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In Unox, the divine woman is crafted-obedient, elegant, and silent. But Amethyst, the queen's fifth-born and twin to a prince, was never meant to be quiet. She burns too bright. As the middle daughter of eight, her place should be clear-but nothing about Amethyst has ever followed tradition. When a hidden ritual shatters everything she believed about her family-and herself-Amethyst escapes the only world she's ever known, thrust into the wild beauty and buried horrors of the lands beyond the castle. From enchanted forests to siren-haunted coasts, she chases whispers of truth, hunted by shadows cloaked in royal silk. War simmers beneath kingdoms, and something ancient stirs beneath her skin. Magic. Rebellion. Destiny. And a question that could break the crown

Twenty-six-year-old Tori Williams catches her white fiancé in bed with her coworker three months before their wedding, discovering an eight-month affair that shatters everything she believed about love and her own worth. Devastated by betrayal and drowning in PTSD, she flees to Kyoto, Japan on a two-year MFA scholarship in design, desperate to escape the wreckage of her life in Atlanta. Arriving broken and barely functional, Tori navigates crushing loneliness, brutal culture shock, and hypervisibility as a Black woman in homogeneous Japan. She faces constant stares, microaggressions, and the exhausting work of existing in a country where she'll always be Other. Through traditional joinery workshops, she meets Ren Beaumont-a half-Japanese, half-French architecture student with devastating good looks and an emotionally unavailable playboy reputation, haunted by his own family wounds and running from intimacy through meaningless hookups. As they learn kintsugi-the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, making it more beautiful for having been broken-two shattered people begin to recognize themselves in each other's cracks. Tori must decide if she can trust again after annihilating betrayal, while Ren confronts whether he's capable of the vulnerability real love requires. Through cherry blossom seasons and autumn leaves, temple gardens and late-night workshops, they discover that healing doesn't mean becoming who you were before breaking-it means honoring the cracks while building something entirely new. This is a story about surviving trauma, finding home in unexpected places, chosen family that saves lives, and learning that broken and whole aren't opposites-they're the same thing, gold-filled and beautiful. ©️ Relle H

Seoul does not surrender its oldest secrets, and some oaths were never meant to be broken. They were meant to be chosen. When a Black American woman arrives in Bukchon with a camera and a curiosity that unsettles old wards, she does not expect the city to watch her back. She does not expect the man in the lantern-lit hanok at the end of the alley, the one who has spent four centuries waiting for something he could not name. He is not entirely human and has not been for a long time. The blade beneath his floor has been keeping count. Between them something ancient and deliberate stirs, and the spirits notice immediately. The moon has terms. A wound from the Goryeo era is not finished bleeding. A spirit in the Han River has been patient for four hundred years and has learned to mistake that patience for entitlement. And the city itself is watching to see what she does with all of it. This is not a soft love story. It is the kind that costs something real, that lives in the space between devotion and danger, between mercy and reckoning. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.

Dallas does not forget anything. It watches from neon-lit bar corners and Highland Park breakfast tables, from Oak Cliff church pews and Carrollton market stalls where two languages blend mid-sentence without apology. Ashley Moore is three months from her Communications degree, bartending her way toward a future her mother has different blueprints for - loyal, incisive, and done shrinking herself to fit rooms that were never built for her. Chloe Blanchard is a Design junior navigating the quiet war between who she is and who her world expects her to be, photographing shadows and hiding her real work behind the version of herself that causes the least disruption. When a Deep Ellum dare becomes the best decision either of them makes all year, the city takes note. What follows is not a fairytale. It is family reckoning, legal confrontation, identity excavation, and two women learning to choose each other loudly inside a world that would prefer they stay quiet. The burn is slow. The love is earned. Nothing important comes without cost. drama © Relle H. all rights reserved.

In glittering Bangkok, retiring supermodel Rianna Davis, a Black American from California, seeks a quieter life after a decade on the runway. A celebratory night out leads to an impulsive one-night stand with charismatic playboy Boonchai Boonmee-unaware of his connection to her longtime boyfriend, Arthit Boonmee. As engagement bliss and family introductions unfold, an unexpected pregnancy sets off a chain of secrets, coercion, and forbidden desire. What begins as a dangerous game of blackmail spirals into an intense, addictive affair amid Bangkok's elite circles-risky encounters, whispered threats, and stolen moments that blur guilt, passion, and power. With jealous rivals, suspicious allies, and mounting family pressures closing in, the web of deception tightens. Loyalties fracture, reputations hang in the balance, and one explosive truth threatens to shatter everything. High-stakes erotic thriller of betrayal, obsession, and taboo chemistry set against Thailand's dazzling, unforgiving cityscape. © _RelleLebby_// R. L.

Jackie is missing a vital piece of her life, a quiet absence that shadows her through the city. She can't wait for everything she's lost to come back to her, holding onto hope even when it feels fragile. She searches for normalcy in a world that refuses to slow down, forcing herself to breathe through the cracks and call it healing. Then someone new enters her life, disrupting the careful balance she's been trying to maintain. But every new beginning carries its own complications, and the secret he holds threatens to unravel everything she's been trying to rebuild. Read on as Jackie holds her breath while navigating love and loss, waiting for the moment her life finally feels whole again. Teyana Taylor x Brent Faiyaz x Aaron Pierre

Amara Monroe is not the kind of woman who stops moving. She is a graduate student, a business owner, a daughter, and a caretaker all at once, and she handles every single role with the kind of quiet discipline that most people never see because she does not ask them to. Her life runs on early mornings, tight budgets, and the deep belief that doing things the right way matters even when no one is watching. Kit Wattanakul is a Thai-American chef who built his Atlanta restaurant on the same principle. Disciplined. Intentional. Rooted in the culture and family that shaped him. He is not a man who does things carelessly. Which makes it all the more complicated when one unexpected afternoon puts Amara in his orbit and neither of them can quite find their way back to the distance they started with. This is not a story about two people who fall recklessly into each other. It is a story about two people who feel something real and choose, again and again, to handle it with honesty and care. About what it costs to want something you are not yet free to reach for. About family duty and cultural identity and the particular courage it takes to build love on a foundation that can actually hold. Set against the copper and gold of an Atlanta autumn, Eyes on You is a slow burn that earns every degree of heat. No shortcuts. No compromise. Just two people deciding that something worth having is worth doing right. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.

itsdanicareneeXOXO started with twelve viewers and a customer who couldn't pronounce her name right. Danica Betton, 22, Spelman graduate, Thread & Theory stylist, and accidental internet personality, never meant to go viral. She was just doing her job. Atlanta had other plans. From the MARTA to a neon blue Lamborghini, from twelve viewers to four hundred thousand, Betton On Me is the story of a young woman from the Blue Ridge Mountains figuring out who she is in a city that keeps offering her versions of herself that aren't quite right. There's a Buckhead socialite with an upside down pineapple and an agenda. A rapper named 9th Ward Marco who drives a leased Rolls Royce with the dealer mats still on the floor. A Spelman sister with a tablet full of numbers that will make you put your hand over your mouth for two reasons at the same time. And somewhere in the chat, there's blessyaheart_shug. Complete sentences. No shorthand. Has a folder. Has a bookmark. Was viewer number one before she had a username. She's been there the whole time. The mountains are calling. Danica's almost ready to go home. Betton On Me is the companion novel to Betton It All. Reading order recommended but not required.

All St. James has ever wanted is to dance. Starting over at a new school should be simple-but when you're chasing a dream of becoming a professional ballerina while trying to find where you truly belong, nothing ever is. Luckily, she doesn't have to figure it out alone. Between a chaotic friend group that slowly becomes family and Eli, the quiet bad boy who always seems to show up when she needs him most, St. James might finally learn what it means to be seen. But dreams, love, and belonging don't come easy... and sometimes the biggest fight is believing you deserve them.

Mara Williams is twenty-four years old, drowning in debt, and running out of time. Working double shifts at Mel's 24-Hour Diner on Flatbush Avenue while her mother Clara fights cancer at Kings County Hospital, Mara exists in that brutal space between survival and collapse-too proud to beg, too desperate to keep pretending the math works. When she crosses paths with Dominic "Dom" Reyes at a Crown Heights loft party, the attraction is immediate but the danger is undeniable. Dom controls drug territory across the neighborhood with a quiet ruthlessness that commands respect from men who fear nothing, yet something about Mara pulls at him in ways he hasn't allowed himself to feel in years. What begins as a transaction-Mara making courier runs to cover her mother's bills-slowly becomes something neither of them planned for. Crown Heights is their backdrop: its brownstones and bodegas, its soca music and territorial corners, its beauty and its blood. As the rival Haitian crew led by Jean-Baptiste Laurent pushes into Dom's territory and a childhood friend's obsession turns lethal, Mara finds herself caught between the woman she was raised to be and the woman survival has made her. Keisha, her best friend, is fighting her own battle against an abusive partner. A determined detective is building a case that could imprison everyone Mara loves. Crown Heights is a slow-burning interracial love story about the price of surviving a world designed to crush you-and what it costs to find redemption once you've already paid. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R.H.

It's the year 1971 in Palmetto County Brackwater, South Carolina -freedom exists, but only if you know how to carry it quietly. For the first in history had been integrated with black and white kids at ELIAS T. CROWE, a once black school, now with white kids not because of the law, but because there school closing down. Bart is the revolutionary, the boy who won't let you forget what this country keeps trying to move past. He names the rules, laughs at them, and dares anyone to deny them out loud. Mari listens to everything; sees patterns early and remembers them. And Ruth is coming of age. Watching. Learning when to agree, when to stay quiet, and when silence starts to feel like a lie. She learns what it means to be a Black girl in a world that watches closely, and forgives unevenly. Set among cicadas, tight roads, church pews, and classrooms heavy with unspoken history, [AFTER THE LAW SAID FREE] is a Southern Gothic story about memory, revolution, girlhood, and 11th grade where everything begins to change.

Deja Washington, a 32-year-old Black woman and established book editor at a prestigious New York publishing house, has sworn off Valentine's Day after a string of disappointing relationships that always seem to fizzle out just when things get serious. When she's assigned to work with Takeshi Yamamoto, a 35-year-old Japanese-American literary translator known for his meticulous perfectionism and emotional reserve, their professional collaboration begins with immediate friction-her spontaneous editing style clashes violently with his methodical approach to preserving authorial intent. As they're forced to work together on an urgent project translating and editing a controversial manuscript over the two weeks leading up to Valentine's Day, their constant arguments slowly reveal the deep wounds and fears they both carry: Deja's abandonment issues from a father who left when she was young and a pattern of choosing emotionally unavailable men, and Takeshi's struggle with vulnerability after a broken engagement three years ago left him convinced he's incapable of meeting anyone's emotional needs. The story unfolds across intimate late-night editing sessions in Takeshi's cramped Brooklyn apartment, tense meetings in Deja's corner office overlooking Manhattan, and stolen moments in the rare bookshops and quiet corners of the city they both love, as they navigate professional respect bleeding into genuine friendship, and friendship igniting into something neither of them planned for but both desperately need-if only they can overcome their fears long enough to let each other in.

📚 Book 1 of Melody's Magical African Adventure is just the beginning! From the pyramids of Egypt to the streets of Nairobi, Melody explores 10 African countries in each book - and there are 5 parts in the full series, celebrating ALL 54 African countries in a fun, magical, and relatable way for kids everywhere. 🧒🏾✨ Packed with culture, history, food, music, and joy - this is the African storybook we've been waiting for. 🎒 Tag a parent, teacher, or book lover who should meet Melody!

A Riverdale Fanfiction Serena Amelia Lodge Page has always been the quiet one - observant, thoughtful, and gentle in a town that thrives on chaos. She's fiercely loyal to her friends, fiercely protective of her own heart, and fiercely herself. Riverdale has a way of testing everyone, and sophomore year is no exception. A masked gunman, a Southside Serpent uprising, and long-buried secrets threaten to pull the town apart... and Serena right along with it. Caught between loyalty and attraction, Serena never expected a reckless Serpent to make her heart beat faster - or that navigating her feelings would be as dangerous as the streets themselves. In a town where everyone wears masks, can Serena stay true to herself... and survive the storm? Author's Note 🤎 Hi! This is my OC-centered Riverdale retelling starting from Season 2. Canon events still happen, but Serena has her own storyline woven in. Expect slow-burn romance, emotional angst, Serpent drama, and soft-girl strength. Please check the content warnings above. I hope you love Serena as much as I do 🤍 All content in this story is written by me, Naomi. Please do not copy, repost, or use any part of this story without my express written permission. Sharing links to my story is fine, but taking my words as your own is not. Thank you for respecting my work! 💛 ⸻ ⚠ Content Warnings • Violence (gun violence / robbery / gang activity) • Family conflict & secrets • Emotional trauma • Teen romance / slow-burn relationships • Mild language

Not really your average love story K. N. I. G. H. T In the heart of Detroit, Michigan 20 year old Knight Ahlon Royal has everything in the palm of his hands. Sex, money drugs and power What else could he ever ask for? Standing at the top of the world on a billion dollar drug industry Knight and Dakota [aka Clipz] are living the fucking life. However, after what they thought was a routined drop in Las Vegas, Nevada they find their lives turned upside down. R. A. I. N Rain Denise Smithson is a 19 year old college honor student in the same city. Despite her excellent grades and intelligence, her personal life is in complete turmoil. Party, sex, and drugs has completely taken over the once love-able teen and awoken something much more sinister from deep within. After a night of partying with her bestfriend all hell breaks loose leading to an unexpected reunion between Rain and a face from the past. Rain is now faced with the daunting task of not only facing her inner demons but also the ones that's been creeping in the shadows all along. People say opposites attract but Knight and Rain just might be each other's downfall. In a world where cash rules everything, the journey to the top has its trails and tribulations & once these two worlds collide only one can come out on top. Loyalty is everything but loyalty isn't forever. Only thing that seems to be forever is... *Forever The Kings*

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in all the bitterness, you stay so sweet. or in which she realizes the one she calls her first love was never her first love, only her first attachment. TRIGGER WARNING: abuse

This is a collection of all my poems, written with the intention to touch and address struggles with mental health, culture shock, social injustices, and day to day struggles I or my characters have encountered as people of color in a society where we continue to be minorities. The poems also touch on my Nigerian heritage, using certain words in Nigerian languages and general exposure to my culture.

I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation. -EVERY form of discrimination. I believe in human beings and all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color." - Malcolm X My feelings and thoughts on black lives matter. If you get offended I'm not sorry i have a voice and I'll use it.

Cynth Abdullah. A girl of action. A girl with a plan. She knows what she wants and fights to get it. But after fighting to revive her school's newspaper, she must recruit a staff of unlikely girls to help her run the chronicle. And soon it isn't just about the newspaper anymore. The girls lead lives of their own and experience hardships. But the real test of friendship comes when controversial tension breaks out in their urban Chicago high school and a cut throat newspaper war begins. This is an all out girl power story that highlights standing up for what you believe in, as cliche as it sounds, embracing your talents, and banding together to fight against stereotypes, for equality, and with the people you love.