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Having her own successful baking business literally fell into Harper Richardson’s lap. She’s strong, smart, independent, and well-rounded. Her life has already been figured out, and she is living it to the best of her abilities, along with her year-long boyfriend, Zaire.

Things seem to be going well until Harper is given some news that stuns her, leaving her angry with herself for being so naïve. Zaire isn’t the man she thought he was. Still reeling from that news, she decides to go and have a great time at the Houston Livestock Show. Her interest was only in the concerts happening, but a certain bull-rider steals her attention. Doing her best to resist him only makes her want him more.

Legend Semien, bull-rider extraordinaire and a legend in the making, has made his passion a professional career. He loves the risk and suspense of it all. Being in the limelight of the rodeo circuit, he’s cocky and expects to be able to get whatever he wants. That expectation applies to women too. His conquests always approached him, and he was living the life he thought was meant for him to live. The moment he sees Harper, he knows that he wants her. There’s something different about her though. She doesn’t approach him. Destined to make her his, he steps out of his comfort zone in a quest to get what he wants.

While Harper and Legend are like night and day, they are attracted to each other like magnets. Despite the baggage and complications of their past lives, they attempt to get to know one another. Will they be able to leave their old lives behind in pursuit of a life together?

8 Seconds to Love

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Shonda
It was supposed to be a simple favor for a friend, and it turned my life upside down. No good deed goes unpunished, as the saying goes. It was one little favor for my bestie, step in to play the fake girlfriend for a guy willing to pay for the privilege.

Make some cash. Move on.

It was supposed to be simple. Only I didn’t count on Ryan being gorgeous, or charming, or a good dancer, or an excellent kisser.

It was one fake date for a fake one day relationship.
But the consequences of that date would last forever.

Ryan
I just wanted to avoid looks of pity from my non-single friends and colleagues. It was one date—one fake date—for a friend’s wedding. Nothing more.

But Shonda was just my type. Curvy, brown and nerdy.
She knocked me for a loop and that one date turned into an entire night. And then she was gone. Poof. Out of my life.
Until fate, and my boss Michael, stepped in and changed everything.

Christmas in San Diego was meant to be a vacation, a chance to recharge my batteries.
Instead it changed my whole life and helped me find my heart in the form of a beautiful little girl with green eyes like mine.

And her mother, curvy, brown & nerdy. Just how I remembered her. 

Was it possible to have a second chance with a woman I’d only known for a day?

I didn’t know but I was hoping for a Christmas miracle.

A Baby for Christmas

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USA TODAY Bestselling Author Beverly Jenkins presents a collection of five sizzling Kimani classics.

You Sang to Me
Sassy streetwise crooner Regina Carson is still dreaming of her big break. And when Jamal Watts hears the stunning songbird, he’s ready to sign her to his label. The love-burned producer isn’t prepared for the passion Regina unleashes in him. Suddenly they’re both hitting all the right notes. But Regina isn’t ready to trust her heart unless this gorgeous, caring man can show her how, together, they can make the most beautiful music of all.

Holiday Heat
For Eve Clark, winter usually means long cold nights spent alone, until she’s persuaded to attend a masked ball. Abandoning her inhibitions, she shares a blissful tryst with a mysterious partner. Though she runs from their hotel room the next morning, Leyton Palmer is determined to track Eve down and show her that the night neither can forget was only the start of something sensational.

I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Three years ago, Broadway star Dina Caldwell and celebrity chef Morgan Caldwell were passionately in love. Now America’s onetime favorite couple are about to be reunited in Morgan’s Detroit hometown for the holidays. Is this the season for forgiving and forgetting? With sizzling kisses under the mistletoe, Morgan vows to make this a Christmas Dina will never forget!

Hawaii Magic
Workaholic attorney Anita Hunt is on the job 24/7. She’s looking to make partner, not party. While on a forced vacation in Hawaii, she meets gorgeous pilot Steve Blair. When engine trouble forces them to make a crash landing, the seductive airman shows her a side of the exotic island and herself she never expected and a passion that could make them partners in paradise forever.

Overtime Love
Drew Davis’s goal is to buy the semipro football team where he is general manager. But the owner’s granddaughter, Tasha Bloom, unexpectedly inherits it first. Still, Drew’s not brokenhearted, since their mutual passion for football runs second only to their attraction to each other. But can the team and their budding romance make it to the New Year’s Day championship?

A Beverly Jenkins Romance Collection

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A second son must find his place in the world, but can he trust his heart and not the heavy-handed antics of his father, the Earl of Crisdon.

Ewan Fitzwilliam needs his life to change. Unwilling to follow in the footsteps of his abusive father, he gathered the strength to break free. Saving a young flower picker from troubles upon his father's estate may prove the opportunity he needs to become a man of honor.

Theodosia wants a better life, and she intends to build a flower business that caters to the perfumers in Town, but can she trust a rich man's son to teach her better diction to impress potential clients? Or will she learn a different lesson, succumbing to the dangerous attraction she feels for the tortured playwright?

A Bittersweet Moment

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Rodney Allen AKA Balla, as most know him, is a man that’s considered a thinker, a strategist. He’s worked hard for his reputation and financial status and sees no limits for his future. Living his best life, Balla has no idea something is missing from it until he meets a young feisty girl from his side of town through circumstances so strange it had to be fate. What starts off as a sprint to put another notch on his bedpost turns out to be a marathon run after a girl’s heart.

Nakati Reed is not looking to be saved. If anything, she’s looking to save herself. After seemingly going from riches to rags her main objective is to make her bounce back stronger than her fall. 

When Balla enters Nakati's life it becomes obvious that he is exactly what she needs, but the two of them seem to have different ideas about the role she should play in his world. They have different ideas about a lot of things, but when it gets real in the streets Balla has no choice but to accept Nakati for who she is. 

The only problem with that is how do you protect a woman from harm that’s so comfortable on the front line?

A Boss and A Thug

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Holidays are always challenging.

The values of the prestigious Brooks family is at stake when drama enters into the festivities as relatives and love ones arrive.

Beginning with the NBA star Jason Whitfield and his wanna-be baby momma, who has her irons in the fire for singing sensation, Taylor Brooks. As Taylor struggles to find her place in the music industry, her cousin James Brooks Jr. announce his intentions to enter law school. The family is thrilled. That sentiment changes when he adds his plans to marry Princess Zsa Zsa Ashro to the mix. Certain members of the family are now conspiring to thwart his plans.

And finally, the purpose of the gathering, the wedding of Vernon Brooks to Rene Naverone is compromised, as her team-member Genesis insist on conducting an FBI investigation into the girlfriend of her soon to be brother-in-law.

Whew….

A Brooks’ Thanksgiving begins with a brawl, climax to a wedding and end in an arrest. A traditional family gathering, sprinkled with a touch of true love.

A Brooks' Thanksgiving

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A year ago Isaac Elloren returned to his hometown of Catalina Cove seeking peace, quiet and happiness. However, his high school's holiday homecoming is about to cause turmoil in his life when his childhood sweetheart/ex-wife returns for the reunion. He wants to hate her for choosing a career over their marriage but discovers there's a thin line between love and hate.

Donna Elloren returns to the cove not knowing what to expect. When she sees her ex-husband again she realizes she still loves him and regrets the pain she caused. She is determined to win his heart again. Doing so isn't easy when someone from their past is intent on keeping them apart.

Will Isaac and Donna find true love again for the holidays?

A Catalina Cove Christmas

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1935. Champion Bates left poky old Winslow, Georgia when he was seventeen years old. He had promised to elope with his childhood sweetheart, but pressured by other influences, he took an earlier train leaving his Delie behind. The pain at leaving her behind has tormented him for the seven years he fought as a ham and egg boxer, trying to make himself worthy of her. He had no chance for the big time until now. He has a fight with a contender boxer--a white man. However, he has been told more fighting will possibly blind him.

Back in Winslow, Cordelia “Delie” Bledsoe is out of luck. A teacher in the local school, she has the care of several children who have been abandoned by their parents. She’s offered $200 to take the children out of Georgia. She wants to take them to her family in Pittsburgh to live on a family farm, but Champion Bates shows up, insistent on helping her. She does not want to trust her old love, but has little choice.

Champion wants to redeem himself with his former sweetheart and doesn’t expect much, but the hair and eyes of one of Delie’s young children tugs at his heart. In this story of sacrifice, Champ and Delie struggle to learn about love and both must grow A Champion’s Heart.

A Champion's Heart

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A welcome second chance 

Or a recipe for disaster?

After their ill-fated fling quashed her dreams, small-town chef Philippa Gayle’s onetime rival-turned-lover Dominic Crawford upended her life. 

But when Philippa is forced together with the celebrity cook on a project that could change her life, there's no denying that the flames that were lit years ago were only banked, not extinguished. 

Can Philippa trust Dominic enough to let him in…or are they just cooking up another heartbreak?


A Chef's Kiss

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Derrick Troy marries his spoiled, college girlfriend Helen Williams, who demands more from him than what he is expecting. Derrick’s childhood best friend, Sarah, may be the cause of friction in his relationship with Helen. But Sarah has a formidable situation of her own on her hands after trying to help her oldest friend build a better life. Derrick, Helen and Sarah tangle with life-altering challenges as they wheel around each other in a cycle that will require “A Circle of Love.” Will A CIRCLE OF LOVE endure this season?


A Circle of Love

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A cowboy and a career-focused city girl can’t agree on anything—until they fall into bed in this latest installment in the Texas Cattleman's Club: The Wedding.

He’s Texas. She’s Hollywood.

…and together they’re playing with fire!

Dionna Reed is in Royal, Texas, to help plan her starlet bestie’s wedding. But when the bride and groom bail, all the planning falls to Dionna…and the too-hot, too-sexy best man who’s convinced Texas can outdo Hollywood for this wedding event of the year. Well, bring it on, cowboy.

Tripp Noble has one week to convince city-slicker Dionna that Royal is the perfect place for his cousin’s wedding—all the while keeping his hands off the gorgeous maid of honor. But cowboys don’t always follow the rules…

A Cowboy Kind of Thing

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Can an exiled princess save a broken kingdom?

The Aolani Kingdom is under attack. If murderous vampires, goblins, and vulpii don’t destroy the peaceful and prosperous fae community, then kingdom politics and family drama will.

Eighteen-year-old Princess Kaia is over it. She’s done bending to the will of her overbearing mother who thinks an arranged marriage with a powerful elven prince can save the kingdom from being ransacked by assassins, bandits, and rouges. She’s done hiding her forbidden romance with Tayo, her vampire boyfriend. If Kaia’s father was still around, she suspects he’d grant her the freedom to choose her own path in life and love. But he’s been missing for seven years and presumed dead.

While estranged from the royal family, Kaia learns that information about her father's disappearance might be found on the island of Elderton, where the deadly Eldritch Trials take place. Now Kaia must enter the trials to learn the truth about her father, prove herself a worthy queen, and save her Kingdom from all who stand against it.

A Dance of Blood and Destinyis the 5th book in The Eldritch Trials, a melanated, magical shared fantasy world penned by eight Black, female authors. Pick up your copy today and lose yourself in a new world.

A Dance of Blood And Destiny

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Sometimes a girl's gotta throw caution to the wind and live a little.

A Dirty Valentine

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Can love bring a saint and sinner together?

Jerome Grant Junior, a preacher's kid and Tasha Daye, an aspiring photographer, become friends after a night of celebrating at a local gentlemen's club.

Desperate to leave town after a family betrayal, Tasha tries to keep her feelings for Jerome locked away.

Though as their individual dreams begin to take flight, they both are forced to make a choice - will they take that leap of faith or part ways to pursue their passions?

A Dove's Cry

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New York City socialite and perpetual hot mess Portia Hobbs is tired of disappointing her family, friends, and—most importantly—herself. An apprenticeship with a struggling swordmaker in Scotland is a chance to use her expertise and discover what she’s capable of. Turns out she excels at aggravating her gruff silver fox boss…when she’s not having inappropriate fantasies about his sexy Scottish burr.

Tavish McKenzie doesn’t need a rich, spoiled American telling him how to run his armory…even if she is infuriatingly good at it. Tav tries to rebuff his apprentice—and his attraction to her—but when Portia accidentally discovers that he’s the secret son of a duke, rough-around-the-edges Tav becomes her newest makeover project.  

Forging metal into weapons and armor is one thing, but when desire burns out of control and the media spotlight gets too hot to bear, can a commoner turned duke and his posh apprentice find lasting love?

A Duke by Default

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When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune—and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child—until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son’s nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers his military strictness belies an ex-rake of unswerving honor—and unexpected passion . . .

A wounded military hero, Busick is determined to resolve his dead cousin’s dangerous financial dealings for Lionel’s sake. But his investigation is a minor skirmish compared to dealing with the forthright, courageous, and alluring Patience. Somehow, she's breaking his rules, and sweeping past his defenses. Soon, between formidable enemies and obstacles, they form a fragile trust—but will it be enough to save the future they long to dare together?