After walking away from her soul-sucking corporate job, Amara Singleton is finally chasing the dream she’s held since childhood—opening a boutique dedicated to her own plus-size clothing designs.

There’s just one problem.

The only storefront she can afford is falling apart and is in desperate need of renovations.

When she unfortunately runs into Theo Sinclair, her childhood best friend—and first love—who disappeared from her life without a trace eight years ago, he makes her an offer she can’t afford to refuse. He’ll renovate the boutique for free… if she gives their friendship another chance.

Working side by side forces them back into the easy rhythm they once shared, and the more time Amara spends with Theo, the harder it becomes to ignore the feelings she never truly left behind.

She finds out Theo’s been carrying a life-altering secret for eight years—one that could destroy the fragile second chance they’re building. Now Amara must decide if some wounds are too deep to heal…or if love is worth the risk of breaking her heart all over again.

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They have always belonged to each other—just never in the way the world understands.

Raised between two countries and bound by a friendship forged long before they had a choice, Berlin and Jiwon grew up as constants in each other’s lives. Summers were shared. Grief was shared. Even distance never truly separated them.

So when Jiwon calls from Seoul with news he can’t explain over the phone, Berlin doesn’t hesitate—she goes to him, the way they always have for each other.

What she finds waiting for her will change everything.

As family obligations tighten and old traditions threaten to dictate the future, a decision made in desperation draws them into an arrangement that blurs the line between pretense and truth. Forced to confront grief, loyalty, and the quiet love they’ve never dared to name, they must learn what it means to choose each other—not out of habit, but out of intention.

Because some families are born.
And some are built, piece by piece, by those brave enough to stay.

Hanuel & Malcolm is a tender, emotionally rich contemporary romance about found family, second chances, and the courage it takes to claim the life—and love—you’ve already been living.

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I’m Tierra Cox, a romance author and cross-genre novelist devoted to stories where we, Black women, are seen, desired, and worshiped out loud.

By day, I navigate the corporate communications world—but by night, I build realms where monsters kneel, empires burn, and love is never ordinary.

Armed with an overpriced English degree and an imagination that refuses to stay quiet, I write across fantasy, paranormal, sci-fi, and gothic romance—all bound by one promise: Black women at the center of passion, power, and possibility.

Every world I create asks the same question—what does it look like when a woman like us is the story’s beating heart?

When I’m not writing (which is rare), you’ll find me somewhere in Georgia watching bad sci-fi, dreaming about alien royalty, or wandering through my next world before it’s written.

My entire collection is available on NOIR PAGES, in paperback on Amazon and in collections on my website!

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