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Check out these new Black romance releases from January 19th-25th.
The Winning Play (Playing for Keeps Book 2) by Lauren Lacey
Sebastian Boom was born into a life of legacy and expectation, raised to chase perfection on and off the basketball court. Lottie Daniels grew up fighting for peace in a world that never handed her anything easily. He thrives on order. She moves through chaos. They shouldn’t fit, but somehow, they do.
What starts as a lust-filled friendship turns into something neither of them can escape. He becomes her calm when life spins out of control, and she’s the spark that reminds him what it means to feel alive. But calm doesn’t mean safe, and sparks have a way of burning when the past refuses to stay buried.
From late-night talks and basketball games to choices that leave scars and years spent apart, their connection refuses to break no matter how hard they try to fight it. It’s as if the world keeps playing games with their desires, giving them an inch and then taking it away over and over again.
In the end, they learn that the real game isn’t played under the lights. It’s fought in the heart, where love can wound as easily as it heals.
The Winning Play is a story of passion and pain, control and surrender, and finding the one person who makes every risk, every fall, and every victory worth it. This raw, emotional, and unforgettable story reminds us that peace is possible after chaos, that healing is the truest victory, and that sometimes the greatest win of all is learning you were the prize from the very beginning.
Stoplight II (Stoplight Series Book 2) by Charae Lewis
It’s the yellow book so proceed with caution!
It’s part two and everyone must come to terms with the dilemmas they’ve created. Irish is caught between two men who both have a hold on her. Who will she choose? What man will prevail in the fight for her heart?
Cali can’t escape the outcome of her bad decisions. She’s tried to move on and focus on her love but the man from her past won’t let her go. Cali attempts to forget about the pain she’s caused him but he refuses to take a loss, leaving her with no choice but to face her predicament alone…
This is the second book in The Stoplight Series.
Tempting Chaos by K.C. Mills
When it comes to Samari Janaé, music is in her soul and her lyrics are the blood that keeps her heart beating. When the label silences her voice taking away her lifeline with a bogus contract, Samari feels defeated but still holds onto the dream of sharing her talent with the world. Failure isn’t fatal and success…or lack thereof isn’t final.
Asao ‘A’so’ Delane built his empire from the hustle and now wears the crown as one of the most successful indie artists to ever step to a mic. Work hard, grind harder isn’t just a phrase, it’s Asao’s life motto. He’s not looking for anything or anyone else to fulfill him beyond the music.
No matter your plans, your purpose will always take center stage in this game called life. Samari and Asao are destined. Their attraction is instant and a pull neither can deny. Their connection runs deep. It’s lyrical and poetic. A rhythm that doesn’t make sense but can’t be ignored.
He’s the solution to all her problems, she’s the light exposing all the demons he’s desperately trying to hide. Together they just might rewrite each other’s stories. A beautiful melody from the heart of the hustle.
Real From The Fake by Morgan Rose
McKay Bailey is the type of girl who moves by the rules: meet a good man, fall in love, and settle down.
The plan is working perfectly until the day she finds out she is pregnant and the baby’s father disappears in the middle of the night, leaving McKay questioning everything.
When they say some things are better left alone, it holds true for McKay who fears her entire world has fallen apart.
Not ready to give up on the dream of building their family, she hires a private investigator to help locate him. Worse off than before, McKay is prepared to count her losses and be everything her baby needs, even without the father.
That is, until Burkeley Morgan comes into the picture with an arrangement that sounds crazy enough to work.
Mine, Yours & Ours: A Dark Sapphic Mafia Romance (Pretty When Vicious) by Karmen Lee
Spite built her armor. Desire might be her downfall.
Melissa DuBois
I despised Dante Kincaid. Arrogant. Reckless. Stupid enough to marry me. Now he’s dead, and freedom is within reach—until his twin walks in with the same perfect face and a darker, sharper fire that fuels my desire like no one before.
Dominique Kincaid
I swore I wouldn’t come back until I was ready, but Dante’s disappearance drags me home—to a family I hate and a war I never asked for. If I’m going down, I’m taking everyone with me. Starting with the beautifully dangerous wife my brother left behind.
Blissfully Imperfect by Zakiya
Chance Evans’s perfectionism is not toxic; it’s a standard, and she knew Link Sole could never meet it.
A night that was supposed to be filled with passion, lead to new be-ginnings, and be colored in fun quickly spun from satiated yearning to disastrous. Chance now has to get her polished life back in order while facing the aftermath of a wild night and continuing her work beside Link as he maintains his stance on exploring a romantic rela-tionship.
Link Sole has no intention of going back to only being colleagues after celebrating his birthday with Chance, and it ends in disarray.
He’s determined to prove to her that her eyes and ears didn’t deliver a truthful account of his experience with a heartbroken Cyntia.
Chance and Link’s incomplete relations need to be resolved for them to continue their ascending careers.
Papa (BLP Breeds Book 10) by Tisha Andrews
A city boy with no desire to commit not only falls for a country girl but falls with intention. When fear meets fate coupled with two canines, love shows up even when neither were expecting it.
Always Been Perfect (BLP Breeds Book 11) by Faith J.
Rockel Naveen
I’ve always struggled to find a romantic partner who could provide for me and protect me. So, when my high school crush saves me from a client who can’t take no for an answer, it felt like destiny. And for a while, it was. I thought I’d finally found both of the things I craved most until he walked away, leaving only an ominous letter saying he will be back. Now, I’m a successful business owner ready to give love a try again, until you know who bombards his way back into my life, making me question if I ever truly healed the broken heart he left me with in the first place.
Perfect ‘Port’ Porter
I’m a man who had to raise himself after losing my father to prison and mother to drug addiction. So, I’ve always struggled with feeling good enough. The day I was released from prison, I thought my life would be one way, but treachery and betrayal leads me right into the arms of my high school crush. Everything with us feels like it was written in the stars, but I’m down to my last dime. So, I left with the intention to come back when I was the kind of man I could be proud of. Unfortunately for me, it takes longer than I expected, and she so calls herself moving on with another man. But once I learned that I didn’t only leave my heart with Rockel, walking away is no longer an option. She can pretend to hate me and want me out of her life, but one thing is for certain: I’m never going to allow her to have a happily ever after with anyone but me.
Heart of Stone (BLP Breeds Book 12) by Laquana Brumfield
Shanet Ellis is thirty and thriving in a career she loves. She’s a youth counselor at the local high school and volunteers at Renewed group home. She has life all figured out until her most complicated child at the group home, Sakani Washington, is set to get adopted and the man adopting him is too fine for her to stay focused on just the job.
LaMicheal Stone is an army vet who came back to his hometown with one mission: build the life he would have had if he hadn’t spent so much time away. When Stone decides adopting a troubled teenager is the right move for him, he never expected that adoption would be a two-for-one.
Submerged in You (BLP Breeds Book 13) by Meka Evette
Solè Amor Stevens is the woman who gives until there is nothing left. Not for applause, but because nurturing is who she is. As a teacher, she pours into children who need stability and someone who will keep showing up, and when the school day ends, she shifts straight into caretaker mode. Between The Pour House and looking after her grandmother, Solè stays busy on purpose, because slowing down means letting the weight of life catch her.
Then Roman steps into her world, and everything she thought she could manage alone starts feeling different.
Roman is a swim instructor but has been a protector long before he ever touched a pool deck. After he became the one person his twin sisters could count on, he carried that responsibility like it’s stitched into his skin. He moves like a big dawg with a German Shepherd personality: loyal, alert, and territorial about peace. When he loves, he loves with coverage, consistency, and a readiness to handle anything that threatens what is his.
Solè is used to being the strong one, and Roman is used to being the shield, but love has a way of exposing what people hide behind routine. As feelings deepen and life applies pressure, Solè must decide if she can trust a man who protects without controlling, and whether she is ready to stop treading water long enough to let someone hold her steady.
Because Roman is not here to test the depth. He is ready to go all the way under for her.
Ours (BLP Breeds Book 14) by Tatum James
She ran to protect her son. She came back because she had no choice. Harper thought leaving her hometown was the hardest thing she’d ever have to do, that’s until she was forced to come back and face the two men she never stopped loving.
Jordy St. John was her safe place. He was the man who made her believe in unconditional love and happily ever after. Jase was the steady protector who she felt would always keep her safe from outside scrutiny. They loved her and respected each other’s love for her. They were brothers, and at one point in time, they were hers.
Now Harper is back in town, raising her son, and trying to rebuild her life in a place that doesn’t force her to choose between love and survival. When the past collides with the present, they’re faced with buried truths that force them to face reality. This time, Harper refuses to run.
Signed Without Love by Dontrice Nicole
The Contract Was for One Year. The Love Was Never Part of the Deal.
Aiyana “Yana” Monroe is a law student with a bright future, until her father’s dangerous past catches up with her. To settle a massive debt incurred through bad investments and street deals, Nathaniel Monroe trades his daughter’s hand in marriage to the son of the most feared man in the South: Joseph Miller.
Zaire “Saint” Miller has just finished a five-year prison sentence for a crime he didn’t commit all in the name of family loyalty. When he returns to find he has been gifted a multimillion-dollar dowry and a beautiful wife he didn’t ask for, he expects a cold, business-only arrangement on paper. He already has a “loyal” girlfriend, Tamia, who waited for him through his entire bid but Saint’s mother warns him that in their world, loyalty can often be one-sided.
As Aiyana and Saint navigate their forced union, the “business deal” begins to crack under the weight of an undeniable, electric attraction. But the Miller family is built on secrets. While Tamia stakes her claim, Aiyana uncovers a devastating truth hidden within the family walls one that threatens to shatter Saint’s world and the very foundation of the Miller brotherhood.
Now, Saint is caught between the loyalty he thinks he owes his father, the debt he feels for the woman who “waited,” and the growing love he feels for the wife he was forced to marry. When family secrets threaten to explode and the line between paper and passion blurs, Aiyana and Saint must decide if they are fighting for their fathers’ empires or for a future they finally chose for themselves.
In a world where every move is calculated and love is a luxury they can’t afford, will they survive the fallout of a truth that could destroy everything?
Something to Savor: A New Year’s Eve to Remember (Sweet Seasons Holiday Romance Collection) by Nina Stewart
Some connections start quietly.
Some begin as favors.
And some are only supposed to last until the holidays are over.
Yasmine Cole wasn’t looking for anything serious. Not with a full life she loves, a career she’s proud of, and a new year right around the corner. Zavier Carter definitely wasn’t either. What starts between them is easy, temporary, and meant to stay exactly where it is.
But easy has a way of getting complicated.
A single New Year’s Eve changes the rhythm of everything. Lines blur. Conversations linger. And just when it feels like the moment has passed, life pulls them together again—this time somewhere slower, warmer, and far more intimate than either of them expected.
Set between the glow of New York City and the charm of a small Southern town, Something to Savor: A New Year’s to Remember is a sweet, feel-good holiday romance about timing, connection, and the quiet magic that shows up when you stop pretending you don’t want more.
It’s cozy.
It’s emotional.
It’s full of soft moments, family chaos, laughter, and a love that sneaks up on you when you least expect it.
Curl up, settle in, and savor every page.
Shot By Sin: A Forbidden Love Romance by Janae Dixon
I was hired to photograph her wedding. Not to fall for the bride. Definitely not to destroy the groom.
Savannah Nichols has it all: three million Instagram followers, a thriving skincare empire, and engagement to Atlanta’s most eligible bachelor. But behind the designer smile, she’s suffocating under her fiancé’s control.
Sin Matthews doesn’t do clean jobs. When Carter Ellis hires him to surveil his bride-to-be, Sin expects to find dirt. Instead, he finds a woman fighting to remember who she is. The surveillance photos pile up. So does the sexual tension.
One touch changes everything. But Carter’s secrets run deeper than either of them knows, and falling for the wrong man might be the only way for Savannah to find herself again. Some lines aren’t meant to be crossed. Good thing Sin never learned how to color inside them.
A scorching forbidden romance with morally gray characters, explosive chemistry, and a hero who’ll burn down the world to claim his woman.
Bentley: Forever An Atkins (Atkins Family Saga Book 3) by Connie Easton
Bentley Atkins came in like a wrecking ball. There are things he let slide and then there aren’t. As a man with no reasoning, he takes what he wants and does as he pleases. If you don’t have haters, you must be doing it wrong and that man had plenty. Born with a silver spoon, what could he be possibly missing? Oh yeah, a solid woman.
Heidi Mitchell has been through things that would break the average person in two. She’s the sweetest person you’ll ever meet but has lost herself in a world of hate. Rooted by faith and moved by spirit, she’s on the path of healing. The support from the Atkins keeps her afloat. However, she’s trying to find her own footing without them.
Love is such a beautiful thing, especially when it’s unexpected. Sometimes all it takes is a simple chat here or there to introduce something new. Two opposite ends of life with one goal… Acceptance.
Still Mobb’n by Natisha Raynor
Lethal is in his prime. His main focus is his boxing career. He’s focused and disciplined, but even the best can mess up. And that was what happened when he let a sexy stranger drug and rob him. Lethal was pissed but knew he had to hold the L, or did he? When he runs back into the sexy stranger, all hell breaks loose.
Tech is home. The OG is back and ready to reclaim his throne, however, this time he will do it as a honest man. But when his sons have beef, so does he. It doesn’t take Tech long to realize leaving his old life behind him might be easier said than done.
Gone Off The Preacher’s Daughter: A Standalone Novel by Thee Tasha Marie
Princess was raised to be polished and poised—groomed to play her part in her father’s crooked game of power, image, and control. But when the truth starts cracking through the surface and old debts need settling, she ends up in the grasp of a man built from everything her world tried to keep out.
Nyce doesn’t answer to anyone. He runs the city from the shadows—quiet, calculated, and cut off from anything that could make him soft. But the preacher’s daughter wasn’t supposed to talk to him like that. She wasn’t supposed to look at him like that. She wasn’t supposed to matter.
What started as leverage and collateral turns into something dangerous that neither of them saw coming. And by the end, love isn’t even half of what’s discovered.
Playbook Promises: A Steamy Off‑Limits Single Dad Romance (The Brotherhood of Oakwood Falls 4) by Jaxine Cole
She’s his best friend’s little sister. He’s the single dad she was never supposed to fall for.
🔥 Off-limits has never felt so right… 🔥
Coach Reggie Price lives by the playbook on and off the field. But when Shayla Benton walks back into Oakwood Falls with a daughter of her own and curves he can’t ignore, every rule he swore to follow starts to blur.
She’s only home for the summer.
He’s her older brother’s best friend.
They’re both single parents trying to keep things simple.
But late-night practices turn into stolen kisses.
Kitchen counters turn into confessionals.
And suddenly, Reggie’s breaking every code to keep the one woman who’s always been off-limits.
If loving her means losing his oldest friendship… is he still willing to play by the rules?
Blood & Bourbon : A New Orleans Mafia Romance by Toni Numan
One summer in New Orleans was supposed to be a homecoming. Instead, it became a descent into the dark.
Shayna Hannon is one year away from becoming a doctor. She lives by logic, control, and a plan for the future. But when she returns to the humid streets of New Orleans to visit her brother, Nathan, she discovers he’s been keeping secrets—secrets that wear expensive suits and carry loaded guns.
Baten Willows is the city’s shadow king. A third-generation crime boss with blood on his hands and a hollow space where his heart should be, he knows Shayna is off-limits. She’s the “good girl,” the civilian, the sister of his best friend.
But the spark between them is as thick as the Louisiana air. As Shayna is pulled into Baten’s world of violence and legacy, she realizes that the line between healing and hurting is thinner than she ever imagined. When tragedy strikes and her brother’s blood stains her hands, Shayna must choose: the life she worked for, or the man who destroyed it.
Blood & Bourbon is a dark, gritty mafia romance featuring a protective hero, a brilliant heroine, and a city where loyalty is a death sentence.
The Dressmaker’s Secret (The Hummingbird Chronicles Book 3) by Aminata Coote
A lie tore them apart. The truth could destroy everything.
Detective Conner Gilbert swore he’d left heartbreak behind. But when he returns home to care for his ailing father, the past comes crashing back—along with the truth about the woman he never stopped loving.
Daniella “Ella” Tomlinson has spent years believing her husband walked away from their marriage. She built a life, raised their daughter, and learned to survive without him—until the day Conner shows up on her doorstep, older, steadier, and heartbreakingly familiar.
Then comes the shock neither of them expects: the divorce papers were never signed.
With Conner due back on the force in a matter of weeks, they must race to uncover the family deception that stole their marriage.
As buried secrets rise and long-suppressed feelings resurface, Conner realizes the profound spiritual truth:
The deepest wound isn’t the lie. It’s the unforgiveness that’s kept them apart.
Can they lay down their pride, forgive the past, and trust God to stitch their broken family back together—before it’s too late?
HERS by Ni’ssan
In the wake of the twenty years calm The Taylor brothers rest easy knowing Fate has promised them safety to them, their mates and offspring. Evil never rest, where there’s a will there away. To stop The Great Prophecy from being fulfilled The Tsar and his minions go after the mates of the Taylor Brother’s offspring.
Kenzo Atallah the bear shifter who thought he lost it all. Closed off to love after witnessing the death of his fated mate. He wants nothing to do with his birthright as the True Bear Alpha. He just wants to be left alone. Then he catches the scent of his fated mate, the one who is supposed to be dead. Leading him to Bellamy Rose.
A human who wants nothing to do with the shifter after the death of her finance by the hands of shifters. With a hate for all shifters Bellamy lives alone. Then when the possessive bear shifter come demanding answers her life is flipped upside down.
Nothing is as it seems as new faces and d come together to put the missing pieces together. Will Fate’s worries come out on top or Evil prevail?
Fallin’ for the Fame by Kimberly R. Vargas
It started with a DM. It might end with her heart.
Samara Allen loves her boyfriend, Justin. He’s steady, dependable, and has been by her side since forever. But when you’ve been secretly DMing Legend Blake—yes, the R&B superstar Legend Blake—every day for three years, things start to get complicated.
So when Legend finally slides into her real life with the job opportunity of a lifetime, Sam knows she should walk away. But the money’s too good, Hollywood’s too tempting, and Legend? He’s got that voice, that smile, and that dangerous what if she’s been trying to ignore for years.
Now she’s tangled in a web of secrets, chasing something she’s not sure she can handle. The longer she plays the game, the harder it gets to remember the rules… or if she ever really wanted to follow them in the first place.
And no matter how it looks? Everyone’s got secrets. Even in the spotlight.
If you live for contemporary Black romance, celebrity temptation, and that slow-burn heartache that hits way too close to home, you’re gonna feel this one.
Sweet Thing by Brandi Michelle
A slow-burn, small-town, grown-folk romance about letting go of fear and choosing love—one dance at a time.
Leilani Jackson doesn’t do romance. Not the songs. Not the movies. Definitely not the real-life heartbreak. After a string of disappointments, she’s traded fairytales for lesson plans and late-night grading as a middle school teacher. Her walls are high, her patience for nonsense is low, and love? Blocked. Muted. Deleted.
Memphis Walters is the charming PE coach with a reputation for getting along with everyone, except Leilani. He’s had his eye on her for two years, but she’s never given him more than a raised eyebrow and a short “good morning.” Still, he’s not one to back down from a challenge.
When the two are forced to co-host a 1950s-themed Valentine’s Day sock hop, the after-school hours start piling up; and so do the moments between them. With slow dances, shared glances, and quiet truths slipping through the cracks, Leilani begins to question everything she thought she knew about love… and about Memphis.
But opening your heart means risking it.
And Leilani’s not sure she can survive another fall.
God Send Me My Husband Too: A Renewal on Sunset Shores (Uplifting Inspirational Romance Book 4) by Sherylynne L. Rochester-Dix
She fought for freedom. He waited for forever. Now the real test begins.
But Marcus and Sarah aren’t done with her yet. As legal threats escalate and blackmail schemes surface, her café and her future hang in the balance.
Jeff has been patient, honorable, waiting for the right moment. But when the woman he loves faces losing everything she’s built, patience becomes protection, and waiting transforms into fighting.
With Alyssa’s marriage crashing, Naomi finding unexpected love, and the café community rallying like never before, Lailah discovers that freedom isn’t just about ending what was wrong—it’s about beginning what’s right.
But some victories demand everything you have left to give. And some love stories require you to risk it all for the chance at forever.
When God rewrites your story, every chapter matters, especially the ones that test your faith.
Book 4 in the God Send Me My Husband series is where healing meets hope and love learns to fight.
Running From Love by Edwina Fort
Marcus
I fell in love with Gabby from the moment she first stepped through my door. I knew without a doubt that she would someday be my wife and the mother of my children. There was just one problem: She didn’t feel the same.
Gabby
Oh no! Brotha…there were way more problems than that. Where shall I begin?
- I was older than him.
- He was the neighborhood menace. All the upstanding citizens of our little town hated to see him and his little demon posse coming.
- I WAS HIS BABYSITTER!!!
When it’s Fate…
Gabby’s unwillingness to entertain Marcus’s ‘little’ crush drove him far away from home. But he doesn’t stay gone. He returns a man, all grown up, and he’s more determined than ever to win her heart. Will these two be able to overcome all the reasons why they shouldn’t explore the possibilities? or will they ignore the growing flame between them and give in to the pressures of all the outsiders looking in?
The McKinnons : A Reunion Story by Angelia Vernon Menchan
Watching Darius Jr. or DJ as he was called had Mac and Marlene clapping like they never saw a baby before. It was two days after Christmas and four days from DJ’s first birthday and Papa and Mimi had him with them for two days. After the Christmas celebration at Darius and Brie’s they were allowed to bring him to their home. The home they moved into ten months earlier when they got married on Valentine’s Day 2025, six weeks after DJ was born. Married after three children and forty-two years of loving, breaking up and making up but in 2024 Mac told Marlene, marry me or let me go. Marlene was a lot of things but being a fool not recognizing what she had in Mac wasn’t one of them. She learned after he gave her space for a few months.
“He’s such a little dude.” Mac said when DJ climbed in his lap. He stared down at his grandson and Marlene stared at them.
“He is, even Dara is enamored.” Marlene said drily. Dara was their youngest, their spoiled daughter who came home over two years earlier after losing her job amid an affair with her boss but she had turned that to her advantage. She received a settlement and took a job with Brie and was now the Assistant Director at Brie’s school and a successful education content creator. According to her she was about her bag at thirty-six and kids weren’t on the horizon. “It’s as close as she will get to being a mommy, her eggs are floundering.”
Mac gave Marlene a look but continued rocking DJ who was falling asleep. Dara was out of his pockets, buying her own condo and that suited him just fine.
“Brie had this little one at almost forty, he’s just fine, anything is possible. Three years ago neither Darius or Brie thought about marriage or babies either but here we are.”
Marlene turned down her lips in that ironic way she had before saying, “I guess so, we’re in our 60s and here we are.”
“There’s that. I’m going to put DJ in his bed. The kids are coming to steal him back this evening.” Mac said. Marlene watched him carry the baby to his designated room, remembering he had also been a hands on dad.
“Marlene stop ogling me.” Mac said without turning around. He heard her snorting laughter.
Tinsel, Tension and You by Adryan Hart
Some rivalries never fade.
They just change the rules.
Jordan Rhodes builds flawless events and walls just as strong. Malik Carter builds financial empires and expectations he never asked for. From high-school rivals to corporate adversaries, they’ve spent years competing, clashing, and carefully avoiding everything simmering beneath the surface.
Until one high-stakes gala forces them to work together.
As tensions rise and ambition collides with attraction, Jordan and Malik must decide what they’re willing to risk: their reputations, their careers… or their hearts.
Set against glittering Chicago backdrops, whispered boardroom politics, and moments that blur the line between enemies and something far more dangerous, Tinsel, Tension, and You is a story about choosing intention over fear, and discovering that sometimes the boldest move is staying.
Number 2 Auction Participant: Oasis: The Auction by Blaq Byrd
Meet the boss, Panda Fontaine, a man not searching for love, only legacy. His sole mission is to prove to The Vault that he deserves a seat at the table. One final job stands between him and his last phase of the initiation process. But the last requirement isn’t touching the untouchable, he needs what The Vault calls collateral… A wife and an offspring.
And then there is Oasis Waters, the youngest of the Waters sisters, and the last to be promised to a man she’s never met. Her fate is sealed the moment she becomes a participant in one of the most notorious bloodlines in Magnolia Valley, the Rockwells. The Rockwell family hosts several events, and this year it’s The Velvet Veil. The Velvet Veil is no ordinary affair. It’s where masks are worn, vows are auctioned, and a bidder claims his bride.
When the masks come off at the altar, Panda and Oasis worlds collide, and the two shall become one. What happens when you’re forced to marry the last person you ever expected…
…but the first person you can’t stop wanting to know more about?
Number 3 Auction Participant: Zoey by Kendra Necole
Wale was a prince, born into titles, expectations, and a life where everything came with rules. His days were structured, his future decided long before he ever had a say. Duty came first. Image came second. Feelings—what he wanted, what freedom looked like to him, never made the list. And sure enough, he couldn’t even pick his own bride so he decided to go against the royal rules.
Zoey, on the other hand, was around-the-way in every sense of the word. Loud when she laughed. Spicy when she spoke. Built to survive in spaces that didn’t make room for softness. She wasn’t polished or trained to bow, and she didn’t know the first thing about palaces or protocol. What she did know was how to stand her ground and keep it real, no matter who was in the room.
So now they stood married to strangers, him bound to a title he couldn’t escape, her carrying a life that never came with instructions. Two people from opposite worlds, tied together by obligation, learning each other in real time.
Not love.
Not yet.
Just a blind marriage…
and everything that came after it.
Pissed AF: A Steamy Black Love Second Chance Romance (Petty AF Series Book 3) by Asha Mara
Petty. Cold. Difficult.
Athena Morris has heard it all. She prefers calculated.
So when her estranged father’s glossy new profile drops—complete with a white-picket rebrand and a stepdaughter flaunting her late grandmother’s ruby—Athena doesn’t spiral. She buys the house next door and turns his perfect little world into her next project.
This isn’t about healing. It’s about reminding him exactly who he erased.
Only one complication: Bennet Langston.
Once her nemesis. Still a problem. He pokes. Prods. Gets under her skin. Says too much with too little. And worse, he sees the parts of her she thought she buried for good.
Exactly the kind of attention she doesn’t need.
Athena came to ruin reputations. Burn bridges. Salt the damn earth. But Bennet’s not playing by her rules. And this time, she might not walk away with the win.
Pissed AF is a STANDALONE, second-chance romance and a part of the Petty AF series. Expect sharp banter, emotional heat, and high-level steam—because sometimes the best revenge is living next door in full glam with a plan to ruin everything.
Whole, But Hidden: Becoming Selah in the Midst of Vows & Valleys by Danyelle Scroggins
Dr. Selah James is calm. Composed. Respected. A bike-riding therapist who holds sacred space for broken couples trying to find their way back to each other.
But after yet another session ends in emotional unraveling, Selah is left with a question she hasn’t dared to voice in years:
Have I become so healed… that I’ve hidden myself completely?
When she reopens an old journal tied to the only man she ever truly let in, she begins to trace the quiet ways she’s protected herself from the very thing she helps others fight for: connection.
She’s not bitter. Not lonely. Just… safe.
Maybe too safe.
Set in the stillness between her clients’ chaos, Whole, But Hidden is a soul-searching Christian novel about choosing emotional honesty over perfection—and the first whisper of a heart daring to feel again.
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