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Courtesy of my controlling father, Marshall and I have been living together for the last couple of years. Because of his profession, we’d managed to stay out of each other’s way. His age and respect for my father is what kept him from giving in to my flirtatious advances. Over the years, we’d managed not to cross that line, until that one slightly drunken night.

Last Thanksgiving changed everything. Honesti crossed a line with the two people she's always trusted most, then vanished before sunrise. Now she's back in Atlanta for Friendsgiving, and the tension hasn't gone anywhere. Symere and Maleia haven't forgotten. Not her laugh, not that night, and definitely not the way she left. They're not mad. But they're not open-ended, either.

Bleu Langston has everything: power, money, and control until Truly Jackson walked into a Gala and shook the order of his world. She's a curvy, tantalizing beauty, stuck in the chains of a past toxic relationship. Bleu's hand is forced by his parents to marry or lose his position as CEO of Maison Langston's, the family empire that he worked hard to grow. Together, Bleu and Truly blur the lines between pleasure and feelings until obsession for one another starts to feel like each other's salvation.

Detavio Decebal was never meant to be good. He was raised in the shadows of a man who believed kindness was weakness, which later made him feel like love was nothing more than a leash meant to be snapped. He was raised by force and taught only to survive. By the time he became an adult, he had taught himself how to dominate those around him until he met Angel. A woman he set out to ruin and break since she was a threat to the Decebal name.

Healing requires separation. When Ethic discovers malice in a woman he thought was perfect, he walks away from their love. Keeping his family safe is his main priority, and falling for Alani Lenika Hill is dangerous. The history of their love haunts him, however, and getting over her isn't easy. Alani has beguiled his two youngest children and they crave her presence as much as Ethic. They want a mother. He wants a woman, but with ghosts and lies between them, the couple is forced apart yet again.

Blood made them all brothers, but trauma made them kings. In this last installment of The Filth Kings, Detavio, Monster, and Octavio are dangerously close to peace... Until the past claws its way back into the present to disrupt and reclaim. Just when Detavio and Monster started to believe that they deserved the women who dared to love them… A supposed buried enemy rises, making both brothers face the ugliest parts of who they were to protect what they've become.

Cold. Calculated. An enigmatic boss in his own right. Relic is that and then some. His son and brothers are his heart, and money is his world—anything else is expendable. Especially women. With the cards he's been dealt stacking up against him, he doesn't have room for distractions. Unfortunately, the same woman whose life he altered, unbeknownst to her, taunts his thoughts.

Like her father before her, Joan Matthews is a witch. For generations, their family of binder witches has protected Calvert, Oregon from vampires by strengthening the land with spellcraft. Pushing back against tradition, Joan defied her father and left town to become a war witch, one who fights the monsters hand-to-hand. But when her father dies, Joan returns to find her hometown assailed by a vampire lord's endless attacks—and the answers lie with the one woman who chose a rival over Joan.

Jersey and his brothers, Houston and Memphis, run the city of Atlanta. Nothing and no one comes or goes without their knowledge. Being a thug at heart, he never really expects to find love, let alone fall in love. That's until he crosses paths with Mylani. Mylani is like every typical girl from the hood. She is bred to get it out the mud, and she does just that. Being the sole provider for her younger sister, Trinity, she does what she feels is best to do… strip. Who knew that one night while working, she would bump into the love of her life… literally?

Hi. I'm Rivah. But to the internet? I'm soaked. And before you judge me, let me ask you something: when men sleep around, they're called experienced. When women do it, we're called everything but free. So I stopped caring what anyone calls me and started telling the truth. My blog, Body Count, isn't about sex. It's about choosing me. About turning every red flag into a teachable moment and every body into a boundary I built myself. Then Kross showed up. He's... different. Like, green flags in bulk.

Local news anchor, Sheila Garret, has her looks, career, style, and star power. What else could she want out of life? When a quick trip to the store ends with a chance of meeting a mysterious man, Sheila finds more than she bargained for. Has she met a fling, a new companion or something more?

Dashing through the church… wait, those aren't the lyrics. But that's how Sinful K is spending his Christmas holiday, dealing with the church with his woman, Mary.

A relationship with a SWAT officer would never work out - or could it? A band of brothers. Dangerous missions. These are the men and women of the Columbia SWAT team. With their clear focus on cleaning up the streets and protecting their town, it left no room for love. Or so they thought. If you love nail-biting, intense, romantic suspense listens with plenty of heat, then this collection is for you!

When she decided to throw caution out the window and succumb to one night of passion, she never expected the results following that night. Silas was tired of being controlled and his parents trying to dictate his life. Relationships were never on his radar, and he was enjoying the freedom being single gave him. The moment he learns he is about to become a father, his fight or flight senses kick in, and insecurities surface.

Greer Patterson always felt like an outsider. Loathed by her step mother and half siblings for being the green eyed, fair skinned product of her black father's affair with a white woman, she's never truly felt loved by anyone except her father and husband Michael. When Greer's life as she knows it comes crashing down after discovering her husband's torrid affair, she decides to take matters into her own bloody hands. Soon, after sending Michael to his untimely death and framing his mistress, she begins feeling something she's never felt before...powerful.

Sinful and Mary are back for the summer, and though they've grown as a couple and adore their kids, Mary, the tireless prayer warrior, is feeling worn out. She's embarking on a quest to rediscover herself, leaving Sin with the daunting mission of keeping their household intact. Between chasing after their energetic children, navigating a whirlwind of disasters, and trying to keep his sanity, Sin's summer turns into a hilarious adventure of chaos, unexpected wisdom, and a whole lot of love.

Ángel Cruz had been chanting those words to himself most of his life, struggling to stay disciplined and dedicated in the crazy, brutal world that surrounded him. His work as an exclusive assassin demanded all his attention. Ángel had no time for relationships…until the day he set eyes, and his wandering hands on Tamar Kinsey.

In the timber camps of North Florida in the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston, a famous African-American anthropologist and author, discovered the unwritten segregationist law allowing a white man to force a white woman to have his children. Dr. Ellis coined the term "paramour rights" and attributed it to Hurston's character in this novel. Twenty years later, she received an assignment from the Pittsburgh Courier to cover the murder trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy colored woman accused of slaying a white physician.

Kyonna had wanted Rhys for as long as she could remember. After coming home from college and starting her career, he was the only thing missing from her life. Rhys is adjusting to being a retired NFL player. He's ready to settle down and start a family, but his issue is he hasn't found the right woman to be with.

It was supposed to be a two-week arrangement that ended when the vacation did. Only Kincaid Maxwell is a greedy bastard; enough is never enough for him. After he's demanded my body, soul, and heart, he wants to own me. As much as I want to give him everything he wants, my past demands that I leave Kincaid alone. Because of my vows, I have no choice but to order him out of my life. Only, the nights in his bed aren't that easy to forget. Nor are they something that I will ever regret.