African American Contemporary

Into the Dark Shainezi wasn’t looking for love. She was too busy building her graphic design empire, juggling deadlines, and trying to keep her Brooklyn apartment in one piece. But when the power goes out for the third time in a week, she meets Elijah, her smooth-talking, easy-on-the-eyes neighbor who just so happens to be a pro at fixing breaker boxes. What starts as a quick favor turns into something much more when Elijah’s charm, wit, and undeniable chemistry with Shainezi light up her world in ways she didn’t expect. Between late-night takeout sessions, impromptu photo shoots, and...

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.

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 ...

Charmaine Heaton is a young, beautiful, God-fearing photo journalist with a feisty attitude, but a heart of gold. When she involves her best friend's brother Devin—a victim of a troubled childhood—in her plans to travel on assignment to war-torn Afghanistan, she discovers that he's the love of her life. But, will she be able to convince him that he is worthy to be loved and that their love is worth fighting for.

Xiomara's bad and she knows it. She's not only a cute face; she's working on her degree as well. Left with scars from her past, she's only focused on her money and building her brand. After encountering Jrue in the club, she's offered a job that unknowingly changes things for her, causing her to look at her choices differently.

I’m as successful, as Lady O if you asked my mother. But lately, successful, saved, and satisfied is equaling stale, sarcastic, and stagnate. I’m teaching young, gifted adults to become intellectually creditable, all the while wondering what has intellect gotten me? A nice house, car, and an empty bed that I refuse to allow anyone I know to lay in. I’ve outgrown satisfaction by self-sabotaging acts of sins and if another man ever gets close enough for me to take the bed, it’s going to be after the night he and I wed. So for now, I’m about to ditch my life. New York City and my ...

Business and pleasure are two things that shouldn’t be mixed. Detective Gavyn Garrett doesn’t believe this rule applies to him. He is determined to live life on his terms, even if that means having a thing for his boss. Sharae Chapman is a sergeant with the Ribax Police Department who lives to uphold her squeaky clean and blemish-free image. Sharae never imagined how an instantaneous yes to hiring a new detective would rock her steady foundation. What happens when two people with an oath to uphold the law find themselves teetering the line between conflict of interest and what feels right?

It is two years later, and Meghan finally has the family she has always wanted. She has two beautiful healthy children and a loving husband, so life should be wonderful right? Wrong, Meghan is feeling burden and stressed out. Taking care of two toddlers and running her practice is taking a toll on her. Instead of talking to her husband Chris about how she’s feeling she decides to handle it on her own, and this only leads to disaster. Candace finally has her marriage back on track, and her business Candace Designs is doing well. But that all changes when Jamal is injured during a ...

About STRUGGLE She has always seen me for who I am… Not what I was trying to be. And it frightens me that despite the things I’ve gone through, she still seems to be waiting on me. My struggles caused me to run from her, but her love stayed solid. Even when I turned my back on her and left her holding to fend for herself, she never gave up on me. Most women would never want the challenge of being with a man who’s decided to do the total opposite of what the world feels is right. But she’s convinced… Her God told her that I was her husband and she doesn’t care what I’ve done, ...

Anissa Dent is experiencing heartbreak like none she’s ever felt. Her husband of nearly twenty years has fallen victim to crack cocaine after a devastating loss. All her efforts to help him have failed, and to protect herself and her sons, she divorces him and has him removed from their home. That doesn’t stop him from popping in and out of their lives with promises of getting clean. Anissa desperately wants to move on in her life, but her love for what once was is holding her back. However, attending a family barbeque with her son proves to be the restart she desperately needs.

Some mistakes make you infamous. Some heartbreaks make you hide. But redemption? Redemption changes everything. Allison Johnson knows what it’s like to be the talk of the town—and not in a good way. After a scandal that left her reputation in shambles, she has spent months trying to rebuild her life and prove she’s more than her past mistakes. But despite her best efforts, the whispers still follow her. Redemption feels out of reach… until a life-altering moment at the altar changes everything. Castor Evans wasn’t looking for a fresh start—he just wanted to forget. After a ...

Kelaya Harper knows two things when it comes to Hezekiah Perez. One, she loves him. Two, they can never be together. They are from two different worlds and blending them will be a tragic misstep. Hezekiah knows his heart belongs only to Kelaya and will do anything to prove that they are meant to be. Just when he thinks they are finally locked in, everything implodes and he fears his life will never exist with the love and balance he craves.

Relationship experts say, “Never compare your new relationship to your old relationship because the same love never happens twice...” Feeling fulfilled spending most of his free time underwater, Dale Brock is also a great father and technology guru. After being stuck in a meaningless marriage for years, he divorces and moves to the east coast, and reconnects with an old scuba diving friend, Didi Kimbo. Phenomenal entrepreneur and widow Diane ‘DiDi’ Kimbo has not been in a meaningful relationship since the death of her husband. Being swept up in a tidal wave of passion during a scuba...

Love Simmers in a Retro Cleveland Diner… ...will they save the diner, or will the diner save them? In the heart of Cleveland's East Side Slavic neighborhood, the faded red brick of the Sweet Taste Diner holds more than just the scent of coffee and fried comfort—it cradles a secret romance as irresistible as its blue plate special. Shane, the new employee with a checkered past and enough charm to soften the hardest of hearts, aims to prove that his days of trouble are behind him. Lila, the captivating Afro-Latina waitress with a laugh as bright as the diner's neon sign, juggles orders ...

IThe Road Beasts: Panther – A Gritty, High-Stakes MC Romance 💀 He’s never wanted more than a night. She’s never had the freedom to choose. Now, danger is closing in, and their only chance is each other. 💀 Panther has always been a player—a smooth talker who takes what he wants and walks away before things get complicated. But when he meets Haimari Bhatt, a stunning woman with fire in her eyes and secrets in her heart, something shifts. For the first time, one night won’t be enough. Haimari has spent her life under the control of her powerful family, expected to obey without ...

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.

The first time Lamont Day ever felt love was hen he saw her. Katori Nichols has loved him since before either of them understood what love truly was. With a love so perfect and all consuming, Lamont and Katori never expected things to fall apart, however they learned the harsh lesson that sometimes love is not enough. Five years later, fate provides a second time for them to get it right. Their lives have progressed but their hearts have been in limbo, but buried secrets may threaten to ruin their last chance at getting it right.

Isolated from family and friends because of the one man she thought would be her happily ever after, Scotland is depressed, broke, and a shell of the woman she used to be. But when her man does the unthinkable, it is the last straw, causing Scotland to make a huge gamble in the name of revenge. But when that retaliation follows her home, adding yet another problem to her already hefty plate, Scotland must figure a way out of the hell she now calls life.

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 ...

Sometimes, you just need someone to help you see things in a different light. A shift in the angle.