to be broken. He shows her that she was never truly alone. But love doesn't always fix what's shattered-sometimes, it exposes the pieces we've been too afraid to face. ✨ A heart-gripping college romance about finding love in your flaws, healing in your honesty, and learning that the most perfect people are often the ones who feel most imperfect. If you loved "After," "The Summer I Turned Pretty," or "Beautiful Disaster," you'll fall hard for Hannah and Tanner's story. RomePi™ Webisode Productions brings you a Curvy Sizzilin Southern Romance Community Episode created by Andrea T. aka Ilianna Binoche and found exclusively on Wattpad... for now. 😂😆😎 Coming soon...

This is a Curvy Community Romance: #DISCLOSURE #CelebrateBlackStories #EyesLipsFierce #BOLO Every time she closed her eyes visions beyond her control terrified her until she begged and pleaded with the powers that be to make it stop.

RomePi™ Webisode Productions brings you a Pandemic Romance Community Episode created by Andrea T. aka Ilianna Binoche and found exclusively on Wattpad... for now. 😂😆😎 Coming soon... Three days before the city of Patience, Arkansas is scheduled to be locked down due to the Pandemic, Alice Forté receives a call from her uncle in Washington D.C. warning her to stock up on supplies and prepare to stay in her home for three to six weeks. At first, she believes he is overreacting until she listens to local news and gets the feeling that the weird way in which the journalists behave confirms that there are some problems on the way. She gives her neighbors a slight heads up. Like many others, they don't listen to what's going on until it's too late.

Alliances with the Mother have been made from generation to generation to solidify kingdoms. ------------------------ As the youngest child of the Royal Curianese Family, Princess Adonia grew up understanding the importance of duty. The biggest problem faced by Adonia was that the King always allowed her to live her life as free as a whisp of wind. Living unbound by the traditions that governed the way in which the Curianese people comported themselves placed an unfavorable label on the young Princess Adonia. Her displayed lack of respect for tradition labeled her 'Different'. The price she would be forced to pay for being different would bind her to a world unlike any she had ever known before and may prevent the young princess from casting her eyes upon her people or Curianese lands ever again. ------------------------ "The Duke de Valois is one of my sons whom I cherish with my heart. I would refrain from recommending he and your dear sister, the Princess, be joined in marriage if I were not prepared to extend her my protection. The protection of the crown is sacrosanct. Anyone who dares lay a finger or so much as a wagging tongue on Princess Adonia will officially be considered to have committed treason." The King stood before them as he made a vow to the Royal Curianese Ambassadors. "Wait. Your Highness... Brother... what are you saying?" Princess Adonia rattled on not sure of what she had heard. "Yes, Your Highness. What is the meaning of this?" The Duke de Valois joined the princess's effort to make sense of the words that had been spoken. The Duke and the Princess are forced to navigate a course of which neither of them is prepared to engage. RomePi™ Webisode Productions brings you a Curvy Historical Romance Community Episode created by Andrea T. aka Ilianna Binoche and found exclusively on Wattpad... for now. 😂😆😎 ***This story is loosely based on a fictional historical romance***

RomePi™ Webisode Productions brings you Curvy Sci-Fi Romance Community Episodes created by Andrea T. aka Ilianna Binoche and found exclusively on Wattpad... for now. 😂😆😎 #CelebrateBlackStories #DISCLAIMER #BWWM #Diversity #InProgress #EyesLipsFierce After thousands of millennia, the Earth has decided to finally deal with the irritation of mankind. Be forewarned. She has been studying us and has figured out a way to annihilate her greatest threats.

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