African American Contemporary Romance

*FULL STANDALONE* Jacquelyn loves her job as a book publisher. She began working with her partner Harrison after her first book was a best seller and she lost the passion for writing. The only problem is she just wishes that she could be more than a partner to Harrison, but he's married. Seeing him every day just intensifies her desire to be in his bed. She never wanted what she can't have, but she can tell the feelings are mutual. How can she continue to work with him knowing that she would give anything to make him hers? Harrison can't hide his desire for Jacquelyn. He never had a thing ...

Winning her is going to be an uphill battle. But he's up for the challenge. When Brandon Matthews was leaving Blue Ridge Bay twelve years ago, he didn't mean to ignore his best friend and long-time crush, Destiny Rogers. Brandon is visiting home for the summer. A series of events over the last year have convinced him that he needs to share his feelings with Destiny. But after ignoring her for twelve years, he knows winning her back is going to be an uphill battle. But it is one he's willing to fight. Destiny has built a wonderful life for herself in the town she grew up in working in a ...

Arriving in Washington, DC, to start his own company, with the help of his friends Jada and Wellington, 22-year-old Darius Jones hires a woman from his past, Fancy Taylor, to oversee his West Coast offices, which leads to trouble. Still harboring the wounds of his mother's deception and a childhood without his biological father, caught between an all-consuming pride and the call of his own untrusting heart, Darius has a lot to learn: about life, women, and what it takes to find and nurture real love. And if he's not careful, he might just end up on the bottom of everything.

Chelsea Dunn works as a loan officer in Manhattan, New York, when she met Alexander Daniels, who is charming, wealthy and owns a global investment firm. He sweeps her off her feet, and they marry a year later. Chelsea enjoys living a charmed life until three years into her marriage. She finds herself in a police interrogation room, having to answer for her husband’s crimes. Alexander is on the run and has left Chelsea all alone to deal with the aftermath of his dirty deeds. Chelsea insists she’s innocent and knows nothing about her husband's illegal activity, but the police still ...

Suvi Summers never had luck in the love department. Failed relationship after failed relationship leads her to an unforgettable interview with the matchmaking service. Blaze Snow was a ladies' man. He’d never had any trouble finding a woman, but keeping her was a different story. When his best friend signs up for a matchmaking service, he goes for moral support but ends up in an interview of his own. Neither of them expects to gain much from the service, but when they meet at the alter a few weeks later, they are forced to come to terms with feelings neither of them were prepared to reveal.

Champaign and Zyair have been together for five years, and they're feeling the need to rekindle the erotic spark between them. When they decide to invite a third person into their bedroom, neither one of them realizes how much their lives will change. What starts out as one night of experimentation becomes an obsession for Champaign, who decides she wants to experience that kind of passion again and again.

Most people wouldn't accuse me of being a good person, but most people don't understand me. Hell, I'm not sure I understand myself sometimes. All I know is that my life has been a challenge, and the day-to-day grind of all wears me down. I graduated college with a degree in marketing, and have just been brought on to be an intern at an ad agency. Contrary to the chaos in my home life, things are looking up . . . until I learn that Kendrick Kennedy will also intern for the same agency.

The Company We Keep follows successful record executive Teri Stewart as she scours L.A. for love. Just when she's ready to give up on men altogether, into her life strolls charming DJ Harrison Starr. He's got it going on - obviously - but he's also hiding a dark secret that could destroy their budding romance.

Everyone knows the hardest thing to do is stay in the place where you’ve been hurt the most. And Jade does what so many of us do, run. She left Louisiana with hopes of healing her heart, but she soon realizes pieces of her heart was left in the place she abandoned. Jasper Booth Jr. has never stopped loving Jade, but he’s no longer waiting on her to make up her mind to come home. Hopefully, a letter from an attorney will get her back to Louisiana, where she belongs. Jessica Booth is planning the event of the century right on the field of one of Shreveport’s most phenomenal schools. ...

Covina Hurley has lived a privileged life as the daughter of a retired major league baseball player. With privilege comes shelter, and with shelter comes ignorance to many life experiences. When she makes the choice to open herself up to new experiences, she never thought that love would be one of them. Will her new life experiences be damaging to who she is as a person, or will it grow her in ways that she never thought were possible? Will it do both?

Being more than a Daddy’s girl has always been the goal. Finding herself outside of being the baby proved itself to be the hardest thing. He seemed familiar. Something safe, someone she knew she could let her guard down around. A man that wasn’t just around because of what her last name could offer. The car she drove wasn’t the only thing that moved fast.

Christmas is almost here again and I need to slay my pain, but I’m stuck… I don’t care what anyone says, if crap doesn’t try to rock them out of Christian sometimes, they’re lying. Especially, stuff that hits at the Holidays. That hurt cuts different. It’s been a fight to remember what’s in me, while operating with a heart, still lingering in the space and place where it happened. As quiet as it’s kept, I’m holding on to the one I can’t have, but letting go of the one I need most…God. Then comes Major Hollands mending me like a quilt and using fragments and scraps to ...

His stubbornness had cost him time with the people he loved but also the land which ran through his veins. Now, he was home and though his loved ones were gone the land wasnt and no one was going to take it from him! Not even the lovely woman who made his anger flair, his heart race and his arms want to wrap around her and never let her go.

As an emerging star with her girl group Genesis Rising, lead singer Tina Braddon’s career elevates at every turn. She has the best of friends and her close family she cherishes more than anything. Beautiful, healthy, and a lover at heart, Tina absorbs all the goodness life has to offer—including her healthy competitiveness to win. But the man of her dreams is the one person who remains out of her reach. He’s here today and gone tomorrow, and Tina can’t help but wonder if it’s for the best.

All work and later for play has always been Nikki Wade's motto. Until the enticingly hot yet complicated Bakari Youngblood convinces her otherwise while at a conference in Jamaica. After a tough emotional two years of pain and loneliness and one night of unexpected passion with Bakari, Nikki gives in to his request to be uninhibited. And soon, she rediscovers herself and realizes that love is possible again. But is that love possible with Bakari who seems to be holding something back?

Law and Zuri met in the most unconventional way, but their connection was straight out of a storybook. It was genuine, poetic, and undeniable. However, haters will always ruin it. Learning what truly sent Law her way, Zuri cut off all ties with the man who had finally reminded her of what truly being unconditionally loved felt like.

A wicked, funny, sexy read Hunter Valentine is the best barber in town. He has a sexy secret skill, that along with his wayward friend Lionel is keeping him out of debt. Hunter is single, and focuses on making enough money to get out of this risky business of cutting ladies privates early. As luck would have it, the love of his life, a conservative politician's daughter, is back in town trying to reconcile. Hunter has to navigate between Meghan's advances and his new sexy clientele. He may not get the chance to give up one for the other, as his new service is on the verge of revolutionizing...

Kimani Cannon knows she's in trouble the second she lays eyes on 6'4" of luscious male. The best kind of trouble, too ... mm-mmm! Duan Jeffries turns out to be the perfect man—charming, considerate ... and the best lover she's ever had. Too bad Mr. Delicious is just a one-night stand ... Until Kim needs a date to her mother's (fifth) wedding! Duan's willing to act the part of her fiancé ... as long as it means full benefits. More amazing sex? No problem!

Nikki is tired of being single, childless, and unhappy. At thirty-five, she ready to start a family, and offers her best friend a chance to be her baby daddy. Her plan goes according to plan, however, what she didn’t expect was to catch feelings for him… The Proposal is a steamy BWWM interracial romance. This short story is 4,400 words and is for mature readers only.

I’m conflicted, torn between right, wrong, and...love. My River has the MMA title within his grasp, and while some people view him as a monster, River’s my biggest motivation. My rock. All I have to do is part ties with the devil that got us this far. But while I’m planning our way out, everything that can go wrong does. And I worry that my enemy, who should fear me, is the only one winning. Again.