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Promises Kept


Erosa Knowles - 2013
    Karyn’s job searches lead her down a surprising path – Surrogacy. It provided just the right amount of financial assistance necessary to keep her small family together and out of the clutches of the system.Flynn Cannon had made a promise to his dying wife to continue expanding their family with a surrogate. He’d put it off for over two years and finally found someone willing to meet all his late wife’s requirements. He should be happy, but he wasn’t.Cannon and Karyn clash as each strives to fulfill their promises to someone else. By the time their child arrives, each has their own version of Promises Kept.

Rogue In Love: Thea and Lex


Inger Iversen - 2017
     Lex knows exactly where the good people of Blackwater think he belongs. In prison, right alongside his no-good, murdering father. It’s one reason he’s spent the last two years living rough in the woods outside of town. The other? Thea—granddaughter of the man who rescued him from an irreparably broken home. The exact moment Lex noticed Thea had grown into a woman, he was packed off to the military. Lex gets it. He knows better than anyone he tends to destroy everything he touches. Now, ten years later, a mysterious summons brings Lex back to civilization, though the thought of watching Thea marry someone else ignites a savage instinct he dares not unleash. At first, Thea doesn’t recognize the grizzled, mountain of muscle who breaks into her grandfather’s house in the dead of night. Until his rusty, familiar voice emerges from all that unkempt hair. Lex, the boy who broke her heart when he walked out of her life. For a while, she had everything she thought she wanted: a successful medical career, a doctor fiancé, a comfortable future. With a single, hopeless diagnosis, she dropped everything—including the fiancé—to come home. And into the arms of the boy who has matured into a man who makes her body tremble with desire, even as her brain warns her to guard her heart. Forever is waiting just on the other side of the emotional walls towering between them. Walls that love could leap…if it’s strong enough to shed the weight of their pasts. This book includes the first chapter of Open Wounds and a sample of Incarcerated: Letters to Inmate 92510 The Love Against the Odds books are written as standalone, bwwm/interracial romances. However, your enjoyment may be enhanced if you follow this order: - Incarcerated: Letters from Inmate 92510 Katie & Logan 1 - Inevitable: Love and War Teal & Trent 1 - Indelible: Beneath His Ink Teal & Trent 2 - Rogue in Love: Lex and Thea | standalone novella - Open Wounds: Abel and Hope | standalone novella - Indebted: Til' Death Do Us Part Teal & Trent 3 - Weathered Soul: Eric and Ivory | standalone novella

Under His Kilt


Melissa Blue - 2013
    Her imagination runs wild and then fixates on Ian Baird. He'll be working at the Langston Museum for a short stint as a consulting curator. He's Scottish. He believes sex is fun to be had. He's the perfect choice for a fling. She only has to get him break his rule about sleeping with co-workers. Seducing a man was on her bucket list...Ian is no one's fool and knows exactly what Jocelyn wants—him. If she didn't work for the Langston Museum, he'd be more than happy to oblige any and every fantasy she desired, but she's the curator. She's sweet, inexperienced and well liked by everyone including the museum owner and director. Ian can't risk losing such an important contact for his consulting business. Not even when everything within in him craves a taste of her.When Jocelyn sets her sights on him, there's no way Ian can deny her. They agree their affair will end in thirty days. No emotions, no entanglements, just sex. The closer the end date looms, they start to question if it's possible to walk away. They'll either have to come to terms of what they've become or stick to their original agreement.

Salvage Him


Sydney Aaliyah Michelle - 2017
     Harrison I met my soul mate, but she's married to someone else. Every fiber of my being screams she belongs to me. He saved her, but he doesn't deserve her. If I'm being honest, neither do I. Brooklyn I didn't know I was settling until he showed me what I was missing. He promised to maintain control, but I pushed him and he destroyed us both. Now I know what I need, but am I what he wants. Harrison's anger and Brooklyn's lies push them both toward destruction. Can passion and control SALVAGE their love? Salvage Him is a passionate romance with BDSM elements by Sydney Aaliyah Michelle. If you like a strong alpha male, scorching sex scenes and a connection that makes your heart and body quiver, then you'll love Sydney Aaliyah Michelle's latest stand alone HEA romance. Pick up Salvage Him and read how Harrison and Brooklyn find each other today! Salvage Him contains explicit scenes of a sexual nature and is not suitable for readers under 18 years of age.

Redemption of the Heart


Moni Boyce - 2018
    Her focus is to create a new life for herself and put men and relationships on the back burner so she can rebuild.Alex Chambers hasn’t felt anything for another woman since his wife died a few years ago. His life is his restaurant until the moment he meets his new waitress. Something stirs within him that’s been dormant for a long time.Despite the baggage each of them is carrying, neither of them can fight the attraction they feel for one another, even though they try to resist. As they fall harder and deeper in love a shocking incident from their past that they unknowingly share, threatens to tear their newfound love apart.Once the truth is revealed, will their relationship be able to survive? Or will the revelation shatter the love that’s grown between them?

Love In the Jim Crow South


Kendra Queen - 2017
     Even talking to a white man could get Eva LaLaurie killed. But the richest man in town has his eye on her. He wants to dominate her...claim her...posess her. She’s going to risk it all for love- and he better do the same. But in Klan Country nothing’s ever just black and white...

Office Hours


Katrina Jackson - 2020
    Deja Evans, it sucks. Hard. Every day. Between the class prep, the meetings, grading student work, trying to find time to complete her own research and the meetings, she didn't have a life, she had a digital calendar that decided whether she got to wallow in her feelings at 3pm or 7pm, on Thursday or maybe Sunday. And the worst meeting of them all was the two-and-a-half-hour, once a month Faculty Senate, which was drier than her dating life, duller than her skin in winter and far longer than her attention span. The only thing that made those never-ending Faculty Senate meetings bearable was watching Dr. Alejandro Mendoza, Associate Professor of History, breathe. For years, Deja had harbored a kind of secret crush on the sexiest man on campus never thinking that he would ever feel the same, until one unexpected day, they have a steamy after hours encounter in her office and suddenly her life seems much more exciting.That lasts about half a minute. Over the course of a hectic academic year, Deja tries to survive her classes, help her students, prepare herself for her third-year review, and most important of all, she has to learn how to get out of her own way and just let Alejandro love her.

Mr. Vega


Xyla Turner - 2019
    Vega I didn't want this woman to be my nanny. She had no experience and a failed art career. What did she know about rearing children? She was my late wife's choice and I didn't too much care for the woman and she didn't care for me either. Until all hell broke loose and the nanny was the only one my son could turn to. The only one we could rely on. She kept us going and then she wanted to leave too. Not a damn chance. Faith There could never be anything between me and Mr. Vega. He was the father of the boy in my charge. I was his nanny. Nothing more and nothing less. The lines needed to be clear between him and me, but a nagging feeling told me, he would keep them blurred. --Note: This is a standalone book, but it does have cameos from other series.

Shattered Lives


T.M. Pigatt - 2017
    I love women, all different types. I love the way it feels when I’m pounding into them. I love hearing them scream my name but most of all I love when they go home.” Is how CEO of Maxwell Publishing, Charles Maxwell, thinks. He’s never had a woman turn him down. That’s until he meets Samantha Clarkson. Samantha Clarkson is a woman who's running from her past. She keeps running until she runs right into Charles Maxwell. She does everything she can to stick to the first lesson she learned; men can't be trusted. Unfortunately, Charles isn't your normal man.

A Thankful Love


K. Victoria Chase - 2013
    Pregnant. Alone.Her parents were right about Tyrone, but Maya Richards is determined to prove them wrong about her. She might be divorced and pregnant, but this Thanksgiving will be full of blessings — if she could just get a job. Jake Rivers has had ten years to prove to Maya he’s a man worthy of her love. However, challenging economic times threaten to destroy the company he’s built. Hiring Maya may save his business, but can he convince her to love again?This is a 10,000 word sweet romance.

His Nymph


Brogan Riley - 2019
    I accept a job offer. I'm going to be a housekeeper. Woo-hoo. My dream job. The problem is that my employer Mr. Walsh is a very mysterious man. And I just want my son and me to stay alive. But my past catches up with me. Greig She’s untouchable, but I will touch her. She’s forbidden, but I will make her mine. She’s a million miles away. She's lost, but I will find her. A BWWM Paranormal Romance. HEA. Absolutely no cheating. Standalone. Full length, 57k words. For adult audiences only.

Chancing Love


Jade Royal - 2021
    He has no manners and doesn’t think twice about the weight of his words. Why him? He must have slipped something in my chai tea. Nigel When I woke up this morning, I didn’t plan to meet the woman I wasn’t strong enough to walk away from. But she’s here. In this coffee shop. And she answers my questions with more questions. It should be irritating as hell, not sexy. Or maybe somebody slipped something in my coffee.

The Billionaire's Unwanted Baby


Lacey Legend - 2015
     But she didn't think it would ever get as bad as this. A few months on from their night of passion, Grace has discovered she is pregnant. Having lost her job and on the verge of losing her apartment, the timing could not be worse. So she goes to Lance for help. However, the young playboy barely remembers her name and makes it clear he has no interest in helping her or the baby. Now Grace is all alone with no one to turn to but just when she is on the verge of giving everything up she is about to find the help she needs from the most unexpected of sources... If you love a billionaire romance that is different from the norm and will keep you guessing to the end then this is it, scroll back up and start reading this now! (also FREE for Kindle Unlimited Users) WARNING: Includes HOT sex scenes! 18+

The One


Danielle Allen - 2016
    Besides the fact that it's completely staged, it's a horrible depiction of people -- women especially.Women are pitted against each other to compete for the affection of a man they "fall in love" with after a week or two.I call B.S.It is complete crap.So when my best friend, Koko, was hired as a makeup artist o the set of the most popular reality dating show, The One, I teased her mercilessly.She told me that if I didn't stop teasing her, she would get me back.And she did...Which is how I ended up as a contestant on The One.

Natural Beauty


Leslie DuBois - 2014
    Stressed. Out of control. Those words could describe not only Mahogany’s hair but her love-life. When she realizes that she has spent the last seven years being someone she’s not in order to please her man, she decides it’s time to take control and find out who she really is. Join Mahogany’s journey of self-discovery … through her hair. This novella blends fact and fiction as it relates real-life advice and tips for the newly natural sister.