J. J. Murray

Former professional athlete Sonya Richardson agrees to appear on a reality dating program to show America what a real black woman is like, but she is thrown off her game by former pastor John Bond, the show's "designated white guy."

A Good Man

Tired of being taken advantage of by her boss Corinne, Shari Nance, posing as Corinne, takes on a major account to prove who's the real talent and goes up against a rival agency's top executive, who just so happens to be Corrine's boyfriend.

I'll Be Your Everything

Pepper Pace

Carmella was still a teen when the Motherships first appeared dotting the skies over the Earth. For years the world tried to normalize while the silent Motherships hovered. And then THEY arrived, promising that they meant no harm. But within ten years eighty percent of the world's population would be wiped out.Including everyone that Carmella loved.The 'blobs' took those that survived to another planet called Earth Two. But Carmella was an Earthling and she would kill the hated monsters that had destroyed her world before she would allow them to take her.Carmella settled into a lonely existence on the now desolate earth—all alone except for her wolf. And then she sees it hiding, watching her—maybe to capture her and remove her from the only thing that she can still call her own--her world.But Bilal is not like the other Centaurians. He is fully aware that he will never be like the humans that he's grown up with. Earth is the only home he knows and he feels that he is just as much an Earthling as any human. Shunned by his own kind, Bilal travels the Earth trying to capture an essence of the life that he could never be a part of and a world that would never accept him.When he sees the black woman living all alone his curiosity gets the best of him. He can not stop himself from watching her, and secretly growing more attached to the human. Bilal's quest to become human brings him to a decision that will forever change the course of human-kind. In an attempt to ease the woman's loneliness--or perhaps a need to recreate himself, Bilal impregnates the woman with his Alien DNA.

Adaptation

Candace Harvey, 45, is the "queen of Morton's Pond" in rural Lunenburg County, Virginia, but she is a queen without a king.Candace leads a life of peace, solitude, and serenity after retiring early from a lucrative career in investment banking. She fishes, reads, bakes, tends her garden, visits with her vast extended family, and vows one day to own Barton House, the vacant mansion her "Double Great Grand" built before the Civil War on the other side of the pond. But when New Yorker Robert Macarthur, 41, "The Big Mac of Fast Food Advertising," purchases Barton House, Candace's life goes south in a hurry. And yet there's something familiar and natural about the tall, bearded, pony-tailed, blue-eyed man that moves Candace's heart in unexpected and unintended ways.With faithful descriptions of country life, an authentic cast of down-home characters, and genuine homespun humor, LUCKY proves that "sometimes love comes home."

Lucky

Original Love

I'm Your Girl

At Smith's Sweet Treats and Coffee, you'll find Brooklyn's best house blend and the freshest homemade pastries. It's more than a business to owner Angela Smith. It's her home and her refuge--one she stands to lose thanks to her gouging landlord. Then a new regular offers to cover her rent increase if Angela lets him meet his clients there. If Matthew McConnell weren't such a persuasive lawyer--and so sweet, funny, and sexy--she wouldn't dream of letting him in. Since he left a high-paying, soul-sucking legal firm to go solo, Matthew has been striking out, professionally and personally. The best part of his love life is regaling Angela with date-from-hell stories over steaming, fragrant coffee. Behind her captivating smile is a smart, sensual woman he'd love to get close to. And when a secret from her past is suddenly exposed, he gets a chance to prove he's the man she needs, in every way that matters.--Publisher's description.

Until I saw your smile

Hope Warren doesn't do happily-ever after. Or optimism in general. After a breakup that shredded her self-esteem, and earning a so-far-useless art degree, the only thing she's (barely) living for is a dream home way out of reach. So when outgoing Irishman Dylan Healy keeps getting in her face, she's sure there's a catch. He's challenging her idle creativity. He's as kind as he is charismatic. And he's sparking a hunger Hope didn't know she had. Suddenly she's willing to try everything and anything, especially Dylan himself. Dylan has enough on his plate between launching his online greeting card company and starting an art-themed daycare center. But he can't resist teasing Hope out of her cynical shell, turning her ideas into crazy-profitable success or wanting more of the vibrant, sensual woman she truly is. Now he's willing to put everything on the line to convince her that what's between them is not only real, but worth a lifetime of dreams.-- Page [4] of cover.

You give good love

Former boxing champion Dante "Blood and Guts" Lattanza is being featured in Personality magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive" issue, and reporter Christiana Artis has the scoop.Since he lost his last fight ten years ago, Dante has led a reclusive life and he never gives interviews. But he's making a comeback, ready to prove to the world that he can still win a championship. He gives Christiana an ultimatum: if she can perform five tasks, she can ask him five questions.

The real thing

Should a man ever give up on love? Interracial romance novelist Arthur Henry is a hot romantic mess. Raised during the turbulent 1960's and 1970's, Arthur heroically tilts with the "windmills of romance" in search of the woman of color in his most haunting dream. Guided by his longtime editor and friend Melanie Clark, Arthur discovers why he attracts so many women who drop him like a bad habit. A tender yet often hilarious mixture of fiction and actual events, KICKED TO THE CURB chronicles Arthur's many loves and losses and proves that it is never wrong to believe in love-even if you never find it.

A Novel of Epic Romantic Dysfunction

Kicked to the Curb

Let's Stay Together

In her search for Mr. Right, Erlana is torn between three different men--Roger, a white soul brother; Karl, a tattooed entrepreneur; and Juan, a passionate lover--and soon finds herself forced to make a tough choice when her juggling act gets too hot to handle. Original.

Can't Get Enough of Your Love

Discover love for all seasons in three novellas and a one-act play ... THEN CAME YOUSee love bud and bloom between Wanda Fuller and Frank Thornton, who lives with his hoot of a mother Barbara Jean in a house that could be a home again.SOMEBODY TO LOVEFeel the heat of retired Marine James Kelly as he pursues Brooklynite Chelsea Evans, Chicagoan Amaya Rucks, and Los Angeleno Paris Akande simultaneously in his quest for one true love.COLOR MY WORLDExperience the fierce passion of Alfonso Romano and Rose Lewis as they attempt to harvest love on a warm autumn day.LOVE SONGCelebrate the romance of Wood Manley and Jessie Johnson, who hold fast to love and family despite nearly insurmountable odds.

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