title: Running Out of Time
author: Sexton, M.L.
description: Mehki Panton is the co-CEO of Panton Scaping. A Dillard University graduate with a master's in architecture, he is one of the most sought after bachelors, along with his three brothers, in Houston, Tx. He is still trying to navigate through his trust issues from his dad leaving when he was a kid and heartbreak from a past toxic relationship. When his dad comes back, and his ex trying to weasel her way back in, Mehki doesn't know where to turn, and his anger becomes an eclipse to his logical thinking.Bahati Carver is a women's rights advocate for black women, she runs her own organization, Voices of Hue Women, having graduated from Spelman with a master's in African and African Diaspora studies. She embodies women empowerment. What she doesn't expect is to fall for a bachelor who she knows will go against everything she believes in. Bahati grew up in the foster system with her sister, Kamaria, and her best friend, Carter. Her mother turned to drugs after her grandmother passed. Out of nowhere, her mother shows up nearly almost three decades later, and threatens to dismantle everything Bahati has worked so hard to achieve.Mehki and Bahati have pasts that resurface at the wrong time, stirring up emotions they had long suppressed. But what happens when these emotions come between the magnetic connection they have built? Will it be too late for them to have true love and rid their past hurt?