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Check out these new Black Romance releases from December 1st-7th.
The Love Audit by Lucy Eden
The gloves—and more!—are coming off for workplace enemies turned fake newlyweds trying to save their jobs in this sexy rom-com, perfect for fans of Tarah DeWitt and B.K. Borison.
There are three things that PR strategist Jasmine Morgan knows for sure: One, she’s damn good at her job. Two, she’ll do whatever it takes to save her team from looming layoffs. And three, Derek Carter will always be her archnemesis—even if the man is ridiculously fine. Unfortunately, she and Derek end up on competing projects in Miller’s Cove, a small town highly suspicious of corporate outsiders. To gain the trust of the locals, she’ll have to ditch her blazer and pose as a “honeymooning couple” with her mortal enemy.
Derek isn’t about to let Jasmine best him on the venture that will seal their fate during this company audit. But wherever he goes, she’s there—in his hotel suite, digging for the same research, and even stealing the loyalty of his dog (traitor). Worse, her tempting performance as his fiancée has him torn between killing her career or kissing her senseless. But as the two get deeper into their charade, they discover little Miller’s Cove has a lot of big secrets. Secrets that could save their careers . . . but at what cost?
Accidentally Yours by Kiriah Kache
Kemi Andrews is just hoping to survive Christmas without another lecture about being single, until a chance encounter with Tyrek Griffin makes the season feel a little brighter. She wasn’t looking for love, but sometimes the best gifts aren’t wrapped at all… they’re accidentally yours.
Mistletoe Kiss on Ice: A Second Chance Christmas Romance by Danielle Brooks
❄️ A Christmas away from home. One unexpected reunion. A recipe for disaster–or rekindling?
Vada Carter came to Mistletoe Springs for her daughter’s basketball tournament and a picture-perfect Christmas away from home. She didn’t expect to spend it under the same roof as her estranged husband, Jalen Carter.
Jalen was supposed to be her past. But in the glow of the holidays—and with old sparks refusing to stay buried—will this be a recipe for one last Christmas together as a family, or the right mix of coincidence for a second chance at love?
Mistletoe Kiss on Ice is a heartfelt, funny, and swoony Christmas romance about family, forgiveness, and falling in love when you least expect it.
Trials & Tribulations (MPWG Law Firm Book 4) by B. Love
For Navy Robertson, she has literally everything she wants except marriage and a family of her own. While she believes she might be able to get those things with her boyfriend, Ian, his toxic back and forth with her closest friend causes drama in their relationship that Navy is finding it harder to ignore.
For over a decade, Zander Gough has been content being Navy’s closest friend. The more serious things get between her and Ian, the more difficult it is for Zander to deny his feelings for her. When Navy decides her friendship means more than her romantic relationship, she sees a side of Zander and Ian that she didn’t expect.
Will the truth of their feelings shift these friends into lovers, or will Ian’s claim on Navy’s heart ruin her friendship with Zander for good?
Snowed In With The Grumpy Bear : A Black Paranormal Romance by Tessa Stone
I hired her to stock my pantry for hibernation. I didn’t plan on keeping her forever.
TOLIN
I live on this mountain for a reason. I’m scarred, exiled, and I don’t play well with others. My clan knows it. The town knows it. But my mother is right about one thing: I can’t survive the winter unprepared. So, against my better judgment, I drive into town to hire help. I just need someone to stock the shelves, clean the cabin, and leave me alone. But Imani isn’t scared of my scars or my temper. She stands her ground. And when the blizzard traps us together and the scent of her cleaning supplies finally fades, I realize the disastrous mistake I’ve made. She isn’t just a worker. She’s my fated mate. Now I have to fix the damage I’ve done, even if I have to tear the door off her car to keep her safe. I’ve waited a lifetime for her, and I’m never letting her go.
IMANI
I didn’t move to Shadow Wolf Creek to chase shifters. I came for a fresh start and a paycheck. I have a plan: work hard, save money, and buy the furniture to build a real home for myself. Taking a double-pay job for the town’s recluse seemed like a quick way to reach my goals. I was warned Tolin Ironwood was a beast, but I didn’t expect him to be so… intense. One minute he’s screaming at me about a chair, and the next he’s looking at me like I’m the only woman in the world. The storm has us trapped. The heat between us is melting the snow. But can I trust a man who crushed my phone to keep me here, or will this bear break my heart like everyone else?
SNOWED IN WITH A GRUMPY BEAR is a steamy, standalone Black Paranormal Romance. It features a scarred, possessive hero who grovels hard, a heroine who knows her worth, and a “fated mates” connection that burns hot enough to survive the winter.
Tropes: 🐻 Grumpy x Sunshine ❄️ Forced Proximity (Snowed In) 🔥 Fated Mates 🚪 Touch Her & Die (literally, he rips a car door off) ❤️ He Falls First & Harder
Reflections of My Desire by Monae Nicole
River Brooks finds herself facing a battle every child fears: losing their parent. When River is faced with processing the news of her father having cancer, she finds herself finding comfort in a man that should be off limits. . . her brother’s best friend.
Coye Johnson has never wanted a woman as bad as he wants River, but his loyalty to her brother is the one thing that’s standing in his way of having her.
These two are about to see if love can outlast a timely friendship, or will they have to keep their love on hold? Forbidden fruit always tastes the sweetest, and they’re both hungry for each other.
It’s You For Me This Christmas : A Bloom Series Spin-Off by Amanda Linette
After years of being in and out of a situationship, Ria and Onyx are finally ready to tie the knot, but one thing stands in their way: pre-marital counseling.
What they thought would be a walk in the park instead uncovers new truths and challenges that tests their bond this holiday season.
Unfortunately for these two, the therapy session sets off a chain of events that leaves them questioning: Is love really enough?
It’s You for Me This Christmasis a short, heartfelt, and vulnerable love story that explores a timeless truth: any love worth having is worth fighting for.
The Will To Live by Denise Essex
Phoenix is itching to pay off the ridiculous amount of debt she’s racked up in tuition. Her bestie has the bright idea to answer an ad seeking a companion for a man with two months to live. While Phoenix is repulsed at the request that the old man’s aid be stunning, she relents because she doesn’t want to start her dream job only to have her checks allocated to loans.
Will isn’t old, but he has been given until just before Christmas to live. His doctor insists that he hire an in-home aid to keep him company since he refuses hospice. Will’s family members have no idea he’s sick. They don’t care about the man, only the financial stability he can provide. Will has given up on life, until Phoenix breezes into it.
The two of them don’t want each other, but they need what the other has to offer. What started out as an obligatory contract just might change their lives forever.
Three and a half years later, Phoenix still hasn’t moved past her affair with Will. An interruption to a dinner that could change her life forever has her wondering if she’s lost her mind or if she’s been given a second chance with the man who owns her heart.
Is two months long enough to know you’ve found the love of your life? Find out in “The Will To Live,” by Denise Essex
The Blizzard Pact by Coya Wilson
Ridin’ with My Best Friend: A Dark Holiday Romance by Wynta Tyme
Travel Grays has faced many hardships in life, including migrating from Haiti with her parents to America. Now, at thirty-three, that same pain is reinforced when her lover, and the father of her child, puts her and her son in danger. With only one place in mind to go, she turns to the one man who has always had her back, her best friend, Trek.
Trek Mounts is a thirty-three-year-old father and transporter of many things. His days in the streets are far in the past, but he’s in the balance, having his hands in both legal and illegal moves. Though cautious and content with his life, he is left desiring a piece of something that seems to be missing.
After agreeing to help his best friend during her time of need, a simple favor evolves into a meaningful and passionate act. As Trek helps Travel carry the heavy load of rebuilding her foundation, she aids him in discovering the more he’s been searching for.
While under the same roof, Trek begins to see Travel in a whole new light, and the idea of having it all starts to feel attainable. There’s just one problem… They each have a co-parent refusing to let them go. When a recipe for disaster is set in motion, will Travel and Trek rise above the chaos—or find themselves choking on a cold dish of revenge?
C*m On Down The Chimney Tonight: A Holiday Short by Kyeate
On Christmas Eve, heartbreak leaves Raina alone… until someone unexpectedly crashes into her night.
Secrets surface, and temptation ignites.
By Christmas morning, nothing is the same.
Snowed in with a Sinner: A Christmas Novella by E Wolff
Christmas was supposed to be quiet for Jhanae—just her, the mountains, and the healing she’s been avoiding since her marriage fell apart. Instead, she walks straight into a whiteout blizzard… and the man who was never supposed to be part of her story.
Solo is a mystery wrapped in heat and danger—large, quiet, protective, and far too observant for comfort. When he saves her from freezing on her first night, she’s forced to take shelter in his cabin as the storm rages for days.
What begins as necessity turns into something deeper—shared warmth, late-night confessions, the kind of chemistry that steals breath and sanity. Their bodies know each other long before their truths do.
But Solo’s past didn’t stay buried. And on Christmas Day, it knocks on his door.
A man from his old crew.
A threat he can’t outrun.
A choice that could ruin everything they’ve started.
Now, with the roads clearing and reality calling, Jhanae faces a decision:
Go back to the life that broke her…
or step into the unknown with the man who feels like home, even when the world is burning behind him.
Two Weeks to Love by Kay Shanee
Relationship therapist Eva Fuller is over it all. Her boyfriend isn’t interested in getting married or starting a family, so she makes the tough decision to end their ten-year relationship after being engaged for seven years. She is happy with her decision, and when her ex announces his engagement to another woman and the upcoming arrival of their first child, she’s more pissed than she is hurt.
The news makes Eva question everything, including her career, and she wonders whether she should be guiding couples, since she can’t seem to handle her own relationship issues. Frustrated with the situation, her sister suggests she needs to get away and unplug from life for a couple of weeks and offers the perfect solution.
Football analyst Solomon ‘Solo’ Holmes can’t believe he wasted over ten years with his ex-wife. Before marriage, having a large family was something they both desired, but when the time came, she was no longer interested. He doesn’t know when her desires changed, but her no longer wanting children was a dealbreaker.
It’s been over a decade since he was single, and after only a few months, he’s already frustrated with the process of dating. He expresses his frustration to his longtime friend, who suggests he take a vacation to reset.
Eva and Solomon are determined to enjoy the next two weeks away from their reality, but neither expects to have company while doing so. Will they take advantage of their unexpected two weeks together, or will they let a perfectly curated love connection pass them by?
Chance Encounter by CeCe Lewis
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT LOVE COULD FIND HER AGAIN?
Stefani never imagined her world could fall apart in an instant—until the night her husband, Dominic, collapsed from a sudden aneurysm that stole him away without warning. Grief becomes her shadow, loneliness her constant companion, and every breath feels like borrowed air.
Then, by a 16.9% chance, fate intervenes.
While working a job she despises, Stefani meets Sebastian Stone, a strikingly handsome billionaire with eyes that seem to recognize her soul. Their connection is instant, electric… and terrifying. For the first time since losing Dominic, she feels alive again.
But Sebastian carries a secret that could shatter everything—
One truth that ties him to the very heart she’s still mourning.
When love is reborn from loss, can the truth destroy what destiny designed?
Or was this chance encounter always meant to be?
Snowbound Hearts by Tiffany Tamara
When a blizzard strands executive assistant Sophia Morris at a remote cabin with her boss, she expects a few awkward days of professional distance. What she doesn’t expect is to discover the man behind the stoic CEO façade, or to find herself falling for him. Fresh out of a relationship where she was never quite enough, Sophia isn’t looking for love. But as the snow piles up and the walls between them come down, she can’t ignore the chemistry between them.
Lamont Hartman came to the mountains to escape his chaotic family and the demands of running a company. For two years, he’s kept Sophia at arm’s length, burying his attraction beneath a professional exterior. But trapped together in close quarters with nowhere to hide, his carefully constructed walls begin to crumble.
What starts as an inconvenient storm becomes the beginning of something neither of them planned for. With decorating Christmas tree and late-night confessions by the fire, Sophia and Lamont discover that sometimes the best things in life come in the form of a surprised inconvenience. But when the snow melts and reality returns, can what they’ve built in their winter sanctuary survive in the real world? Or will the complications of mixing business with pleasure cost them everything they’ve found?
Promise are Forever by K.C. Mills
What happens when your marriage is arranged to pay a debt for your family’s business?
You make a proposition to the biggest boss in the underworld to marry you instead.
Just to find that he only wants you… All of you!
Holiday Novella
Crime Family
Arranged Marriage -with a twist!
Insta Love
HEA
*Previously released in the Sin & Snowflakes Anthology*
Knocked Up By A Texas Cowboy: A brothers best friend forced proximity romance by Ky West
I’m pregnant by my brother’s best friend…
bound by a paper-perfect engagement, crafted only to protect his empire.
Mason King is nearly twenty years older.
A self-made billionaire country-boy who can make a girl forget her morals with one look.
I always knew he was dangerous—
not the kind that breaks the law,
the kind that breaks hearts.
He touched me first—
and didn’t stop until every inch of me belonged to him.
One night. One bed. One storm that changed everything.
I stepped into the Hot Girl Trail Ride innocent,
and left forever changed—his scent on my skin, his false forever looming, and two pink lines rewriting my future.
Now the town whispers, his empire trembles,
and I’m carrying the one secret that could ruin us both—
Because the baby growing inside me belongs to the only man I was never supposed to love…
and the one man I’ll never let go.
She’s A Catch: An Accidental Vegas Wedding Sports Romance (She Can Play Book 4) by Tember Sapphire
Daniel Campbell is an international cricketer and…my new husband.
One wild night in Vegas turns into something more.
What happens when I wake up married to him, with no memory of the night before and only a note on the bedside table?
I’m still reeling from a painful breakup.
I can’t afford to jump into anything new right now.
But when we meet up to talk about an annulment and run into my ex, Daniel makes a bold offer.
He says all the right things, and somehow, I can’t bring myself to walk away.
Can we turn one reckless night into something real? Or will our pasts get in the way of everything I ever wanted?
🏏Cricket Romance
🏏Accidental Vegas Wedding
🏏Strangers to Lovers
🏏Cricket Player x Sport Biomechanist
🏏Upgrade from Ex
Safe With Me by Tora
Kingston Maverick didn’t have time for love. His days were spent running a multi-million-dollar software company and being a single father to his nine-year-old autistic daughter. Love wasn’t on his mind. Love wasn’t in his plans. Love was an afterthought… until he met his new nanny. Could the new nanny be the one to defrost his frigid heart?
Life hadn’t been kind to Onyx Score. In the blink of an eye, she lost everything she had worked hard for. Determined to figure it out on her own, she returned to her hometown of Ravenstone Creek to start over again. Love wasn’t in her plans. Love was a distraction she didn’t need. If only she could ignore the bone-deep, body-numbing, mind-spinning chemistry she felt for her new boss.
Kingston and Onyx both face obstacles. Can they figure it out? Will love be enough to make a relationship between two opposites work?
‘Safe with Me’ is book one of a three-book interconnected series, but can be read as a standalone.
The Gift of Us: A Small Town Christmas Romance STEAMY EDITION by Lula White
Welcome to so-tiny-you’ll-blink-and-miss-it town of Elaine for Christmas.
SUNDAY
Just days before Christmas, Sunday Conklin is on the brink of losing everything—her family’s scenic farm—in the heart of her small Arkansas town. It’s the legacy she’s given up her life to protect. With the bank out of mercy and her options gone, her family’s oldest enemy, the Adlers, will finally take the Conklin Fields for themselves. But a miracle arrives—one that could save Sunday, her neighbors, and the historic town of Elaine itself. There’s just one problem: that miracle comes tangled up with the most infuriating man she’s ever met… who belongs right back in Texas where he came from.
SEVEN
Seven Hardcastle can’t believe his luck this Christmas, when he’s assigned to a middle-of-nowhere Arkansas town. He’s ready to return to his perfectly manicured life in Dallas with his wife and kids. All he needs is one signature—Sunday Conklin’s. But when the town of Elaine strikes it big, Seven’s fate is tied up with that of its most stubborn, maddening, and undeniably magnetic farm-owner. As the town’s secrets unravel, and Sunday’s fight becomes his own, Seven is handed a Christmas gift he never expected… one that forces him to question his past, his future, and where home truly is.
**Trigger Warnings:
* While 99% of this book is happy, festive, and feisty, there are references to racial conflict.
* Seven Hardcastle is married. (He is a good man.) There is marital drama.
**This book comes in two editions- a closed-door version (no sex) and a steamy version (graphic intimacy). Both editions will be clearly identified.
Daycare Dad: A Sweet & Wholesome Holiday Romance (Wintertime Holiday Connection Book 2) by J.L. Campbell
With Christmas weeks away, Lizette will need a lifeboat to save her dream if she doesn’t get help in time.
When Lizette Winters’ twin brothers beg her to hire their friend at her daycare, she reluctantly agrees. The only catch is that Shomari Marsh’s life is in disarray. On the plus side, his offer to prepare a proposal she urgently needs to expand her facility is a blessing she didn’t see coming. What Lizette does see, no matter how hard she tries to look away, is the spark of something magical between them.
Reeling from a painful loss and desperate to rebuild after losing everything, Shomari is focused on being the steady, loving father his little girl deserves. But when he has a change of heart and finally believes he might be worthy of a woman as extraordinary as Lizette, a heartbreaking revelation unravels everything.
As holiday lights glow and second chances beckon, can Shomari trust in the love that’s taken him by surprise, or let the shadows of the past keep him from embracing the future they can have together?
Perfect for fans of sweet romance and heartwarming holiday reads, Daycare Dad shows how life changes when we find the courage to move beyond heartache and love again.
Sweetest Taste Of Sin: Thanksgiving Edition by Mona Leah
Carly Jordan boards her flight with one goal, survive thanksgiving with her loud, loving chaotic, nosy family. What she doesn’t expect is to spend her flight angry with the rude, arrogant, and extremely handsome stranger beside her. Krue Daniels is all snap back comments and sex appeal, and the two of them clash from take off to landing.
Carly felt like she couldn’t get away from Krue fast enough. But when the doorbell rings at family dinner and hes standing on the other side, she is back in close proximity. Forced under one roof their banter turns to lustful tension and the chemistry sparks one impulsive moment that changes everything. Carly and Krue find themselves falling into something neither expected.
What began as a rude encounter at 30,000 feet in the air becomes a fast plunge into love on the ground. Before the holidays are done they both realize they may have found the one they can’t be without.
How To Melt A Snowflake : A Grumpy x Sunshine, Small Town, Holiday Romance by Joanna Kimber
Nicholas Saint
Christmas has one purpose: go all in for the holiday my late son adored. This holiday is supposed to be a yearly reminder of how I lost the people I loved the most. Instead, I choose to dress my grief in tinsel to celebrate what was, rather than yield to the painful truth of what life actually is. A Christmas Retreat in this snow globe of a small town is exactly the kind of trip my son would have loved – but meeting Krystal, the only other single person here, makes me want to turn Christmas into something other than a morbid tribute to everything I’ve lost.
Krystal Evergreen
I used to bleed garland, now I want Christmas to burn. My best friend meant well by booking me a stay at a cozy bed and breakfast for the holidays, but being the only single here makes the sting of being alone so much worse…at least until he shows up. A man who seems to run on everything jolly and bright, a man who’s lost it all but still believes. With only twelve days together before we go our separate ways, maybe meeting each other here, of all places, is some kind of Christmas miracle. We can choose to dwell in the past or make the most of the heat of the moment.
When Christmas represents everything they’ve lost, being the only two singles at a couples’ retreat allows them to make the holiday mean something different. How To Melt A Snowflake is a spicy, grumpy x sunshine, small-town, Black holiday romance about reclaiming your identity after losing it all.
Only the Real Prosper by Cyn
Teonny’s life changed the night her abusive husband and four-year-old daughter died in a home invasion gone wrong.
Five years have passed, and she vowed to never love another human being again.
Prosper isn’t trying to hear none of that though. The moment he saw Teonny was the moment he knew she was the one.
For three years, they saw each other at the local gun range, getting familiar with one another. Still, Teonny refuses to let her guards down with him, but when men shoot up the gun range, aiming for Prosper, they take the threat down together and are forced to go into hiding.
The thing about hiding is that love can easily blossom there, and that’s exactly the case for Teonny and Prosper. Her guards slip, and love feels as natural as breathing with him.
But when Teonny’s past surfaces, and she learns that her biggest heartbreak may be tied up in Prosper’s current street beef, everything crumbles.
Teonny’s life is once again thrown into chaos. Now, she has the decision to trust the love she built with Prosper or let it die.
Seven Nights to Love : An Explicit Paranormal Urban Romance Novelette by Shawna C. Jones
One year after losing her fiancé to a senseless shooting, Saniyah James is drowning in survivor’s guilt. She was twenty minutes late. Twenty minutes that cost him his life.
Then, on the anniversary of his death, Montae returns—not as a memory, but as a presence. Solid. Real. Impossible.
For seven nights, he’ll love her back to life. Seven nights to break through her guilt. Seven nights to say goodbye. Seven nights to remember what it feels like to be alive.
But when the sun rises on Christmas morning, he’ll be gone forever. And Saniyah will have to choose: stay stuck in grief, or honor his memory by learning to live again.
A paranormal romance about love, loss, and the permission to heal.
WARNING
This story contains:
- Explicit sexual content throughout (And I DO mean throughout)
- Heavy grief and trauma themes, including survivor’s guilt and panic attacks
- Discussion of gun violence and death
- Emotional intensity and crying (this will break your heart before it heals it)
- Paranormal elements (for seven nights)
- Strong language
Content notes:
- The intimate scenes serve the emotional healing arc (not gratuitous)
- This is a grief recovery story, not a light holiday romance
- Prepare for tears, catharsis, and a bittersweet but hopeful ending
If you’re looking for a cozy Christmas read, this isn’t it. But if you want a deeply emotional story about finding permission to live after devastating loss—with heat, heart, and hope—light a candle, grab tissues, and settle in.
You’ve been warned. Now let him love you back to life.
Layover: an Only One Bed Holiday Novella (The Holiday Shorts) by DL White
Stranded. Tired. Annoyed. Attracted.
That’s the vibe when Taryn Holt meets Lance Mercer, a man who challenges her, irritates her, and somehow sees right through her boardroom armor.
This holiday novella is a layover gone sideways. Two people who should never share a conversation, let alone a bed, suddenly stranded in the same storm, the same city, and the same impossible situation—an upscale room, a searing heat…and only one bed.
Why does a stranger feel like someone they’ve known forever? And why doesn’t either of them want the layover to end?
You’re Invited by Rhayne Coleman
Back home in Flint, Michigan, for their first winter break since heading to the prestigious Westyn University in south Georgia—two semesters early, Sterling, Takayis, and Aaliyah step off the plane and are immediately thrown into a chance meeting with a handsome stranger, an argument with a handsome ride share driver and an angsty one on one session with a handsome tutor.
While at home, these siblings must confront their pasts by fighting through their individual battles.
Takayis with overwhelming anxious thoughts and hurt feelings for someone he once loved.
Aaliyah, acknowledging that her drive for future perfection has made her develop a blind spot that may be affecting her current potential romance.
And Sterling, realizing there’s a thin line between being Ms. Congeniality and being just another mean girl, and that she may not have always walked that line so gracefully.
WITH ONLY TWO WEEKS BEFORE THEIR FLIGHT BACK TO SCHOOL, IS THAT REALLY ENOUGH TIME TO DEAL WITH THEIR PAST DRAMA, SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH FAMILY, WORK A PART-TIME JOB, HANG OUT WITH FRIENDS, AND GET STUDYING DONE FOR THE NEXT SEMESTER?
Crossing the Line for a Bad Boy by K.L. Hall
There’s only one thing Detective Averie Morris wants more than the badge hanging around her neck: Sir Daniels.
Sir Daniels is not just a drug lord. He’s a figure of power and wealth in New York City. His dapper appearance and commanding presence make him a force to be reckoned with.
Averie is acutely aware of the opposing forces at play: the law on one side and her heart on the other. She knows indulging in her feelings could tarnish her career and reputation.
When gunshots at Sir’s club shatter the calm of New Year’s Eve, Averie is thrust into a high-stakes investigation and straight into his arms. The outcome could affect her heart and the quiver between her thighs.
Soon enough, she finds herself in a sensual tug-of-war with the handsome distraction they both know she can’t afford.
Giving into her desires means crossing a line to the point of no return.
But behind closed doors, the risk may be worth the reward.
While We Wait (The While We Series Book 1) by Tatenda Nyanyira
In the fast-paced world of a New York record label, Tess is a sharp, ambitious A&R rep in her finding-me era—single, thriving, and focused on purpose, God, and discovering artists who move her. She escapes the noise of the city by staying in Silverbrook, a small town where everyone knows everyone’s business—and where the quiet gives her space to grow.
Cole, a talented producer and rising artist, also lands in Silverbrook after ending a long-term relationship of his own. Committed to a year of singleness, he’s rebuilding his life, rediscovering who he is, and trusting God’s timing while splitting his days between small-town stillness and New York’s creative energy.
While We Wait is a love story brought together by music. Tess and Cole don’t fall in love—they walk into it, step by intentional step, through God-timed moments and mutual passion for sound, artistry, and truth.
As they grow separately—and slowly, beautifully, toward each other—they learn that the wait isn’t wasted. It’s where you become who you’re meant to be. And when love arrives, it feels less like an accident and more like a divine arrangement.
Their story is proof that sometimes the wait is the most transformative part—and the beginning of a symphony only God could write.
The Holiday Arrangement by Shakirra Renee
Sometimes being alone is nice. Being alone during the holidays? Not so much.
That’s been the reality for London Davis for as long as she could remember; only this year, she is determined for that to change. When an opportunity like no other presents itself in the form of a Carter Holmes, she has her doubts, but she’ll do just about anything to not be the lonely girl this holiday season
Signed, Sealed, & Sleighed: A Knight Empire Christmas Story by Nadia Nicole
Zyla Thompson thought she’d found her forever in Roman Knight…the man who once claimed her for thirty days and never let her go. Now, he’s her everything: lover, protector, and the king of the Knight Empire.
When Roman whisks her away to Evergreen Island, a snow-covered paradise where it’s Christmas all year long, Zyla believes it’s finally time to rest, recharge, and revel in their love. But beneath the glow of twinkling lights and glass-domed villas, danger is already closing in.
Roman’s empire is under attack. Loyalties are shifting. Enemies are closer than ever. And while Zyla dreams of mistletoe and magic, Roman is fighting to keep his world, and the woman he loves, from falling apart.
Love. Loyalty. Power. Betrayal.
When the snow settles on Evergreen Island, only one thing will be certain…
someone isn’t making it home for the new year.
Before The Streetlights Come On by Ashley Antoinette
Ellie, Sloan, Courtney, and Shy have been friends since they were teenage girls, and they have seen each other through many seasons of womanhood.
They are now entering their 40s, and they have experienced everything together. They have gossiped over their first kiss. They have jumped bi$%@$ and been jumped on. They’ve survived college. They’ve been each other’s bridesmaids. They’ve consoled each other through divorces. They’ve experienced childbirth together. They have even done drive-bys when trying to catch cheating boyfriends. The one thing they’ve learned over the years is that good friends will see you through the rain until the sun shines again.
As mothers, wives, and career women, it hasn’t been easy for them to stay connected, but when the holidays roll around it’s the perfect excuse for their foursome to reunite. Friendsmas, is the occasion and Ellie is returning home to celebrate. When the reunion opens old wounds, they are forced to face one another and to also look in the mirror and face themselves.
Before The Streetlights Come On, is a book of true friendship. When the men in their lives switch up. When their children act up. When their jobs are fucked up. When the universe seems like it’s cutting up; Ellie, Sloane, Courtney, and Shy tap into the power of their girl tribe to see them through when they feel like giving up.
New York Times Bestselling Author, Ashley Antoinette crafts a relatable, endearing, and refreshing feel good story that empowers and reflects the very brand she has built with Ash Army.
Sparks Fly by Zakiya N. Jamal
A late bloomer thought a visit to a sex club might jump start her love life, but instead makes an instant connection that turns her whole world upside down, in this adult debut from author Zakiya N. Jamal.
When Stella Renee Johnson’s roommate invites her to a sex club party but bails at the last minute, Stella decides to use the opportunity to finally cash in her V-card. But just when things are heating up between Stella and a sexy stranger, they realize they don’t have protection and Stella, taking it as a sign this wasn’t meant to be, flees.
Frustrated in more ways than one, Stella is shocked to learn that the digital media website where she works is partnering with an AI company. She’s even more shocked when the alluring man from the previous night walks in. Max Williams is the CEO’s brother and the creator of the AI program now threatening her job.
Despite the conflict of interest, Stella and Max can’t resist their magnetic attraction toward each other, and agree to keep their personal lives separate from what’s happening at work. But the more similarities they discover at home—both Black, book smart, and bisexual—the more they butt heads at work. Stella and Max must decide whether to think with their heads and walk away from their budding relationship, or follow their hearts and take a chance on love, no matter the cost.
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