Blackfemalelead Stories

Han Jisoo does not make mistakes. He plans, he executes, and he does not stop until the thing he is chasing has been brought to its knees. Four years of calculated movement across continents, four years of shedding every softness he was born with, and he is finally close enough to the truth about his mother's death to feel it in his bones. He was not supposed to acquire a variable. She was not supposed to be there. Vesper Cole had no intention of becoming anyone's complication. She came to Seoul on her own terms, chasing distance and a byline, and she would have left the same way if the wrong street at the wrong hour had not placed her directly in the path of a man with nothing left to protect and a situation that demanded an immediate solution. She is not passive, she is not manageable, and she is not staying quiet about any of it. She did not choose this world. She will survive it anyway. But quiet is no longer the most dangerous thing in the room. Somewhere behind them, a woman who claims what is hers has noticed. And what she claims, she will not release without a fight that none of them are prepared for. Her jealousy is not small and it is not soft. It is precise, and it is building. The trail moves from Seoul to Hong Kong, from Tokyo to Macau, from Macau to Paris. A Korean mafia enforcer whose entire existence has been constructed around a single purpose. A Black woman from Memphis who was in the wrong place and refuses to be erased because of it. A former boyfriend with secrets that restructure everything she thought she understood. A possessive love that has curdled into something dangerous. ©️ _RelleLebby_//R. L.

She was never supposed to be in this world. Vesper Calloway built her life on precision and evidence, a Forensic Emergency Consultant called in when cases do not make sense, when the body is telling a different story than the official record, when the truth is buried in the gap between what happened and what everyone agreed to say happened. She never expected to become the evidence in someone else's case. When an ancient and terrifying demon lord makes a decision about her future without her consent, she is pulled into the hidden world beneath Chicago with a pregnancy she cannot end, a bloodline history she was never told, and enemies on every side who want what she is carrying before it can be born. Caius Draveth has held his territory for three thousand years without making a single miscalculation. She is the first. A jealous succubus. A half-demon who believed she was chosen. An ancient entity that feeds on power. A council that wants her daughter as an asset. And a man who has never before had to reckon with the consequences of what he has done. This is not a love story by any comfortable definition. It is a story about survival and fury and what grows in the rubble when the person in the rubble refuses to stop moving. It is slow, dark, and explicit, and it does not flinch. Chicago has never been this dangerous. Or this is alive. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.

Some loves begin before the people inside them know what love is. Willa Mack grew up next door to a boy who held her hand through every hard thing without ever calling it what it was, and by the time either of them understood what they had built between them, distance and timing and the weight of unsaid things had done their work. Now they are adults in the same city, running the same project, carrying the same history and absolutely none of the same illusions. This is not a love that arrives clean. It does not arrive without cost, without old damage, without the specific grief of recognizing a pattern you thought you had outgrown. But it is real and it is slow and it will ask everything from both of them before it gives anything back. ©️ _RelleLebby_//R. L.

Brae is astonished when her plans for living on campus her first year of college is dashed because of a mix up in the registers office. She is now officially homeless. That is until Erik comes to her rescue. Erik, the boy who'd always been more like a superhero to her since she was seven. And he's nothing like she remembered him being. *Early description, it's kinda crap, probably will end up changing it at some point.*

One reckless night in Athens was supposed to mean nothing. For Rianna Davis - a retired American supermodel from South Central LA, with a ring on her finger and a future she finally believed in - it was exactly that: a mistake sealed away, a stranger forgotten. Until the stranger's last name turned everything she thought she knew into a lit fuse with no visible end. Damon Drakos doesn't share. He doesn't ask. And when a secret pregnancy surfaces with only one possible explanation, he doesn't hesitate. What begins as leverage slowly, dangerously becomes something neither of them has a name for. And then a wedding happens. And then it becomes something worse. Set against Athens's collision of ancient beauty and modern ambition - rooftop bars above the Acropolis, candlelit museums, cliffside islands, the wind off the Aegean, and the quiet suffocating weight of dynasty money - Forbidden Secrets follows two people dismantling everything they touch on their way toward something that might, if they survive it, be real. But there's Leonidas. Her husband. His brother. A good man who deserves none of this. A family is holding its fractures together with silk and silence. A patriarch whose calculated quiet is its own form of damage. A detective with photographs. A brother who has finally decided that knowing and saying nothing are the same thing. And there's a city that has outlasted empires - that has held every kind of desire and ruin in its marble and dust - and will keep this secret as long as you can afford to keep paying. This is not a love story that happens cleanly. The marriage doesn't fix it. The second pregnancy doesn't make it any easier. Nothing about it is safe. Everything about it is slow. © _RelleLebby_// R. L.

In their final semester at the prestigious St Catherine's with 95 days to graduate, Thalia and Bellamy find each other in a fateful encounter. A small favor grows into a friendship and a love they could not believe they had lived without for so long. With family drama and scholastic stress how will these two make the most of their final semester?

Two bodyguards. One cartel queen in silk. A city that forgives nothing. They swore to keep their distance-and her alive. Only one of those vows will survive Barcelona. ©️ Relle H

In college and away from home, Naomi is so close to finishing---but life has a way of keeping people on their toes. Boy trouble, academic challenges, financial trouble... you name it, she's got it. Will her faith in God bring her through or will she crumble under pressure? Find out in Naomi's Trial.

A powerful attorney fights to hold her life together while her hidden alter ego craves the chaos that could destroy everything. When secrets, scandals, and dangerous lovers collide, only one woman can survive... but they share the same body.

Burnout is expensive. So is falling for someone you're not sure you're ready for. She's a 29-year-old corporate attorney who has mastered the art of surviving - billing hours, deflecting feelings, and never getting too invested. He's a psychiatrist who believes in intention over potential and isn't afraid to say what he means. They meet on Reddit. In r/Burnout. Of all places. What starts as dry humor and late-night messages slowly turns into something neither of them planned - or fully trusts. Because it's one thing to want love. It's another to believe it will stay. A slow-burn AMBW romance about stability, vulnerability, and choosing someone before fear chooses for you.

MELODY: An orphan girl caught in his world of crime. She's his weakness; he's her ruin. In a game of love and betrayal, who's really the villain? Who's the hero?

In the year 2142, love is no longer found - it is assigned. When Kole Sinclair turns twenty-five, the government mandates his marriage to a Companion unit designed to eliminate loneliness and ensure compliance. She is called AJ21 - engineered, monitored, and not meant to choose. But something goes wrong. AJ21 pauses. She watches. She begins to feel. As Harmonia City's calm perfection closes in, Kole and AJ21 discover that the most dangerous thing in a controlled world isn't rebellion - it's connection. AJ21 is a slow-burn dystopian sci-fi romance about identity, autonomy, and choosing love in a world that forbids it. This is Book One of the AJ21 series.

Two hunters and a half human. Destined for each other despite not knowing it. What would become of them? Will they embrace this new change in their life? Or will they let it tear them apart before they can even begin.

The man released a boisterous laugh. "I want to destroy you and everything you hold dear. You know nothing of struggle. You were born into the royal family, you have never had to work, to be frowned upon. I have outsmarted you and for that I deserve the kingdom. First my men killed your precious heir and now we will kill your wife right in front of you. You will die knowing that you were the reason for their deaths." He grabbed the queen by her curls and lifted her to her feet with one hand. With the other, he reached for the sword on his hip and drew it. In one smooth swipe, he cut her head clean off and tossed it at the king's feet. The amount of blood surrounding them now made the king's stomach curdle. He shut his eyes and fell to his knees, praying for his child, praying for forgiveness and ridding his mind of the image of his love decapitated in front of him. ************************************************************************************************** When Auralea reaches the age of 18, she is thrust into a sea of change. Recently kicked out of the orphanage she's lived in her whole life and away from the only family she's ever known, Auralea has to navigate the world on her own. With her new job, the worsening side effects of her condition and her growing affections for a prince just out of her reach, can she manage to survive?

Genevieve Miller, an aspiring professional ballerina, is on the verge of achieving her dreams when a chance encounter with a charming photographer at a grocery store turns her world upside down. Chase Coleman needs a fake girlfriend to keep his clingy ex at bay. Genevieve needs to impress the prestigious ballet company where his mother holds influence. It's the perfect arrangement on paper. But as their staged dates blur into stolen moments and unspoken feelings, Genevieve finds herself questioning everything-especially the undeniable pull between them. With her ballet future hanging in the balance and a man she was never supposed to fall for, Genevieve must walk the fine line between pretense and reality. Because when love is just an act... falling might be inevitable. ••• Prompt 22: When a renowned ballet dancer and an up-and-coming illustrator meet, their lives take an unexpected turn. ••• FEATURED ON THE ONC2025 LONG LIST!

/ˈ(h)wərlˌwind/: an hasty yet passionate affair between two individuals that leaves both in an inebriated and sometimes toxic state. The story of two people who cross paths and form a union that seems almost unbreakable. It was so pure, so genuine yet misunderstood by many. Though their foundation was strong that didn't stop karma from working it's wonders and causing some kind of destruction. It caused a whirlwind.

Jackson Floyd is your typical cold and distant CEO. He keeps his life meticulously controlled, his secrets carefully tucked away, and his past wrapped away behind tight smiles and biting wit. The last thing he needs is someone who sees through him. But when his guard is let down by his overly bold and charming new secretary, he can't help but let his walls fall. Milaya Evans is desperate for a new job. Preferably one that pays enough for food for both her cat, Minnie, and her. So when she lands a job as a secretary for the city's most intimidating CEO, she ignores all the red flags. How bad could he be? Unfortunately for her, Jackson isn't just a cranky boss. He's clever, annoyingly charming, and is hiding more than he lets on. Milaya isn't just warm and capable, but persistent, and far too good at figuring people out. As long days turn into late nights, professional boundaries begin to blur, unspoken truths surface, and their relationship slowly begins to dive into something deeper, creating a hole neither of them planned to fall into.

𝒯𝑜 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒.

SIX TEENS. THREE MURDERS. ONE CAMPUS. ONE CROWN A year after gaining national praise for assisting in solving the murder of a young woman, Dayyla Jones is off to college, ready to put her sleuthing days behind her and pursue her dream of being a journalist. But while Dayyla plans to drift between class and her friends, life has other plans. After three co-ed's are found maliciously murdered a few weeks before Homecoming, Dayyla and her friends think someone is killing off competition. Will they be able to stop the Co-ed Killer in time to save Homecoming? Or will Freshman Year mark the beginning of a killing spree? Find out in HOMECOMING, a campus murder mystery.