For twenty-eight-year-old Harper Ellis, being a virgin has never meant being naïve. She knows exactly what men can do with a woman’s vulnerability when it falls into the wrong hands. After one humiliating lesson left her questioning the one person she should have been able to trust—herself—Harper built a life around certainty. She has her mother, her work, and the Delmar Community Youth Center she has spent seven years keeping alive. Romance doesn't fit anywhere on that list.Neithe...

Reina Sallis has spent years making sure she never owes a man anything.Her tax and bookkeeping business is hers. Her federal credential is hers. Every dollar, every client, and every hard-earned piece of independence came without a man’s name attached to it. So when Cash Boone—the hood millionaire she has spent twelve years refusing to forgive—walks into her Detroit shop carrying an old piece of paper, Reina quickly learns there is one debt she never knew was waiting to collect.

The billionaire next door lost his empire, his reputation, and his freedom.The one thing he doesn’t know? The woman on the other side of his wall knows exactly how it all fell apart.Renata “Ren” Colvin has spent years building a life nobody can take from her.She pays her own bills. Handles her own problems. Locks her own doors twice. And after learning the hard way that depending on people usually comes with a price, she has no intention of letting a...

Danae Whitfield knows exactly what happens when a woman signs away too much of herself.She has carried a baby for another family before—and learned the painful difference between being needed and being valued. So when dangerously private billionaire Ezekiel Rell offers her life-changing money to carry his heir, Danae does the one thing nobody else dared to do.She rewrites his contract.Her money cannot depend on obedience.Her car stays in her name.Her k...

She was handed over to settle another man’s debt.He was supposed to keep it strictly business.Neither of them planned on falling.Tiana Marie Brooks has spent her whole life learning how to need less, ask for less, and take up as little space as possible. Her salon is the one thing that belongs to her—or at least she thought it did.Until one meeting changes everything.Her stepfather owes a dangerous amount of money to Malcolm “Saint” Carter, a wealthy...

Delphine Boudreaux has rules for everything—especially the surrogacy contract that could finally give her the financial security she has spent her whole life chasing. Take the money. Keep her distance. Don’t get attached to the baby. And absolutely do not get involved with the powerful man waiting on the other side of the agreement.Kellan Roarke was supposed to be nothing more than the biological father.Instead, the stubborn billionaire keeps appearing where he shouldn’t, f...

For nine years, Tayla Broussard has been Jerome “Rome” Tatum’s safest person.She knows the billionaire businessman behind the numbers, the plans, and the carefully controlled life. She knows when he is worried before he says a word. And she has spent years convincing herself that being his best friend is enough.Until Rome asks her for the one thing that could change everything.His chance at fatherhood is disappearing. He doesn’t want a wife just to have a family, an...

For Amaya Cole, home has always been the aging apartment building she has spent years holding together—and Kingston Hale, the dangerously fine man living on the other side of one thin wall.For eleven years, Amaya and Kingston have mastered the art of being almost everything to each other without ever becoming lovers. She knows the man beneath the money, reputation, and quiet power that makes the whole block respect his name. He knows the woman beneath Amaya’s independence—the beaut...

He left without a word. Nine years later he came back and asked her to carry his baby.Shayla Boykin hasn't said Roman Doss's name out loud since 2016.Then she walks into a hospital conference room with a visitor badge on her chest and finds him at the far end of the table, and everybody in Detroit calls him Mr. Doss now.He has warehouses in Romulus and Toledo. He has a lawyer who picks him up at five-fifteen. And he has one problem money cannot solv...

Loyal daughter. Devoted best friend. The steady hands keeping her family’s restaurant—and half the people around her—from falling apart.Simone knows how to carry everybody else’s problems.She just never learned what to do with her own heart.Especially when it starts wanting Isaiah “Menace” Crews.Feared on the streets. Respected without asking for it. Dangerous enough to make grown men straighten when he walks into a room. Isaiah has spent years trying to put...