New Release Round-Up July 20th-26th
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Check out these new Black Romance releases from July 20th-26th
Back to You by Nicole Falls
On the cusp of a trip to celebrate the tenth wedding anniversary of one of her dearest friends, Cassidy Taylor finds herself in one helluva situation. Recently re-entering a purely physical relationship with her ex-husband that she thinks is just for pleasure's sake, she finds herself conflicted when this trip will put them in each other's presence around others for a continuous extended period.
Everett Taylor couldn't be more thrilled at having the opportunity of being on a secluded island with the love of his life in order to prove that he deserves one more chance. Despite being unsure that he will be able to convince Cass to give him another chance, he uses everything in his arsenal to win his lady back.
Spinning the block on an ex is always a risky choice, but both Cassidy and Everett weigh the options and realize that the risk is worth the reward.
It's Not the Baby, It's His Daddy (Young In Love Book 6) by Elle Wright
Flying under the radar is a skill, one I perfected a long time ago. I learned that if I stayed quiet, I could blend into my surroundings. I make it a point to say less and keep my feelings to myself. I’ve always done what I need to do for me. Whatever that entails.
And life was easy… until it wasn’t.
Want to know my one regret? I don’t really believe in regrets, but I’ll play. Her. She’s my sister’s best friend, more like family. It should’ve been easy to put her in a box marked off-limits. Right? Wrong. Because there will always be a part of me that wants more from her. And now that she's divorced... I can't find a reason not to step to her.
Want to know when she started calling me her little light thang? I’m not shy, so when she finally looked at me like I wasn’t just her best friend’s little brother, I showed her how grown I really am—in every way she could imagine.
Want to know how my carefree life became complicated? I did a good thing. Selfless, really. I thought I was just the donor. And it was all fun and games until that baby appeared on my doorstep.
So, yeah… I’m someone’s daddy. We're not going to even talk about how many somebodies there might be, but that’s not the point. Because those babies aren’t depending on me for their very survival. This one is.
Now, I’m forced to learn a new lesson. Everything happens for a reason.
IT'S NOT THE BABY, IT'S HIS DADDY is book six in the Young In Love Series, featuring the very large, very fun Young Family. If you love romance with layered characters and laugh out loud moments, snag your copy. This novel contains sex, profanity, and sensitive subjects that some may find triggering.
A Summer Kind of Love by Danielle Brooks
A chance encounter. One unforgettable summer.
Summer Daly wasn't looking for love when she met Michal Jackson on the beaches of Lovey's Bay. The disciplined water rescue firefighter and Navy Reservist is the complete opposite of her free-spirited nature, but one spontaneous adventure turns into another, and soon neither can deny the attraction growing between them.
As sun-soaked days give way to meaningful conversations, lingering touches, and stolen kisses, what begins as a summer fling starts to feel like something much deeper.
A Summer Kind of Love is a summer beach romance where love comes in like a wave, unexpected, irresistible, and impossible to forget.
Count On Me (BAEs OF BAYSIDE) by Leigh Carron
Count On Me is a secret lovers romance set during a fictional mayoral campaign. It isn’t affiliated with or intended to represent any real political party or ideology. The campaign is the backdrop. The romance is the heart.
Rayne Webber never expected that the man she shared one unforgettable night with would show up in her town—on the other side of her mayoral race.
Enter Dakarai Ramos.
Her Plan A is solid:
Ignore the fine campaign strategist and his crisp pocket squares.
Ignore the inconvenient kitty flutters.
Win the election.
But it's not foolproof.
A debate meeting turns into a steamy battleground and chance encounters keep blurring the lines... until they finally break down and agree to a secret relationship. They’re one misstep away from a “Sleeping With The Opposition” headline blowing up their careers. But unable to resist each other, they risk it anyway—stealing moments in discreet locations around town, escaping to a secluded lake house, and sharing late-night phone calls that deepen their connection.
Then a scandal hits.
The fallout tests Dakarai’s loyalty to his candidate and threatens to tank Rayne’s campaign.
In a high-stakes world where the final race is decided by a ballot count, the real win might not be a political title at all…
It might just be finding that someone you can always count on.
We Could've Been: A Los Oceania Novelette by Aubree Pynn
Cyanna and Karys have been tethered to one another for as long as each could remember. Best friends, enemies – maybe lovers? A question that lingers in the tension of what they are now. It desperately needs an answer, but the constant avoidance of the longing of their hearts has landed them in a very messy situation.
While Cyanna is at the end of a marriage, Karys is looking to build his future with someone else. Until nature takes a course neither of them can deny. Past the point of no return, can they survive life together or will they always live in regret of what they could’ve been?
Home Court Advantage: A Sapphic Rivals to Lovers Sports Romance by Kimani Mae
Nola Young has worked hard to step outside of her superstar parents spotlight. Yes she may be genetically inclined to be a basketball star, but she’s made sure to prove her talent. She’d enjoy her time at the top more if it weren’t for her rival from college- Brittney Lee. Hot headed and constantly on Nola’s heels, the two can’t help but perpetuate the on court rivalry the media loves to play up.
Brittney Lee is having her best year yet. With her first championship ring on her finger and finally out the closet, and guilt free, she’s ready to change up her life. When she’s a free agent traded to the newly expanded Miami Waves, listening to her gut hasn’t backfired yet. But… why is Nola Young here too?
After unexpected career changes, Nola and Brittney find themselves, once rivals, now teammates. Back in close proximity, their college days and interconnected lives bubble to the surface with a chemistry they’re both in denial over. But are they honest enough to put their animosity to the side for their new team, especially when their feelings threaten to complicate things more?
Christmas in July: A Sweet Grumpy Sunshine Romance by Maya Toni
When she agreed to help an ornament shop in a Christmas-obsessed town, she expected a cheerful welcome. The problem? The grumpy owner didn’t know she was coming.
Desperate for work, social media consultant Summer Adams accepts an on-site job in Mistletoe, Indiana. Now she’s humming Christmas tunes and admiring—ahem, assessing—photos and videos of her client, Elijah Howell, crafting wooden ornaments.
But no matter how attractive he is, even when he’s fixing Summer’s nail polish remover spill on a wooden table, she’s determined to keep their interactions professional.
Sounds easy, right? Wrong.
Marketing the woodworker who’s delightfully good with his hands? That’s easy. Making him and the shop go viral? Done. Controlling the flutters in her stomach whenever they’re together? Hard. Very hard. Then a sweet moment shared over breakfast and a side of honey more than crosses a line.
There’s just one thing Elijah refuses to discuss, and it may be the very thing that stands between them and their happily-ever-after.
Amsterdam: A Serendipitous Love Story (Saint Marks Book 1) by Dimonique
She was supposed to be on her honeymoon. Instead, Myrielle Monreaux finds herself alone in Amsterdam after calling off her wedding and walking away from the life everyone expected her to want.
Zayden Fontenot wasn’t looking for love either. Buried beneath family expectations, legacy, and responsibility, the last thing he expected was a woman who made him feel seen.
What was only supposed to be one night becomes something neither of them can ignore when fate keeps pulling them back into each other’s orbit. But healing old wounds, facing meddling families, and learning to trust again may cost them more than either is prepared to lose.
Some loves are planned.
The most life-changing ones never are.
A Gift Wrapped Chance by Moya Shannon
Bronwyn, an effervescent, devoted school teacher, is ready to trade lesson plans for laughter during her long-awaited spring break. Her only plan? Turn up for her best friend’s birthday bash, indulge in a mouthwatering cake, devour chef’s kiss soul food, and indulge in bubbly champagne-fueled dancing.
But fate has other ideas. A quick stop on her way to a gift shop lands her face-to-face with Landen—a ridiculously handsome medical professional with a smile that could melt chocolate.
Landen, a dedicated radiologist with an infectious sense of humor and a magnetic smile, is on his own mission—finding a present for his best friend, a charismatic restaurateur whose birthday bash promises to be the event of the season. A collision and one witty exchange later, sparks are flying faster than confetti at a surprise party. The chance encounter, both left it at that.
But when a jaw-dropping reveal at the celebration ties their lives together in an unexpected way, Bronwyn and Landen find themselves caught in a whirlwind of chemistry, coincidence, and charm. As the night unfolds, playful banter turns into lingering glances, sizzling touches, and the pull between them becomes impossible to resist.
Will they let the universe play matchmaker, or will they write their own happily-ever-after?
Perfect for fans of heartfelt romance with a dash of fate and a twist of serendipity, A Gift Wrapped Chance is a story about chance meetings, surprising truths, and the kind of chemistry that refuses to be ignored.
Encore: Harmony & Heartbreak by Queen Rae
She lost her marriage.
Somewhere between saying ‘I do’ and receiving the divorce papers, she lost herself too.
After a painful divorce, Harmony Peyco-Ross is determined to rebuild the life she put on hold for everyone else. Between raising her daughters and finally pursuing the music career she’s buried for years, falling in love is the last thing on her mind.
Especially with the man who’s been standing in the shadows all along.
Casanova ‘Heartbreak’ Brookins has loved Harmony for years. Quietly, faithfully, and without expecting anything in return. As her biggest supporter and her husband’s closest friend, he’s content to wait until she’s ready…even if it means risking his own heart in the process.
As Harmony’s music begins opening doors she never imagined, she’s forced to confront the fears that have kept her playing small. With every stage she steps onto and every dream she finally chases, she discovers that the hardest person to believe in has always been herself.
But when her past refuses to stay where it belongs, Harmony must decide if she’ll keep living for the life she lost or embrace the future waiting for her.
Sometimes the greatest love story isn’t finding the right person.
It’s becoming the person you were always meant to be…and sometimes, the one who’s been cheering you on all along is the one worth singing about.
The Key To His Soul (The Sullivan Family Book 4) by Nai
She’s known as the Sullivan who never bites her tongue, never lowers her standards, and never loses herself trying to fit into someone else’s expectations. Fiercely loyal and deeply rooted in self-love, Kyiris Sullivan has built a life that doesn’t require a relationship to make her feel whole. With her pick of men, she’s made one thing clear: if love finds her, it’ll have to meet her right where she stands.
Mehki has spent years believing fulfillment could only come from taking pieces of different women to satisfy the different parts of himself, and he’s carefully created a life that fits that motto. That is, until he meets his match — a woman who challenges not only his perspective but the very foundation that he believes he’s built solid ground on.
As undeniable chemistry turns into something neither of them expected, encounters that leave lasting impressions force them to confront the difference between what they want and what they truly need.
Turn the pages in this fourth installment of The Sullivan Family series, where you’ll find more love, more laughter, all while discovering that sometimes, the key to forever isn’t finding the right person. It’s being the right version of yourself when they arrive.
The One I Love to Hate: An Enemies to Lovers College Baseball Romance (Dashwood U Book 4) by Teralyn Mitchell
Is the one you love to hate ever The One? Asking for a friend…
Once upon a time, Cecilia Ricci thought Trey Penrose might be her happily ever after. Until her handsome prince turned out to be nothing but a royal jerk. That was four years ago, and she still hates him. Now, if only she could keep her heart from beating just a little faster every time he’s near…
Trey told himself pushing Cecilia away was for her own good. He wasn’t ready for a real relationship back then—not with the pressure of going pro hanging over his head. But everything’s different now. It might finally be their time…if he can convince her to stop hating him, that is…
When an unplanned road trip throws them together, will a little forced proximity and a ton of unresolved chemistry lead to forever? Or is their second chance at romance doomed to crash and burn?
The One I Love to Hate, book 4 in the Dashwood U series, is a sweet and spicy, slow burn, enemies to lovers, college sports/new adult romance that can be read as a standalone. Download today and get ready to fall for Cecilia and Trey.
Shielded by the Alpha Bear: Black Paranormal Romance (Iron Den Security of Willow Creek Book 4) by Norah Rose
I’m hired to protect her body... but my bear wants her soul.
QUETTA
I know what it feels like to have nothing. I grew up counting pennies, watching bills pile up, and promising myself I'd never live like that again. Now I'm finally making it. Makeup tutorials, fashion content, brand deals, my beauty platform is taking off, and for the first time in my life, I can breathe. Then the gifts start showing up. Messages. Photos. Someone is watching me. Someone who knows things they shouldn't. I worked too hard for this life to lose it now.
ZAY
Protection is simple: identify the threat and eliminate the danger. Feelings only get people hurt. Then I meet Quetta. Loud, stubborn, beautiful Quetta. She's supposed to be another assignment, another job. But my bear disagrees. Because every time she smiles at me, every instinct inside me says the same thing. Mine.
Shielded by the Alpha Bear is the fourth installment in the Iron Den Security of Willow Creek series where the guards fall for their beautiful clients.
Can I Call You Mine by Damion Poe
Xavier Cole learned early that wanting things you can't control gets you burned in this city. As a senior advisor at the Pentagon, he's built a career on staying invisible, on being the steady hand no one notices. Then a stranger's fingers brush his over a coffee cup at dawn, and something in his chest starts humming a song he can't unhear.
The stranger is Senator Andre Mitchell: Washington's golden boy, brilliant, magnetic, and very publicly spoken for. Everything about wanting him is reckless. Everything about walking away feels impossible.
As stolen dinners become something neither man can name, the machinery of Washington begins to turn against them. Weaponized headlines. A partner with everything to lose. A city that has never once looked away from a scandal. Andre has spent a lifetime perfecting the mask that keeps him untouchable. Xavier has spent his learning exactly when to disappear. But the hum between them refuses to stay quiet, and the only way through the storm they've started is to walk into it together, in the open, where everyone can see.
A Saint For Soleil by Mz. Toni
Soleil Carter has spent her whole life surviving things that should have broken her.
Between working long shifts at an assisted living facility, raising her younger sister, and building her dessert business one order at a time, Soleil doesn’t have space for love, distractions, or dangerous men with pretty eyes and quiet power. Her focus is simple: keep her sister safe, stack her money, and turn Soleil Sweets into something nobody can take from her.
Then Khalon “Cross” Saint walks into her life.
Cross is the kind of man people whisper about but never test. Controlled, feared, and carrying scars of his own, he isn’t looking for softnes until Soleil gives him a reason to want something more than survival. What starts as protection slowly turns into passion, and for the first time, Soleil begins to believe peace might actually be possible.
But the past doesn’t let go easily.
When old threats resurface and danger creeps too close to the life Soleil is trying to build, she has to decide if trusting Cross means risking her heart or finally allowing someone strong enough to stand beside her.
Raw, emotional, funny, and full of heat, A Saint for Soleil is a gritty Black romance about survival, love, loyalty, healing, and the kind of man who will burn the world down before he lets his woman fall.
Hush Money & Hits by Natisha Raynor
Pearce Langston has never used his father's name to try and gain leverage, respect, or clout. He's his own man, and he can stand on his own two feet. That doesn't mean he doesn't want a relationship with the mogul known as Kalim Moore. However, Kalim is a man that doesn't play by the rules. It's his way or no way and that's with anybody. He doesn't like to be challenged and thinks his status and wealth should have everyone nodding and agreeing with whatever it is that he wants. Pearce feels differently, and when his father does something so underhanded and evil that even Pearce is stunned, all bets are off. Pearce no longer cares about a relationship with his father. In fact, he wants all the smoke with his father and when the dust settles, only one man will be left standing.
Vanya Roberson is thirty years old and doing something she never thought she would be. Dancing for money. It's only supposed to be temporary, and it's a means to an end. Until one night changes everything. Feeling like she has nothing left to lose, Vanya blackmails a man powerful enough to make her disappear with a snap of his fingers, but she goes all in. And the consequences are ones she didn't expect.
Exit: Us by Diamond D. Johnson
Meet Amina Sinclair. Born and raised in Miami, Florida. Amina was raised in a successful household, with an accomplished attorney for a mother and an architectural designer for a father. Her childhood was filled with love, stability, and great opportunity. For a while, life for Amina almost seemed too good to be true. Everything changed after the tragic loss of her father. Miami no longer felt the same for Amina’s mother, so when Amina was only thirteen years old, she and her mother relocated to London, with plans to rebuild their lives there. Over the years, London became home for Amina. She attended one of the best universities in London, followed in the same career path as her father, and eventually, she found a man that she thought she would spend forever with. When her love life didn’t go as planned, Amina found herself back in Miami, searching for a new beginning.
Then, there’s Gemini Black. A thirty-five-year-old, handsome, college educated man, in charge of owning his very own successful trucking company. Even though Gemini grew up dealing with the absence of his biological father, he had a stepfather that stepped up, who played his part in Gemini being the man that he is today. Most of Gemini’s life is spent on the highway, hauling freight from state to state. He’s become comfortable on the truck, loving the peace that it offers him.
Now that Amina is back in Miami, she reconnects with her childhood best friend, Gianna Black. Gianna is the little sister of Gemini. For some reason, Gianna believes that Gemini can help Amina navigate through the pain that she ran away from in London. She believes that getting on the truck with Gemini would be therapy for clearing her mind. Because Amina left Miami many years ago, and her and Gemini were never close to begin with, it’s almost as if she’s getting on a truck with a stranger, so neither Gemini nor Amina is fond of Gianna’s suggestion.
Somehow, after a lot of convincing, Amina agreed to getting on the truck with Gemini. For two months, thousands of miles traveling with each other, numerous conversations, a spark grew between the two.
Exit: Us is a heartfelt story about navigating through grief, healing, and the unexpected love that comes out of just taking a chance. This journey between Gemini and Amina was unexpected, but it led them exactly where they were meant to be.
Battle My Love: Special Edition (Journeys Of The Heart Series : Special Edition Book 5) by Cinquanta Cox-Smith
She trained soldiers to survive anything. She never trained herself to survive him.
Senior Drill Sergeant Gina Montgomery-Lincoln can read a lie before it finishes forming - a gift that built her career and, for four years, protected her from the one betrayal she never saw coming: her own marriage. She adopted her husband's daughter at a dying woman's bedside. She built a family out of a promise. Now she has to find out if a promise is enough to survive the truth.
First Sergeant Malcolm Lincoln has spent his whole life believing he doesn't deserve the good things he fights for - and one reckless night proves it. A encounter with a subordinate who won't let go. Forty-eight thousand dollars in debt hidden behind a smile. A little girl who calls him "Paw Paw" and has no idea her entire world is one confession away from cracking open.
Then the Army ships him nine months and an ocean away, and Gina is left holding it all: a marriage on the edge, a rival who keeps circling closer, and a little girl who still checks the door every morning for the man who broke her mother's heart. Malcolm comes home changed - quieter, leaner, on his knees in a way he never let anyone see before. Whether that's enough is the only battle left.
Some marriages end in divorce papers. This one goes to war first.
Battle My Love is a slow-burn, second-chance-within-the-marriage military romance about loving someone through their worst chapter - and what's still standing when the smoke clears. Raw, faith-rooted, and unapologetically Black love, for readers who want their happily-ever-after earned, not handed over.
The Mountain Man's Mail Order Dilemma: A Enemies To Lovers, Grumpy Sunshine Romance by Deidre-Ann Anderson
I didn't order a wife. Let me be clear about that.
My meddling grandmother, God rest her soul, apparently signed me up for a mail-order bride service six months before she died. I found the confirmation letter in her desk drawer between her crossword puzzles and a bottle of peach schnapps, three days after I buried her.
The letter says my "match" arrives Tuesday.
It's Monday.
I call the service. They tell me cancellation requires sixty days' notice. I have sixteen hours. They suggest I "keep an open mind." I suggest something less printable.
Tuesday morning, a woman steps off the bus in town with a suitcase, a folder of correspondence from my dead grandmother, and the kind of smile that makes you think the sun just decided to focus all its energy on one spot.
She's beautiful, hopeful, promising to be the perfect partner, and looking at me like I'm the answer to a prayer I didn't know someone was saying.
I should send her back. Explain the situation, put her on the next bus, and go back to my cabin to be angry at my grandmother in peace. Instead, I look at her face. Really look. And I see something behind that hopeful smile that I recognize. The same thing I see in my mirror every morning.
Someone who's run out of places to go.
Born Winner: A Different Kind of Sports Romance by Miss Desire
What happens when a born winner STARTS LOSING IN LIFE?
From a young age, Jalen Thompson’s whole identity was wrapped up in his rare athletic ability to play both football and basketball at a high level.
The knee injury he experienced in college took not just his future in the NFL, but his whole identity from him. Putting the ball down had been one of the hardest things he ever had to go through.
But now, at the age of 29, he is about to go through another one of the biggest challenges of his life. He’s newly married to his college sweetheart and first and only love, Angie, the woman who knew him back when stadiums chanted his name.
What happens when multiple outside forces start threatening Jalen’s confidence and sense of security?
Jalen knows how to play defense to win a game, but he’s never learned to fight for a marriage.
This book is for former athletes, sports fans, and anyone who ENJOYS READING a beautiful romance....
The Risks We Take (Alumni Love Book 3) by Charlotte Dinnis
Talisa Reed has always trusted her instincts. A successful attorney in Washington, D.C., she’s known for her sharp mind, fearless honesty, and her uncanny ability to read people within minutes of meeting them. Friends rely on her advice, her loyalty, and her willingness to call out bad decisions—especially when it comes to relationships.
Talisa has always believed that if you ask the right questions, the truth eventually reveals itself.
Then she meets Dominic Bennett.
A political reporter covering Washington’s shifting power landscape, Dominic lives a life defined by structure and responsibility. Between newsroom deadlines, school pickups, and raising his young daughter, Jordan, he doesn’t have room for complicated relationships—and he’s learned not to promise more than he can give.
Talisa immediately recognizes a good man when she sees one.
Dominic isn’t evasive or guarded. He’s simply careful—with his time, his priorities, and especially with his daughter’s world. For the first time in years, Talisa finds herself navigating a relationship that refuses to move at the pace she’s used to controlling. The harder she tries to read him, the less certain she becomes.
And the more she cares about Dominic, the more she realizes that loving him means accepting the life he’s already built.
A life where his daughter will always come first.
For a woman who has always trusted her instincts, uncertainty may be the greatest risk of all.
A clean contemporary romance about love, patience, and the unexpected ways life asks us to be brave.
Sweet Benefits: A friends with benefits romance by Wuraola
Twenty-year-old Elise Gilbert is a South London barista who survives on rules: trust no man, rely on no one, and keep her three-year-old son safe.
At twenty three, Upton Thomas is the problem child of his billionaire family and a stain on their name. The moment he walks into Elise’s coffee shop, he raises her defensive walls. A former felon, old money heir, sexy bad boy thug who comes over entitled AF.
When disaster strikes, Upton is the one who holds her down, the only one she can’t push away. The man she swore was strictly off-limits is suddenly in her apartment, her bed, and melting the edges of her sealed heart.
Upton is fighting his own war—a family to defy, navigating probation and the right to be his own man. Cut off from his trust fund, his powerful family are trying to control his second chance.
They ride out their sizzling hot chemistry, by being friends with benefits before a devastating misunderstanding tears them apart.
Will their love be enough to survive it?
Set in London, England, this is an emotional New Adult romance about messy beginnings, coming of age, and holding on when everyone says let go.
Church Fellas by Shelia E. Bell
Another "Perfect story about imperfect people like You...and Me!
In "Church Fellas," the 15th installment of the My Son’s Wife series, Hezekiah, Stiles, Khalil, and Christian each battle their own demons. Hezekiah McCoy can’t seem to let go of a past relationship, even though it landed him in prison. Stiles Graham must bury a ghost of his past if he wants to move on with a new love. Khalil McCoy's adulterous affairs destroyed his marriage, and now he must face the painful reality that the woman who once loved him most now despises him. Christian Black stands at a crossroads where temptation knocks, and everything he holds dear depends on the choices he makes.
Four men. Four battles. Will they find redemption before it's too late...because even men of God have battles no one sees... and not every battle is won in the sanctuary.
Oath: FX Resources Book 3 (The FX Resources Series) by Nia Axel
There were two things I didn’t do—entertain what I couldn’t have. Or take risks I couldn’t mitigate or outright control.
Then two years post forced retirement, depressed, and bored, I was headhunted by a yoked white boy I’d met only a handful of times and fully planned to turn down his job offer. Until I turned a corridor in the quietest office I’d ever toured and saw her.
Four inch designer heels. Tight pencil skirt. And a face that gave me no reason to believe I would ever touch her, let alone keep her.
One single moment in time, now a core memory was all it took to end twenty years of steadfast adherence.
One where I grew familiar with incalculable risk and not even the perception of control and I’d accepted it. But Karma was due and mine had come to collect.
I’d taken an oath—till death do us part.
It was about to be tested.
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