Roxanne Taylor is a New York-bred, Baltimore-based Black indie romance author writing fast-paced, steamy urban and contemporary romance for readers who want heat, heart, and characters who feel undeniably real. She brings a distinct lens to her stories — writing characters who are over 35, reminding us that age doesn’t mean you have it all figured out. Her characters are navigating power, passion, and love that doesn’t wait until your life’s in order.

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When she’s not reading or writing, she’s hanging out with her husband or drinking a cold glass of Sauvignon Blanc with her friends.

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Janae Camille Warner was MILA to the world. A platinum-selling hip-hop queen who sold out arenas and made Houston proud. Then the highs got higher, the lows got unbearable, and the industry that built her watched her burn. After three years of silence, sobriety, and hard-won healing, Janae is done hiding.

She’s not coming back as MILA. She’s coming back as herself.

Returning to Houston for a surprise performance at the rodeo, Janae carries the weight of her past like an open wound. The scandal that ended her label deal. The family she lost. The man she loved and walked away from. Her bipolar disorder has never disappeared; it’s just been harder to outrun without the substances that used to drown it out. And the world is watching, cameras rolling for her reality show comeback, waiting for her to crack.

Landon Hayes doesn’t chase spotlights. A Juilliard-trained guitarist and founding member of jazz-soul band Hollow Bones, he has built a quiet, disciplined life around his music and very little else. Crowds drain him. Socializing costs him. He moves through the world to a rhythm only he can hear, and he has spent a lifetime learning to make peace with being wired differently. He doesn’t do drama. He definitely doesn’t do women like Janae Warner.

Except he can’t stop watching her.

What starts as a professional collaboration, Janae joining Hollow Bones on a comeback tour, becomes something neither of them expected. A connection that is grounding and terrifying in equal measure. Landon’s steadiness is everything Janae didn’t know she needed. And Janae’s rawness and fire crack open something in Landon he has kept carefully sealed.

But Janae’s past isn’t done with her. Old demons surface, public scrutiny intensifies, and Landon must decide whether love means staying through the storm or if some fires are too hot to stand beside.

This novel contains candid depictions of bipolar disorder, neurodivergence, addiction and recovery, emotional trauma, and adult language and situations.",{"_429":46,"_29":91,"_484":485,"_486":69},"Honey Blossom Press",458,"May 6, 2025","May 6","9798990781795","B0DYRB4NLR","#f8e8f8",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/3814i/5f2147a0-8a2d-4265-818b-2dbcb42b433b.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F3814i%2F5f2147a0-8a2d-4265-818b-2dbcb42b433b.jpg",{"_429":535,"_29":536,"_316":537,"_494":-5,"_496":-5,"_498":538,"_499":566,"_501":50},[502],"61c2b96f-bb4d-40ed-a126-22b2da2833f1",6604,"4.25",[],[592],"The Gift","8ef65ee0-9db8-4cea-8270-969328a4f5ec",{"_17":590,"_429":591,"_489":44},2017,"Feb 2017","2017-02-09","6733-the-gift","

When Maya's best friend, Charlotte, asks her to be her surrogate, she reluctantly agrees. Although pregnancy and motherhood were things Maya didn't plan to deal with for years, she was willing to sacrifice nine months of her time for her best friend's happiness. Her world is turned inside out when Charlotte is murdered just as Maya gets confirmation of the IVF's success. Now, Maya must raise the child she never intended to keep and preserve peace with Charlotte's widower, Jaxon. Soon Maya finds that pregnancy and impending motherhood are the least of her worries. She must fight against the tenderness she's begun to feel for her best friend's husband and she must atone for the sin she desperately tries to keep hidden. Maya Jenkins killed her best friend.

",{"_429":88,"_29":87,"_484":485,"_486":69},181,"February 9, 2017","February 9","B0DWTYX6ZP","#081818",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/6604i/8ef65ee0-9db8-4cea-8270-969328a4f5ec/1788631831.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F6604i%2F8ef65ee0-9db8-4cea-8270-969328a4f5ec%2F1788631831.jpg","Falling Like a Johnson","c1cc71bb-b28f-4e68-b1ee-cf79771fd6eb",{"_429":593,"_29":594,"_316":595,"_494":-5,"_496":-5,"_498":596,"_499":597,"_501":50},"b801126b-a85a-4d39-9d70-308b22e3dc9f","Rilzy Adams","959-rilzy-adams",26,[502],"0dcf162e-cbf8-42e0-b067-73f1e8a84047",2937,"4.05",21,[],[620],"Say So","8aa47e16-cc43-4c57-9687-6c036de07d9c","Jan 2026","2026-01-20","2953-say-so","From best-selling author B.B. Reid comes a sizzling romance set in shadows and glamour.

Ocean Kilpatrick has starred in many wet dreams.

As for best friends Hunter Parrish and Coby Perry, he's become their worst nightmare.

When Coby is sold to the mafia prince to settle her brother’s debt, Ocean vows to take what he's owed and then some.

Obviously, he's never heard that trouble comes in two because Hunter has made a vow of her own—to rescue her twin flame or die trying. She’ll burn down Ocean’s world and dance on the ashes before letting him take what’s hers.

But Ocean isn't just the heir to the Fola. He's a master manipulator.

He's a master manipulator.

Every move the friends make, he's two steps ahead, and the game won't end until he says so.

\n Say So is a standalone romance compiled from the original serial and revised to be enjoyed as a full-length novel.\n",{"_429":46,"_29":91,"_484":485,"_486":69},"B.B. Reid","January 20, 2026","January 20","B0FSLY1WK5","#780808",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/2937i/8aa47e16-cc43-4c57-9687-6c036de07d9c.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F2937i%2F8aa47e16-cc43-4c57-9687-6c036de07d9c.jpg",{"_429":621,"_29":611,"_316":622,"_494":-5,"_496":-5,"_498":73,"_499":623,"_501":50},"949f2627-911d-48ab-b8be-f26cf4b7db01","226-bb-reid",[502],"dd80780c-8505-430d-93f9-0790ab6b235f","4.47",224,[],[649],"A Love Song for Ricki Wilde","bc503263-5547-4e4a-ba82-7e7b51bfcf5c",2024,"Feb 2024","2024-02-06","17-a-love-song-for-ricki-wilde","An epic love story one hundred years in the making…

Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing.

Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn’t one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she’s the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they’re long-stemmed roses, she’s a dandelion: an adorable bloom that’s actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that somewhere, a different, more exciting life awaits her.

When regal nonagenarian, Ms. Della, invites her to rent the bottom floor of her Harlem brownstone, Ricki jumps at the chance for a fresh beginning. She leaves behind her family, wealth, and chaotic romantic decisions to realize her dream of opening a flower shop. And just beneath the surface of her new neighborhood, the music, stories and dazzling drama of the Harlem Renaissance still simmers.

One evening in February as the heady, curiously off-season scent of night-blooming jasmine fills the air, Ricki encounters a handsome, deeply mysterious stranger who knocks her world off balance in the most unexpected way.

Set against the backdrop of modern Harlem and Renaissance glamour, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is a swoon-worthy love story of two passionate artists drawn to the magic, romance, and opportunity of New York, and whose lives are uniquely and irreversibly linked.",{"_429":55,"_29":86,"_484":648,"_486":69},"Grand Central Publishing",339,"February 6, 2024","February 6","9781538726709","153872670X","#f8f858",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/17i/bc503263-5547-4e4a-ba82-7e7b51bfcf5c.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F17i%2Fbc503263-5547-4e4a-ba82-7e7b51bfcf5c.jpg","print",{"_429":650,"_29":651,"_316":652,"_494":653,"_496":654,"_498":655,"_499":656,"_501":50},"14371eb3-474c-4fd4-bbdf-802f13775839","Tia Williams","3-tia-williams","

According to NBC News, Tia Williams “is a writer’s writer with a fashionista twist.” She began her career as a beauty editor (Elle, Glamour, Essence) – and in 2003, pioneered beauty blogging with her site, Shake Your Beauty. She’s the author of The Accidental Diva, the It Chicks series, and The Perfect Find – which was adapted to a Netflix film starring Gabrielle Union. Her latest novel, Seven Days in June, was an instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller, as well as Reese’s Book Club pick for June 2021 – and a TV series adaptation is in development with Will Packer Productions. Her upcoming novel, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde, will publish on Feb. 6, 2024. Tia lives with her daughter and husband in Brooklyn.

","https://cdn.blackauthored.com/2vhhh0v2oamtivp6iuus3zqhffjm",8,[502],"0f7c9620-467a-4381-8af5-2aa009078f32",373,[],[683],"This Could Be Us","fd7e28bf-1266-46e6-9944-1b3ba16f45de",{"_17":681,"_429":682,"_489":55},"Mar 2024","2024-03-05",19,"2-this-could-be-us","Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion.

But there is no time to pout or sulk, or even grieve the life she lost. She's too busy keeping a roof over her daughters' heads and food on the table. And in the process of saving them all, Soledad rediscovers herself. From the ashes of a life burned to the ground, something bold and new can rise.

But then an unlikely man enters the picture—the forbidden one, the one she shouldn't want but can't seem to resist. She's lost it all before and refuses to repeat her mistakes. Can she trust him? Can she trust herself?

After all she's lost . . .and found . . .can she be brave enough to make room for what could be?",{"_429":44,"_29":89,"_484":648,"_486":69},"Forever",416,"March 5, 2024","March 5","9781538706824","1538706822","#ed4c99",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/2i/fd7e28bf-1266-46e6-9944-1b3ba16f45de.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F2i%2Ffd7e28bf-1266-46e6-9944-1b3ba16f45de.jpg","Skyland","dd1959ac-77b3-41a9-9e0f-12a181b6ffab",{"_429":684,"_29":685,"_316":686,"_494":687,"_496":688,"_498":596,"_499":689,"_501":50},"43b90e45-a494-4ecc-9c65-812ea65e325e","Kennedy Ryan","1-kennedy-ryan","New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Ryan writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. An EBONY Power 100 Honoree, Kennedy and her writings have been featured in NPR, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Glamour, Cosmo, TIME, and many others. Kennedy is an executive producer for her Skyland series, which is currently in development for television at Peacock. The cofounder of LIFT 4 Autism, an annual charitable book auction, Kennedy has a passion for raising Autism awareness. Dubbed the Queen of Hugs by her readers, she is a wife to her “lifetime lover” and mother to an extraordinary son.","https://cdn.blackauthored.com/authors/34e11cddbe3e8afceb0f/Unknown.jpg",[502],"25e7e7c4-ca9d-485b-9412-1c5c25917088","4.68",327,[],[712],"Can't Get Enough","20bcbfa6-f64f-4571-897e-709ed3a4b3ca",{"_17":681,"_429":682,"_489":46},"2025-05-13","3-can-t-get-enough","\"Can't Get Enough balances brutal emotion, whip-smart humor, and delicious spice. Moving, romantic, and thrumming with life, this is Ryan's best work yet.\" ―Talia Hibbert

Hendrix Barry lives a fabulous life. She has phenomenal friends, a loving family, and a thriving business that places her in the entertainment industry's rarefied air. Your vision board? She’s probably living it.

She’s a woman with goals, dreams, ambitions—always striving upward. And in the midst of everything, she's facing her toughest challenge caring for an aging parent. Who has time for romance? From her experience, there's a low ROI on relationships. Anyway, she hasn't met the man who can keep up with her. Until...him.

Tech mogul Maverick Bell is a dilemma wrapped in an exquisitely tailored suit and knee-melting charm. From their first charged glance at the summer's hottest party, Hendrix feels like she’s met her match. Only he can’t be. Mav may be the first to make her feel this seen and desired, but he’s the last one she can have. Forbidden fruit is the juiciest, and this man is off limits if she plans to stay the course she’s set for herself.

But when Maverick gives chase—pursuing her, spoiling her, understanding her—is it time to let herself have something more?

“Kennedy Ryan pours her whole soul into everything she writes, and it makes for books that are heart-searing, sensual, and life affirming.” ―Emily Henry

“One of the finest romance writers of our age.” –Entertainment Weekly

Named a Best Romance Book of the Year by Kirkus and the Chicago Public Library. ",{"_429":55,"_29":86,"_484":648,"_486":69},448,"May 13, 2025","May 13","9781538772805","1538772809","#c2b1d5",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/3i/20bcbfa6-f64f-4571-897e-709ed3a4b3ca.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F3i%2F20bcbfa6-f64f-4571-897e-709ed3a4b3ca.jpg",{"_429":684,"_29":685,"_316":686,"_494":687,"_496":688,"_498":596,"_499":713,"_501":50},[502],"c0992db3-ba0b-436f-894c-b3b85e82ee11",474,[],[744],"Before I Let Go","0a48f1d4-f266-4f86-90ff-3272371f1849",{"_17":681,"_429":682,"_489":44},2022,"Nov 2022","2022-11-15",50,"1-before-i-let-go","Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything.

It couldn’t save their marriage.

Yasmen wasn’t prepared for how her life fell apart, but she is finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like magnets, they’re always drawn back to each other, and now they’re beginning to wonder if they’re truly ready to let go of everything they once had.

Soon, one stolen kiss leads to another…and then more. It's hot. It's illicit. It's all good—until old wounds reopen. Is it too late for them to find forever? Or could they even be better, the second time around?

Award-winning and bestselling \"powerhouse\" author Kennedy Ryan is at her absolute best in this compelling, scorching novel about hope and healing, and what it truly means to love for a lifetime (USA Today).",{"_429":44,"_29":89,"_484":648,"_486":69},391,"November 15, 2022","November 15","9781538706794","1538706792","#e09a48",[738],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/1i/0a48f1d4-f266-4f86-90ff-3272371f1849.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F1i%2F0a48f1d4-f266-4f86-90ff-3272371f1849.jpg",{"_429":739,"_21":740,"_741":742,"_743":69},"95152168-d5d2-432a-83ee-f4b054e29653","https://kinfolktales.co/products/before-i-let-go?utm_source=copyToPasteBoard&utm_medium=product-links&utm_content=web","label","Kinfolk Tales","sponsored",{"_429":684,"_29":685,"_316":686,"_494":687,"_496":688,"_498":596,"_499":745,"_501":50},[502],"6cc31a64-ba63-4e22-873d-a76e75f58df6",6969,"4.23",[776],[771],"Zaysh: The Crown Prince","c339de58-27d9-41f2-8047-e3e0e1786ce7",{"_17":751,"_429":770,"_489":44},"Jun 2025","2025-06-16","7102-zaysh","

Zaysh was never meant to rule. Sent to the Princes’ School against his will, exiled from his freedom and his desires, he returns home after three years only to discover that his brother has married into a powerful kingdom and gained the upper hand in the race for the throne.

The solution standing before him seems to be a marriage with a princess of even greater political weight. Before surrendering to this new duty, Zaysh plans one final week of unrestrained freedom—a sex-filled escape before everything changes. What he doesn’t expect is the woman who bangs on his hotel room door and demands he stop having sex.

Ayoka knows heartbreak all too well. Betrayed and humiliated, she flees to Maputo in search of peace and anonymity… only to get caught up with a stranger who turns out to be anything but ordinary. Their meeting is chaotic. Their chemistry is instant and electric.

When duty draws them back into each other’s orbit under masks and royal titles, a fake marriage becomes the perfect solution—for the throne, for appearances, and for the past they both want to escape. As emotions rise and old wounds resurface, the hardest rules to follow are the ones they set

No touching. No kissing. And absolutely no falling in love.

And they’re both about to break every one of them.

For mature audiences only.

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Dominic Alexander is my late husband's best friend and the last man on Earth that I should want. He's arrogant, dismissive, and up until recently has only ever used those dark eyes of his to look right through me. For the last twelve years, he's taken a sick pleasure in making me feel paper thin, like my entire existence is of no consequence to him at all.

But now, things are different.

After one drunken night, and a surprisingly sexy act of heroism, he's started to be...nice. Treating me like something other than the physical embodiment of his annoyance, which would be nice if it didn't make me feel all the things I swore to never feel for another man after my husband died.

Dominic
Sloane Kent is going to be my undoing.

What's worse: I think I'm going to enjoy being unravelled by the gold flecks in her hazel eyes and the adorable little way she scrunches her nose up when we're arguing, which we've done a lot of over the past decade. She thinks it's because I hate her, and I've always let her think that because the alternative is...untenable.

But something is changing between us, and I don't know how to stop myself from breaking every promise I've ever made to myself regarding my best friend's wife. Promises that include never telling her that there's a long list of things I feel about her, but hate isn't one of them.",{"_429":46,"_29":91,"_484":485,"_486":69},490,"January 11, 2022","January 11","B09PF7MQV5","#323337",[801],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/5i/b320fa50-6107-4fe8-9a00-702c6164f2ce.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F5i%2Fb320fa50-6107-4fe8-9a00-702c6164f2ce.jpg",{"_429":802,"_21":803,"_741":742,"_743":69},"70b7cdee-98c7-47e8-91a3-4e07366e43db","https://kinfolktales.co/products/restore-me?utm_source=copyToPasteBoard&utm_medium=product-links&utm_content=web","New Haven","58c7823f-15c1-4a33-9dc7-74033f7d4c18",{"_429":807,"_29":808,"_316":809,"_494":810,"_496":811,"_498":812,"_499":813,"_501":50},"6b6856b4-de1e-4154-a33b-ec5c542d14a2","J.L. Seegars","2-jl-seegars","

J.L. Seegars is a dedicated smut peddler and lifelong nerd who’s always had a love of words, storytelling and drama. When she isn’t writing messy and emotionally complex characters like the ones she grew up around, she’s watching reality TV, supporting her fellow authors by devouring their work or spending time with her husband and son.

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The day Christopher Johnson decided to kill me, I already knew what it was like to die. I had already experienced it once. Having the life leeched from my body, blood stolen from my veins, oxygen pulled from my lungs.

When he decided to walk back into my life, I was in the middle of my third resurrection, healing from the loss of my brother when I was still raw from losing him.

It wasn’t going well.

I guess the human heart can only stop so many times, can only take so much damage before it questions whether it’s worth it to be revived. My heart is on its last leg, but even that can’t stop me from seizing the chance to have him again.

Even if it's just for a little while.

Chris

Walking away from Mallory Kent is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.

The devastation that marred her features that night still haunts me. Refusing to let me forget that the knife I plunged into her heart to protect her had pierced mine as well. Dogging my steps as I walked through my miserable life without her.

Coming back had always been a part of the plan. Even as I gave in to the forces hellbent on tearing us apart, I knew we weren’t done. I just didn’t know we’d come back together like this: under a cloud of unexpected grief with the pain of our stolen future lingering just beneath the surface.

This time together was never supposed to happen. I hadn’t accounted for it when I started working to clear a path back to her, but I’m thankful for it. For the opportunity to comfort her in a way no one else can. For the chance to hold her until the demons in my life force me to walk away again.",{"_429":46,"_29":91,"_484":485,"_486":69},234,"January 1, 2022","January 1","B0BLTD9SSQ","#3c3b3e",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/8i/e95300bb-81aa-46d7-b095-8cd018588281.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F8i%2Fe95300bb-81aa-46d7-b095-8cd018588281.jpg",{"_429":807,"_29":808,"_316":809,"_494":810,"_496":811,"_498":812,"_499":836,"_501":50},[502],"b617b0c1-1339-4c6d-82e5-c88520171af2","4.62",134,[],[858],"Revive Me, Part One: The Act","ea8df9ee-5e07-4e9e-b01a-9feb1972966b",{"_17":804,"_429":805,"_489":55},"Aug 2022","2022-08-01","7-revive-me-part-one","Mallory

The first time I kissed Christopher Johnson, I knew he would be my biggest mistake. It didn’t stop me from wanting him though, and when the ghosts from my past came barging into the present, it didn’t stop me from agreeing to let him help.

It was supposed to be a simple business arrangement, a few months of playing a role that came far too easily to the both of us, but it wasn’t long before it became more.

Love. Devotion. Heartbreak in its truest form.

Some people say life is for the living, but I say life is for the prepared. For the planners who know that controlling every piece on the board is the only way to get the result you want.

To avoid unfortunate complications like having your heart broken by a man past experiences taught you, you never should have trusted in the first place.

Christopher

There’s nothing in this world I wouldn’t do for Mallory Kent.

I think I knew it the first time I laid eyes on her, and it’s remained one of my unspoken truths for the two years that I’ve known her. But I never thought I’d get the opportunity to do anything about it because Mallory is one of those people who doesn’t need anyone.

She’s strong, serious, and always in control of every situation around her, which is why the second I see her looking panicked and uncertain in the arms of a figure from her past, I don’t think. I just act.

I had no idea that one small decision would lead to this. A fake relationship—designed to solve her problems and mine—turned real. An earth shattering love torn apart by the very forces that led to its conception. Forces that turned me into the source of our destruction.

There’s nothing in this world I wouldn’t do for Mallory Kent, including break her heart to save her soul.",{"_429":46,"_29":91,"_484":485,"_486":69},479,"August 1, 2022","August 1","B0BC6QY2MW",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/7i/ea8df9ee-5e07-4e9e-b01a-9feb1972966b.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F7i%2Fea8df9ee-5e07-4e9e-b01a-9feb1972966b.jpg",{"_429":807,"_29":808,"_316":809,"_494":810,"_496":811,"_498":812,"_499":859,"_501":50},[502],"15060f88-2012-49a8-83e5-ccd2320f6c9a",177,[],[881],"Not Finished Loving You","06d3d2c0-0557-4885-8d82-5ebff5210c76","May 2024","2024-05-15","177-not-finished-loving-you","Alexis Monroe and Jaceon Palmer were college sweethearts. They’d planned their lives and were set to get married until Jaceon reveals a change in the plans they had for the future. Hit with the devastating blow that he no longer wants children, Alexis breaks things off.

Years later, she is married with a beautiful daughter and pregnant with her son. Tragedy strikes when her husband is killed in an unsolved hit and run accident. After struggling through her pregnancy and dealing with her grief for a year, Alexis realizes she needs help. She, her four-year-old daughter, and six-month-old son have returned home to live with her parents while Alexis gets herself together. For Alexis, the move to heal current wounds leads to the opening of old ones.

When Jaceon crosses paths with the once love of his life, every feeling he thought he buried comes right back to the surface. Realizing that he made a grave mistake has him jumping through hoops to rekindle what he’d foolishly lost. Still fresh with heartbreak, Alexis is forced to deal with the feelings she ran from all those years ago when close proximity continuously lands her and Jaceon in familiar spaces.

Will she give in to the reemergence of past feelings, or does the timing prove to be too much for the once couple to handle?",{"_429":273,"_29":85,"_484":486,"_486":50},"Blackstone Publishing, Inc.","May 15, 2024","May 15","9798212649643","B0DMTV25MX","#e82818",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/177i/06d3d2c0-0557-4885-8d82-5ebff5210c76.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F177i%2F06d3d2c0-0557-4885-8d82-5ebff5210c76.jpg",{"_429":882,"_29":883,"_316":884,"_494":885,"_496":886,"_498":887,"_499":888,"_501":50},"d6f6c3a4-50c6-48ac-a95f-b5a2f43ef860","Kimberly Brown","22-kimberly-brown","

Kimberly Brown, a proud South Carolina native, brings you contemporary/urban romance, women’s fiction, and erotica that feels real and relatable. She’s been writing since her high school days, with the support of her friends, and turned to self-publishing in 2019. Her big break came in August 2021 with the release of “Pretty Caged Bird.”

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With a Psychology degree from South Carolina State University, Kimberly weaves mental health themes into her stories, shedding light on issues often overlooked in the African American community. Her goal? To create stories you can see and feel as you read, offering both a getaway and a reflection of life's ups and downs.

","https://cdn.blackauthored.com/cje6kqz9rgzt34t14kdybz46vpdq",55,[502],"e6c4f6e4-e176-4d1c-8c5f-37fb4e5ca9d8",45,"4.29",[],[910],"The Remedy","f1291406-e398-4721-8098-e580141ada8b","Dec 2024","2024-12-06","45-the-remedy","Dedicated, confident, and striking, Trinity Harris is new to Indigo Falls. Focused on her business and making a name for herself in her new city, she isn’t looking for anything serious. However, when she meets Remedy St. Clair, she gets more than she thought she would.

Charming, handsome and rich, Remedy St. Clair is one of Indigo Falls most sought after bachelors. He isn’t interested in giving women anything more than a few good nights in his bed. But when Trinity comes to town, he’s ready to give her everything he never knew he wanted and everything she’d been missing.

What happens when a one night stand becomes the remedy to a guarded heart?",{"_429":46,"_29":91,"_484":485,"_486":69},112,"December 6, 2024","December 6","B0DPDYHS9N","#18161a",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/45i/f1291406-e398-4721-8098-e580141ada8b.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F45i%2Ff1291406-e398-4721-8098-e580141ada8b.jpg",{"_429":911,"_29":912,"_316":913,"_494":-5,"_496":-5,"_498":273,"_499":914,"_501":50},"0c1e840c-095d-4e52-8e27-940ce669a5b5","Erica Denise","9-erica-denise",[502],"e54096c4-b1df-416c-ba4c-59d11b4b3124",2204,"4.0",[],[936],"Finding My Way","8ef5ae48-b0e8-4730-92d9-ed9c7660526e","May 2026","2026-05-21","2219-finding-my-way","Sade Simmons thought starting over would be easier than this. After heartbreak forced her to rebuild her life from the ground up, she’s focused on her new job, keeping her head down, and finding herself again. Love isn’t part of the plan anymore.Denver Jackson has spent most of his life avoiding anything that felt too serious. More comfortable keeping things casual than letting people get too close, he never expected anyone to change that.

But when an unexpected encounter brings them together, casual conversations quickly turn into something harder to walk away from.

What begins as a quiet connection slowly becomes the one thing neither of them saw coming.

Finding My Way is a soft, emotional romance about healing, vulnerability, and learning that love can still find you after heartbreak.",{"_429":46,"_29":91,"_484":485,"_486":69},192,"May 21, 2026","May 21","B0H1DYX389","#180818",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/2204i/8ef5ae48-b0e8-4730-92d9-ed9c7660526e.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F2204i%2F8ef5ae48-b0e8-4730-92d9-ed9c7660526e.jpg",{"_429":937,"_29":938,"_316":939,"_494":-5,"_496":-5,"_498":377,"_499":940,"_501":50},"67a617ff-66f0-470b-923d-68202ebcae8d","Kiriah Kache","182-kiriah-kache",[502],"67b9ed6d-5400-40fd-83a4-7545b4eca1d5",912,"4.33",71,[],[964],"Truce of the Matter","d98aabf0-3204-4038-9f9c-4ccba897d760","Apr 2025","2025-04-17","916-truce-of-the-matter","One fifteen-minute encounter as teenagers changed everything for Rex Goode and Truce Redmond. They both walked away different people. For him, it catapulted his career in boxing. For her, it challenged her commitment to family.

Years later, Rex is a retired boxer, single father, and furniture store owner who has left his fighting days behind him.

Truce is a dutiful daughter, loving big sister, and owns the popular soul food restaurant, Redmond’s. On the outside, her life is perfect, until it’s not.

When everything falls apart, the boy from her past reappears as a man, offering strength when she needs it most.

They say timing is everything. For Truce and Rex, the time is finally now.",{"_429":46,"_29":91,"_484":485,"_486":69},"KMP",277,"April 17, 2025","April 17","B0F5GDXBHC","#281818",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/912i/d98aabf0-3204-4038-9f9c-4ccba897d760.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F912i%2Fd98aabf0-3204-4038-9f9c-4ccba897d760.jpg",{"_429":965,"_29":966,"_316":967,"_494":-5,"_496":-5,"_498":968,"_499":969,"_501":50},"a8641a30-6077-4b49-a944-886ab422b24a","Charity Shané","70-charity-shane",41,[502],"a2048768-4667-4a70-8b36-9683669dd819",133,"4.86",141,[],[997],"Parachutes Book Three: The Impact","b6850cef-d8ed-4065-a738-81a0ce33b8b1",{"_17":995,"_429":996,"_489":46},"Jul 2025","2025-07-22",18,"133-parachutes-book-three","What is Love? Some say it’s as pure as water or fiery as whiskey. Somehow, under love’s favor, Tahli and Dalvin managed both. Yet still, it wasn’t enough.
What happens when lies and deceits soil the water of love?
What happens when secrets chase the whiskey, extinguishing the burning fire?

Tahli and Dalvin have come to an end…or have they?
Over 15 years, they have lived life up in the clouds away from calamity with the safety of parachutes keeping them from crashing. Tahli was sure she had the perfect life…until she discovered the one that her husband lived without her. Now, as the strong-willed perfectionist of a flowerchild and razor-sharp lawyer, she has declared war. Divorce lingers and a new beau can even the playing field, proving to Vin, she hasn’t lost her maneater touch.
But does one heartbreak cancel out another?
All that was left in the clouds can’t remain there, especially when the parachute is depleted.
We have watched them fall. We have watched them glide. Now…we must all brace for impact, as we conclude the Parachutes trilogy and finally find out where, when, and how these two land.

THIS IS THE FINAL BOOK IN THE PARACHUTES SERIES.",{"_429":46,"_29":91,"_484":485,"_486":69},552,"July 22, 2025","July 22","9780998441191","B0FJPG6GG7","#978772",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/133i/b6850cef-d8ed-4065-a738-81a0ce33b8b1.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F133i%2Fb6850cef-d8ed-4065-a738-81a0ce33b8b1.jpg","Parachutes","31020744-3792-49fc-802b-6ed8aa8a9575",{"_429":998,"_29":999,"_316":1000,"_494":1001,"_496":1002,"_498":287,"_499":1003,"_501":50},"e2b88e31-18b1-442f-876f-a3072495e629","Takerra Allen","20-takerra-allen","

Takerra Allen is the author of an array of African American Contemporary urban and romance novels, including the African-American Literary Award nominated hit novel, Heaven's Hell. In addition to being an author, she is the proud daughter of former Black Panther William Garland and sister to the late, renowned Tupac Shakur. She has been featured in publications such as Us Weekly, XXL Magazine and Don Diva Magazine, featured four times in the Top 10 Urban Books Listing.

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Takerra is a published author with Kensington Books who purchased the Thicker than Water series for national distribution, yet she still remains focused on building her entertainment company with her business partner, Sandra Mobley. The pair recently developed Takerra’s novel Heaven’s Hell into an independent film with the same title; executive producing the movie under their company ASP Films, with Takerra as a first-time director and screenwriter! Her latest release Needful Noor is available now!

","https://cdn.blackauthored.com/3rjhvh1q9uiwq6k7kn520j0evl11",[502],"e2bc7ea9-fc42-4dde-86ca-564195cba5b9",132,"4.81",144,[],[1027],"Parachutes: Book Two: The Glide","5f6fb0ba-dd51-4731-97d6-f58406e26d11",{"_17":995,"_429":996,"_489":55},"Jun 2024","2024-06-26","132-parachutes","\n “Takerra Allen is a meteoric explosion in the literary arts. Her pen game is beyond reproach, no apologies needed, required, or expected. Parachutes… her latest and another ‘greatest’…!” – Tamela L. Winfrey, reviewer \n

Tahli and Vin fell in love one summer and their story began.
Through personal growth, love guided them. Watered by kisses, battered by storms, petals died off and grew again. Bent, twisted, and strengthened through adversities as love often faces…as one, they flourished.
The flower turns to a garden, the garden grows a tree.
But what happens when rot sneaks into the roots? When mistakes of your past threaten your future?
Taking the fall in Book One left us suspended in air in three intervals of time.
Let’s join them in their parachute and see how far love can carry us. This go, let’s see if we survive the glide.
Book Two is the second part of a three-book series.",{"_429":46,"_29":91,"_484":485,"_486":69},445,"June 26, 2024","June 26","B0D87FNR7D","#243e6c",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/132i/5f6fb0ba-dd51-4731-97d6-f58406e26d11.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F132i%2F5f6fb0ba-dd51-4731-97d6-f58406e26d11.jpg",{"_429":998,"_29":999,"_316":1000,"_494":1001,"_496":1002,"_498":287,"_499":1028,"_501":50},[502],"0a82fb06-12e1-49b9-9c47-bdbbbcade858",131,"4.66",173,[],[1055],"Parachutes: Book One: The Fall","7c694a15-329d-49da-9e82-f48593a923e2",{"_17":995,"_429":996,"_489":44},2023,"Dec 2023","2023-12-05",35,30,"131-parachutes","They say the first love is the truest.
If you can hold on to it, do.
For the others after will be different.
Watered down versions tainted with your insecurities, their fears, each other’s pride.
Promises not to make the same mistakes twice, entering as a slightly altered version of yourself.
Because that first love, you dive deep with no restrictions.
You are you and they are them, fully.
And you hit bumps, and turbulence, and at times think you’ll crash headfirst until that love saves you…like a parachute.
That first love. That true love.

Dalvin and Tahli fell in love as we often do, when looking for everything but.
Two seeds in fresh soil, one is hyper focused on a future while the other is on a fresh start of figuring it all out.
Both journeys best taken alone are defied by the two’s will to do it together.
Here’s the start, some of the middle, and possibly the end to their story.
Book One is the first of a three-book series.",{"_429":46,"_29":91,"_484":485,"_486":69},403,"December 5, 2023","December 5","B0CPNYTGPF","#f57e42",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/131i/7c694a15-329d-49da-9e82-f48593a923e2.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F131i%2F7c694a15-329d-49da-9e82-f48593a923e2.jpg",{"_429":998,"_29":999,"_316":1000,"_494":1001,"_496":1002,"_498":287,"_499":1056,"_501":50},[502],"f49b4f48-d3df-4e76-8960-590c2c4d147e","Yearn for me Daddy ","visibility","public",44,"comments_count","followers_count","created","2026-09-15T14:39:42.400Z","user",{"_429":1068,"_29":1069,"_1070":-5,"_1071":69,"_457":88,"_1072":1073,"_1063":1074,"_1075":601,"_437":1076,"_1077":50,"_1078":50,"_1079":69,"_1080":69,"_1081":-5,"_1082":1083,"_1084":1085,"_1086":1087,"_1088":1089,"_1090":1091,"_1092":1093,"_1094":1095,"_1096":1097,"_1098":50},"0c1760d7-3ac4-40ab-b849-8062d608451d","Chrissy Always Reading","rating_system","locked","about","And when it comes to a book, I’m gone read it!",43,"following_count",463,"hide_relationships","onboarded","verified_author","can_manage_books","author_slug","user_id","7cc66f68-0f51-45a0-a686-e0de83007135","username","biggxchrissy","last_seen","last active today","member_since","September 2026","date_of_birth","1997-08-08","location","","social_links",{},"avatar","https://cdn.blackauthored.com/avatars/0c1760d7-3ac4-40ab-b849-8062d608451d.jpg","email_verified","isLoggedIn",["P",1100],"result",{"_17":1108,"_19":1109,"_15":1110,"_1111":1112,"_21":1113,"_1114":1115,"_23":1116},"themePreference","light","storedTheme","gaId","G-Z1HVZ17GZ3","Blackauthored","%s","Find your next Black authored read and connect with readers with the similar taste.","handle","@blackauthored","https://blackauthored.com","robots",{"_1127":69,"_1128":69},{"_25":26,"_27":1117,"_29":1108,"_1118":1119,"_1120":1121,"_21":1113},"Organization","logo","https://cdn.blackauthored.com/images/og-image.png","sameAs",[1122,1123,1124,1125,1126],"https://twitter.com/blackauthored","https://facebook.com/blackauthored","https://instagram.com/blackauthored","https://youtube.com/blackauthored","https://tiktok.com/@blackauthored","noIndex","noFollow"]

Yearn for me Daddy

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