It won’t always be a happy one, but I’m afraid that notion just isn't feasible, given my situation. You see, I’m a slave – I have been since the day I was born. Being a slave has had bearing on every aspect of my life, so clearly I am limited in my ability to tell you anything but an often tragic and heartbreaking tale. There have been moments of triumph for me, and I’ll tell you about those too. But, understand that for someone like me, victory usually comes at a cost higher than most people would be willing pay. This story is about my struggle to gain and maintain an identity without even really knowing who I wanted to be.***This is a novella of about 34,000 words. The follow-up novel, Backlash, is coming soon!***Author's Note: This novella, while fictitious, is set in the antebellum South of the United States. Every effort has been made to deliver a tale true to the time. This story contains scenes of violence, non-consensual and dubiously consensual sexual activity, as well as strong language.

    That-s why his betrayal cuts her to the bone and she flees town, wanting to put her ex-boyfriend behind her. She vows to not let another devastatingly handsome man into her heart or life. Her promise is put to the test when she moves next door to the amazingly sexy Hayward Campbell. Hayward Campbell moved to Montana to get away from the life that still seems to haunt him. He isn-t interested in any woman until a pair of shapely mahogany legs gets out of a flashy red sports car. Will Hayward and True be able to get over their tormented pasts and find love with each other in-..Loving True?

    To escape the memories, she moves from her from southern hometown to a small town outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania along with her teenaged sister. Hoping for a new start, she forfeits her plans for law school and opens a small catering business. Her goal is to focus on her business and make sure her sister is taken care of. All that changes when she wins the coveted contract to cater a high society event. There she meets billionaire, playboy Mason Spaulding, a man that makes his own rules when it comes to business and relationships. The fire ignites upon their first meeting. They begin an affair and agree that when it ends they will go their separate ways. But all of that changes when Mason decides he wants more and rewrites the script.

    In town, Leah and Clara, two enterprising women from New York, have plans of their own to grow a restaurant and laundry business. However, both plans go awry when Quiang and Leah meet one fateful day. What starts as a budding attraction soon grows into tumultuous desire despite the cultural and language barriers between them.Initially resistant, Leah succumbs to passion following a tragic loss that leaves her vulnerable and alone. With hopes for a future that now includes Leah, Quiang embarks on a perilous path as he leaves the railroad behind for a more profitable position as a courier for The Tong, henchmen for the dangerous Triad. Quiang soon finds that navigating the secretive life of a courier brings more danger than he has ever faced on the railroad, dangers that not only threaten to tear him and Leah apart, but may cost them their lives as well.Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content and graphic language.

    Here, Norris grapples with falling in love and getting to know the teenage daughter he had never known he had. Original.

    1, Pepper explored the romantic side of IR eroticism. But in this collection, Pepper Pace reflects the steamier side of eroticism. Included is the Literotica award winning Blair and the Emoboy. Pepper pulls you into her tales of black women who find themselves drawn into sexually charged relationships that reveals sides of their personality that they had no idea existed!In Blair and the Emoboy, Pepper explores what happens when the tough as nails, outspoken Blair finally pushes her shy best friend, Daniel, one step too far. In My Special Friend, celibate Kia decides that her raunchy friend Todd might be just what she needs to open her ‘closed’ mind. And in MILF, Noreen is always in control, until her younger, white, protégé flips the script. Bonus story includes Emoboy; the Submissive Dom—what happens after Emoboy and Blair explore submission and domination.Pepper’s new collection explores submission and domination, forced sex and also romance and love between black women and white men. Warning: extreme graphic content. Mature readers only.

    Ned is attracted to Fiona, but thinks she'll always see him as just a big nerd. Fiona is attracted to Ned, but figures a brainiac like him would want an equally intelligent woman by his side. So Fiona cooks up a plan that would get Ned a potential promotion at work and get her a job that she thinks will please Ned. In between the pretend relationship and the real one, sparks fly. When the truth Fiona has been hiding is revealed, will their friendship be strong enough to hold them together? Or will this be the end of the friendship that, according to their friends, should have never lasted this long in the first place?

    Nearly thirty years later, as a segregationist governor in the midst of civil rights turmoil, Ash is forced to confront the inevitable consequences of his love for her. In 1965, Harland Hall, a black Civil Rights leader, moves to the capital city in an effort to quell the racial violence occurring not far from his mother's home. But what mysterious link does this young man have to the Governor’s past?

    After losing her job, boyfriend and home, she's forced to accept a position as a live-in nanny for a rebellious teenager so she can finish college and realize her dream of becoming a teacher. Luck has no place in Ethan Chandler's life as a workaholic CEO who grew up with a gambler mother. He swore off relationships after the only woman he ever loved disappeared with his baby daughter, years ago. When that child is suddenly dumped in his lap--an angry teenager bent on smashing every rule--all hell breaks loose. To complicate matters, the nanny has hijacked his heart.

    However, at hearing how close he'd come to losing his mother - his priorities, his plan shifted. Dr. Quinton Thaddeus Caine had saved his mother's life - for this deed, the young surgeon deserved the best that he could give in compensation. A gift - the best - a Fancy. To his reasoning, what better gift could one man offer another? Especially considering that the new doctor had arrived and settled in their small town off the Port end of Connecticut - with practically nothing. He would need help, in more ways than one - thus - the placing of Suga - his most valuable possession - her skills far exceeded many of those whom were purchased simply to fill ones bed. According to her master, she'd been taught to serve in many more ways... than that one - as her new owner, Quinton Caine would come to find out.

    Or so it seemed from my view. Being alone and facing the big 3-0 only seemed to reinforce the observation, especially when the best relationship I ever had turned out to be major a hoax. The pressure was on, and an evening of downtime in a crowded club sounded perfect. It was the last place I would ever dream of finding Mr. Right. How was I to know I would meet six feet-three inches of pure male sex appeal with eyes that made my panties melt? Only more surprising was the man behind the hot gaze was white, and, boy, was he intent on having lil-old me. [Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, exhibitionism.]

    When the king makes a kiss from Agnes the prize of a tourney, a mysterious knight plows through his opponents to claim it. But it isn’t chance. The Wild Knight has come for her, and her champion is after after the most elusive prize of all: her heart.

    Original.

    Her one-of-a-kind wedding cakes are infused with a loving spell handed down from mother to daughter for over a century. Her sought-after creations are not only delicious, but rumored to be lucky as well: producing long-lasting marriages where the men never stray, the women don't nag, and 99.7 percent never face each other on opposite ends of a court room. But what happens when her spell falls into the hands of the wrong person? Like Ashley Benedict, notorious playboy and wedding planner extraordinaire, who eats a sample meant for his clients? There's only one thing that can happen: he succumbs to the spell's bewitching powers and sets out to charm the pants off of the hardworking sole proprietress of Forever, I Do cakes. While Rosalind frantically searches for an antidote, she surrenders to Ashley's lustful appetites. Will guilt push her into finding a successful cure for her bewitched lover, or will her heart allow herself to be locked into a loving relationship with a man who might not really be in love with her? Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable.

    He and his people have kept to the fringes of the shifter world, his clan a pack of sentinels, known as war wolves. When an attempt to kidnap his son pulls him back into the politics of the wolf packs, hard decisions are made. Fre Niles is a stripper that saved a puppy from an irresponsible owner. Her one kind act has now thrust her into the shadowy world of shifters and thrown her between two rival wolf packs. Protecting his people is paramount but one whiff of Fre’s scent and a taste of her body... To keep her he may have to start a war.