Struggle isn't love.Years ago, a broken Malik Hines walked away from the love of his life, just as her career was on the rise. With any luck, he would have time and space to dig himself out of a dark hole. Healing, rebuilding, launching his Game Studio and writing his premier game took time.Suddenly, it bad been nearly a decade since they last spoke.India Parker had always been meant for big things. After taking over her father's company, she's looking for the next ...

A business rivalry reveals a longing for a second chance at love and a fight for the affections of a slow, southern town.Leslie Baker has a tall, dark, and handsome problem.Back in Potter Lake, she’s rebuilt her life around her hometown beauty shop, The Curl & Dye. Kade “KC” Cavanaugh, her college sweetheart, is back too—running Guys & Dolls, the family salon across town. What should have been a reunion of old flames turns into a rivalry, as the tw...

Finding the greatest love requires taking the greatest risks…What started with a flirty Instagram DM becomes months of scorching virtual intimacy that leaves Athena Wilcox craving more than her computer screen can deliver.The travel nurse has been playing it safe her whole life, but Vance Griffin makes her want to be reckless. The master travel coordinator knows exactly how to spoil a woman, and he's dete...

The magic of Potter Lake strikes again when Evonne Girard— cosmetologist and obsessed podcast fan meets Taj Wright— Registered Nurse and musician following a nasty fall in the parking lot at the Curl & Dye. There are jokes, there is flirting, lingering stares abound… but neither thinks they’ll see the other again any time soon.When Evonne finally moves from her parent’s home, she discovers that the cute house she’s renting belongs to the handsome, sexy nurse with the eyes she can’t...

She's a tech developer with walls higher than her ambitions; he's a PR pro who keeps finding ways around them. Atlanta's tech scene is about to get a lot more interesting.The last thing tech developer Opal Richardson needs while launching a groundbreaking platform is a distraction. Especially not Sterling Carter, whose co-working space sits right across the courtyard from hers. He's sexy, charming..and keeps showing up with an uncanny ability to climb righ...

Some people go missing by accident. Others choose to disappear.Attorney Wesley Payne knows Private Investigator Yvette Young has spent three years building walls no one can breach. When he brings her what should be a straightforward missing persons case, he's betting that working together might be the thing that finally brings her back to the world.Edward Foster disappeared four years ago, leaving behind twin sons and a wife barely keeping ...

After raising her siblings, Kari Savoy is ready to begin living life, beginning with a new job at a luxurious beach side resort on picturesque Black Diamond. The only standing in the way of this new era? Her devastatingly handsome but uptight boss, Davis Scott.Davis never mixes business with pleasure...anymore. Despite his efforts to resist a growing attraction to his new marketing and events manager, he finds himself in an unusual partnership to keep a failing resort afloat and le...

When heartbreak leads to love…Desmond Taylor is too busy keeping Atlanta's at-risk teens off the streets to entertain distractions. When Imani Thatcher steps into his youth center, she brings a temptation he can't ignore.Imani's high-powered financial career used to be her anchor. Now, after betrayal shatters the life she worked so hard for, she's restless, reckless, and more than a little intrigued by the man with a dark past.Soon, Desmond and Imani are ca...

Return to the booth where it all began.Ten years after they first captured readers' hearts, Renee, Maxine, and Debra are back, navigating new chapters of life with the same honesty, humor, and deep friendship that made their story unforgettable.Renee Gladwell finally has the bookstore running smoothly, but her father's worsening Alzheimer's has her confronting mortality and legacy in ways she never expected. When her rock-solid boyfriend Malcolm rec...

Some people go missing by accident. Others choose to disappear.Attorney Wesley Payne has watched Private Investigator Yvette Young retreat from the world since losing her fiancé three years ago. When he brings her a missing person case that should be routine, he's hoping that working together might crack the armor she's built around herself.A missing construction worker. A desperate wife. What starts as a simple trace job becomes something far more dangerou...

Two worlds collide on Black Diamond Bay, when hip hop mogul Wade Marshall meets spirited island resident Ameenah Porter.Wade flees the hustle of Brooklyn for the beach, seeking refuge to reignite his creative fire. Ameenah opens Tikis & Cream, her smoothie oasis and island dream. Their mutual longing ignites a sizzling romance neither bargained for.What starts as a summer fling soon threatens to consume them. Wade must return to the city. Ameenah belongs to the island. Yet....

Cole Vaughn is a talented surgeon about to be sacrificed.Defending him could end Harper Sutton's career. He won't let her pay that price.As Director of Risk Management, Harper Sutton protects patients, enforces standards, and ends careers.Her investigation into Vaughn should be just another routine case file.It isn’t.Someone powerful has made sure Vaughn's clean record does...