previously published in 2019. no new content. 9,000 word novelette.

synopsis:

Because sometimes, love isn't enough. And for Serenity and Jamere, that couldn't be truer. Forty-eight hours before their wedding day, they are faced with a horrific secret. One that stands to destroy their union before it fully begins. 

published in 2019. No new content.

Most little girls dream of growing up and getting married, having children, and having their dream career, but Rosalyn Kennedy was never a little girl – and all she knew was money. With a mother who glorified finances over peace, Rosalyn runs into adulthood headfirst, believing her pockets were more important than her heart.

Rosalyn is a paid escort who works under the name Paradise, and she never lets her feelings get in the way of a dime, until she meets Ishmael SwaeLee, an unlikely love interest who couldn’t care less about what she has for sell and cares more about what her heart has to offer. Ishmael is the perfect mix of gangster and gentleman, who after suffering a loss of his own, finds comfort in Rosalyn’s personality and the time he spends with her. If he could only get her to commit, she’d be the perfect woman for him, but Rosalyn has never been in a relationship, and she doesn’t know if now is the time to start.

Going in eyes open, or so Ishmael believes, he accepts Rosalyn’s past of selling herself to the highest bidder–if only that was her only indiscretion. New levels of happiness come with old levels of misery when the secret Rosalyn has been holding surfaces in physical form. Money can’t buy everything, including silence, and Rosalyn’s past is screaming louder than ever before. Rosalyn’s life as she knows it will be at stake if she can’t keep what she buried underground long enough to be the one to tell Ishmael first.

Change is inevitable, but how much can one person really change?

He was hers to have, never to keep.

previously published in 2020.

rom-com, childhood enemies to lovers, small town meets big city

When Maddox’s grandmother dies and leaves him with her half of the only black owned movie theater in Legacy Lakes, the last thing he wants to do is leave his highly lucrative job and beautifully well-kept woman behind... especially to deal with Daliah — the other owner of the theater and his childhood nemesis. Unlike Maddox, Daliah wants to keep the theater open and improve it to bring in a younger crowd. While they may not agree on what to do with the business left to them, they can agree on one thing — neither of them wants anything to do with love. As always, fate begins to work in their unwilling favor. While Daliah works to create reel love within Maddox... he begins to create real love within her. Will they accept both of their grandmothers meddling from their graves and surrender to fate... or will this be one romance that ends without a happily ever after?

colton has something to say… even from the grave…

For Bella Johnson and Mason Careem, the forbidden is too good to resist. Their fathers are enemies, promising war for the smallest betrayal. Imagine how the elders feel when they learn their adult children have fallen in love.

Behind every great gangster, there’s a woman with the power to make him… or break him.

For Isla, life is safest and most fulfilling when she’s in control. When she meets and falls for Laken, her heart and life spiral out of control. After a year of dating, Isla decides to give Laken an ultimatum—commit and give her the babies and future she wants or lose her altogether. In that moment, she realizes having to give the man who claims to love her that choice should leave her with no choice but to leave. Isla does, and she immediately meets and falls for a man who wants the same things she wants. The problem? Her new lover is off limits. Soon, Isla finds herself caught between two men—one of which has everything she wants while the other has everything she needs. Will Laken be the one to give Isla her happily ever after, or learn one man’s trash is truly another man’s treasure?

The holiday season hadn’t been merry for quite some time. Sure, Holly went above and beyond to make sure her daughter had a great Christmas, but things hadn’t been the same ever since she lost her first love on Christmas Eve. No matter how much she tried to heal and move on, this time of year always reminded her of how her life changed drastically a little over fifteen years ago.

She lost her love.

Her parents.

Her childhood.

But she gained Ailey, and being her mother made every one of those losses bearable.

Femi novella. Previously published in 2022.

Previously published in 2016. Small addition to the epilogue.

"When a woman is in tune with her feminine energy, sex to her is an act of trust. She’s giving herself to a man because she sees a future with him. She’s giving him pieces of her that should be reserved for her husband. The only man really guaranteed to give her all that she wants and needs. And I just ain’t the type of nigga to take things that don’t belong to me.” – Hunter Hendrix

Onyx Stanford left her family and the church to live life for herself. That life led to sugar daddies, stripping, and a reputation in the church as a prostitute. 

After years of sneaking into the church to feel closer to her family and God, she runs into Hunter Hendrix – a man of God who has a twisted street past of his own. 

What happens when Hunter sets his eyes on Onyx to claim? 

Previously published in 2017. No new edits or content.

Previously published in 2017. No new edits. No new content.

“My cousin was one of the baddest living. She could stand in front of a hundred men, look sweet as pie, and shoot her gun before any of them had a chance to pull theirs.” – Katara James

Meya James, the only daughter of drug lord Cedrick James, was more than just a pretty face. She was raised by her father to be a Queen. A Queen of the streets. Growing up without her mother caused Meya to be less in tune with the feminine energy within her. She didn’t value love. Relationships. Compassion.

Because of this, she lives her life as a maneater. Feeding off of men and draining them of their energy until she has no more of a use for them. For a while, she was able to get away with this, until her father was sent to prison to serve a life sentence. This caused her to take a more serious role in his illegal empire and grow closer to his second in command – Salem Myers.

Meya and Salem met ten years earlier when Salem decided that he was brave and lethal enough to rob the biggest drug dealer in Memphis – Cedrick James. Cedrick found out, beat some sense into him, and took Salem under his right wing. Keeping Meya’s place secure under his left. Over the years Meya and Salem grew to love, want, and respect each other… but Salem’s loyalty towards Cedrick kept him from taking things with Meya too far. 

After years of fighting how they feel for each other, an enemy enters their camp and puts their love, loyalty, and lives on the line. Betrayal is afoot… and Meya and Salem can’t decide who to blame and who to trust.

Will their love fizzle out before it truly flourishes? Or will they retain their rightful places as King and Queen of the Memphis drug scene and add love to the list of things they’ve conquered? Read Meya and Salem’s story to find out!