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Waiting. As in wey-ting. As in a verb. As in a synonym for anticipating. As in the very thing I didn't realize I was doing for a man 10 years younger than me....

The African American family is in disarray due to an unworkable social contract. Causing confusion in the home and anarchy in the streets. The problems are complex, but the answers are simple. Misguided policies keep the answers from implementation. However, many of the solutions are evolving on their own, but in the worst ways, and will make things worse before policies are forced to change. Change is inevitable; it is the only thing promised in life.

Renata: My sweet personality is one of my best attributes. At least, that's what I thought until my friends staged an intervention on my behalf and demanded I attend racial sensitivity training. What? The suggestion filled me with special, individually wrapped curse words for each of them, until I met Rook.

A sexy twins pregnancy romance by Ellie Etienne of BWWM Club. Bar manager Natasha Jones isn’t looking for love. Especially after the whirlwind romance she had with the bar’s gorgeous owner, Damien Night, five years ago that ended in tragedy! But when Damien comes back from his time abroad, Natasha finds herself unable to keep her hands off him! Damien is thrilled for Natasha to be back in his arms, and he’s ready to take things to the next level. But despite things heating up in the bedroom, Natasha has built a solid wall between him that he can’t penetrate...

Distressed and alone, Kiera is walking down a deserted highway and is almost killed by a speeding car! When she wakes up, she finds herself at the mercy of a handsome stranger! Billionaire cowboy Jason finds the mysterious woman alone, with no ID, and no memory of what happened.... And now he is determined to help the woman discover who she is!

Barely snagging Lady Lillian out of danger, Lady Sarah finds herself embroiled in some clandestine mischief. It causes her to doubt Lord Archer and her own feelings for him. But this fashion loving countess is not able to give up on her dreams and love for him. She enlists the aid of her two best friends to piece together what might really be happening. For she couldn’t bear it if he was a traitor to the crown.

Not all lessons can be learned in a classroom. I went back to school to make something of myself - it was all about me. Until her...My teacher. One look in those sad eyes and every other reason for being in that classroom is erased. She’s lost. That much is obvious. Damn if I didn’t want to be the one to find her, to hell with rules. I wasn’t expecting to fall so hard and fast. Her struggle to discover who she’s meant to be stirs something inside me. When her past threatens to destroy what we have, I’ll do what it takes to keep her safe...and make her mine.

After running from my past for five years, I'm finally ready to face it. I miss my family, my friends, myself. I take a trip to Ghana relax and figure out how to get my life back. It doesn't get off to a great start. But paradise keeps its promise and less than a week in, I'm more relaxed than I've been in years.

When all the flights are canceled and Mavis is stuck at home for the Christmas holidays, she decides getting drunk on wine and contemplating her feelings for her best friend are the way to go. Until she sends a very risque text to said friend...that includes a picture.

Will Rusek had been burned by love. He vowed he would never give his heart away again. He had built a successful business with his younger brother, and life couldn't be better. One-night stands fit his current lifestyle, and he wasn't willing to change it for anyone. Will agreed to a blind date as a favor to his brother. His sister-in-law's friend was in town for the week and needed a date for an event. That night, he discovered some rules were meant to be broken. The more time he spent with her, the more he realized he didn't want to let her go.

After her bakery went up in flames, Maura left her homeland, Beitar, behind for the shores of the Vaporiad Sea. Though the locals warned her of the vicious sirens that made that coastline uninhabitable, she doesn’t take their warnings seriously...until an unfortunate slip sends her tumbling into the brutal, icy waves.

Remi Wilson is a true Army brat. As the the daughter of a General, her life’s plan was set in motion from the minute she took her first breath. The expectations are simple: Be the ideal general’s daughter and marry an Army officer. Not once has she considered deviating. Why would she when following the plan will lead to a blissfully bright further that mirrors that of her parents.

Promise Price mapped out her entire life. She graduated high school at fifteen, graduated college at eighteen, and graduated medical school at twenty-two. She was an overachiever and wanted to be the best surgeon in the state of Texas. The only thing she cared about was her career … Until she met him.

Symere, aka Dinero, has a million ways to give a woman what she needs sexually. Romantic intimacy is the one thing that he is void of. During the day, he's a financial advisor and the CEO of Fugotti Enterprise. At night, he collects bloody debts on behalf of his uncle Timothy Fugotti Sr. Symere never thought that a woman could have him so smitten. Markela literally came crashing into him, making him question his way of doing things.

To the naked eye, Khan looked like your typical hustler, but that was far from the truth. He was living his best immortal life while he waited for his mate… until he laid his eyes on Choice. He knew from their first encounter that she was his. Choice was a sweet and caring young lady living her life like any other normal female her age… that was until the mysterious Khan entered her life and changed what her definition of normal was. Will Choice accept her fate or try to deter it at every turn?

Once they’ve been awakened to love, can Morgan and Leah ever go back to sleep? Leah McAllister is starting a new job in a bland maze of tan cubicles where she hopes to blend in with her surroundings – she’s had enough attention for one lifetime. What she never expects is to find herself working under Morgan, a mesmerizing woman who turned her world upside down when they met one year before. A lot can change in a year, though, and Morgan Park is a different person now.

Saira Wright is a prominent Black romance author who has been signed to the most prestigious publisher of African American works, Brownstone Literature. Her career has been successful for the past five years. However, she’s in a slump, and so are her sales and reviews. The romance she has been known for seems to be zapped out of her stories and her love life. Eager to get Saira back on top of the charts, her publisher has given her an ultimatum—write a chart-topping holiday romance or be dropped from the publishing house. There’s only one problem: Saira strongly opposes penning holiday books.

Tina just needed a job for the summer to pay for her college's inflated tuition, and to get over a messy breakup with her girlfriend. When she got the job at Ashwood Resort, she even volunteered to go up a few days early with the resort's owner, Penny, just so she could get extra pay. But, the more she gets to know Penny, the more she is drawn to her. Tina is half Penny's age, but soon, neither of them can deny the attraction is there.

Rude, uncaring, and sexy all at the same time, Mission is who he is unapologetically. Nothing comes before his money or his business. Now that he has conquered the illegal world, his cousin urges him to cross over to the legit side. Not liking change, Mission resists this new venture until he realizes the connection it has with someone he wants—Tayah Nolan!

In the finale, everyone is battling their own demons. Messiah may have done something that could end her relationship with her daughter and husband. Has she gone too far, or like usual Messiah, did she know what she was doing? Staten is stuck on trying to handle loving Liberty, even after she ended things, be a father to he and Chanel’s daughter, and be there for a pregnant Maliah as well. Can he juggle it all, while trying to be there for his big brother too?