And what he wants is Olivia Bryant. His best friend’s sister, she was supposed to be off limits but Olivia quickly becomes a fever in his blood he simply can’t shake. He will do whatever it takes to have her with him and underneath him, even if it means kidnapping.The independent woman…Olivia Bryant vows to never marry, instead choosing to focus on her career. But a clandestine encounter with Khalid threatens her resolve. Though her mind says no, her body screams yes! Her only option is to reject the arrogant industrialist who believes a woman’s place is in his bed.When Olivia rejects Khalid’s advances, he takes matters in his own hands and whisks her away to placate his obsession. From the tempestuous passion of their first encounter, across stormy seas, to a beautiful oasis in Africa, Olivia becomes his prisoner and a slave to Khalid’s all-consuming seduction.

    . . Davis Strong has no business lusting after the new director of the Youth Center his aunt has hired. But who can resist a woman named Candy? He wants to make love to her luscious lips, caress her smooth and creamy skin, and savor her mocha-colored body. Only then will he get the dessert he's been waiting for--a taste of her sweet, hot center. . . Sinfully Delicious. . . It isn't fair that one man should consume her thoughts the way Davis Strong does. But no man does it for her like this one. At night, alone in her bed, Candy dreams about her lover, lying beneath his rock hard body, naked and exposed, begging him to touch her, to taste her, to fill her. It's the ultimate sexual fantasy and Candy's ready for the real thing. . . "A scrumptious page turner. . .a must-read author!" --Jaid Black

    But it isn’t enough. The company’s going under, and Johari sees no way out of her current predicament than to sell the company to Schöne Haut, the beauty juggernaut owned by the Vollmer family. Rald Vollmer wants nothing more than to be rid of his wife, Helga. On paper, she looks like the perfect foil for his up-and-coming business persona, but in reality she’s nothing short of psychotic. Sparkling Gem, and the woman who created it, presents him with the perfect chance to break free of his family’s influence. It’s just a business arrangement, he tells himself, carefully calculated to give him what he wants. But the better he gets to know Johari, the less he’s able to stay emotionally aloof, and what began as a calculated plan rapidly turns into something much, much more personal.

    Until it all crumbled. To feel safe and stable again she returns home to lick her wounds. Only to find no one gives a damn about everything she’s accomplished in Chicago. To many of then, she’s still Pastor Sands’ daughter and one who left without a word like a thief in the night. For shame! Needing to drown her sorrows with tequila, Makena does the walk of shame home after a night with Sheriff Carter Rome. A man eight years her junior, a man she babysat for and tutored. A man who should not be attracted to her if he knows what’s good for him! There was another tiny problem, one that popped up a weeks later- a plus line on a pregnancy test. Damn it. How can they possibly have a future? Would he really want to be tied down to her who would now be the town cougar AND a baby? Carter Rome is a man and one who knows exactly what he wants; Makena Sands. He’s determined to make her forget all about her ex and her troubles even if he has to kiss her sorrows out of her but she keeps avoiding him! When she drops the daddy bombshell he is willing to do anything he can to step up. He always wanted to be a father and his only goal to care for them both. But she refuses to believe him, stubborn woman. Who cares about the gossip or the age difference? He knows with every fiber of his being they can make it work. Come hell or high water he’s going to show her that he can be everything she needs. Age difference be damned and to hell with anyone that gets in his way. Even when that chaos of her father’s old congregation rears is ugly head. Carter would climb into hell to make sure she and his baby were safe…. He just might have to.

    I left her in the past and tried hard to forget everything that we shared. I lived my life to the fullest. I had been all around the world. I was a multi-millionaire actor that could have any woman that I wanted. But, I couldn’t forget her. I couldn’t leave her alone like I once promised her. I couldn’t stop thinking about the life that we would have had together if I hadn’t been so stupid. I lost more than I gained when I left her behind. Now, she was about to find out that the heart wants what the heart wants even if the mouth told a lie years ago. AvaHe left me behind. He told me that he wouldn’t ever regret letting me go. That he would never come back saying that he missed me and wanted me. I moved on with my life even though he almost broke me. I left him behind and moved back home. I kept my distance and married someone else. Now that I’m divorced, he wanted to come back to me. He wanted to pick up the pieces as if he didn’t rip my heart to shreds. He didn’t deserve a second chance. He didn’t deserve me. But, we had a daughter together, and I couldn’t make everything about me. So, how do I reconcile the man that he was with the man that he claims to be? And, how do I stop my heart from accelerating every time he touches me?

     Port Royal, South Carolina, was my home. I was born there. I fell in love there. And I nearly died there. I never thought I’d go back. Now, after so many years, I have to return to bury the man who made my life a living hell. Some nights, I used to cry myself to sleep, praying my father would die. Other nights were different. Other nights, there was him. Callan Cross. My first confidante. My first kiss. My first love. My first everything: Callan was the glue that held me together when everything else was falling apart. He was my savior. He was there for me whenever I needed him… Until he wasn’t. Every night, I’ve seen the love of my life in my sleep. I just never thought I’d have to face him again. Callan Twelve years ago, I f*#@ed up big time. Living life through a camera lens is sometimes easier than dealing with it head on. Scratch that. It’s always easier. For over a decade, I’ve been a master of my art, taking photographs all over the world. Yet despite all of the countries I’ve visited, the amazing things I’ve seen, the beautiful women I’ve screwed, my heart has remained in pieces. Coralie’s the only woman I’ve ever loved, will ever love. And I’m determined to show her that we’re meant to be together. Even if it means unearthing the bones of the past in the process. A lifetime and a thousand miles have stood between us. Now, there’s no length of time I won’t wait, no distance I won’t travel, in order to make her mine.

    So how, with one glimpse of the voluptuous sepia beauty sitting alone, all that sanity and control disappeared like waves receding from the beach? From the first moment they touched he knew…he never wanted to let her go. Ever want to ignore the voice of reason and have that fling with the handsome man you met on vacation? Jayde Porter did. From the second her eyes landed on his tanned muscular body. Then she ran into him, literally. An encounter which led to a scorching kiss, dinner and—marriage? Her life was in chaos. Exploding plane, night jumping, and jungle dangers Jayde knew that to survive she would have to trust the man she married. Can he make her understand they were meant to be together or will they be kept apart by circumstances surrounding them? Together if Tyson has a say in it, for the amazing woman he married is…KINCADE’S ROSE

    McAvoy**Eli Davenport thinks he’s found the perfect woman to be his wife. She’s a doctor, like he is. She’s brilliant, like he is. And she’s wealthy, like he is. Guinevere 'Gwen' Poe thinks her fiancé is the perfect man. He’s handsome, successful and he was her first… But when Eli’s bride runs off with Gwen’s fiancée on his wedding day, they are left to pick up the broken pieces of each other...

    I’m well aware of this singular fact of my life. Even as I stitch up patients, correcting their perceived imperfections, I know that there is no cosmetic surgery that will fix what’s broken inside of me. Which is why I don’t let anyone get too close. I learned early on, most people can’t be trusted. The ones who were entrusted with protecting you can do the most harm. So I deal with life the only way I learned how. I fight. On the days when work gets to me, or the memories from my past become too much, I head to the Underground. A place where even a plastic surgeon such as myself, can let my guard down and give in to my base emotions. It works, for the most part. But then in walks Grace. She is the very embodiment of her name. A new nurse on the surgical unit. All bets are off. The sparks that fly between us don’t end once we exit the operating room. For the first time, I’m challenged to give in to the feelings I never believed myself capable, and all that comes with it, or push her away to save her from an ugly past I worked long and hard to forget.

    She prides herself on always being put together with the perfect outfit, hair, and makeup, as image is everything in her business. She has big plans for her future. Imani has zero time for a man! All of her energy is focused on her business and employees who she considers family, until the moment that the arrogant billionaire Theo Warrens graces the doorway to her salon with his presence.Theo Warrens is a billionaire tech mogul with a meddling mother. After turning his back on the family’s established law firm, he decided to take a major chance on a tech invention of his own creation which made him a billionaire. Forever in the limelight, he needs to always be looking his best. However, an unexpected botched hair job has him turning to Imani to save him.Soon after, Theo has a tempting proposal for Imani that has her in two minds.Theo is not a man used to being ignored or not catered to at every turn, so Imani’s indifference to him intrigues him.Will Imani put running her business on hold and accept Theo’s offer? Will sparks fly between them? Or will she turn down the handsome, bossy billionaire?Find out in this brilliant BWWM romance book by Janine Taylor of BWWM Love.

     Like pronto. Like expeditiously. Interning at a law firm where there are nothing but white folks and very few black faces may not be my ticket to go. I don’t want to get trapped somewhere between a Pumpkin Spice Latte convention and the Sunken Place. Yet, when I do cross paths with him, well, it’s game over. Every girl has that line they will not cross. Savior Ellison was that line.

    He’s also one of Stephanie Robson’s best friends and has fit into that box for as long as she’s known him.But some relationships can’t be boxed, can’t be classified, can’t be tamed.Back in their mid-twenties and tired of the competitive hit-or-miss dating scene of San Francisco, Steph and Linden made a pact to marry each other if neither one of them are in a serious relationship by the time they hit thirty.It sounds like fun and games but as the years to thirty tick past and lovers come and go out of their lives, the pact becomes larger than life.Sex is inevitable. Friendships are tested. Hearts are on the line.The pact is about to change everything.

    But how does one persevere when in the clutches of a Monster?

     Miate "Red" Hayden's life couldn't get much worse. For her spouse she was always too fat, too ugly, too everything but she hung in there because she believed in her vows. There had to be a way to make things right with her husband. A way to make him love her or so she thought until she met two of the most important people in her life, checking into a hotel. The last fifteen years of her life came crashing down around her. Red was an utter and complete failure... Constantine Wolf curiously watched a relationship implode in the lobby of his hotel. And the woman at the center of the meltdown was fascinating. He had to intervene... His act of kindness would open doors for Red she hadn't realized were there. Together they would discover things that neither of them had bargained for. With Constantine she was everything she was supposed to be.

    They grew up together and were inseparable from the time they were in diapers until it was time to leave for college. Simon moved to the city, hoping to realize his dream of being a successful doctor, while Jamie stayed in their little no-name town, going to community college and taking care of her sick mother. And though they had promised to keep in touch so nothing would chance between them, their last night together is the last night they see each other for a long time. It's been seven years since then, and neither of them can honestly say that they are completely happy with they way their lives have turned out. But when Simon comes back home for his first visit in seven years, Jamie's feelings for him come back with a vengeance, despite how angry she is at him for essentially cutting her out of his life. She knows that it's not going to go anywhere, not when he's got money and new friends and a fancy life a couple hundred miles away, but for two weeks, she wants to pretend like they have a chance. When a drunken accident results in more than either of them were bargaining for, they will be forced to examine their relationship and see what's there to salvage.