New Release Round-Up March 9th-15th
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Check out these new Black Romance releases from March 9th-15th.
Three Minutes: A Second Chance Romance by Soleil
Three minutes. That’s all it took for the lives of Janiyah and Arsel Smith to take a turn.
Janiyah wanted nothing more than to have a child, but Arsel’s career was more important to him.
When an accident forces them into instant parenthood, Arsel is forced to balance work life and a happy wife. Their friends’ last dying wish was for the Smiths to care for their only goddaughter. With tragedy and grief invading their lives, they must find a way to stay true to themselves as well as being everything this baby needs.
Will Janiyah’s greatest desire make her husband happy, or will that exact desire push Arsel further into career mode?
Destined to the Wolf: Urban Paranormal Romance (Fated Mates of Willow Creek Book 9) by Norah Rose
She was done being chosen last. He was done letting the pack decide his fate.
Destiny
I’m pushing forty-nine, graying at the temples, and three weeks divorced.
Magic I buried for love clawing its way back to life.
I thought the heat was menopause, until fate lit my blood on fire.
I’m too old for bonds.
Too powerful for wolves who fear witches.
When a twenty-three-year-old shifter looks at me like I’m destiny itself…
The pack decides I’m the problem.
Kairo
My mother left when I was kid.
I was raised by elders, fed, trained, but never claimed.
Then she walks into a gas station at midnight, magic humming under her skin.
My wolf loses it.
The pack says she’s too old. Too dangerous. Too much.
But I’ve spent my whole life being abandoned.
I won’t let them take my fated mate.
Destined to the Wolf is the Ninth installment in The Fated Mates of Willow Creek where savages wolves claim their mates,
The Match Game: Second Chance at Love Matchmaker Gone Wrong Opposites Attract (Meet Your Match Book 2)
Grace Robertson wasn't looking for love. She was looking for peace.
Her marriage ended years ago. Her dating life has been a series of lessons in what she doesn't want. So, when her friends present her with a matchmaker, Grace accepts. Maybe it's time to let someone else handle the vetting process.
Then she meets him.
Lucien Sloane is everything a matchmaker might have found for her—accomplished, attentive, genuinely interested in building something meaningful. Their chemistry is undeniable, but more than that, he makes her feel seen. Understood. Like the version of herself she's worked hard to become is exactly who he wants to know.
Grace knows she should slow down. She knows she should be cautious. But for once, she lets herself trust the connection.
That trust will be tested when she discovers Luke is keeping his own secrets. And Grace will have to decide if what they have is strong enough to survive the truth—or if she's been fooling herself all along.
The Match Game is about the complexity of building love when you're old enough to know better, brave enough to try anyway, and wise enough to demand honesty even when it hurts.
Let Love Flow by Kay Shanee
Adulthood came faster than Nyomi Kurrie ever imagined when she found out she was pregnant during her second semester of college. Thankfully, with her family's support, she was able to fulfill her obligations on the track and field team and graduate on time and with honors.
Now, the son she gave birth to over eighteen years ago is preparing to leave the nest. For the first time since he was born, she can stop neglecting herself. When her best friend talks her into going to a mixer for singles, she has a night she won’t soon forget.
Kilo St. Patrick has lived and breathed football since elementary school. It was no surprise to anyone when he accepted the head coach position at his college alma mater.
He packs up and moves across the country, and in an effort to refamiliarize himself with the city, he attends a singles mixer and unknowingly connects with another Black Elm alumnus.
It’s supposed to be one-and-done, but when their paths cross again two months later, under circumstances neither of them expects, Kilo can’t ignore the pull Nyomi has on him, and she’s running like the track star she once was.
Kilo is persistent in his pursuit of Nyomi. Will she let love flow or keep running?
Prescribed For You by Marcia King-Gamble
Plus-size model, Eboni is Trouble on Steroids. Not at all what stuffy Dr. Grant St. Jour ordered. But she just might be what the former surgeon, recently relocated to Miami, needs.
A chance encounter throws them into each other’s orbit as both compete for the same seat on the Miami Pediatric hospital board. Gregarious, Eboni wins the taciturn doctor at a Bachelor Bid, and they instantly become social media fodder. Compounding the growing attraction, Grant becomes the role model for Eboni’s troubled teenage brother, an inner-city kid with grandiose dreams of becoming a star basketball player.
Childish Games We Play by Masterpiece
Layloni is the kind of woman whose heart is made of pure gold. She’s beautiful, intelligent, and loyal to a fault. But loving the wrong people has cost her everything. After being used, betrayed, and emotionally broken by not one but two of the people closest to her, she makes the painful decision to walk away from the only life she’s known and start over, determined to never let anyone hurt her again.
What Layloni doesn’t know is that fate has other plans.
King is powerful, respected, and feared, a man shaped by the streets and hardened by loss. The death of his father shatters the foundation beneath him, leaving him drowning in grief and questioning who he can truly trust. Darkness begins to consume him, turning the once-focused leader into a man battling his own emotions.
Then Layloni enters his world.
Drawn together by pain, chemistry, and a connection neither can deny, the two begin a dangerous dance between love and self-protection. Both wounded. Both guarded. Both terrified of being hurt again. What starts as tension and attraction quickly spirals into something deeper, something neither of them is prepared for.
But when two broken souls collide, love isn’t simple.
Childish games, buried secrets, and past betrayals threaten to destroy what they’re building before it even has a chance to grow. As lust ignites and feelings intensify, Layloni and King must decide whether to keep running from the darkness… or fight together to step into the light.
Sometimes, the person meant to heal you… is just as broken as you are.
Just My Luck (The Harris Family Saga Book 2) by L.B. Gaines
Journey Harris has always been unlucky. Spilled coffee, broken heels, and bad timing have always felt like her fate. Even her boyfriend treats her like a secret.
After three years with Cian O’Donnell, college football royalty, Journey has never met his family, has never been invited home, and has never been chosen. And when he ditches her on St. Patrick’s Day, their anniversary, to go on spring break with his teammates, something finally breaks within her.
Journey celebrates alone in Las Vegas with a pint of green beer and zero expectations. She meets a Black Irish man, and for the first time in her life, Journey's luck changes.
One reckless night turns into laughter, stolen kisses, and a decision she does not remember making. Journey wakes up married and as an O’Donnell.
Did she marry her boyfriend’s sibling? A cousin? Someone she was never supposed to touch? Journey thought she was finally lucky. Now she's not so sure.
Protecting Her Halo (Soft Love Series Book 2) by Lakia
As the sheltered daughter of a small town pastor, Elise has spent her entire life conforming to impossible expectations, purity sermons, and the constant fear of embarrassing her parents and the church. Following her heart and dreams were never an option. Wanting him was a temptation she knew to bury.
Rashawn has been a constant in Elise’s life since elementary school, her brother’s best friend, the man who chose the streets over salvation. He was everything Elise was taught to avoid and everything her heart refuses to forget.
Their secret began with one reckless summer that her mind and body tried hard to forget. Fear of judgement and devotion to appearances keep her away. Now she is left to reckon with the cost of obedience, the pain of silence, and whether faith was meant to act as a cage instead of a choice. Step into this African American Urban Romance where faith, family secrets, and forbidden love collide.
You're All I Need by Mel Dau
When family secrets threaten everything Gorjess Bulb believes about herself, she leaves behind the life she knows, searching for answers she never knew were missing. In a new city, she meets Solomon “Warborn” Leota, who is battle-tested, loyal, and ruled by a heart that loves just as hard as he fights. He knows what it means to survive after family secrets.
Drawn together at a time that would break most people, their connection becomes more than what they want; it is what they need. Will their connection, love, and loyalty be enough to sustain them through this hard time and beyond, or will they need more? Will they realize that they are all they need?
Don't Make Me Over by Jessica Terry
Sparks didn't exactly fly when banking exec Myles Cornwall visited Jacqueline 'Jackie' Malone's auto garage. A tense exchange left them, well, detesting each other. Jackie is fiery and outspoken while Myles is stuffy and reserved…not exactly a match made in heaven.
But (God help them) they realize they want each other anyway. Yet when they each suspect the other is trying to 'tweak' them into a more acceptable version of themselves, their other differences are brought back into the light…and they realize they might have a serious problem. And their intense attraction and deepening feelings might not be enough to overcome it when their opposing stances on a controversial issue are revealed, driving even more of a wedge between them.
So will these opposites stay attracted, or will their differences prove to be too much?
Do You Remember? by Egypt Cynaè
Four lives devastatingly torn apart. Two survivors. One holds the truth.
After a fatal accident that left Sevyn Shields single, broken, and suffering amnesia, she has nowhere to turn. The only person she can depend on is a stranger, who remains at her bedside daily, talking to her, reading to her, and entertaining her with stories while she’s in the coma and afterward. In his presence, she finds healing and peace. But with the return of her memories comes guilt about causing the accident that killed her husband.
Officer Naeem Fullwood’s once promising future has been shattered with the loss of his partner and his unborn child. Crippled with grief, Naeem carries the guilt and shame of devastating several lives in one night. Determined to save the one person who survived, he remains at Sevyn’s side, no matter the cost, to prove just how good a man he is and assuage his guilty conscience. But with the passage of time, Naeem finds a reason to fight and to hope again, as he falls in love with Sevyn.
As Sevyn’s memories continue to fall in place, she recalls the night of the accident in vivid detail and realizes the man she’s now dating and in love with has secrets of his own. Faced with the truth of what he’s done to her life, Naeem must answer for the sins of his past.
Will Naeem be able to tear the walls around both his and Sevyn’s hearts down to prove that it’s more than his guilt that keeps him at her side? Or will she walk away and count it all a loss?
The Bloodlands by Nashay Trower
Adaia is dragged into a dangerous situation when her fiancé Evan botches a blood run for a notorious vampire gang.
With no other choice, Adaia has to call on her vampire ex-boyfriend for help, who doesn’t hesitate to have her stay in his mansion in the Bloodlands and protect her.
The only problem? Evan is holding a deadly secret over her head, and Adaia is forced to bring him with her.
With unresolved feelings lingering, and a debt demanding to be paid Adaia isn't sure what will send her to an early grave first - the tension between her and her ex, Evan’s jealousy, or the pissed off vampire gang looking for retribution.
I Do Need You by T.C. Johnson
Reese Campbell remembers the love his parents shared. Even after tragically losing them, he still longs for a happily ever after. Until he finds the right woman for the job, he’s decided to be single and concentrate on his career and family.
Joseline Taylor has a theory about love; it doesn’t exist. Even after watching the dysfunctional relationships of the women in her family. Joseline still gave love a chance. After the birth of her daughter, Melody, her boyfriend Kelvin, proves her theory is right.
What starts as a crush, turns to a beautiful friendship between Reese and Joseline. Until they realize, they could be falling in love.
Out of My League by Brandi Michelle
She turned down the hottest player in the league.
Now he can't stop thinking about her.
Austyn Parker worked too hard to rebuild her life to let love ruin it again.
After a relationship that nearly broke her, she promised herself one thing: protect her peace at all costs.
Then Hunter Thompson walked into her world.
Star point guard for the LA Guardians.
League favorite.
And the kind of man women don’t say no to.
Except Austyn did.
What starts as a chance encounter turns into something neither of them expected. Late-night conversations, quiet moments that feel too real, and a connection that slowly begins to change everything.
But loving a man whose life plays out under bright lights comes with a price.
Rumors spread fast.
The internet never sleeps.
And suddenly the relationship that once felt safe begins to feel like it belongs to the entire world.
Now, Austyn must decide if protecting her peace means walking away or risking everything for the one man who refuses to give up on her.
Because sometimes the person who feels out of your leagueis the one meant to stand beside you.
Out of Order: A Christian Marriage Restored (Vows & Valleys Book 3) by Danyelle Scroggins
They said marriage was a partnership.
So why does it feel like they’re playing by two completely different rules?
Nicole and Damien Brooks look like the perfect Christian couple on paper. She’s a respected architect with a growing career and a deep faith. He’s a dedicated husband, steady provider, and active in their church. But behind closed doors, their marriage is falling apart.
Nicole is exhausted. She’s doing everything—paying bills, parenting, making decisions—while trying not to outshine her husband. Damien feels like he’s failing as a man, a leader, and a husband. He’s shut down emotionally, unsure of who he’s supposed to be anymore. Both are stuck in outdated expectations of what a “biblical marriage” should look like—and neither one is thriving.
Enter Dr. Selah James, the compassionate Christian counselor known for peeling back emotional layers with grace and truth. She helps Nicole and Damien unravel the tangled messages they’ve inherited about masculinity, submission, leadership, and love.
What does it mean to lead when leadership isn’t about control? What does it mean to submit when you’re already carrying the weight of everything? And can two people build something holy—when the blueprint they were handed is broken?
Set in a quiet Southern town and rooted in Christian values, Out of Order is a powerful, soul-stirring Christian romance about redefining marriage roles with mutual honor, spiritual purpose, and courageous vulnerability. Because sometimes the only way forward… is to tear down what’s not working—and build again on truth.
To Love You by Imari Shania
Lynix was only expecting a night of music when she decided to go see Adonis Marcel to hear her favorite song live. He has always just been a beautiful voice in her headphones, a face on every magazine, billboard, and every social media platform everywhere. In the middle of the performance, everything changes. A single fan moment turned into an unforgettable night. As Lynix is snatched into a world different from her own, she begins to wonder whether this moment under the electric-blue lights was just pure luck or the start of something much bigger.
Precious Cargo: A Love Worth Guarding by Cyn
Cashmere’s parents were the most non-parental figures known to man, which forced her to grow up before her time and provide for her younger sister. When she lands a once in a lifetime position in the council, she feels she can breathe just a little bit easier, but such a prestigious underground position means extra security.
Savio is fresh out of prison with a new outlook on life. He no longer wants to live to survive. He wants to live and thrive. He wants to make a life for himself the legal way, so he secures a job as a high-end bodyguard. When Savio is assigned as Cashmere’s head of security, her mystique intrigues him, and he falls in love quickly. She isn’t looking for love, but he isn’t willing to give up his pursuit.
When a tangled web of chaos between the people they love ends in tragedy, they have to decide whether or not love can settle between them. Being with him means she’ll have to lower her guard and learn to live life in a more meaningful way. He’s afraid he’ll never be able to break through her tough exterior, but she’s everything he’s been missing in life, and he won’t give up without a fight.
Will their love survive the stubbornness of old habits and the harsh reality of tragedy?
Broken By The Mountain Man: A BDSM, Grumpy Sunshine, Forbidden Romance (Crimson Hollow: Kane Brothers) by Deidre-Ann Anderson
I'm Eli Kane, the quiet one. The brother who keeps his hands busy and his walls up so no one notices how tightly he's wound.
Then Fallon Reed walks into my vineyard, and every muscle in my body locks. Because I know that last name. I know those eyes. And I know her older sister is the reason I stopped believing in love seven years ago.
The Reeds think I'm the villain of that story. Fallon made that crystal clear the second she recognized me. She's too loud, too bright, and looks at me like I'm something she needs to scrape off her boots. The feeling should be mutual.
Except I notice things. The smile that doesn't reach her eyes. The flinch she hides when someone moves too fast. The way she works herself raw like standing still might let something terrible catch up.
Nobody knows what I do behind closed doors. How control isn't about power for me. It's about building a space where someone can finally feel safe enough to shatter.
She hates me for a lie her sister told. I should let her.
But when she whispers, "Show me what it feels like to let go," the quiet one in me goes silent for a whole new reason.
Broken by the Mountain Man is a scorching vineyard romance featuring an older, brooding dominant hero who heals with his hands as masterfully as he crafts wine, a fierce sunshine heroine reclaiming her body and her power, enemies to lovers tension that ignites every scene, and BDSM as the language two guarded people use to finally tell each other the truth. Perfect for readers who crave grumpy heroes undone by fearless women, age-gap chemistry that burns slow and detonates hard, and guaranteed happily-ever-afters that prove sometimes the person you can't stand is exactly the one you need.
What a Wounded Heart Needs: A Christian Romance Novel (Faithful Needs Book 8) by LaToya Battle
She Believed she was Unworthy of LOVE. GOD disagreed…
Cynthia Warren thought she knew what her future would look like. Until one moment changed everything.
Now she carries a secret that makes her question whether she can still be loved — she wonders if she’s even worthy of love at all.
But Brayden McLemore believes God’s plans are bigger than fear, shame, and the wounds of the past. At the end of the day, will he be able to convince Cynthia that sometimes healing requires courage, sometimes it requires faith, and sometimes it requires discovering what a wounded heart needs?
A Love of Their Own (No Lover To Offend Series Book 2) by Rhayne Coleman
There's always three sides to every story
You're side
Their side
and the Truth
The Other Side of Mercy: An African American Clean Romance (Christian, Second Chance, Small Town) (Seasons Of Grace Book 3) by Toni and Ray Ellis
A widowed public defender. A prodigal son. And a path that leads them both home.
Camille Jordan thought she could outrun her past, three hundred miles from Atlanta to the sleepy town of Willow Creek should have been far enough. But mandatory leave from her job as a public defender isn't the fresh start she hoped for. It's a reckoning with the guilt she's carried since childhood and the life she's built defending others while never forgiving herself.
Rafe Morgan returned to settle his late father's estate and disappear again, just like he's done for the past ten years. But the house he abandoned holds more than memories. Hidden in his father's workshop is a box of unmailed letters, prayers written to a prodigal son who never called home. Each one a quiet plea. Each one unanswered.
When a winter storm forces them together, Camille and Rafe discover they're both running from the same thing: the fear that some mistakes can't be forgiven and some people don't deserve second chances.
But on Willow Creek's Prayer Path—where their fathers once walked together through grief and grace—they'll learn what it means to stay when every instinct says to run. To trust when trust has only ever led to heartbreak. And to believe that redemption isn't about erasing the past, but about having the courage to build something new.
Because some prayers don't get answered right away. They get invited back.
Attachment Policy: a Psychological Romance (Terms of Engagement Book 2) by Cam Johns
She was raised to choose steady.
He was trained to never choose at all.
Ella Sterling has spent her life mastering composure—smiling at the right moments, staying quiet at the right tables, accepting the version of love that looks good on paper. Stability was the rule. Safety was the reward.
Until the night everything fractures.
Secrets surface. Loyalties shift. And the man her family always considered “safe” begins to show cracks she can’t ignore.
Noah Mercer built a career inside a system designed to predict attachment—and profit from it. Control is familiar. Structure is strategic. Emotions are liabilities. Walking away was supposed to be simple. Falling for her wasn’t.
As tension escalates and the illusion of control begins to unravel, Ella and Noah must decide whether what they have is strong enough to withstand exposure.
Because some people don’t lose leverage quietly.
And some systems don’t tolerate defection.
Love was never part of the agreement.
Until now.
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