New Release Round-Up April 6th-12th
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Check out these new Black Romance releases from April 6th-12th.
Take What You Need (A Rose Haven Romance) by Iesha Bree
STANDALONE— can be read in any order! (You do not have read Until the ink dries to read this.)
One escape. No spotlight. No scripts.
Solana Wright didn't come to Rose Haven for a vacation — she came to disappear. After fame brought the kind of attention that turned dangerous, the former actress trades flashing cameras for flour-dusted counters, opening a small bakery called Sugar Kissed. In a town where no one knows her face, Solana hopes to finally breathe again and rediscover the woman she buried somewhere between the cameras and the chaos. But the stalker who made her run hasn't stopped looking, and a quiet life can only hide so much.
Duke Hinton has bigger problems than romance. As the newly established president of the Black Thorns Motorcycle Club, he's learning that leading a brotherhood comes with a price — especially when betrayal is hiding inside his own ranks and a threat far larger than his chapter is watching to see how he handles it. Between protecting his club and keeping the peace in Rose Haven, Duke doesn't have time for distractions. But the quiet strength of the woman running the bakery across from his bar is impossible to walk away from.
She's trying to rebuild herself. He's trying to hold everything together. When danger closes in from both sides and trust becomes the most terrifying risk either of them has ever taken, Solana and Duke find something in each other they never thought to look for. Sometimes survival means walking away from everything you know. And sometimes it means being brave enough to stay.
His Remedy to the Madness: A Waynesville Love Story by Aubree Pynn
Remedy Worthy is barely surviving. With the heaviness of her past weighing on her, she’s attempting to swim against life’s current. However, the task seems nearly impossible. It’s not until her elderly neighbor becomes her best friend. Now with someone to encourage her to keep swimming, she’s unaware that being Mr. Ernie’s one and only friend will be the answer to prayers she forgot she prayed.
Erys Moore has been the reaper of death for fifteen years of his life. Now with retirement at the front of his mind, he’s beaconed back to Waynesville by an old friend. But his return is welcomed with a disturbing voicemail from his father. What he walks into is something he quickly realizes he’s unequipped for. Not of a man of vast emotions, he’s being undone from the inside out.
When this unlikely pair joins forces, the question lingers – can this be the remedy for every wound or will it end in tragedy?
A Very Mega Time by Mel Dau
A time has been had with the Manfields. We’ve seen them throughout the highs, lows, and all out comically unhinged stages of their lives. Now we enter a new chapter in life that is taking Mega for a loop . . . his baby girl, Maggie, is growing up.
Find out how he handles the different paths that his daughter’s maturity and boyfriend will take him. All around him children are growing up, the world is going crazy, audacity is high, and his patience is low. Even with all of that, it doesn’t matter. The fact is that wherever Megatron Manfield is, a time will be had. A very Mega time to be exact.
The Analyst and the All-Star: A Love of the Game Sports Romance by Mel Walker
A baseball analyst with an anonymous blog. An All-Star from the rival team. She came to Charlotte to watch her favorite player. She never planned on leaving with his heart.
Daria Holloway is the baseball world’s best-kept secret. By day, she’s an overlooked analyst in a male-dominated world that refuses to hear her voice. By night, she is "The Oracle"—an anonymous blogger whose predictions are gospel to the very men who ignore her in the daylight.
Enter Isiah "Crush" Crawford, the All-Star of a rival team who is as famous for his intensity as his talent. He's complicated, private, and the one sports figure Daria knows she must stay far away from. But when his career stumbles, the cheering crowds turn into a suffocating cage. He doesn’t need a fan; he needs someone who sees beyond the superhero cape to the man beneath it.
When Daria risks her anonymity to help Isiah find his swing, a forbidden romance ignites. But as Isiah battles his demons and Daria fights for her place at the table, they realize the hardest pitch to hit isn't a fastball—it's the curveball life throws when you fall in love.
Sometimes love means stepping out of the shadows and into the spotlight.
25/8 by Tanon
McKenna and Omar were raised like siblings when their mothers deemed themselves as best friends. As they grew up, their friendship bloomed and their similar interests led to a dream career that they worked hard to obtain.
But what happens when your best friend doesn't look like your best friend anymore? And life as you know it changes all at once? Will you fumble? Or remain true for life?
Some people say that you can call them... 24/7.
But are you willing to actually be there... 25/8?
Just Keep Driving by Nina High
Lydea was supposed to be heading home after the worst date of her life. Instead, she finds herself in a rideshare, telling the driver exactly how badly the night went.
Champ has heard plenty of dating horror stories from passengers, but something about Lydea makes him want to keep the conversation going. What starts as a quick ride turns into a playful game of rating her disastrous date, complete with categories, commentary, and a surprising amount of laughter.
Somewhere between missed exits, late night confessions, and one more turn around the city, the ride stops feeling like a ride at all. It starts to feel like the best date Lydea has had in a very long time.
The only problem is that rides are supposed to end.
But when the chemistry is this strong, maybe the best decision is the simplest one.
Just keep driving.
Promise to Repeat by Rosè Dior
Jordin
I was about to marry someone I didn’t love.
While his success could catapult my career in journalism, it did nothing to make me want to live out my happily ever after with him. He wasn’t my one. I knew that the moment the man who loved me with everything in him was taken away from me. I knew I could never love another like I loved him, but I had to move on, even when I couldn’t have the one man who made my world spin off its axis and land into the palm of his hands.
Zion
The moment those bars closed behind me, I knew things were about to change. When the judge gave me fifteen years, my only thought was Dinny, and how I had failed her. I didn’t want her to do that time with me, but I assured her that once I was released, we were going to get back what we had lost. I warned her multiple times not to take another man seriously. Apparently, she didn’t believe me… and now I have to make a believer out of her.
Nothing or no one is going to stand in the way of the promise I made to her. We were destined to live in this moment together forever.
Precious Jewel (Brashear Family Book 1) by Shaira Dennis
Ivie Arakin has spent her entire life proving she belongs, in medicine, in her immigrant family, in a world that keeps asking her to shrink. With her neurosurgery boards months away and her family bleeding her dry, the last thing she needs is a distraction. Then she calls in a favor from a helicopter charter company, and the owner gives her the favor of a lifetime.
Jacen Brashear built an empire on two foundations. Legitimate business and the streets that made his family's name. He keeps those worlds separate. He keeps everyone at arm's length, until her.
What starts as a chance encounter becomes something neither of them planned for.
Unraveled by Jean Isabella
Roslyn spent twelve years holding a marriage together that stopped holding her.
Three kids.
A house full of responsibilities.
And a husband who only notices her when she finally stops fighting back.
Counseling was supposed to be the last attempt to fix what was already broken.
Instead, it becomes the final push toward a truth she doesn’t care to avoid.
And then there’s the one man she never quite forgot.
The one man who sees straight through the exhaustion she’s been hiding behind.
The one man whose touch wakes up parts of her she thought were long gone.
What begins as an unexpected connection quickly becomes something deeper… something harder to ignore. The kind of chemistry that turns quiet moments into long nights and emotions neither of them planned.
For the first time in years, Roslyn feels wanted.
Chosen.
Alive.
But just when she begins to believe she’s finally found the love she’s been starving for, a devastating truth surfaces—one that ties their lives together in ways neither of them ever imagined.
And the man who feels like the answer to everything may be the one thing that leaves her completely unraveled.
UNRAVELED is an emotional, explicit Black love romance about healing, desire, and the kind of connection that changes everything.
Engineered to Want Her: An Enemies-to-Lovers Workplace Single Dad Romance (The Brotherhood of Oakwood Falls Book 13) by Jaxine Cole
He plans everything.
Calculates every risk.
And never lets feelings interfere with the blueprint.
Gavin Lawson is the kind of man who trusts numbers more than people. As a civil engineer and single father, his life runs on structure, precision, and control. He does not make reckless choices. He does not blur professional lines. And he definitely does not fall for women who disrupt every system he’s built.
Then Zora Greene walks onto his job site.
She’s brilliant.
Bold.
Creative in all the ways he hates.
And the one consultant assigned to challenge his plans at every turn.
Their chemistry is immediate.
Their arguments are sharp.
And the tension between them? Impossible to ignore.
She says he builds things with no room for joy.
He thinks she mistakes chaos for vision.
But the more they work together, the harder it gets to tell where the frustration ends… and the wanting begins.
Because Zora doesn’t just challenge his project.
She challenges the way he lives.
And when his daughter starts smiling around her, when late-night work sessions turn into stolen touches, loaded silences, and kisses that feel like bad decisions in the best possible way…
Gavin has to face the one thing he never accounted for:
Her.
The Overseer (The Abbott Men Chronicles) by TN Jones
Kingdon Abbott: Season of self-discovery for however long. A brothel in a rural county in Northern Alabama. An acquaintance’s tempting ex-girlfriend. Deep connection with a disabled, low-self-esteem young boy. Unsure if a fling or falling in love is staring in his face.
Aleana Wilkerson: Down on her luck. Sole guardian to her young brother, who suffers from Cerebral Palsy. A spunky brothel receptionist. Needy for feeling everything Overseer Kingdon has to offer—regardless of how long it lasts.
Daire Taylor: Brothel owner. A student to an unaware lady’s man. Admire Kingdon’s and Aleana’s sexual chemistry. Voyeurist with a newfound love for sexual pleasure—only if the unknown teacher doesn’t catch him, again.
Those around them: A sibling in distress over his brother making the same mistake again. A damsel in distress needing a corpse removed from her property. A coward with a good heart for those he cares about, facing more than one demon for his past actions.
Styled for Show: A Sapphic Billionaire Romance by Candi Tab
Love, Lies, and Headlines.
Aria Wilson, the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar corporation, Symphony Haircare, has one tiny problem: she needs a date for her sister’s high-society wedding and the whirlwind of pre-nuptial events. Her solution? A fake girlfriend. Her target? Kayla Evans, a tenacious journalist in need of a career-defining story.
Kayla can’t believe her luck. An exclusive, tell-all interview with the notoriously private Aria Wilson? It’s the story of a lifetime. All she has to do is pretend to be Aria’s adoring girlfriend for a few pre-wedding festivities and the big day itself. Easy, right?
What starts as a mutually beneficial business arrangement quickly blurs the lines between fiction and reality. They find themselves navigating champagne toasts, awkward family dinners, and the undeniable pull between them. With their fake relationship deepening, and the wedding date fast approaching, how long can they keep up the charade before their hearts are irrevocably entangled?Styled for Show is a sizzling fake-dating romance about two ambitious women who discover that the best stories, and the truest loves, are often found where you least expect them.
Unmistakably Yours by Nini Lester
Mia has built a life she’s proud of—co-owning a flower and café shop with her sister, grounded in creativity, culture, and the chosen family that has held her together. As she navigates complicated, often painful family dynamics—especially with her father—Mia is learning how to protect her peace without hardening herself in the process. Love isn’t something she’s chasing; if it comes, it has to meet her where she is.
Khalid comes to California carrying unfinished grief and the weight of a past relationship he’s finally beginning to see clearly. Still processing the loss of his grandfather—the person who anchored him most—and navigating the fallout of a toxic ex dynamic, Khalid is focused on choosing himself for once. On a temporary contract and determined to keep his distance, he isn’t looking for anything permanent—until an unexpected connection challenges the walls he’s built.
As their lives intersect, Unmistakably Yours explores Black love, healing, and the courage it takes to choose yourself without closing your heart. But when an unexpected altering moment changes everything and timing is fleeting, both Mia and Khalid are forced to confront feelings they never planned to face. Woven with sisterhood, cultural identity, and the quiet power of chosen family, this story asks what becomes possible when two people are finally ready for the love in front of them.
HONOR II (The Lost Borough: Gravehart Grove Book 4) by Kellz Kimberly
Honor Gravehart has never had the luxury of just living. Built by pain and raised in chaos, Honor finds himself losing control of the very life he fought to hold together. With everything slipping through his fingers, his temper is shorter and his thoughts are louder except for when he’s with her.
She’s the only place that ever felt like peace and the biggest war he’s ever had to fight. Their relationship is tense and built on shared scars, unspoken truths and a loyalty so deep it starts to feel like a trap.
But as buried secrets begin to surface, Honor is forced to learn that the greatest act of love isn’t holding on… it’s letting go.
The Rite of Her: A Dark Romance Novel by A. Sage
There is a woman at a crossroads, and she has Zara's hands.
Zara Fontaine has spent her whole life keeping the strange at arm's length — the whispers at dusk, the way candle flames bend toward her, the grandmother who taught her prayers she was told to never say aloud. But when her sister Amara goes missing, the search leads Zara somewhere prayers can't follow — to The House, a secret society built on blood covenants and ancient power, where women called vessels carry something older than memory inside their bodies.
What Zara finds there changes everything. Not just Amara. Not just the truth about her family's bloodline and a debt seven generations deep. She finds Lazare — a houngan with scarred hands and still eyes who tells her what she is before she's ready to hear it.
She is a Living Altar. The spirits don't visit her. They stay.
Now the gold is spreading beneath her skin. The ancestors are speaking. And the man who swore to protect her watches her like he's deciding whether to worship or ruin her.
In New Orleans, blood remembers what the living forget. And Zara's blood has been remembering for a very long time.
Maybe We Deserve... by Chelsia McCoy
Portia Davenport-Ross has built a life most people admire -- a thriving business, a beautiful home, and a reputation that commands respect. But when the nights grow quiet and the world slows down, one truth refuses to stay buried: Success can’t replace the love she never fully let go of.
Devin Ross isn’t the man she divorced twenty years ago. He’s in his grown man era now... grounded and still unapologetically himself, and he's also the only man who sees her beyond the titles, the image, and the life she carefully constructed.
When their daughter's birthday dinner turns into late-night conversations, undeniable chemistry, and a series of intentional Friday date nights, they’re forced to confront what they once were… and what they could still become.
After seven exclusive Friday nights, Portia and Devin must decide: Can they move past their previous mistakes… or is forgiveness too much to ask?
What a Transformed Heart Needs: A Christian Romance Novel (Faithful Needs Book 9) by LaToya Battle
She’s healed. She’s grown. She’s given her life back to God. So why does her heart still remember being overlooked?
When Nya was younger, she wanted Trent to see her. But his eyes were always on her older sister.
Now he’s back — and this time, he sees Nya.
With his faith and quiet strength, Trent offers the kind of love she once dreamed about. The kind she prayed for.
But old feelings don’t fade overnight. And as love begins to unfold, Nya must decide…
will she release the past, or risk losing what God is placing in her hands?
Because sometimes, what a girl with a transformed heart needs most… is the courage to believe it’s finally her turn to be truly and fully LOVED.
Worth The Risk by TK Fletcher
He was the biggest risk her father ever took. She was the one thing he was never supposed to touch.
Marcus Cole is the league’s most talented shortstop and its biggest problem. Reckless, unpredictable, and constantly making headlines for all the wrong reasons, he’s one mistake away from losing everything.
Elena Davenport doesn’t believe in mistakes. As the owner’s daughter, she’s spent her life protecting her family’s team… And Marcus Cole is a liability she refuses to tolerate.
But when undeniable chemistry turns into something neither of them can control, lines begin to blur.
Because falling for Marcus could cost Elena everything.
And for the first time in his life, Marcus has something worth losing.
With A Heavy Heart, Love, Tiffany by I.E. Liz
Tiffany Jackson life was simple, far from perfect, but pleasant. Until one morning her entire world crumbled. In an instant she found herself reckoning with reality. Determined to rebuild on her own terms, she focuses in on her massage therapy practice and stability for her family until-- Tyson Benton.
Tyson Benton is disciplined, successful, guarded, and transparent. What begins as a professional relationship evolves into something they cannot ignore. As Tiffany navigates, grief, guilt, and surviving, she discovers that second chances are at her fingertips-- only if she can let the past go.
Love and Kofi: A Loving The Washington Brothers Novella by Dani M. Ward
What was supposed to be a simple tattoo cover-up turns into something far more complicated when assumptions collide, attitudes clash, and sparks fly.
Me’Chelle
I didn’t walk into the tattoo shop looking for conversation, judgment, or attitude. I just want a cover-up. Of all the dumb mistakes I’ve made in my life, getting my future ex-husband’s name tattooed on me has got to be the biggest. Now, I need someone to cover it and give me a fresh start as I grow used to my new normal.
Except the tattoo artist is rude, short-tempered, and clearly thinks I’m someone else. Someone he’s slept with already. But this tattoo has to go, and I only want the best… Apparently, the best is Kofi Washington.
Now I’m stuck trusting a man who insulted me in a big way. A man whose eyes linger a little too long every time he’s close enough to touch my skin.
Kofi
As the youngest of three brothers, everyone assumes I’m still immature. At work, I run a tight shop. You follow my rules, stay out of my way, and don’t waste my time. No drama is the way I lead my professional life.
When she walks in, I’m sure I know exactly who she is, and I want nothing to do with her, except I’m wrong. By the time I realize it, it’s already too late to take back my attitude and the words I’ve said. My brand is everything, so I do the unthinkable. I offer a massive discount; anything to get this woman to stay for this cover-up.
Covering her tattoo was supposed to be just another job. But Me’Chelle has a mouth on her, one that’s getting under my skin with every word from her lips. The more time we spend together, the more I realize some things aren’t meant to be erased. Some women leave marks deeper than ink… and Me’Chelle is one of them.
The Purple-Eyed Luna: The Monroe Brothers-Book 1 by Shalene Sage
She survived everything the world threw at her. She wasn't expecting him.
Sage Royale has spent her entire life being underestimated. Raised in a broken home, warehoused in an Omega Academy that treated its girls like inventory, and hiding her rare Purple Eyes behind an herbal serum she mixed herself — she had one plan: survive long enough to get free. What she didn't plan for was being taken.
Marcus Monroe has spent ten years building the most fortified Omega sanctuary in the territory. As Alpha of the Mystic Warriors Pack, he has faced Rogue attacks, Council corruption, and the weight of a promise made to a dying father. He has never once lost control.
Until the night his rescue team brings home a Purple-Eyed Omega who smells like home.
The bond is instant. The road to trust is anything but.
Sage has every reason to fear an Alpha's claim — and Marcus has never wanted anything the way he wants to earn hers. But the Underground Market doesn't forget what it lost, the Council is circling, and someone has been watching the Monroe Compound long enough to know exactly where it bleeds.
Fate chose them for each other. Now they have to fight to keep it.
Purple-Eyed Luna is a full-length paranormal shifter romance featuring a protective Alpha hero, a fiercely independent Omega heroine, slow-burn tension, steamy scenes, found family, and a hard-won happily ever after. Book 1 of The Monroe Brothers series. Intended for mature readers 18+.
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Love by the Book: A Novel by Jessica George
Friendship is the love story you can count on.
Remy is lucky. Her debut novel, based on her three best friends, became an instant bestseller when it was released, and her agent and publisher are clamoring for a follow-up. But just as Remy’s creative inspiration seems to leave her, so too do her friends: one moves to New York, one gets pregnant, and one gets back together with her (awful) boyfriend. After an ill-advised one-night stand complicates matters further, Remy is left deeply alone—and unable to find her next book idea.
Simone is successful. A Kindergarten teacher with a passion for kids, and a well-paying side hustle that affords her all the material comforts she desires, she doesn't have time for a robust social life. All Simone needs is her close-knit family—but after the true nature of her work is revealed, they cut her off, and she realizes for the first time just how isolated she is.
When Simone and Remy bump into each other (literally) in a bookstore, it isn’t exactly soulmates at first sight. Simone is guarded and prickly, Remy is insecure and heartbroken, and each woman is harboring a secret. And yet they might just be the missing piece the other has been searching for—if only they can let each other in.
Can Simone help Remy make one of the most important decisions of her life—and can Remy help Simone recover all that she’s lost? In Jessica George’s heartwarming, funny, and soulful second novel, she explores the restorative nature of female friendship and the life-changing power of platonic love.
If there are any new releases that we missed, please feel free to send them our way and we will share them ASAP.