Blackfemaleprotagonist Histoires

𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐧𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥, 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚. When she agrees to tutor the university's star basketball player for forty dollars an hour, she's only thinking about one thing-the money. What she doesn't expect is Kenji Nakamura: 6'5" of tattoos, silence, and ego wrapped in a designer hoodie. He's used to girls falling at his feet. She charges him a late fee. He wants her number. She Venmo requests him instead. He's never had to work for anyone's attention. She's never had time to give it. Kenji doesn't do feelings. He does highlights, endorsements, and whatever it takes to make it to the NBA. But Destiny Morrison-with her sharp tongue, her bonnets, and her complete lack of interest in his fame-is the first person who's ever looked at him and seen just... a guy. And that terrifies him. Because for the first time in his life, Kenji Nakamura is falling first. And falling 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥. 𝐒𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝. 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠.

She had never believed in ghosts. Not the kind that haunted abandoned buildings. Not the kind hidden in old stories. Not the kind that looked like a man with a broken heart and eyes that carried a century of pain. Dahlia had built a life around independence. She had created her own success, surrounded herself with beautiful things, and learned that relying on herself was safer than trusting anyone else. Then she met him. Kang Taewon. A man who seemed untouched by time. A man who looked at her like he had been searching for her long before they ever met. He had walked through decades believing some things were meant to remain buried. Until she appeared. Their connection had never been simple. It had been intense. Unexplainable. Dangerous. Between luxury nights in Seoul, hidden worlds, old secrets, and the darkness surrounding him, Dahlia had discovered that some people carried stories they never wanted to tell. And some hearts carried wounds that never healed. He had lived through a lifetime of silence. She had spent years believing she knew exactly who she was. Together, they had uncovered a world where passion and danger existed side by side. Where every glance carried meaning. Where every secret had a consequence. Where love had never been as easy as choosing someone. Because some connections were not created in time. They were created by everything that survived it. © Relle H.

Noire Innes had spent eighteen months learning how to build a life from what grief had left behind. At thirty-five, she was raising her late sister's two teenagers, working more than she could comfortably handle, and pretending that managing was close enough to being okay. Then an unexpected rental opportunity offered something she desperately needed: space, privacy, and a chance to begin again. Stillwater Estate seemed almost too perfect. The property was secluded, beautiful, fully automated, and priced low enough to make the decision difficult to refuse. The house came with its own caretaker couple, a separate guest house, and a history that seemed strangely difficult to verify. None of it felt dangerous. Not at first. Sable noticed the inconsistencies before anyone else did. Kael noticed the places he had been told not to go. Noire noticed the people who smiled without looking comfortable. And somewhere beneath the ordinary sounds of a house settling into summer, something seemed to be listening. Stillwater had been designed to feel private. It had been built around silence, controlled access, hidden spaces, and systems no one thought to question until those systems stopped behaving the way they should. What began as a family's attempt to escape the weight of the past slowly became something far more unsettling. The closer they came to understanding the estate, the less certain they became about who had truly invited them there. The Circular Staircase was a slow-burn psychological mystery and family thriller about grief, trust, hidden power, and the danger of mistaking control for safety. Some houses kept memories. Stillwater kept secrets. ©️ _RelleLebby_

She changed her name, raised her daughter alone, and built a life from survival and sheer will. Seventeen years later, Dr. Simone Harris is exactly who she fought to become. Then the past walks through her emergency room doors and everything she's protected starts to crack. Joel Ahn left Los Angeles as a teenager exiled by his own family, carrying guilt he never fully named. He came back a decade later with a wife, a hollow feeling, and no idea that the night that broke him also created someone extraordinary. Michelle is sixteen, first chair, and sharp enough to read every room she walks into. She's spent her whole life protecting her mother without knowing the full story of why protection was ever necessary. When the truth finally surfaces, it doesn't arrive gently. It arrives in fluorescent light, in legal documents, at a kitchen table where no one has a script and everyone is too tired to perform. This is a slow-burn, explicit, adult story about three people learning to tell the truth to each other. It contains domestic violence, trauma, parental grief, class and racial power dynamics, and love that arrives not in spite of all of it, but right through the middle. It is not a fast story. It earns everything it has. Mature audiences only. ©️ _RelleLebby_//R. L.

In the shadow-soaked kingdom of Haewon, where the Goryeo court moved through incense and whispered treachery, a crown prince woke to find his father dead and his own name painted in accusation. Kim Ji-Dwi did not run from guilt. He ran because survival was the only throne left to claim. His exile carried him past gilded walls into the outer provinces, where merchants spoke in tongues from across the known world, and no man asked another's history. She had no last name. No allegiance. No mercy in her hands. They called her Nocturne in the trading town of Haedan, a Black woman of impossible beauty and deadlier skill, an assassin whose presence rearranged the air around her. She did not build her life in this foreign land to become anyone's weapon, least of all for a fallen prince who looked at her as if she were both salvation and ruin. He was possessive, unreadable, trained never to show what cost him most. She was deliberate, untouchable, and violently uninterested in being desired. What ignited between them was not romance. It was war in a different dialect, hatred that masqueraded as hunger, proximity that sharpened into blade-edge tension, secrets that accumulated like bodies in a river. Every glance was a duel. Every silence was a threat. Every touch they did not have became its own kind of violence. In a realm where betrayal wore the faces of allies, where duels were fought to first blood and sometimes beyond, where jealousy curdled into madness, and revenge demanded its pound of flesh, two people who swore they wanted nothing from each other discovered that wanting nothing was never the same as feeling nothing. The court wanted him dead. His uncle wanted him erased. And Nocturne, Nocturne wanted only what she had always wanted: to survive on terms that belonged to her. But survival, like love, was a territory that must be defended.

She arrived in Tokyo expecting family. What she found was a cage with beautiful bones. Eighteen-year-old Lydia Hamada has spent her whole life existing between categories, never quite belonging anywhere. When a one-way ticket brings her to Japan, she walks into something worse than displacement: a transaction. Her stepfather's debts have been settled with her body, and a powerful yakuza heir is waiting to collect. She was not supposed to fall in love. She was not supposed to find someone who saw her completely and chose her anyway. And the boy she loves was not supposed to pay the price he pays. Now Lydia is trapped inside a gilded nightmare of surveillance, sedation, and systematic control, performing obedience while building something no one is supposed to see. She has one chance. One network of quietly terrified people making small choices that add up. One man who broke his contract to stand between her and the worst of it. And a rage she has learned to compress into patience. Bride Price is a slow-burn dark romance set in Tokyo, centering a Black and Japanese protagonist in an interracial love story that does not flinch from the cost of what love means in a world that has decided you belong to someone else. Mature themes. Explicit content. Part One: The Fall. ©️ _RelleLebby_//R. L.

She was hired to keep him alive. She did not plan on anything else. Janelle Thompson was a Black American ex-special operations soldier running from a betrayal that ended her career and nearly ended her belief in other people. She took a long-term protection contract in Shanghai: a diplomat's reckless son, a credible assassination threat, a job that should have been clean. Liang Jun was arrogant, careless, and furious about needing protection. He did everything wrong. He was also, slowly and against every reasonable expectation, someone she was not prepared for. The threat surrounding them ran deeper than a hired contract. Enemies were embedded in people Jun trusted. The organization hunting him was patient, resourceful, and closer than either of them knew. And the man from Janelle's past who showed up in China offering help had his own agenda, and she knew the shape of his help from the inside. The closer they got to the truth, the more dangerous everything became. The closer they got to each other, in stolen hours and 3 a.m. honesty and the specific intimacy that followed surviving something together, the harder it was to pretend there was still a line between the job and what this had become. This was not a quick burn. Nothing here came easily. The trust cost something. The love cost more. ©️ Relle H

Incipience (\in-ˈsi-pē-ən(t)s), noun: the act or process of bringing or being brought into existence. The meteors came without warning. Hundreds of thousands of them came raining down to the Earth, but they did little damage to the planet itself. It's the people that they brought ruin to. Upon impact, the meteors combusted into this fine powder that saturated the planet in its entirety. Within a few weeks, billions grew weak, millions were sick, and hundreds of thousands were dead. That's when they came. These beings from across the stars, the Inovarians, landed on the UN's front lawn with technology capable of fixing the planet within a few weeks. People around the world celebrated until we realized what their help would cost: us. Follow Charlotte-Amalie, a teenager from the USVI, as she feigns assimilation into Inovarian society and races against the clock. She has a year of experimentation to survive through before having to face an ultimatum: be drafted into the military to fight the Inovarians' war or forced into their breeding program. With the help of a covert rebel sec of the military, Charlotte-Amalie may just be able to beat the clock in time to get her and a few of her fellow Earthlings out before the battle begins. Book 1: Chapters 1-12 (Complete, publishing with New Degree Press Winter 2021) Book 2: Ongoing (Update Hiatus to meet publication deadlines for book 1)

Wella has always talked to herself. Not just in passing, not just when she's alone, but in the way people do when the silence feels too sharp. What she never realized is that something, or someone, was always listening to her shpeels. After a brutal heartbreak and a season of bone-deep silence, the air around her begins to change. Rooms begin to breathe. Shadows hold still. And the dead start speaking... but not as the ghosts you and I know them to be. These dead come as mirrors. They echo Wella's thoughts, finish her prayers, and feed her a power she doesn't fully understand. A magic born from profound grief. Imagine having the power to force someone to confront the pain they've caused? Wella learns to summon that pain... to pull it from others and show it to them like a reflection they can't look away from. But what she's not prepared for is how her own pain fights back. The voices that taught her to shrink. The boys who bruised her spirit. The parts of her that still ache to disappear. None of them go away quietly. And then there are the ones watching. The ones who desperately want what she has... To survive this awakening, Wella will have to stop pretending. Stop performing her weakness for other people's comfort. She will have to claim the voice she once gave away. Because magic born from grief does not wait for permission. And Wella? Babygirl... the universe said, "Step it the fuck up. The ancestors are cosmic side-eyeing."

His feelings for Jo are clear, but she is determined to ignore every one of his hints... / Picture credits: https://imgur.com/a/40tfN May 28, 2017

"ᵇᵉᵃᵘᵗʸ ʰᵃˢ ᵃ ᵖʳⁱᶜᵉ ᵈᵉᵃʳ..ᵃⁿᵈ ⁱᵗ'ˢ ⁿᵒᵗ ᶜʰᵉᵃᵖ." That's what our lady got, every reason of ecstasy in this great land of god has a price and the payment will be in advance.

Bahati Okeke is your average, 'lone wolf' college student, who figured out a way to escape her immediate death. However, will that have cosmic repercussions? What happens if a reaper starts to fall in love with a human woman? Can their love ever be? Or in the end, will Bahati suffer the fate she was destined to have?

Princess Alenna and Prince Jo'omaya aren't meant to be, but try telling their stubborn hearts that. The two are drawn to each other like a moth to a flame even when they try their hardest to maintain a healthy distance from each other. As tension rises as a result of all the heavy rules and traditions placed on both their shoulders through their royal bloodlines, will they sacrifice their love for the greater good of their kingdoms, or will they succumb to their feelings and bring destruction upon the otherwise peaceful tribes of Mma Munda?

Seven strangers from different backgrounds lost their memory and have no idea who they are or where they come from. However, they all have the same golden bracelet with strange foreign inscriptions on it, a bracelet they had worn since they could remember. Kiara Reginald, a normal, 28 year old Black, IT specialist had always felt as though she never belonged. Every night, she has these nightmares of a foreign planet exploding, and people dying. Her boyfriend, Nico Reyes, a 29 year old, Filipino, Psychotherapist, always tried his best to make those nightmares go away but nothing worked. The only thing he could do was to soothe and comfort her as those nightmares pass through. One fateful day, Kiara and Nico decided to head to their local zoo to have "date day", but as soon as they did, Kiara's bracelet started acting oddly and somehow pulled her and six other people together, where they each share a vision. There, these seven strangers: Kiara, Kohana, Jada, Camila, Marquis, Malik, and Heather, learned of who they were and where they came from and what they must do in order to save the planet from an aggressive alien species that seeks to end and win their ongoing war.

Inspired by Percy Jackson and HoO! Also the legendborn series! If you'd like to read a YA fantasy I'm trying to figure out as I write, then sure, go ahead :) ⁠✧✧✧⁠✧✧⁠✧ When 17-year-old Kiara leaves home for university, she's seeking independence and a fresh start. But her new life takes a dark turn when she's attacked by a mysterious creature on her first night. With no memory of the incident, she's left with only suspicions and unanswered questions. As strange events escalate, Kiara discovers a hidden world of demigods - children of Greco-Roman gods with extraordinary abilities. Thrust into this secret society, she must navigate her own heritage, newfound powers, and treacherous alliances. With monsters lurking in the shadows and gods watching from above, Kiara must uncover the truth about her past, her family, and herself. Will she embrace her destiny as a demigod or risk everything to forge her own path?

High school senior Perry Thomas has spent most, if not all of her 17 years doing everything for everyone else. Especially her parents. She finds herself living for others and not knowing what her purpose is. It is until one young man, Conrad Turner "Mr. Lacrosse Star of Taylor Ridge High", shows her that so many of us slap smiles on our faces despite having it worse than others. Together through their own struggles with family, school, and social norms they are each able to help each other LIVE AGAIN.

Some people meet and it's loud. Fireworks, declarations, the whole performance. Amara and Luca meet in a library. A dropped book. A few lines of handwriting that weren't meant to be seen. Two sentences that change everything: It's really good. Don't do that thing where you close it. Amara Brooks has spent four years perfecting the art of disappearing. Since moving from Portland to a small coastal town in Oregon, she's learned that being quiet means being easy, and being easy means being loved. She hides her poems in library books. She makes herself smaller every year. She tells herself this is survival. Luca Alvarez-Klein builds things so they'll stay. Furniture, mostly. Sometimes boxes. He keeps a ketchup packet and a blue marble and a pen from the morning his father left - proof that things happened, that they mattered, that the before-version of the world was real. He came to Harlow Bay already decided to leave it. They recognize each other before they know each other's names. They are both people who learned to survive by becoming less of themselves. But together - quietly, incrementally, in the white space of library books and late-night texts and a garage that smells like something being made - they become more. Where Moss Grows Back is a story about two people who meet at exactly the right time and exactly the wrong moment. About the poetry you hide and the things you keep and the specific cost of loving someone before you've finished learning how to stay. About what it means to take up the space you actually occupy. About walls, and bright fragments, and the sky on the other side.

❝ 𝙲𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙼𝙸𝚃𝚈 𝚆𝙸𝙻𝙻 𝙼𝙴𝙴𝚃 𝙸𝚃𝚂 𝙳𝙴𝙼𝙸𝚂𝙴 𝚆𝙷𝙴𝙽 𝙵𝙰𝚃𝙴 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙾𝚂 𝚁𝙴𝚄𝙽𝙸𝚃𝙴. ❞ ━━୨ৎ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 the odds seem to tip in Camelot's favour when a new prophecy emerges threatening the future of Britannia, its people-and its four knights destined to save them all. [ lancelot x black female oc ] [ book 1 ] [ slow /sporadic updates ] ____________ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ: 02/25 ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇᴅ: 00/00

Liora is a woman who refuses to apologize for her desires. With mahogany skin, undeniable curves, and a fire that burns hotter than any fleeting encounter can satisfy, she's determined to live life on her own terms-no matter where that path leads. Haunted by a family legacy of passionate but doomed romances, she vows to break the cycle by embracing her urges without restraint, drawing in lovers from across the globe who promise relief but deliver complications instead. From art galleries to ocean cliffs, jazz clubs to desert tents, Liora's journey takes her through a world of intense passion and escalating drama. Each encounter brings explosive chemistry but also reveals hidden truths: secret marriages, dangerous entanglements, cultural clashes, and scandals that force her to keep moving. As jealous exes, business rivals, and her own restless heart chase her from city to coast, she begins to wonder if satisfaction is even possible-or if she's destined to burn forever without finding peace. But when she meets someone who sees beyond her fire to the woman underneath, everything changes. For the first time, Liora must decide: will she keep running from connection, or risk surrendering her untamed heart to discover what her desires have been searching for all along? A steamy, globe-trotting romance about self-discovery, cultural exploration, and finding love when you're brave enough to stop running.