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Check out these new Black Romance releases from October 5th-11th.
Dear Future Husband by Dee LaSure
Navy Hayes had done everything right so far in her life.
She was a dependable loving daughter, the ride-or-die sister, best friend, and a successful business owner who knew how to set a goal and accomplish it out the gate. But there was one title she hadn’t claimed yet—wife—and it was the one title she wanted the most.
Navy did what she always did when she wanted something: she made a plan, and she made a promise to God. She was done sitting on the sidelines as a spectator and not a participant. It was time for her to date with intention, a lot of faith, and a dash of courage. To keep herself accountable, she started a video diary so she could document every awkward date, every disaster, and even the heartbreak.
There was just one problem. Navy forgot to click the option ‘private.’
Overnight, Navy’s deeply personal and private journey went viral and turned her love life into water cooler conversation. Now thousands of strangers were watching, commenting, and rooting for and against her, as she navigated disastrous dates, unexpected connections, and the pressure of finding the one in front of the world.
Will Navy find her husband in the midst of chaos? Or will she discover that the life she was planning isn’t the one she was meant to live?
Tension: A state of mental, emotional, or interpersonal strain (The Sensory Series Book 2) by Sage Bloom Cloud
Christina Banks is exhausted.
After years of supporting an unemployed boyfriend who repays her loyalty with lies, cheating, and manipulation, she's finally pushed to her breaking point.
Vel has spent years keeping women at a distance. One mistake in his past taught him that getting too attached only leads to damage, so he keeps things simple.
He isn't looking for commitment, and Chris isn't looking for another man to take care of.
But somehow, they find each other anyway.
What starts as a one-night stand meant for nothing more than a little “get-back” slowly becomes something neither of them expected. As Chris rebuilds her life, Vel becomes her unexpected safe place. He offers patience instead of pressure, protection instead of control, and affection without asking her to earn it.
But leaving her ex doesn't mean he's ready to let her go.
As the unwanted attention escalates, Chris realizes that the life she's fighting to rebuild may not be as safe as she thought.
And for Chris, learning how to be loved may be harder than learning how to survive.
Thirst by WS Greer
He's been alive for over a century and a half. She's been surviving her whole life. Neither of them expected what happens when their worlds collide.
Amari Goddard owns the most exclusive casino in Philadelphia, moves only at night, and keeps the world at a careful distance. He has everything—except the one thing a vampire needs most. Aaliyah Carter is a gifted artist working the pole at Fantasies on Fourth, one rent increase away from losing everything she has. When Amari walks into her club and can't look away, neither of them is prepared for the force of what ignites between them.
But Amari is hiding something that would change everything Aaliyah thinks she knows about the world—and about him. And the closer she gets, the more she realizes that the most dangerous thing in her life isn't the men at the club, or the boss who takes half her money, or even the secrets Amari is keeping. It's the way she's starting to feel about all of it.
Dark, sensual, and set against the electric nightlife of Philadelphia, Thirst is a story about hunger in all its forms—for blood, for freedom, for someone who finally sees you clearly.
Some hungers can't be ignored.
Do You Right by Faith J.
Chai Rose Thomas
A second chance. That was all I wanted after a mistake costs me the career I’d worked for all my life. Abandoned by my parents and left to wander the streets, I could only turn to the one thing I was always good at to feed myself. One chance encounter on the streets pushes me to the brink of defeat but suddenly he crashes into me. His kindness is a spark of hope, but I know secrets that’ll break his heart if the truth ever comes to light. Even though he opens his heart and home to me, I still can’t bring myself to be the source of his pain.
Kaizi ‘KC’ Carter
A championship ring. That was all I wanted and had been working for since the first time I picked up a baseball. After having to abruptly end a relationship with my high school sweetheart, I happen to stumble on a rare gem buried underneath the weight of homelessness. Where others look down on her, I see the star she is and only want to lift her back up to the high places she belongs. Even though I know she’s hiding something from me, I still only want to do her right.
Against the Ropes by Jade Noire
Tavian Brooks has spent his life fighting for more. Raised in The Bottom, he earns a place at legendary trainer Marcus “Heavy” Carter’s elite gym and finally gets the shot that could change everything.
There’s only one rule Heavy makes clear: stay away from his daughter.
Sloane Carter has built a life of her own, but when Tavian steps into it, the attraction between them is immediate, reckless, and impossible to ignore. What starts as something they agree to keep secret quickly becomes far more complicated than either of them planned.
As Tavian’s career rises and the pressure outside the ring mounts, their relationship forces them to confront family, ambition, loyalty, and the cost of loving someone when the people closest to you may never understand.
Inside the ring, Tavian knows exactly what he’s fighting for.
It’s everything waiting for him outside the ropes that could change his life forever.
Tres by Tanon Tales
Serai Fuller lives a very simple life. She has a great job, a doting husband and a new found love for cooking and feeding the town’s heroes. Because of her selflessness and dedication, her husband decides to give her the one gift that she doesn’t expect…
A hall pass to make her deepest fantasies come true…
Platinum Pressure by Mya
Porter “Platinum” Jones is the franchise player with the Cade’s Cove Silverbacks. He proudly brought one of the league’s worst teams to victory and planned to defend their championship title. With the world on his side, nothing could go wrong . . . until it does.
Meadow Edwards is a sweet and caring soul. Since she was a little girl, her dream was to help those who couldn’t help themselves. When she gets a call from her agency to help a very wealthy client, the money is too good to refuse.
What starts out as a mutually beneficial arrangement turns into something no one was prepared for. Will Meadow and Platinum find a love like no other, or will they crumble under the pressure? Through pain, passion, and resilience, love blooms in this powerful football romance.
Keep the Ring by Kimberly R. Vargas
She’s got the perfect engagement. The perfect life. But behind the filtered photos and brand deals, her relationship is a perfect lie.
Zariah James, thick, sexy, and wildly popular travel vlogger, is one half of everybody’s favorite #relationshipgoals couple. She and Jamal’s feed is all dreamy trips, luxury getaways, and engagement pics. But behind the scenes? He calls the shots. Jamal controls the narrative. And her.
Until she snaps.
The morning of their wedding, Zariah walks away. No dress. No vows. No more pretending. Instead of the luxury honeymoon Jamal insisted on, she books a solo trip to Maui, finally choosing herself.
Then a ridiculously fine stranger helps her out of a bind at the airport. And somewhere between delayed flights, tropical heat, and a few very questionable decisions, Zariah starts remembering what it feels like to want something simply because she wants it.
But Jamal isn’t willing to let her, their carefully crafted love story, or the ring on her finger go without a fight.
And this time, Zariah might finally be ready to decide what’s hers to keep.
Keep the Ring is a steamy Black romance novella about a runaway bride, a messy public scandal, and a vacation rebound that gets dangerously real.
Can I Run to You by Wynta Tyme
After losing her first love at such an early age, Red thought she’d seen all that life had to offer her. When she ran away from her hometown and to a big city to fulfill her duties as a vet, she never thought she’d have to return to the one place that hurt her the most. With an ill grandma, she’s left with no choice but to aid her. To certain civilians in Deep Woods, Alaska, Red is seen as a veterinarian, but to others that know, she was something more. Something so special that the only person who’s able to bring out her specialty was her true mate.
Downing ‘DW’ St. Wolf is no stranger to lonely or being an outcast. He may be seen as the town’s wealthiest bachelor, but to Red, he’s a mysterious grouch that’s rude. With a secret of his own, he works hard to stay away from Deep Woods’ newest veterinarian, but a few run ins at Wolf Tales changes everything. Just when the pair starts to get to know each other, secrets are revealed, and a mutual enemy makes himself known.
A blast from Red’s past resurfaces, and things become too heavy for her. She retreats like usual, but this time DW refuses to let her get away. Red is hit with sickness, lies, and an unexpected surprise. Will Red stay with DW and go through the tests of life, or will she continue to run from love and the past, while death seeks her loved ones?
Xoxo, His Ghetto Rose by Miy
Sydnee writes about love but has never experienced the kind that doesn’t leave a scar. Kendrick paints what he can’t put into words–and after one unforgettable encounter, he can’t stop painting the woman who has somehow gotten underneath his skin. She’s mouthy. He’s possessive. The chemistry? Dangerous.
What starts as flirtation quickly turns into late-night phone calls, stolen kisses, jealous arguments, and a connection neither of them saw coming.
But Kendrick isn’t the only man who wants Sydnee. And Sydnee isn’t the only woman with unfinished business.
With toxic exes circling, secrets lurking, and jealousy threatening to turn their attraction into obsession, Sydnee has to figure out if Kendrick is the love story she’s been waiting to write…
Or the one that will break her heart all over again.
Xoxo, His Ghetto Rose.
A Minute Past Midnight by Rosé Dior
Not all fairy tales come wrapped in flowers and romantic musicals. Sometimes they come wrapped in one night of steamy sex with a stranger.
Juliana Sidora has relocated from her hometown to the city of Detroit, Michigan. With nothing but seven grand and two suitcases, she’s determined to leave the confinements of her parents’ castle and rules to find her dream career. After a year of working at an entry-level design company and struggling to make ends meet, she decides to go out for a night on the town to get away from her problems . . . never knowing that one night would change her life forever.
After coming home from a business trip, Samir Frost never expected to have to run into a problem at his club. Not only does he have to put out a fire at District 313 but also get rid of his deceptive significant other. When he sees Juliana for the first time, he’s immediately drawn to her. For her, their one night was only supposed to be just that. However, what happens past midnight, neither of them could ever imagine.
His Favorite Crystal by Inez Moon
Steve is a tall, confident, handsome millionaire who sees Amethyst once at her job, and that’s all it takes. Intrigued, he dives deep into discovering who she is. Before Amethyst realizes it, Steve already knows far more about her than she knows about him. But she isn’t sitting around waiting to be figured out. She’s done her own digging, determined to uncover exactly who this man is. In other words, the stalker becomes the stalked.
Amethyst is a tall, plus-size, newly divorced woman in her forties cautiously stepping back into the dating world. Her first encounter is with a handsome “short king” whose disastrous, alcohol-fueled night almost ruins everything. But after giving him a second chance, he redeems himself, leaving Amethyst captivated by his charm, looks, and undeniable sexual chemistry.
Then she meets Steve and completely forgets about “the short king.”
Steve introduces Amethyst to a life of luxury, lust, sex, passion, and indulgence she never imagined for herself. But he doesn’t just want to give Amethyst the life she deserves. He wants the same for her children. For Steve, loving her means accepting every part of her life.
Yet beneath their undeniable chemistry, both Steve and Amethyst carry wounds from troubled relationships with their mothers. Their pasts have shaped how they love, trust, and fear abandonment. Together, they begin finding something neither expected: healing, understanding, and a love worth fighting for.
But the past isn’t finished with Amethyst.
The first man returns, and what began as a dating mishap quickly becomes obsessive, dangerous, and impossible to ignore. Steve is determined to protect his favorite crystal, but he discovers that he isn’t the only one willing to fight.
Amethyst is a silent crashout with hands rated E for Everybody, and she’ll do whatever it takes to protect the man she’s falling for.
Together, they become a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Two people with complicated pasts, undeniable chemistry, and a love that becomes dangerous when pushed too far.
But just when you think you’ve figured out where this story is going, atwist you won’t see coming will leave you lost for words and questioning everything you thought you knew.
Because when obsession comes knocking, only the strong will survive.
How far will Steve go for his favorite crystal, and what will Amethyst do to protect the man who would cross mountains for her?
The Woman I Left Behind by Tahlia Royale
Zaria Austin traded her carefree spirit, natural curls, and big dreams for a cookie-cutter suburban life to keep her man, Terrance, happy. She shrank herself to fit his world, playing the role of the picture-perfect partner. Until a wild night back in her hometown reveals the ultimate betrayal: Terrance has been living a double life.
Armed with the truth, fed up with being a doormat, Zaria walks away. But stepping back into the vibrant energy of The Rose means facing the terrifying unknown, confronting old wounds, and rediscovering the woman she buried.
NOT According to Plan by Jessica Terry
Neither Dru Washington or Greyson Middlebrook expected to leave the couples retreat they attended with their respective mates single, but when emotions and alcohol mix a little too potently on the last night, that's exactly what happens.
Dru is devastated while Greyson plans to take advantage of his new single status, having no interest in jumping back into anything serious with anyone. But when they console each other, neither can deny the chemistry brewing between them. They're perfectly content to ignore it until an unexpected pregnancy changes everything.
This was not supposed to happen, so what are they gonna do? Keep it casual and co-parent? Try to forge a relationship? What about their exes who are trying to get them back? Clearly a new plan is necessary but…can they agree on what it should be?
Full Court Press by Zaii
Aaron Lane and Zoha Medina were once inseparable.
First love turned into years of memories, plans, and a future they both believed they'd share. Until life pulled them in different directions and Zoha made the decision to walk away.
Six years later, Aaron is one of basketball's biggest stars, while Zoha has built a name for herself as a sports reporter. Their lives have moved forward, their careers have taken off, and the love they once shared should be nothing more than a memory.
At least, that's what Zoha tells herself.
Because when their paths cross again, six years suddenly doesn't feel nearly as long as it should.
Aaron never forgot the woman who knew him before the fame, and Zoha quickly realizes the man she left behind still knows exactly how to get under her skin. The chemistry is still there. So are the feelings neither of them ever completely let go.
But wanting each other was never their problem.
This time, they'll have to decide whether growing apart was the end of their story—or simply what they needed to find their way back to each other.
They've already had their first shot at love… The question is what happens when life puts them back on the same court.
Love Me in the Light by Mel Dau
Memoree Layne Smith knows exactly what light can do. As the owner of The Lighted Layne, she has built a career transforming spaces with it. So when she walks into Kryptonite Reserve for a lighting consultation, she expects to study the room. What she doesn’t expect is Ledger “Kryptonite” Johnson to study her.
Powerful, observant, and dangerously sure of himself, Ledger is the kind of man accustomed to getting exactly what he wants. From the moment the light shines on Memoree Layne, the lighting in his lounge is no longer the main reason for their meeting. She is the deal he wants to close with the lighting being a consolation prize.
Ledger is a self-made businessman who has money, power, and respect. Unfortunately or fortunately for Memoree Layne, Ledger has never been a man who knows how to want anything halfway. The deeper he falls, the more his protection becomes possession, his interest becomes obsession, and their undeniable chemistry threatens to illuminate every part of them, whether they want it to or not.
Light does so much more than make things beautiful . . . it reveals. Watch a new lighting concept reveal a love between two people. Two people who are as different as they are the same. Two people who only deserve to be loved in the light.
Circle Back to You by Jewel Saint Lee
He was the poem she never finished. She was the melody he never forgot.
Four years ago, Reece Cartier Prince walked away from everything they built. Now he's standing at the edge of a private beach in Punta Cana, holding out his hand like the distance between them was never real.
Tiara Monet Lexington Prince swore she'd never let him back in. She rebuilt herself from the ground up: new city, new rules, a life that finally belonged to her. But her thirtieth birthday was supposed to be a girls' trip. Not an ambush. Not him.
He says he's different now. Accountable. Ready. She wants to believe it, and that terrifies her more than his absence ever did.
But second chances come with a price, and someone from Reece's past isn't ready to let this reunion happen quietly. As old lies unravel and a new danger closes in, Tiara has to decide if the man who broke her is worth the risk of loving again.
Circle Back to You is a second-chance romance told in dual POV and dual timeline, for readers who believe real reunion only happens when both people rise.
Promise I Do: A Love in Briar Crest Novel by Lea C.
Bexley Alexander has always believed in love stories. She just never expected hers to begin with a promise made to her best friend at twelve.
Years ago, Bex and Axel Delacroix made a pact: if they were both single when she turned thirty-two, they’d marry each other. Now thirty-two has arrived and one trip to Vegas later, the childhood best friends are officially husband and wife.
But saying I do is only the beginning.
As married life brings unexpected changes and old family wounds to the surface, Ax and Bex must learn that forever isn’t about following the plans they made as kids. It’s about choosing each other through every chapter.
Some love stories are destined. Theirs was built brick by brick.
Girlfriend for Xmas by Tuesday Harper
She invented the perfect girlfriend. The problem is, now she has to find a woman willing to play her and the only believable option is the one who already broke her heart.
R&B superstar Beautiful Morris has finally given the world what it wanted. A hit comeback album. A very public coming out. And a mysterious girlfriend fans are convinced inspired every love song.
There’s just one problem. Miss Perfect doesn’t exist.
When a holiday docuseries threatens to expose the lie, Beautiful’s manager hires Mara to play her girlfriend. Another problem, though. Mara has already broken her heart once. And within seconds in her presence, it's obvious the chemistry between them never disappeared.
The longer they pretend, the harder it becomes to tell where the performance ends and the feelings begin. With Christmas closing in and the whole world watching, Beautiful has to decide whether trusting Mara with her heart again is worth the risk. Or if some love stories are better left fictional.
Terms of Desire: A Forbidden Age-Gap Romance by Juliet Ameh
Morenike is power and elegance. At 45, she moves through Lagos high society with quiet authority, an elite investment broker, admired, untouchable, and carefully composed. But beneath the polished image is a life held together by silence and compromise.
Daniel is a gifted 29-year-old fashion designer on the brink of his breakthrough. Talented, charming, and ambitious, he wants more than success. He wants access to a world of power, wealth, and influence. Beside him is Somto, the woman who believed in him long before anyone else did.
When Morenike hires him for her birthday celebration, what begins as a professional arrangement slowly becomes something far more dangerous. In the charged intimacy of private fittings and stolen conversations, boundaries blur, and desire begins to dictate its own terms.
But ambition has consequences.
The Secret (Arbor Springs Book 3) by Embassie Susberry
Of all the things Zora Mosley expected to do in life, getting pregnant out of wedlock wasn’t one of them. When the father of her child refuses to marry her, Zora faces limited choices if she has any hope of keeping her secret.
Thrust into a quick marriage with a man who is not at all what she expected, Zora reluctantly returns to Arbor Springs with no goals except to make the most of her situation. But soon, her marriage becomes the least of her problems when she finds herself entangled in an unexpected drug ring that makes one thing very clear: Zora’s not the only person willing to go to any lengths to protect a secret.
For A Stranger Who Doesn't Feel Like One by Tisean M. Bell
When Taryn Brooks first meets Soraya Osei, the moment feels brief, electric, and strangely familiar, the kind of encounter that lingers long after it's over. But life moves quickly, and they part ways, thinking they may never see each other again. What neither of them knows is that the story between them has only just begun. Set between London, Atlanta, and Ghana, For A Stranger Who Doesn't Feel Like One follows Soraya and Taryn as they unexpectedly find their way back to each other and discover that love doesn't have to begin in a whirlwind to be meaningful. Through music, humor, and quiet moments of vulnerability, they begin to build something real together. Tender, romantic, funny and emotionally warm, this is a story about recognizing home in another person. Featuring an embedded soundtrack inspired by the soulful romance ofLove Jones, Boomerang, and Brown Sugar. Recommended for fans of Insecure, Entergalactic, Rye Lane, Honey Girl, and Flirting Lessons.
This Season Until Forever: A Christian Romance Novel (Forever Faithfully Yours Book 4) by LaToya Battle
Sometimes God uses one season to lead you into forever…
Amira Norton thought she knew what she wanted from her future. After life leaves her questioning more than she expected, she enters the Christmas season asking God for one thing—to show her what’s true.
Then a mysterious gift appears on her desk with three simple words:
You are seen.
As Christmas approaches, unexpected possibilities begin opening around her, including a growing connection with Elias Vinson, the handsome new architect at work. But trusting what’s developing means Amira will have to face some of the fears she’s carried far longer than she realized.
This Christmas, Amira may discover that God doesn’t have to reveal the whole journey to lead her into a beautiful new season.
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