From the moment his eyes met hers, there was something. Time stood still, the world around them vanished, and electricity... instant electricity. Immediately, she owned him in an inexplicable way he couldn’t quite understand. He couldn't escape her. Not in his dreams. And soon, not even in his reality. He was the man that made her soar. There was nothing in the world she wanted more than him. Absolutely nothing. His touch made her levitate. When she was with him, she was limitless. He felt like home.

Skylar Addison is one of the best sports attorneys in the city, so when the firm she worked for “reallocated” her out of a job, she felt as if the rug had been snatched from up under her. Finding out that her ex had her terminated after she decided that she no longer wanted to be in a relationship, only made matters worse. After a pity party at a local bar and grill, Skylar found herself falling for the type of man she swore she would never think twice about.

All Zarinah wanted was to fall in love. Growing up, she had kissed her fair share of frogs. When an unconventional situation leads her to Lawson, her wishes might become reality. Lawson is the new CEO of his family's hotel casino chain. He's tired of aimless dating and women just wanting his money. When he meets Zarinah, he instantly feels like she's the one.

Known playboy and award-winning R&B singer Wesley Johnson Jr. puts his dating rules to the side when he has a second chance encounter with the woman he can’t stop thinking about. Finding himself in unchartered territory, he realizes he can’t rely on his fame to earn the affection of this one special woman. Will his new ways be enough for her to let her guard down, or will someone from his past ruin their chances together?

All Jerzey wanted was a family of her own. After things don't work out with her ex-husband, she takes matters into her own hands. Being a foster mom isn't easy, but having her best friend by her side to help makes it a little easier. That is, until the two blur lines and suddenly a friendship isn't enough.

Earning a man’s trust and then setting him up has reluctantly become like second nature to Saylor Finch. After her parents and the father of her unborn baby tragically die, leaving her all alone, she has to do what she can to feed her daughter and put herself through school. When her boss forces her to set up Preston Wolfe, a known kingpin, things take a sudden shift. Feelings develop, and lies are thrown around, creating a web so tangled Saylor might not make it out alive.

The job offer she expected after taking an unpaid internship at a major shoe company didn’t come through. The friend who’d offered her a place to stay suddenly gave her 48 hours to vacate after a misunderstanding. And when she’s forced to move back to her hometown to live with her father and his mistress-turned-wife, it almost seems impossible for things to get any worse...until she runs into her former best friend, who’s only gotten fine with time.

Ashira, a belle from the suburbs, is the wealthy acting CEO of her father’s booming building firm. That's when she’s not the dancer on the Gram and TikTok, dating the latest Black Hollywood shooting star. To her, Jas, a construction laborer, is a walking conundrum. He’s fruitlessly ambitious yet steadfast in his spiritual convictions. He’s enigmatic, well-read, regimented, and poor. Oh, and a felon. An incredibly disarming parolee who wants no connection to her. Until he does.

Abomination. That's what Thomas Brewster's father decreed him before he took his first breath. He'd always feared it to be true, then fate sent him a blessing in the form of his first love, Louella Kemp. They were inseparable and planned to spend forever together. The NBA superstar was on top of the world. Until the unthinkable happened. In the blink of an eye, he lost everything, proving the curse was real.

Can a good girl find love in a thug? For Lei Fifer, that’s the hundred-thousand-dollar question. When Lei, an introverted homebody, invites her girls over for a spa day, she isn’t expecting their conversation to shift to men in prison. As an advocate for rehabilitated people receiving the love, companionship, and support those who haven’t committed crimes receive, Lei doesn’t hesitate to put her money where her mouth is and bet that she can find a good friend or great love with someone through the pen pal program her father created.

Royal St. Claire was drawn to Gemma Jacobsen from the start. It was an instant connection–one he’d never had with another woman. But he has it with her. With Gemma.

Samad Baker has always been comfortable existing in the shadows. Allowing others access places Samad and the ones he loves in jeopardy. Nilou finds conflict with her heart and the life she chooses while Samad has conflict with his troubled past. If two conflicted hearts collide, there is bound to be an emotional explosion and when the smoke clears, there’s no guarantee that either will still be whole.

Best friends? With a celebrity? Impossible. That's how Sesali feels after a chance encounter with super producer Dash Dean. His offer of friendship has to be a smoke screen for an ulterior motive. Besides, she already has best friends, and one of them has staked a claim on Dash.

When souls are tied, it's never goodbye. A boy I was that summer evening I met you, pulling your belongings out of the truck and into your new home. I knew it was love then. A whole man I was the day that you met me at the altar and agreed to love me until death do us part. A shell of a man I've become since it did, unable to move on, move forward, or progress in any way until I discovered that not even death was permanent enough to keep us apart. A better man I'm destined to be, knowing that, at some capacity, you're still with me. Our love is one that never dies.

I always knew marriage for me would never be to a man of my choosing. As a young girl, I was all too aware of the power I wielded in a world where men were supposed to be the superior gender. To the underworld, I was just a mafia princess. To my family, I was an equal. To my soon-to-be husband? Well, that was yet to be determined. But I prayed Enzo Bianchi was ready for me because I was damn sure prepared for him.

Malaysia is young, heartbroken, and craving something more than the cold silences in her home. Marcus is older, quiet, and simply trying to hold his family together. A single encounter at the edge of their lives changes the rhythm of everything. And neither of them is prepared for what follows. In the heart of an Houston's apartment complex filled with long shadows and longer secrets, one woman struggles to carry the weight of her family, one man tries to hold on to the truth, and one girl risks it all to feel something real.

You met them in the Valentine and Rose series. In this prelude, I will formally introduce you to Malik Anthony Clark, Tristian Neil Clark, and Langston Jamal Clark.

Regina King is a woman who is a hopeless romantic. Ever since the love of her life, her husband, Darl King, died of cancer 2 years ago, she has been focused on getting her 5 sons to the altar. The Kings’ Men are your typical young men in their twenties, who are well-known for cutting hair at the famous King’s Men Barbershop, but are having issues in their love lives. Can Regina get all 5 of her sons to the altar after helping them through their issues with relationships? Or will she fail at the one thing she hopes for them to experience...love?

The city of Detroit never seemed sweet to four friends Zada, Jessica, Brinks and Jojo. Coming from the gutter these friends decide to have a hot girl summer in the streets of Miami. All they wanted was a taste of the fabulous lifestyle until millions of dollars go missing and the blood of a well known kingpin stains their hands.

I will spend my thirties resolving my f**k ups, learning restraint, and saying goodbye to late-night escapades at a moment's notice, maybe. It will be the hardest decade of my life. It's as though I'm being pulled without a purpose. I don't know who I am or whether I've learned anything, at all over the past thirty years. No more living life on the edge for me, or knowingly choosing the wrong men. Although, I have three on my roster with special skill sets, organized on my phone, and assigned ringtones to make my quiet chaos manageable. I still found myself on a freight train barreling into...

Shardai Jones is a girl who had dreams of building her own empire and making a name for herself in the city of Atlanta. Her dreams were cut short because of one mistake that tainted her life and her relationship with her father. With no real work experience, and being disowned by her only living parent, she began her career as a bottle girl at the gentlemen’s club, Euphoria. Shortly after meeting Quincy at club Euphoria, she traded in her explicit career for a better life that includes love and happiness, or so she thought. Unbeknownst to Shardai, that in years to come, love never found ...

What happens when you willingly enter a relationship knowing that man belongs to someone else? Do you catch feelings and dream of your future with someone else’s man while you wait for him to leave his girl? Meet Samara and August, two women that quickly forget their roles as the side chick because both of them are determined to become the main chick in Da’Wan’s life. The problem is…Ajai is Da’Wan’s leading lady, and despite the promises he’s made to both of them, Ajai is the only one that holds his heart and who he refers to as wifey. Ajai strongly believes that Da’Wan is ...

Dating has never been a priority for Destiny. She wanted nothing to do with the secret texts, lying, and arguments with random women. But Bashar entered her life and turned it upside down. Destiny was sprung. When her mother met him, she knew he was no good for her daughter. Bashar had heartbreak written all over him. Ignoring her mother’s warnings, she falls for him. Will she regret not listening to her mother? Or will Bashar be the one to prove her wrong and be everything Destiny needs?

Kennedy Strong is a gorgeous twenty-one-year-old college student that had one bad relationship with her high-school sweetheart, Tristian, and it made her want to just focus on herself. Being a full-time student and working a full-time job, she doesn’t have a lot of time to spend with the opposite sex. A chance encounter with her teenage crush, Zaire Hart, brings back old feelings that Kennedy didn’t know still existed. In a short time, Zaire sweeps her off her feet, and she gives him the free time she only had reserved for herself. The only problem is that while Kennedy is giving almost...

In this collection are updated stories from some of your favorite Valentines.

Nicole Whittaker finds herself battling deep insecurities and her struggles with self-love while being haunted by a terrifying past. Ensnared in the web of her cheating boyfriend’s dark secrets, Whitney’s caught up in the midst of fighting for her life. Beautiful and successful, Tyra appears to have it all. However, beneath the façade there’s someone weighing her down. Someone that should be uplifting her the most. Can these three make it through the storms that are brewing? Or will they end up losing both their hope and lives along the way?

A young, innocent undiscovered love... College student William Rutherford is smitten the first time he sees Jemma Alden. She's beautiful, hard working and turns out they have a lot in common from educational goals to personal tragedies. Jemma takes a chance on Will and discovers the Joy's of first love and inhibited passion. Turns into a fateful, reclaimed meeting of two souls... A betrayal from someone close forces them to part ways and they're reunited a decade later. Questions are asked, answers are sought and they decide to give their relationship another chance. Has too much time ...

Small-business owner and financial advisor Samiyah Manhattan is mourning the death of her six-year marriage when she vows never to trust men again. Alone at a local bar, Samiyah attempts to put her situation in perspective when she is drawn inexorably to the presence of a nearby patron. Celebrity ex-boxer and heavyweight champion turned business mogul Jonas Alexander Rose never takes women too seriously. They only attach themselves to him because of his star-studded status. However, when he meets the beautiful Samiyah Manhattan, Jonas is overwhelmed by the heated attraction.

Within the bounds of complacency, there exists a boring, beautiful sort of peace, and Khalida has found it. Welcomes it, in fact. A nice, comfortable life, with a great job, a good, albeit on and off again boyfriend, a great relationship with her younger sister...she has nothing to complain about. But that's only if she ignores the sense of unrest that has haunted her ever since she could remember, overshadowing her ability to connect in love. Only if she glosses over the fact that she’s leaning more toward a permanent off switch when it comes to Travis.

Retired hitwoman Celine Briggs loved few people in this world; Her husband Caleb, and her ex-handler, Brian Devereaux. When Celine took her marital vows, she exchanged the life of guns, drugs, and violence for the peaceful life as Caleb's wife. However, not all things buried stay hidden.