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All He Desires


Brenda Jackson - 2012
    More to Love.Bare EssentialsVoluptuous Orlando Judge Dominique Kincaid finds lust at first sight in the form of a handsome morning jogger who fuels her fantasies. But when he steps into her courtroom as a hotshot attorney, she finds it hard to remain the Honorable Judge Kincaid.Tempting FateFull-figured Virginia beauty Justice Manning is talked into a lingerie modeling job...and forgets her inhibitions after meeting the sinfully gorgeous photographer. When the photo shoot turns hot and heavy, the last thing she pictures is that lust might turn to love.The Perfect SeductionCollege professor Megan James embarks on a no-strings-attached with the man who was her first love. Trouble is, the ultra-gorgeous veterinarian has plans for something more permanent with the voluptuous woman who's stolen his heart a second time.Simply WonderfulTo retain custody of her niece, Kendal Fischer is ready to do just about anything, including taking out an ad for a man interested in becoming a "baby's daddy". What she is not prepared for is the drop-dead gorgeous man vying for the job until she discovers he has his own reasons for wanting to wed the curvy, vivacious and voluptuous Kendal.Note - Simply Wonderful is a new, never before published story about the Savoy family.

Purchased for Pleasure


Jamila Jasper - 2020
    Alice needs money.Blaine needs company.It’s a match made in algorithm heaven…Except for their two decade difference in ages.Plus, Alice has never been with a man before… ever.An eccentric, alluring billionaire with a body chiseled by the gods isn’t who she expected to purchase her company.Blaine loves hard.And once the one-night contract ends,He has no intentions of letting go.He’s found the woman he wants forever.And the billionaire always gets what he wants.

Asian Persuasion The Beginning


Kassanna - 2015
    He chose to leave and start anew.Fresh with new beginnings, both meet under unusual circumstances leading to an unexpected attraction...Only someone isn't happy with the budding romance and will do anything to stop it. With obstacles that seem insurmountable, their feelings for each other will be tested. For Anjula, Choi Jin Woo is willing to be her shield but will he be able to withstand the blows that will batter their relationship to keep them together. ***Cliff Hanger***

Leaving Fletch: A Novella


Xyla Turner - 2020
    Cheated twice, and he was sloppy with his escapades, which left me and my acting career vulnerable. I just wanted to escape. Go to a small town and hide. I found a tribe of older ladies, who were way too nosy and nastier than expected. Then I found a man who was way too sexy and gruff for his own good. It didn't matter, though. We were from two different worlds. Fletch: The woman floated into town, then inside my bar, asking for high-end drinks. I gave her a beer. A regular ole beer. That's what we drink. Who did she think she was? A Princess. Come to find out, she was. My princess. I couldn't keep her, though. She was destined for far greater than my small town. The very same one, I vowed never to leave. This is a quick, IR, BWWM and HEA novella. #standalone Other novellas: - 10 Spicy Novellas - Duncan's Pride - Extraction - Rectified - Lady Guardians - Lunchtime Chronicles - March, Strut - Cole - Warren

Resurrected King (Ruthless Bratva Brotherhood Book 2)


Kaye Blue - 2020
    

Tangle of Tinsel


Shyla Colt - 2020
    New job. New life.Everything’s going great for Romy Foster until an unattended toddler and a seven-foot-tall Christmas tree conspire against her. Tangled in tinsel and covered in broken ornaments, she finds her concussed-self riding in an ambulance with the most attractive man she’d ever seen. Alone in the state, she’s forced to accept his help for at least twenty-four hours to wait out the concussion. The attraction between them Is undeniable. However, it’s the reason behind it, she doubts.Caleb Miller noticed the woman the moment she walked into his Nona’s store, Bits and Baubles. Long-legged, and thick, she stands out from the crowd of Christmas shoppers. Her accident forced them together, but it’s her personality that keeps him longing for more time. When Nona gets involved, making her holiday a family affair becomes a priority. The gift of love seems to be on its way …until his ex-girlfriend shows up un expectantly.Can the two work together to undo the tangle of tinsel and find a merry Christmas together?

Lethal Love: Deceit can be Deadly


Perri Forrest - 2020
    But I blame me...Because I'm usually better about who's in my space,knowing that those in relationships, sometimes wear more than a single face.They wanted to tap dance on someone’s heart.They probably should’ve thought long and hard about that part.So now because of what was done…it’s only fair that I have me some fun.I guess now they need to be shown the error of their ways.To the point that they’re asking to see better days.Cue the deep sigh…Now, in the middle of my storm, something new fell in my path.Something beautiful, something amazing... he came with a taste of something I've never had.There’s absolutely no rushing, to the beat of love, present in my view…But once my mission is complete, who knows what my heart will want to do?The only disclaimer I’ll offer is this…“You'll either love me or hate me by the end of this tale, but I operated off of one goal, only ... that was to prevail.”Signed,Nova Skai Levine

Forbidden Fruit


Monica Walters - 2018
    Because of that her parents, namely her father, holds the reigns of her life pretty tight. At twenty-four years old, she’s still treated like a teenager, having to ask permission to even leave the house. Educationally, she’s done everything they’ve required, but they still won’t allow her to live her life. Enjoying her sexual freedom when she can, she stumbles upon Jedrek Harris. He makes her feel things she’s never felt, but she insists that he isn’t a long-term option. Jedrek Harris hasn’t had the world given to him. In fact, he’s working to give his mother the world his dad died trying to give. Going to school and working to get him and his mother out the ghetto has been his main priority - until he sees Vashti Levine. Her aura draws him in, and when he finds out that she isn’t as off limits as he thinks, he makes a leap, trying to convince her that with him is where she should be. When they meet, it’s automatic combustion, lust at first sight, despite their noticeable differences. Obstacles from trying to obtain forbidden fruit causes some turmoil. The two of them play tug of war with their emotions, trying to avoid the inevitable. Will Jedrek be able to convince Vashti that despite their differences, they are destined to be?

Yours to Have: A Novella


B. Love - 2020
     *Please note: This is a 17,000 word novella. If you prefer longer books, please skip this read.*

Super G


Pepper Pace - 2019
    Wesley Salinger. Wesley loved black girls…but he evidently liked a different black girl better because he literally left Sidney at the alter. Now struggling to make ends meet, Sidney gets the opportunity to take the ten-day honeymoon cruise to Europe, completely paid for by her cheating ex. Knowing that this is probably the only opportunity she’ll ever have to cruise in style to Europe, Sidney decides to recreate herself into the wealthy woman that could afford an all inclusive VIP cruise, including her own personal around the clock butler. Giacomo is definitely not living his best life. He was overlooked for the Head Superior Genie position on the cruise ship where he works as a butler, despite the fact that he outshined the man that was awarded the job. To top that off, out of spite he was given the worst assignment as the Superior Genie for a high maintenance American guest that has already made several changes to her reservation--even before boarding the ship! But then he sees the ebony skinned beauty with the full voluptuous figure, and begins to realize that Sidney Wyatt is not like any of the other wealthy, entitled guests that constantly seek his attention. In fact, being in her service might not be a bad thing at all. Super G is an interracial romance with sizzling heat. Pepper Pace packs on the humor as well as the sexy in her latest novella. Warning: This book contains sex and sexual language and is for adult readers only.

Billionaire President Looking for His First Lady


Kendra Sumter - 2020
    Despite your position, calling, or family, your heart knows what you need.Xiomara Bryant is young, beautiful, black, and successful. She’s owned her catering company ‘Overstuffed on More Than Food’ for five years. She’s successful in business, life, family, and friendship. There’s only one area in her life where she could use a little help, her love life. She hasn’t been too successful in that area. Just when she thinks that love isn’t in the cards for her, she’s enthralled by the last man that she would have ever dreamed of being pursued by. Just as she seems to be getting her groove back, a nuisance from her past has come to disrupt her life. She’s faced with, will she let the disruption take place, or will she push past it and claim her happily ever after?Young, single, intellectually blessed, were just a few words used to describe Kingsley Milton. Another more distinguished word that’s used when speaking of him is President of the United States. He has made his family, along with the American people proud with the work he has done since being in office. There’s only one flaw in his armor, he isn’t married. It’s been rumored that he won’t be reelected to a second term without a wife. What’s a President to do, risk not being reelected or find his First Lady?Take a leap into the pages of The Billionaire President Looking for His First Lady and see that it isn’t your typical BWWM novel. It will leave you twisted, wishing, and wanting to be a First Lady in more ways than one.

Unleashing The Storm (Mama's Brood, #2)


Shay Rucker - 2018
     Something isn’t right – hasn’t been since love found its way inside Mama’s Brood – gets more wrong the moment Lucas ‘Big Country’ Beaumont is captivated by the raw sensuality of Stormy Redmond. Never one to be controlled by anything as deceptive as a woman’s nature, Big Country relies on a tried and true system to ensure his dealings with women remain relegated to mutually beneficial transactions that end when he says they end.  Or so it was…before that feeling.  Now, faced with the consequences of one unfortunate decision, and a past that will no longer be ignored, Big Country struggles to contain the truth of his nature lest it destroys everyone he cares about, including Stormy, the one woman capable of showing him why a man would be willing to die for something as foolish as love?

Do Over


Delaney Diamond - 2018
    Years ago, when her cheating husband left, Ella Brooks realized how much she’d changed and wasn’t sure how to get back to the woman she used to be. When she meets Tyrone Evers, the last thing she’s looking for is another relationship, but it turns out that the police detective is just too tempting to resist. He’s devoted to his job. Tyrone meets Ella when he’s investigating a break-in at her home, but ends up paying more attention to the wealthy socialite’s case, and her, than normal. After his wife cheated on him, he’s not looking for romance, he’s not looking for commitment, and he’s definitely not looking for love. But you don’t have to be looking for any of those things for them to find you. And when life gives you a second chance, do you take it or run for cover?

Controversy


Adrianne Byrd - 2006
    But she's no murderer either, even if she did joke with her sisters about killing her ex-husband, Phil, after their nasty divorce. How was she to know that someone really wanted Phil dead—or that she would become the prime suspect? It doesn't help that the investigating detective is so distractingly gorgeous that Michael can hardly think straight.…Michael is sexy, smart and a little bit wild— everything Detective Kyson Dekker loves in a woman. True, there is that tiny problem of her being the prime suspect in a homicide, and the fact that Kyson is torn between seducing her and getting her to confess. But if she's being framed, Michael needs protection—and Kyson is ready to prove he's the man for the job, in every way.…

Haunted By Her Curves


Flora Ferrari - 2020
    My big break in journalism…My only break since college. A real-life, low to no pay internship with a small-town newspaper.And I have my first story.Spending the night at a haunted house?It must be some kind of wind up, a test.I decide to check it out before chucking the job. What have I got to lose? At a crossroads in my life, I feel a change coming.I feel him.I feel drawn to the house on the hill and I don’t even know why. It’s like I’ve led my whole life, waiting to go there. Waiting for him. Ghost or not. Once I feel his eyes on me. I know I’m his… Forever.BLAKEA car crash.Covering for my team’s captain.My baseball career, over.Everything crashes after that, and I find the one refuge I can remember… the house on the hill. Maybe I did die? Maybe my life’s over and I’m left to wander the earth, alone. Like a ghost. I watch through fading, cracked glass. Chasing snooping kids away.Until one day.She’s here.It’s really her. Maybe I died and went to heaven, after all, I just had to wait for my angel at the gates.My Lois.*Haunted by Her Curves is an insta-everything standalone instalove romance with a HEA, no cheating, and no cliffhanger.