New Release Round-Up September 14th-20th
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Check out these new Black romance releases from September 14th-20th.
Surrender To Love (Bako Brothers Book 2) by Charity Shané
Kyrah Morris has built a life she’s proud of. As the College of Business Dean at the HBCU Crescent Falls University, she’s successful, independent, and surrounded by the friends who became family. She’s learned one important lesson: love hurts. So she keeps her intimate relationships in the friends-with-benefits category.
Then Shiro Bako walks onto the dance floor.
Shiro loves his family, his thriving auto repair shop, and a variety of beautiful, black thick women who knows how to have a good time until one dance with Kyrah leaves him waiting more.
Kyrah insists that they aren’t serious but Shiro has never been a man who backs down from what he wants. With patience, intention, and a whole lot of charm, he begins showing Kyrah that real love doesn’t have to look like the heartbreak she left behind.
Just when Kyrah’s carefully guarded heart begins to open, the past returns and old wounds threaten everything she and Shiro are building. Suddenly, trusting him means risking the one thing she’s fought hardest to protect: her heart.
When it comes to Kyrah, Shiro isn’t afraid of loving her and he sure as hell isn’t afraid of forever. He knows exactly what he wants—and he’s determined to show her that sometimes the love you’re most afraid to trust is the love you were always meant to find.
Their attraction is instant, their chemistry undeniable, and pretending they’re “just friends” becomes harder every day.
Nothing Like Your Ex by BriAnn Danae
Don’t let your NBA boyfriend stop you from having the best summer of your life with a fine, generous, gang-affiliated, Grammy-nominated rapper.
That wasn’t exactly what interior designer Kwinn Taylor had in mind when she ran into Melo Christian backstage, but who was she to prevent the inevitable? One phone call led to a private flight and undeniable chemistry too strong to ignore. While she had no plans on falling so quickly, Melo had no problem making his feelings known.
He wanted her, that gorgeous smile she possessed, and everything that came with stepping into her creative world. The best thing that could've happened after the wrong man broke her heart was to meet a real one who knew exactly what to do with it... and her. Since Kwinn couldn’t change the man, she changed the man.
Sun Kissed Moments by M. Monique
R&B artist, Justina “Majesty” Knight, has the music industry at her fingertips. Opening for some the industries heavy hitters has catapulted her career to a new level. She’s now gearing up for her newest album release. A vacation to Onyx Cove, Florida, is exactly what she needs. A little sun, a little fun... What could possibly go wrong? After a messy break-up, she’s all too happy to retreat to the highly exclusive, Onyx Cove Resort. What she doesn’t count on is encountering Dane Richards.
Dane “Big Dane” Richards is at the top of his game. Musically, he can’t be touched. Considered one of the greatest rappers to ever live, he owns an air that doesn’t allow him to stoop to anyone’s level. He’s a man comfortable in his fame.
Getting involved with a woman whose messy breakup is fresh and still making its rounds should be the last thing on Dane’s mind. However, he can’t help himself. He has one purpose for visiting Onyx Cove Resort, and her name is Justina. The most important move he’s ever made in his life rests on his ability to win the heart of Justina Knight.
In the background, messiness still lurks. Will Dane’s love for Justina prove to be strong. Or will they allow pressures of outsdie influences come between them?
Black Gold Valley: Nathaniel by Dandridge Monroe
Nathaniel Chisholm-Love: Rodeo Champion and Cowboy Casanova. He hails from Black Texas trailblazers and is part of ranching royalty. He has so much on his plate including people making trouble in Black Gold Valley but he has business and buckles on the brain. A bad fall put his rodeo season on hold a year ago but it's his turn to reclaim his title.
And then he steps in to help a damsel in distress.
Nate has never been one for love. Making it has been easy but feeling the depth of emotions has always been nonexistent. Until a purple-haired artists blows into his life showing him his faults and setting things to right. Avoiding it for years, love is no longer willing to wait. Can Nate balance reclaiming his title, growing his brand and helping protect the legacy that made him the man he is? Or will he need to sacrifice his dreams for the woman he loves?
Know Your Place by Cyn
With a name like Beretta, how could he not be completely off the chain?
As a woman, Icelynn should have known better than to get entangled with Beretta. The problem is that she’s a live-wire herself. She’s drawn to him, and there’s no way he would come up off her.
Now, they’re caught up in a toxic love affair where neither of them knows how to love but both of them know how to argue and raise hell behind each other.
But there’s a quiet kind of beauty in that. Just beneath the anger is a love so raw that neither of them knows how to face it, and they definitely can’t ignore it. Because as much as they know how to make each other jealous and push each other’s buttons, Beretta also knows exactly how she likes her coffee, and Icelynn is the only one who can calm him down.
They argue hard, but they fall harder, and once they’re locked in, there’s absolutely no turning back. Now, their jealousy is worse, and their love is more explosive, but instead of making life difficult for each other, they raise hell together and leave everyone shaking in their wake.
Weddings on the West: Vol. I Brick & Destiny by Shay Dawn
From the streets to the sanctuary… Could the most unexpected pairing be exactly what they needed?
As one of Sleighton’s most eligible bachelors, Brick West wants for nothing. There isn’t a woman he can’t have, expense he can’t afford, or limit he can’t reach. Until a demand from his overbearing mother throws his entire world off its axis.
Find a wife. Or lose everything.
He tries to call her bluff, but gets a swift reminder that the infamous Lady West is not to be toyed with or doubted. Now, he’s left scrambling to make it down the aisle to protect his legacy. She can force him to get married, but she can’t force him to fall in love… Right?
Destiny Cooper is a good girl, a God-fearing woman. Her entire life was spent suppressing her wants and needs and serving the church in order to please her strict father. She finds out that he’s not everything he claims to be, and in order to save his life, must do the unthinkable. Being promised to the foul-mouthed, flashy, stranger was not what she planned for her life, but she quickly finds out that sometimes the biggest blessings come when you least expect them.
The Plus One by TK Fletcher
Kema agreed to be the maid of honor at her best friend’s destination wedding in Cancún only to discover her cheating ex is the best man, and he’s bringing the woman he cheated with.
Naturally, Kema needs a plus one. Who better than her ex’s fine, wealthy best friend, Ace?
The plan is simple fake the relationship, survive the wedding, and go home. It’s supposed to be pretend, but what Kema doesn’t know is Ace wanted her long before she ever asked him to be her PLUS ONE.
Worth the Trip by Meka Evette
Nolani Thomas has poured herself into Crème & Chill and the people who depend on her in Self Ridge, leaving little room for something as simple as rest. When the people who love her finally convince her to take a much-needed trip, she agrees to step away from responsibility for a few days.
Seventy-five miles away in Self Springs, Landon Brooks knows the same exhaustion. A university football coach with multiple degrees, a heart for mentoring young boys on the little-league field, and aging parents he helps care for, Landon has mastered being everything everyone needs him to be. Slowing down is another story. His family has one solution: Take a trip.
Neither goes to Willow Run looking for anything but a little room to breathe. Then they find each other. Two lives. Two cities. Seventy-five miles of highway between them, and one unexpected connection neither saw coming. They only meant to take a break from their lives. But when it’s time to return to them, one question lingers between Self Ridge and Self Springs: Is what they found worth the trip?
Someone Save Me (Journeys Of The Heart Series : Special Edition Book 7) by Cinquanta Cox-Smith
Everybody's got a strong friend. The one who shows up with the wine, holds everyone together, saves the whole group.
Nobody ever asks who's saving her.
To the people who love her, Sally Sinclair has it handled. She's a trauma nurse in Seattle — sharp on her worst day, the sister the others call at 2 a.m. She's finally home in the arms of Jackson Smith, the man who lost his NBA future to a drunk driver and rebuilt his whole life from a wheelchair. The one man on earth who has never once made her flinch.
What none of them can see is the counting. The bottles sorted quiet so the glass won't clink. The mint dissolving on her tongue before he reaches for her. The mask she's worn since Miami — since Jim, since everything she learned to pour into a glass and call fine.
Sally is a high-functioning alcoholic, drowning where no one can see the water. And here's the truth she can't say out loud, lying against the chest of the man she loves: the same thing that took Jackson's legs is the thing she reaches for every night.
She can keep performing okay until it costs her everything — Jackson, her work, the last of herself. Or she can do the one thing terror won't let her do: stop pretending, and ask to be caught.
But her sisters were never going to rescue her. They're the net. The falling — and the climbing back — she has to do herself.
Someone Save Me is a raw, tender, unflinching love story about addiction and the long road home, about being loved through the worst version of yourself, and about the day you realize the person you've been waiting on to save you has been you the whole time.
Love’s Decree by Parker Jones
Rory Towns is a criminal defense attorney who is fresh off another victory in court. The win signifies another accomplishment in her decorated career. A celebration after her win leads to a chance encounter with a handsome stranger. Everything about him screams danger, but something in her runs straight toward him.
Aasim “Brick” Miller is the president of the Sons of Destruction. A night out with his best friends and club members leads to him meeting Rory. He’s struck by the beauty of the woman who lives a life opposite his. None of that matters, because all he wants is her. The feeling is foreign to him, but he welcomes it.
While Rory initially had reservations about their union, a disgruntled former client makes her see Aasim is exactly what she needs in her life.
Fraudulent Beauty by Natisha Raynor
This is a fast paced novella
Tahli Ross is doing the best she can to navigate in the world as an adult, but everything is expensive, and she only works part-time. Tahli has another way to make money, but it comes with a huge risk. With each fraudulent act, she tells herself that it will be her last time. The title of wig influencer fell into her lap accidentally, and she plans to take full advantage. Tahli knows she needs a solid plan. One that doesn't include prison, but when the money calls it's hard to say no. Money is on Tahli's mind. Not men. But when she runs across a handsome gentleman, she doesn't see anything wrong with giving him a chance. When Tahli finds out what he does for a living, she wonders if she made a mistake.
Khalif Ross has always been referred to as a good guy. A good guy with a habit of falling for women that don't exactly share his morals and characteristics. When the mother of Khalif's child decides she doesn't want to be a full time mother anymore, he jumps in with no hesitation. Raising his daughter and working as a police officer take a lot of Khalif's time, but he soon finds someone worth making time for. Tahli checks all his boxes...until he finds out she doesn't just get money from promoting wigs and working at a bank.
Karma's Heart: A Friends to Lovers Romance by Soleil
Karma Bishop could only count on a handful of people in her life—one being Asiah Marshall. She's always wanted him but was afraid of ruining their friendship.
Asiah Marshall wanted nothing more than to earn Karma's heart. Knowing he couldn't fumble it, he played the role of best friend until friends wasn't enough for him anymore.
A potential life threatening illness changes things for them, and they realize that life is too short.
The chemistry is there, but is it enough to potentially ruin their friendship?
Or will they realize they could be friends as well as lovers?
Love & Streetball by K. Nicole
Kane Stone and Scottie “Slim” Grant come from two different worlds, but their love for basketball brings them together. As their bond grows beyond the court, they must overcome, loss, jealousy, and the pressure of chasing professional basketball dreams. In a game where love plays by its own rules, Kane and Scottie discover they might be each other’s greatest win.
Keep It Quiet by Renee
A messy divorce brought Saraiya Washington to the lowest point of her life. Determined to protect the life she's built in Houston, she's barely keeping her head above water when Miles Hayes, the man who's loved her in silence for years, returns home.
What begins as the love they were never supposed to have becomes something much bigger. Keep It Quiet is a story about love after loss, finding hope in the middle of heartbreak, and discovering that sometimes the person who helps you find the light has been waiting for you all along.
His Last Safe Place: A Dark Single Dad Mafia Romance by Taliah Mercer
He rules Atlanta’s most powerful Black crime family. But someone has discovered the only person he cannot afford to lose.
Nearly three years after his wife’s death, Malcolm Sinclair has turned grief into control. Every entrance is guarded, every loyalty is tested, and every threat is eliminated before it reaches his seven-year-old daughter, Amara.
Then an attempted abduction tears through his security—and the stranger who saves Amara is the one woman Malcolm cannot intimidate.
Former military protection specialist Zora Bennett built her life on preparation, not trust. Accepting a contract inside the Sinclair estate should be another assignment. Instead, she finds a frightened child who chooses her, a dangerous widowed father whose ruthless control conceals unbearable guilt, and evidence that the attack came from inside the family.
Forced beneath the same roof, Malcolm and Zora clash over every boundary while a forbidden attraction grows between them. But the conspiracy stalking Amara reaches back to the night Malcolm’s wife died. The traitor already knows every locked entrance, every emergency code—and exactly how to turn Malcolm’s love for his daughter into a weapon.
To keep Amara alive, Zora must trust the dangerous man who hired her. To earn Zora’s heart, Malcolm must surrender the control that built his empire. When the enemy finally takes what matters most, they will have one chance to choose love over vengeance—or lose their last safe place forever.
His Last Safe Place is a steamy Black mafia romance featuring a protective widowed father, a formidable female bodyguard, forced proximity, dangerous attraction, found family, open-door passion, and a complete happily-ever-after. The Sinclair family conspiracy continues throughout The Sinclair Syndicate series.
Enter the Sinclair estate and begin Book One today.
Packed Up: A Cozy, Omegaverse, Football, Reverse Harem Romance (All Knotted Up) by Ayah Jay
My apartment flooded. So obviously, I moved in with three Alpha football players.
Temporary. Totally manageable. Absolutely not the beginning of my downfall.
Malik is my best friend—the smooth, steady quarterback I somehow forgot was fine as hell.
Zaire is the pretty-boy wide receiver who stays in my face, eats my food, and kisses even better than he talks shit.
And Rome? Huge. Quiet. Bearded. Defensive end. Apparently been wanting me this whole damn time.
Then my heat comes early.
Now I’m stealing hoodies, building a nest I refuse to call a nest, and discovering exactly how much trouble one Omega can get into with an entire pack determined to take care of her.
And the real problem?
My apartment is fixed.
I can go home.
I just don’t think I want to.
PACKED UP is a funny, filthy, low-angst Black Omegaverse why-choose romance featuring three Alpha college football players, one curvy Omega, forced proximity, best friends to lovers, enemies-to-lovers banter, nesting, scenting, pack bonding, found family, and an HEA.
Changed The Game (Love Me Better Book 2) by Mia Jay
Chanel Cain doesn’t do relationships. Jalen Carter has never had to convince a woman to give him a chance. Until her.
Chanel has built her life around one rule: enjoy men for what they are, never expect them to be more, and keep her heart out of it. After learning the hard way what happens when you trust the wrong man, relationships are one complication she has no interest in revisiting.
Then Jalen Carter walks into her life.
NBA superstar. Certified bad boy. Shameless womanizer. And entirely too used to getting whatever—and whoever—he wants.
Their attraction is undeniable, but Chanel has no intention of becoming another woman on Jalen’s long list. So when an off-court scandal threatens his career and his team proposes a fake relationship to repair his image, she’s the last person anyone expects him to ask.
Especially Chanel.
What starts as a carefully planned arrangement comes with rules, boundaries, and an expiration date. But the longer they play their roles, the harder it becomes to separate what’s for the cameras from what happens when no one is watching.
Just when Chanel begins questioning everything she thought she knew about love, her past resurfaces in the worst possible way. A private video threatens to become public, putting the career and reputation she’s worked tirelessly to build on the line.
Now, with more to lose than ever, Chanel is forced to confront the one thing she’s always been able to avoid: what happens when life refuses to follow the rules she created to protect herself.
Falling in love was never part of the deal.
But some people don’t just enter your life. They change the game.
Graham: Storming Cobras Football, Fake Dating, Second Chance Romance (Storming Cobras Football Club Book 6) by TL Russ
Can this determined football player score another chance with the girl he hurt in high school without making a fumble?
It took everything I had to ask the gorgeous football star to the high school dance. I spent hours getting ready and then spent even longer waiting for him not to show up. I soon learned men only tell you what you want to hear, and he wouldn’t be the only one to hurt me.
Now I need a date to my cousin’s wedding and by sheer coincidence Graham Hollister is my salvation. He’s just as gorgeous as he was in high school. More so now that he’s spent years playing professionally. There’s a new sexiness to his charm, but I won’t fall for that again. So why is it that just when I think he’s going to walk away, all I want is for him to stay?
GRAHAM is a football player, sports, second chance, mended heart, fake dating romance filled with great banter and memorable characters. As always, you can expect no cheating, open-door loving, and a happy ending for our lovely couple.
Fall Semester: Westyn University Diaries by Rhayne Coleman
Follow the lives of several juniors at the prestigious Westyn University.
For them, life at Westyn is all about making connections and setting up a comfortable post-college life. They want nothing but to enjoy their first year placing in the ACC Conference, Welcome Week festivities, and to secure that college love story.
But this school year will not be as carefree as the ones before. This year will throw them all curveballs tailor-made for them in the form of issues with money, family expectations, schoolwork, and their romantic lives.
TOGETHER THEY MANEUVER THEIR WAY THROUGH MIDTERMS, PERSONAL DEMONS, AND CAMPUS LIFE TO ONLY SCRATCH THE SURFACE OF WHAT IT REALLY MEANS TO BE A WESTYN UNIVERSITY COED.
*This is Book 2 in the Westyn University Diaries series
The Sweetest Suite: Suite 226 by French Alsabrooks
These three couples have one thing in common.
They all are in therapy to remarry their ex.
Allie wants to rebuild the trust with Corbin after he drained her 401k behind her back.
Melia feels that her biological clock is ticking and wants her children to have the same father.
Esperanza is fighting for the forgiveness of Adon after she is caught in an ‘entanglement’ with his barber.
Divorce was supposed to be the final goodbye, but as each of their Christian walks change, they realize that it may have been the beginning of a new ‘hello’.
Secured by the Alpha Bear: Black Paranormal Romance (Iron Den Security of Willow Creek Book 5) by Norah Rose
She uncovered a secret worth killing for. He'll burn the world down before he lets anyone touch her.
Tiffany
I never expected my life to fall apart in a single day. Seven months pregnant, abandoned by my baby's father, and barely holding myself together, I throw myself into work—until I accidentally uncover Project Wildfire, a classified secret that paints a target on my back. Now someone wants me dead, and the only thing standing between me and a shallow grave is a security company full of dangerous men. I don't need a hero...but Lennox makes me want to believe in one.
Lennox
Women have always been my weakness. Ever since my little sister disappeared, I've sworn no woman under my protection will ever be taken again. Tiffany isn't the tech genius I expected—she's sweet, stubborn, carrying a baby that isn't mine, and running for her life. The second I meet her, my bear claims them both. Whoever is hunting her better pray I find them first...because nobody takes what's under Iron Den protection.
Secured by the Alpha Bear is the fifth installment in the Iron Den Security of Willow Creek where the guards fall for their beautiful clients.
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