Blacklovematters Stories

Every week, I'll share a free chapter from one of my steamy, engaging Black romance novels. I hope you enjoy, come back for more, and visit my website for details on how to buy my novels in eBook, paperback and audio. This week, I'm featuring A Thin Line, my spring 2020 release. This is a hate-to-happily-ever-after Black romance about two former sweethearts, mired in years of petty squabbling, who don't know they're still in love. A clever ploy, hatched by their recently engaged best friends, designed to push them back together and rekindle a long-dead romance could never work. Right? Well.. there's a thin line between love and hate

This powerful story captures a wife's emotional journey as her husband leaves for a dangerous military peacekeeping mission. Alone with their young son, she battles fear, loneliness, and unanswered questions, clinging to hope even when all communication stops. Through heartbreak and strength, she holds on, until one rainy evening when a life-changing phone call brings her the news she's been praying for. It's a moving tale of love, resilience, and the unbreakable bond of family.

Welcome this week's free chapter! Today I am sharing a poignant chapter from my debut, Brunch at Ruby's. If you love this chapter, I hope you will pick up the book for $1.99 in ebook, or in print/audio at Booksbydlwhite.com/books or https://geni.us/BrunchatRuby. Brunch at Ruby's is warm, funny southern women's fiction about finding and keeping love, lifelong friendships with women who are like sisters and the bonds between them that bend but don't break. Debra Macklin is the envy of her friends. She has it all: a successful career, a long marriage and a happy child, but she's hiding an explosive secret that could not only shatter her perfect image but destroy her marriage and career. Maxine Donovan is self-made, admittedly shallow and unapologetic, having overcome her past to live the life she deserves to live.But despite her success, she's on a constant quest for Mr. Right. Handsome but aloof Malcolm Brooks could be The One, except his attentions are focused on someone else entirely. Does Maxine fight for him like she fought for everything else? Renee Gladwell left a life and a handsome boyfriend to return to Atlanta and nurse her father and Gladwell Books back to health. Four years later, she's struggling with his Alzheimer's diagnosis and a bookstore that is in no shape to sell. Renee is in limbo, caring for a man who is slowly forgetting his past, including her. When she meets Malcolm Brooks, her life brightens, but is love ever worth risking a friendship? Brunch at Ruby's is Book One in a growing series set in the heart of Decatur, Georgia.

Every week, I'll share a free chapter from one of my steamy, engaging Black romance novels. I hope you enjoy, come back for more, and visit my website for details on how to buy my novels in eBook, paperback and audio. This week, I'm featuring The Guy Next Door. This book is the third in the Potter Lake series, a set of small town Black romances, and was released in September 2019 . I recently was released this title in audio. Pick it up at Booksbydlwhite.com/books or https://geni.us/TheGuyNextDoor. The magic of Potter Lake strikes again when Evonne Girard- cosmetologist and obsessed podcast fan meets Taj Wright- Registered Nurse and musician following a nasty fall in the parking lot at the Curl & Dye. There are jokes, there is flirting, lingering stares abound... but neither thinks they'll see the other again any time soon. When Evonne moves out of her parent's home, she discovers that the cute house she's renting belongs to the handsome, sexy nurse with the eyes she can't forget. But she's not in Potter Lake to meet a man. She's on a mission to prove to her parents that she isn't the failure that showed up on their doorstep ten years ago. Taj is delighted to rent his guest house to the pretty, snappy former patient he can't stop thinking about. Potter Lake was a place to run when his dream died, a haven to start over and give back what was given to him. When the opportunity to live that dream again rolls around, Taj isn't sure that he wants it to come true. Evonne and Taj are forced to live in close quarters during a severe storm and quickly become more than landlord and tenant. When the same storm drives them from Potter Lake to a beachside retreat, worlds collide. One shared secret could change the trajectory of something beautiful. On a rainy night in Georgia, two hearts meet. They're never the same again.

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Each week, I'll share a free chapter from one of my romantic fiction novels featuring Black men and women. This week, I'm sharing a chapter from Dinner at Sam's, a steamy forbidden Black romance about a woman who's just trying to get a divorce, not fall in love... and the attorney who wants to process her divorce and set her free. So she can start over with him. Pick up this title in ebook, print or audio directly from me or from your favorite retailer: https://geni.us/DinneratSams About this book: Vanessa Jackson is just trying to get her life together, not pick up a new man... and certainly not her divorce attorney. Life would be so much easier if she could divorce her ex, but Warren Jackson isn't ready to let go of the dancer he 'rescued' from a previous life. The youngest of four brothers at Kincaid Family law, Gibson is the rebel. He's never going to do what Sylvia "The Silver Shark" wants him to do. His career might implode before he has the chance to open his dream law firm, but come hell or high water, he's going to get his newest client divorced so she can start a new life... with him.

This story is about my journey into becoming an activist.