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***Re-Release*** ***Standalone*** I want you all to myself I swear… Keldric “Ice” Hemmings wasn’t looking for love. In the right places, the wrong places, at all. Even with his mother breathing down his neck begging for grandbabies, he wasn’t in a rush to settle down. And, until he found a woman like his mother, he was just having fun with the thots, and focused on getting money. That is, until he meets Blaze, a thick, brainy chick, who has her head on straight, and has his mom’s seal of approval. Blaze Cooper was green to the real world. A nerd who’d always kept her nose in ...

After being mistreated and stalked by her crazy ex, Sheyna, Cienna threw herself into her work. Her focus was making Queen of Hearts Matchmaking Service the most popular LGBTQ Dating service and take it worldwide. She never expected to stumble upon love while finding it for others. But, just when she does, her ex causes problems that could make her lose her company, her chance at forever, possibly even her life. Re-release Sheyna thought that she could win Cienna back, but all she's done is made her life hell. As the saying goes, "if you love something let it go…" But Sheyna just ...

Cienna Brooks was a hopeless romantic. Unlucky in her own love life, she had turned her love of love into a successful business, Queen of Hearts Matchmaking Service, Atlanta's premier LGBTQ dating company. She'd put her heart and soul into it, ever since ending things with her fiancée Sheyna, who had almost cost her everything, including her freedom. Cienna had sworn off love until... it, or she, came walking into her office in search of a Queen. Sheyna Sampson had been with Cienna since college, when she was a nerdy freshman afraid to come out for fear of what others might think. She'd ...

*** Full Standalone*** ***Re-release*** I put my feelings on safety. So I don't go shootin' where your heart be… Sa’Mia “Mia” King was the princess of her father’s empire. She ain’t have to do nothin’ but chill and spend her daddy’s money. She was the apple of his eye, and all he wanted was for her to get an education and stay as far away from the dope game as possible. But you can’t be raised by a kingpin and have a sweet tooth for the streets. She watched her daddy’s every move and even his back. But when she found herself meetin’ the man she was gonna marry, she ...

Imani Jones believed a man was meant to be nurtured into his true self. She often made the common mistake many women made of taking some dirt, adding blood, sweat and tears to turn it to clay, molding it, fashioning it, polishing it up and putting it in the window for display. Then, they went out and found a more refined piece of pottery to match the beauty she had bestowed in them. It was a Catch-22 and she had come to the conclusion that she was meant to be alone… A woman of affairs. Affairs that left a new scent lingering on her skin each night. Until Vincent Garvey entered the picture...

***Re-Release*** If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Charlotte “Char” Cooper is battling with the reality that she may have gotten in over her head getting involved with J-Rock, but she can’t fight the bond that they share. Finding out that their connection runs deeper than she initially knew, she wants to stand by his side and show that she is the woman he needs. But gunplay, deceit, stubbornness, and split loyalty force her hand in making a decision that may end their love affair before it’s even begun. Joseph “J-Rock” Henry has been fighting most of his ...

Shatika “Empress” Tibideaux was living a Bawss’ life. Trained by her big brother, Birmingham, AL’s notorious Deondre “Show” Burns, she and her husband, Jayontae “Tae” Tibideaux, had built and empire that would set their great-great-grandkids straight. But her world starts to fall apart when the Feds kick in her door and she takes the charge for her man, like a true ridah would. She soon finds that loyalty doesn’t go both ways, when Tae leaves her to do her bid on her own. When Empress finally tastes freedom again, she discovers that Tae’s betrayal goes way deeper than ...

You can’t spell challenge without change. Joseph “J-Rock” Henry is torn between his life’s focus, the most important trial of his career, and the woman who has proven to be his soulmate. But loyalty goes a long way with him, and he feels like she has shown, beyond the shadow of a doubt, where her loyalty is. Still, he can’t shake the feelings he has for her; to the point where it costs him his focus. With too much going on to deal with feelings, and too much at stake, he has to leave Char to fend for herself and focus on those he knows are on the right side. Charlotte “Char” ...

Back in the days when things were cool... Joseph “Joe Doe” Henry was a young man on the right path with big dreams. He was raised to always get his own, and that hard work always paid off. But when he meets Ramona, a girl that he wants to give the world, he knows that his little side hustle won’t be enough to afford her the life he feels she deserves. With his friends Beast, Ratchet, and Twin sharing his mentality, one fateful night set them up for a successful life. But with success comes envy and drama. Joe Doe soon finds out who really has his back, and who can’t be trusted. ...

***Re-Release*** They say never mix business and pleasure… Charlotte “Char” Cooper was in love. She had crossed the line, dealing with a coworker, and to her embarrassment, his indiscretions came front and center at the annual company Christmas party, almost ruining both of their careers. Choosing to fight fire with fire, she finds herself catching the attention of the one man who can give her the world or snatch the rug from up under her… and it seems like he plans to do both. Joseph “J-Rock” Henry has made a name for himself in the legal world as one of the best attorneys in ...

Bad habits feel better than the pains of love and commitment to Imani. Maybe she’s just not the relationship type.Imani Jones bit off more than she could chew. After meeting Vincent, she found herself caught up in her feelings, something that she never let happen. What’s worse, the commitment-phobe in Imani led her to run for the hills when their one-night stand produced a pregnancy. After finding herself alone, again, Imani delves back into the bad habits that got her into all kinds of trouble in the first place. These habits could possible cause her to lose her daughter, Zion. Vincent...

Lafyette Wallace is the true definition of a romantic. She dreamed of the day that her Prince Charming would come sweep her off her feet. And one day, he does. The man that she’d dreamed about all her life walks into her life, and a whirlwind romance turns into a proposal. Floating on a cloud, she doesn’t realize that everything that glitters isn’t gold. And the silver lining of the cloud is a river of tears. Jévon McCoy is a man with money and power. That means that he can have any woman that he wants. And he does. All of them. But playing the field has gotten old, and he is ready ...

What happens when you mix lesbians, love, and basketball? All ballers ain't lesbian, and all lesbians can't play ball. But Jordin Martinez was the best of both worlds. Jordin “Hops” Martinez was a lover of women, ball, and family. Not coming from the best life, she knew the only way to get out was basketball, and it was her first love. With her brother, Joose and his best friend Sauce, they worked hard to make sure they got out of Alabama, and the whack lives they’d lived. But the lil’ hustle they had on the side may end up ruining their lives… and their chance at a future. She ...

Keisha “Bussa” Taylor is happy as hell to be graduating from Miles College. Coming from Tulane Court in Montgomery, she’d moved to Birmingham when her high school sweetheart and then dope boy, Ra’el “Magnum” King, had broken her heart. She found herself stripping to pay her way through school and, on her last night her past comes looking for her. When tragedy strikes at the strip club, Bussa finds herself back in Montgomery looking for work. Taking a chance, she gets accepted into the Police Academy, and may end up going after the one man who once had her heart. Ra’el “...

***Re-release*** ***Standalone*** There’s magic in the melanin… and ain't nothing flyer than a black girl claiming her magic. Do you know the power of the three? Qadira, Phoenix, and Wilhemenia, the Tri-Deity, are heirs to the Throne of All. Three SiStars ruling was bound to be frowned on. And the heat was too much for the girls to bear. Qadira, the Stripping Succubus Seductress, was focused on her cake, causing chaos for centuries, but may have found the man to tame her wild, irresponsible ways in Napoleon King. Napoleon, a bounty hunter sent on a mission to eliminate the threat that ...

Winning pitch by "America's Next Great Author" Proof of Concept Joi Miner now a full-length novel! If walls could talk...whew chile the stories they'd tell... Manda Felix is a nurse who loves her job. But the recent loss of a patient took its toll on her. At her husband’s urging, she begins therapy to try to get herself together. She’s willing to do anything to keep her marriage and regain the love that she had for her job. But, it may be too late. Dr. Reginald Felix, M.D. is a man full of his own power, and because of it, he demands perfection in every aspect of his life. When his wife...

There’s no place in politics for love… and no place for love in war… Kai, the Water Prince, found himself having to give up his hopes of choosing the woman that his heart desired and marrying for the sake of peace. As the day drew near when he would be forced to choose a queen to rule the entire Realm by his side, the tension weighed heavily on him. He had three choices, all queens and with amazing potential in their own right, but that didn’t put Kai’s mind at ease that his right to his heart’s desires were being compromised for the greater good. Shanira, the Fire Princess, was...

Cienna Brooks risked her life for her clients. after being kidnapped and almost killed, she got away with their secret identities safely tucked away in the Masquerade Files. In Masquerade, The Queen if Hearts Series, meet 8 men and women who were matched up by the best in the business, but whose business has to be kept on the low. Find out what and why these heavy hitters have to hide, get a peek inside of their lives and the drama that they deal with being together, and in love. Some found their happily ever after. Others, may not be so lucky. Even Cienna and Marcus find themselves caught ...

Sing me a song of love… Naeco “Nay” Starrfish is the ruler of the Lower Crest of Whispering Waves. He is proud of his heritage and can’t wait to step up and fill the huge shoes of his father. But when he finds out that everything, and everyone, isn’t who and what they seem to be, he may lose himself in the process. Typhoon Hydra is the heir to the Upper Crests of Whispering Waves. He has big ideas for change in his kingdom and wants to be completely different from his father. He has never known love and hopes that he will find it, so that he didn’t suffer the same fate as his ...

**Re-Release** The thirst is real… Sharing is caring, so Qadira didn’t understand why her sister Phoenix had such a problem when she wanted to share her man. He was everything. Handsome, with charisma, and savage. The ideal being to rule the Kingdom of Ọlọrun by her side. She was willing to do anything to get his attention, and that could cause problems within her family, and the Kingdom. Napoleon loved Qadira from the first moment that he laid eyes on her, and felt the need to protect her. He didn’t see her as the vicious, spoiled, selfish Goddess-in-Training (GIT) that her ...