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After my Yaya passed away, I didn't have anyone that cared for me. I mean, not even a month after Yaya was in the ground, he sat me down in the living room and sold me to a thirty-year-old man. I was sixteen, and my big brother, the man who was supposed to protect me, sold me off like cattle on a farm. My entire life has been to please Zayne. I'm his fourth wife and the youngest wife. Nobody has ever protected or cared for me. I was tossed the cards that life handed me and had to make do with them. That is until Cappadonna Delgato and I cross paths—again.

I shouldn't have felt this way about her. She's my brother-in-law's first love. She was forbidden fruit. Ain't shit ever been forbidden for me. I take what I want, and I want her. I shouldn't have these strong of feelings for a woman I just met. I wanted to lay every man who even thought about looking her way… including my brother-in-law. Erin was mine before she even knew it. Our paths were meant to cross, our futures to intertwine.

I knew he had the power to make me feel, but he also had the power to break me. To pull my heart outside of my chest and stomp on it. I knew falling for a man like Capone came with more than I was ready for. He wasn't feared for no reason. Timmy never meant Jaiden any good, and I knew it from the first time I met him. I've never wanted someone dead as much as I wanted him dead. Timmy needed to go, and I didn't care how he went as long as he wasn't breathing. Capone put it on his life that he would always protect me and mine.

My family was taken away from me. I was too young to know what went on, but now that I know, it's time to get it back in blood. Protecting my sister and my niece or nephew is more important than basketball. Making sure the man who was behind trying to end me is ended is more important. With mentors like Capone and Cappadonna behind me, I can't lose. My head is in the game. I'm focused, and I want revenge. I refuse to sit down until someone's blood is on my hands for taking Joie and our child away from me. I refuse to lose, and I'm making sure my family is protected by any means necessary.

Puma Wade learned early on that you can't count on a soul in this world. Everyone who has ever loved her has either abandoned her or let her down. The walls around her heart were there to protect her from getting hurt again, but when she meets a smart-mouthed club owner, things take an unexpected turn.

I'm a protector, and my family is my responsibility. When it comes to my team, I'm the same way. They are family and the reason that me and Capone are able to do us in the streets, knowing they are tucked away safe. As a man, you sometimes fall short, and something—someone—falls through the cracks. I know one thing; I put that on my grandson that I'm going to crack his uncle's skull. He has hurt his own family, tossed them out to the wolves, and has hurt mine. I don't take too kindly to people hurting mine.

I've worn hardships longer than I've worn football pads. Life hasn't given me much to celebrate except for my daughter and my God-given athleticism. Being a single father and the sole caregiver for my grandmother meant sacrifice. Football became my way to provide and keep my promises. I buried my needs beneath my responsibilities until I met her, Mia. She has guarded eyes and a beautiful soul. Mia made me believe there might be more than grind and grief. But life has taught me one thing: every blessing comes with a lesson.

A relationship is the last thing she wants right now. For her, business comes first, and mixing business with pleasure is something she vowed never to do. In his mind, relationships are just not built for men like him. But when fate aligns his paths with hers, all the walls he's had built up around his heart come crashing down. Things between them were only supposed to be professional. But what happens when they realize that keeping things strictly professional just isn't nearly enough?

From the day we met, Fire Carlson and I have been in chaos. His constant jokes and witty remarks drive me crazy, and he knows it. We argue and fight, but there are two things I can't deny: our undeniable attraction and how he excels as a father. One heated interaction changes our lives, and suddenly, Fire needs my help. We have to prove that his boys are safe and loved, or risk Fire losing them forever.

In Trill Land—better known as Da Trill—legacy is everything, and Pressure Mensah was born to carry it. Son of billionaires Kojo and Abeni Mensah, Pressure is a hood royal with gold in his blood and too much pride to chase anything that doesn't worship him first. He smokes the loudest, walks like money, and don't answer to nobody—not even the king who raised him. But behind all the diamonds and discipline is a man still stuck on a woman he lost.

If there is one thing Constance Hawkins is good at, it's working hard. Her dad was in a car accident that paralyzed his legs, and her sister Charley is in her sophomore year of college. With her mother not in the picture, Constance started working to help her family at a young age. Now, at twenty-six years old, she has a good job working at a bank. Until her awful boss, Sandy, decides to let Constance go because of cutbacks.

Judah Jennings is the third of the Jennings Mafia Family. As the youngest of the camp, he is smart, quick-witted, and fearless. When he is given a direct order from the Cartel, he doesn't think twice before disregarding it. Because in his mind, nobody checks a Jennings. His decision has put the family in the middle of a war they didn't see coming. Now he has to make a decision. Does he put the family first or continue being reckless, forever?

Things are never as clear-cut as they seem. One minute, I'm a struggling single mother being fired from my job of three years. Next, I'm wearing a diamond that costs more than my salary and having my back blown out on a private jet as the fiancée of my billionaire boss. At least that's what everyone thinks. Only he and I know the truth. It's all a ruse. Required to marry in order to seal a fifty-million-dollar deal for his company, billionaire bachelor Adonis Holland offered me fifty thousand dollars to be his fake fiancée for one week.

Last Thanksgiving changed everything. Honesti crossed a line with the two people she's always trusted most, then vanished before sunrise. Now she's back in Atlanta for Friendsgiving, and the tension hasn't gone anywhere. Symere and Maleia haven't forgotten. Not her laugh, not that night, and definitely not the way she left. They're not mad. But they're not open-ended, either.

Haelyn Ross is barely keeping it together. With her family shattered and financial struggles mounting, she's hesitant when a promising match on a dating app encourages her to apply for a job at Graves Automobile. By some twist of fate, Haelyn lands the job as assistant to the CEO, Tristan Graves. His cold, brooding demeanor should keep her at a distance, but there's a white-hot spark between them that she can't seem to smother.

I thought walking away from Kendrix would save us both. Instead, it shattered me. After attacking the man who destroyed my mother's life, I disappeared to protect the only family I had left. But even as I tried to rebuild myself from the wreckage, his love lingered like a ghost, pulling me back toward the one man I swore I could never have again. But no matter how far I ran, he saw me everywhere. As our secrets unravel and our scars resurface, we're forced to face the truth: love can't erase trauma, but can it survive it?

Port Lucia is as warm as it is beautiful and gleaming. But the streets are cold, and life underneath Javier's control–colder. With every line of deceit and hit of abuse, Reign dreams of a place where she is free from his hold and the decisions she made that landed her under the lock and key. In the dark corridors of her mind, she mumbles prayers for an escape. When it becomes a reality, she runs and never looks back. The problem? Javier wants his most prized possession back–alive, and will stop at nothing to ensure her return.

Normandee Tribune dedicates her life to saving the lives of children. While she loves her job, it doesn't fill the void of not being able to have the one thing she desires more than anything—a family of her own. Amid her fertility struggles, she's forced to come to terms with the reality that she may have put her heart in the hands of the wrong person. Things begin to shift after she's reunited with the knight in shining armor who once helped her during a devastating loss. Now, Normandee is left with hard decisions only she can make.

My brother's freedom is in jeopardy and in my hands. How could I be so happy in my life and scared at the same time? No matter what, I know what needs to be done, and that's to protect my brothers. The one person I never thought I would see was standing a foot away from me. When Tasha was sent out my life, I never thought I would see her again. I never got to handle her the way that I always wanted to, but now it was time to make sure this bitch joined her son—in the dirt. On my unborn child, I was going to make sure that the family came out on top.

Still reeling from a messy divorce, kindergarten teacher Venus Thibodeaux is on a self-proclaimed healing journey and adamant that she's done with love. She's determined to move on from her toxic past with a fresh start in a new city, but starting over isn't as easy as it sounds. Anthony "Nuney" Nunez is young. He's unpolished, unpredictable, and according to his daughter's kindergarten teacher—a lousy parent. In fact, the two can't see eye to eye on anything except the strange attraction they have for each other every time their paths cross.