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Product: Long Time Walk On Water (Vol.1)
Description: A black woman and single mum, starting over. A white man who wants something more. Will they take a chance on each other? Everyting gonna be alright?

London, 1960. Rose is looking for a new start. Thousands of miles away from her Caribbean home, she scrapes together money to send for her children while adjusting to a strange, new world: England.

Jack’s working-class London life is full of disillusionment. He cares little for his council flat, his town, or even his wife. The only thing that gives his life sparkle? His Jamaican friends down at the docks.

When Jack meets Rose at a bus stop, a new and unexpected future unfolds…

If you like rich settings and realistic characters: Long Time Walk on Water. This captivating multicultural historical novel with its splash of something quite unique, its touch of romance, reggae style, will win your heart forever. Told with pride, poise, humour and grace, this modern classic by Joan Barbara Simon, literary terrorist, will have you shouting about if from the rooftops!

‘Rich, complex and beautifully written. It is something unlike anything I've read before and yet it's recognisable and resonant because all of life is in it. An absorbing and affecting read.’ (online reviewer)

‘Beautifully crafted (...) will leave the reader as changed as Simon’s characters. Highly, highly recommended.’ (Dan Holloway)
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Product: Unbreak My Heart: A Reckless Love
Description: Not everyone that you lose .... is a loss

Meet Harlow Stevenson....
Growing up in an abusive household Harlow learned early on that love didn’t love nobody until she crossed paths with the charming Maycen Drew. Maycen, a well known ladies man, immediately fell for Harlow’s girl next door persona and staked his claim as her knight in shining armor early on in their relationship. Like a true king, Maycen swept Harlow off her feet and showed her a love that she never knew existed. Lost in a fairytale love, Harlow makes plans to ride off into the sunset with a secret, that is until a familiar face resurfaces from her past and makes her question was she ever in love to begin with.

Un-break My Heart is a juicy tale between three friends about lies, sex, and love. Does Love conquer all ? Or will deceit , secrets and betrayals cost everyone their happiness.

Note: This is a rerelease of The Young and the Reckless****
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Product: He Who Finds A Wife: Nylah’s Story (Finding Love Series Book 1)
Description: Nylah Jenkins has loved Darius for as long as she can remember. She’s been by his side through thick and thin, and he’s been by hers, but now as they head toward the altar a second time, doubts about his loyalty start to seep in. Those doubts are compounded when what begins as a friendly reunion with old college friends to an intervention that none of them could’ve seen coming.

Meanwhile, it is time for the reunion of five college women who are successful, confident, and most of the time on fire for God. They’re all coming together to celebrate their older friend, 15 years of marriage as she acclaims by renewing her wedding vows.

‘Mama Bear’, a former college R.A, better known as Nylah by her peers, has plans for her friends. She’s determined to find the perfect Godly men for them, but with her meddling, their own desperation to beat their biological clocks, and misguided attempts to get things right, block them from love at every turn.

Will lingering doubts from the past, messy friends, and mistrust ruin Nylah’s chance for her renewing of her vows and having a real happily-ever-after with the man of her dreams? Or will love, faith, and prayer prevail for all? Find out what happens in He Who Finds A Wife!
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Product: Rude Boy: A Yardie Love Story
Description: For the past decade, the Rudeboys, a ruthless band of bank robbers have been terrorizing the city of Jacksonville. Jamaican born brothers, Kenji, Clive, Knox, and Lennox Grimes are relentless in their pursuit of the almighty dollar. The leader of the crew, Kenji Grimes is a natural born charmer. He is sure he can use his charm and good looks to gain him anything his heart desires, but when approached with the job of a life time, Kenji isn’t so sure he can pull it off. This one last bank heist could guarantee his retirement from the world of bank robbing forever. There is only one obstacle that stands in Kenji’s way.
Her name is Ava Buchanan, wealthy billionairess and sole heir to World Bank, a banking dynasty. Ava’s perfect world spins out of control when she meets Kenji Grimes. Ava’s falls hard for the handsome stranger but is unaware of the danger lurking behind his bad boy persona. She will soon find out that this rude boy rebel not only hides a painful past but also a deadly secret. One so deadly it may very well cost the heiress her life.
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Product: Scandalous Acts: The Tianna Fox Story (A Christian African American Romance Series Book 1)
Description: Tianna Fox doesn’t trust men, especially the one she married. After she discovers he’s not the same man she married, their relationship takes a turn. She needs him, but not in the way that he thinks. Now it’s all about getting even and making sure she walks away with everything. But sneaking around and finding evidence is only the beginning of what she does to secure her future and her ego. She uses her feminine wiles to her advantage and it works… until another man proves he can be everything she ever wanted and more. But he’s a Man of God and she only goes to church to hang out. Find out what happens next in Scandalous Acts: The Tianna Fox Story
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Product: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Description: The lives and losses of slaves in the American south are portrayed in Harriet Beecher Stowe's unflinching indictment of slavery.
When a benevolent landowner decides to sell two slaves—Uncle Tom and Eliza—in order to raise funds, the lives of the two slaves follow divergent paths. While Eliza escapes to eventual freedom, Uncle Tom is repeatedly sold until he ends up working on the prosperous Legree plantation, where his very life becomes forfeit to his violent master.
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Product: Love On The Low (secret love series Book 1)
Description: When Mika Foster accepts a new teaching job in her hometown, she can’t help but be excited. Family, old friends, a lifetime of memories awaits her, and that includes the man she couldn’t forget about, no matter how hard she tried.

Royce Harris knows how to take care of himself. That’s what he’s done ever since the day he lost his mother and went to live with her best friend’s family. Growing up, he and Mika had a special relationship, but now, years later, the lines of their friendship are blurred by their growing feelings for each other…but there are too many hurdles to climb if they’re going to make a relationship work.

Are these lifelong friends willing to take a chance on love or is the risk too great?

Find out what happens in part one of Love On The Low!
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Product: The Pawn (The Endgame Trilogy Book 1)
Description: "Wickedly brilliant, dark and addictive!" - Jodi Ellen Malpas, #1 New York Times bestselling author
The price of survival...
Gabriel Miller swept into my life like a storm. He tore down my father with cold retribution, leaving him penniless in a hospital bed. I quit my private all-girl's college to take care of the only family I have left.
There's one way to save our house, one thing I have left of value.
My virginity.
A forbidden auction...
Gabriel appears at every turn. He seems to take pleasure in watching me fall. Other times he's the only kindness in a brutal underworld.
Except he's playing a deeper game than I know. Every move brings us together, every secret rips us apart. And when the final piece is played, only one of us can be left standing.
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THE PAWN is a full-length contemporary novel from New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren about revenge and seduction in the game of love. It's the first book in the captivating ENDGAME trilogy.
"Sinfully sexy and darkly beautiful, The Pawn will play games with your heart and leave you craving more!" - Laura Kaye, New York Times bestselling author
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Product: When Love Hurts (Jaylen and Jessica Book 1)
Description: I've lost my grandmother to a heart attack, the house to foreclosure, and now I'm living in Chicago with a man I swear is cheating on me. I thought he was my soul mate but I was wrong, and now I feel…I just feel….
"I love this book…I couldn't put this book down!"
-honesty (reader/reviewer)
"This book was a good read that I did not want to end! This book had my heart racing!"
-Cecilia (reader/reviewer)
When that man put his hands on me I can't take living with him anymore. I deice to move in with my best friend Jaylen for a while. He's a business owner with bills and problems of his own I need him. I just can't go back to my apartment with that man who i thought loved me. One look at my bruises tells me that love was wrong.
"Omg this book was a pleasant surprise."
-reader/reviewer
Download your sample or buy this book today!
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Product: His Dirty Secret (Side Chick Confessions Book 1)
Description: Growing up on the mean streets of Chicago, life wasn’t easy for Jayla Simmons. She worked hard for everything she attained in life, but always wanted more. Especially when it came to love. Yet everything changes when she runs into the sexy Darius Black who provides her with the finer things in life. Jayla is getting everything she could ever dream of, but everything is not what it seems when she finds out Darius has a dirty secret.

Find out what happens in part one of His Dirty Secret!
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Product: Betrayal (Infidelity Book 1)
Description: One week. No future. No past. No more.

Alexandria Collins has one week to live carefree—no ghosts of her past or pressures of her future haunting her. Reinventing herself as "Charli," she is knocked off her feet by a sexy, mysterious man who brings her pleasure like she never imagined. With her heart at stake, she forgets that decisions made in the dark of night reappear in the bright light of day.

"Some of my tastes are unique. They aren’t for everyone. I understand that.”

Lennox "Nox" Demetri is wealthy, confident, and decisive--he knows what he wants. From the first time he sees Charli at an exclusive resort, he knows he wants her. Although he is usually the one to make the rules, together they agree on one:

One week. No more.

When betrayal comes from those closest to Alexandria, she must decide how far she is willing to go to survive. Choices are not always easy, especially when they involve the heart, body, and soul. After all, Infidelity is a business, and some rules are meant to be broken.

"Is it really cheating if you're doing it to yourself?"

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes a sexy, new dominant hero who knows what he wants, and a strong-willed heroine who has plans of her own. With classic Aleatha Romig twists, turns, deceptions, and devotions, this new epic contemporary romance will have readers swooning one minute and screaming the next. Have you been Aleatha'd?

BETRAYAL is a full-length novel and the first of five in the INFIDELITY series.

This series isn't about cheating.
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Product: Pretty Broken Girl
Description: From USA Today bestselling author Jeana E. Mann comes this unconventional spicy story of star-crossed lovers who love to hate each other and their paths to redemption.

Gorgeous. Ruthless. Filthy rich.

My ex-husband Sam wasn’t always that way. In the beginning, he was just the son of my mom’s boss—strictly off-limits for a trailer park girl like me. I loved him beyond reason from the moment we met. We were way too young to get married, but we did it anyway. Despite his angry, billionaire dad. Despite the lies. Despite the deceptions. That crazy teenaged love drove me to do a terrible thing. I saved Sam from ruin but broke my heart in the process.

Ten years later, my workday starts with a corporate takeover. My new boss? Yep, you guessed it. That gorgeous, ruthless, filthy rich ex-husband is bound and determined to dismantle my company. Piece by piece. Job by job. He’s bent on revenge for my betrayal.

The problem? We can’t keep our hands off each other. He thinks he can break me. I think he’s about to learn a lesson.

This is an angsty, enemies-to-lovers, office romance with all the feels and lots of angst.

SERIES READING ORDER

* Pretty Broken Girl (Sam & Dakota’s story)
* Pretty Filthy Lies (Sam & Dakota’s story)
* Pretty Dirty Secrets (Venetia & Beckett’s story)
* Pretty Wild Thing (Tucker & Fallon’s story)
* Pretty Broken Promises (Sam & Dakota’s story)
* Pretty Broken Dreams (Vanessa & Cameron’s story)
* Pretty Broken Baby (Sam & Dakota’s short story)
* Pretty Broken Hearts (Rhett & Bronte’s story)
* Pretty Broken Bastard (Carter & Jo’s story)
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Product: Church Girls Don't Tell 1: African American Christian Romance (Preacher Preyed)
Description: If you are triggered by topics like the Me Too Movement; Adultery, or similar controversial topics, this book is not for you. If not, read on.

"I know it was stupid. Like they say, hindsight is 20/20. I fell for the seduction and ate the forbidden apple. I was a virgin, but I had an affair and now I'm reaping what I sowed. I'm determined to turn my life around and right the wrongs I have done. Prayerfully, I will be blessed with a second chance at love- a chance for real good love with a real good man."

Destiny Daniels dreams fall apart when her forbidden lover demands she terminate the unwanted pregnancy. Destiny refuses and soon realizes the man she thought loved her is not the God-fearing man she fell for. She's determined to make him pay for hurting her. Just when she thinks her life is a complete disaster, she meets someone who turns out to be everything she always wanted, but how can she fears losing him when he finds out about the secret baby she's carrying and who the father really is.

This is book #1 and is available in a complete 3 Book Set. The approximate word count of this short story is 14,500 words.
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Product: Just Between Us-Inspiring Stories by Women
Description: Just Between US there is a determination to reminisce and reveal all that once crippled our lives. You are invited to share in this short story collection of TM Brown, Tamika Christy, Nicole Dunlap, Selena Haskins, Janice Ross and Adrienne Thompson. These stories are all real, no work of fiction can match the emotional expressions displayed in this heartfelt collection of inspirational stories.
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Product: Every Reasonable Doubt (Vernetta Henderson Series Book 1)
Description: When attorneys Vernetta Henderson and Neddy McClain are tapped to take on the biggest case of their careers, they are less than thrilled about working together. Their strained relationship, however, is the least of their problems. Their socialite client—charged with the brutal murder of her husband—is demanding an immediate dismissal of the case. But a ruthless prosecutor is determined to make sure that doesn't happen. Forced to fight a common enemy, the two women close ranks and, in the process, develop a bond that sees them through the uncertainties of trial, the pain of betrayal and pressures neither could have imagined.
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Product: Love Isn't Always on Time (Stories with Amika and Lauryn)
Description: Love isn’t about how much you say I love you, it’s about how much you prove that it’s true.
A fine blessed man like Zayvion Black can have any woman he wants but he only has eyes for his baby, Jonelle Todd. He tries to give her everything to prove his love from the beautiful home, spoiling her with expensive gifts, to being the perfect husband and father. Going above and beyond to prove his love is never enough for Jonelle. He learns you cannot give a woman the world who is only ready for the city and who is not ready to settle down. She comes up with every reason in the world why she is not ready to be the woman Zayvion wants and needs her to be. Jonelle feels like marriage and motherhood hold her back in life. Living life in the fast lane she would rather push things to the limit than slow down to appreciate how blessed she truly is. She has no problem saying she loves Zayvion, but never shows and proves it. Finally growing tired, Zayvion finds out the girl of his dreams is a beautiful nightmare, he decides to stop looking for love and focus his attention on his what matters most to him before she destroys him. Will Zay find the right love at the wrong time? Or will Jonelle make time to see that she has the type of love that most women dream of before her time runs out? Follow Zayvion and Jonelle to find out that Love Isn't Always on Time
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