Fire Cracker Cousins
The
Universe
Wicked Games
&
Hidden Desires
João
Joaquim &
Alicia & Gabo
What do you do when your mind tells you to move on, but your heart tells you to stay?
Alicia Powell Torres is sick of her joyless career, in a town full of painful memories. She wants to seize life again and she won't get that by staying still. It's time for a big change, and Brooklyn seems like the right place for a fresh start. Gathering her courage, she begins the arduous process of selling her family home and leaving her past behind.
But before she can pack everything up, her childhood friend and neighbor Gabo returns to town with sexy smiles, his dinner invites, his collection of steamy romance books, and his big...goals. He also brings memories best left in the past. She struggles to keep him at a distance, but he lights her up like no one else ever could. The temptation he offers is impossible to resist and if she doesn't get away soon, she’ll end up hurting him, and herself in the process.
Gabriel Miller Garcia has always been cautious, but when he returns to his home town, he bumps into the love of his life, the one that got away. Being around Alicia again has him tempted to take a chance, but a fateful day from their youth threatens his hopes for a bright future together. Losing her again isn't an option, so Gabriel will risk it all to keep Alicia from the bright lights of Brooklyn, but will his rekindling of her fire be too late, or will love light the way to a future together…
Content Warning:
Parental Death off page
Grief and Mild Depression
Convalescent Parent (cancer) on page
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Mariana ,
Mason & Daniel
Alicia is Maternal Cousins with Mariana and Paternal cousins with Aayala
Mariana Torres Charles is finally ready to fulfill her dream as a bandleader and designer for the up-and-coming Carnival Band Love Vibe for Miami Carnival. The win would be proof that she can follow through on her goals because in love…the follow-through is less than stellar. After a long string of crushed lovers, she is done breaking hearts.
When Mason Brathwaite, her forever-friends-with-benefits, needs a date to a networking event to snag a new sponsor for his Student Community Center, she volunteers to attend with him hoping to catch a break from the pressures of dating. But when they meet the mysterious Daniel Robinson, son of Mason’s prospective donor and experienced kinkster, she can’t help but forget her newfound resolve.
Every moment they spend together illuminates her thoughts and desires, but her track record at love tells her it is only a matter of time before their liaison smokes away.
With Mason’s vying for her heart and Daniel’s and Daniel seducing their minds, what can a woman do but succumb to the temptation calling to her? Mariana will deal with the ashes once they come. After all, that's her specialty.
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Aalaya & Malik
Alicia is Maternal Cousins with Mariana and Paternal cousins with Aayala
One hot night at Carnival changes everything.
Aayala Campbell and Malik Johnson had known each other since high school, their friendship lasting decades. One fateful October night during Carnival, Aayala decided to let loose, but she never dreamed her best friend would be the man to set her world on fire or that it would change her life forever.
Now the consequence of that night has the cutest cheeks Aayala's ever laid eyes on, and after giving birth, she's ready to reclaim herself and her passion for photography. If only her mother could be a reliable babysitter, instead of leaving her stranded with a new baby and all these new feelings…
Malik returned to the merchant marines for his next tour weighted by many responsibilities, none bigger than Aayala and his unborn child. The more time he spends away, the more he realizes there is more to life than his job.
When Malik comes home from his tour ready to co-parent, Aayala is hesitant to depend on him. His work was his life, and he’ll be gone in six months. She tries to keep her distance and focus on her new photography commission, but the embers left behind from that night are about to start a fire…
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Monica & Matt
Monica is Mason's sister from Ablaze
Matt is Liam Kwon's brother (supporting character in Plié)
Matt's business partner is Emile's brother from Current Anthology
When Monica Brathwaite's life's responsibilities are brimming at the edges, she realizes she needs a sabbatical from everything. Packing her bags, she finds a rental home on a remote island where no one's needs but her own come first. When she finds out her only neighbor is a young man who makes all her tendencies to take care of people flare up to life, she has to put herself first. But putting herself first takes a whole different meaning when her neighbor's needs become entangled with hers...
Matthew Kwon decided to disconnect from all his distractions and fuck buddies to focus on his newest sex toy design, but he had not expected to have temptation incarnate next door. Never one to be cautious, he pursues his neighbor. However, he needs to reign in his impulsiveness and focus on his design before his investors decide to fire him from his own company. With his livelihood on the line, will he finally settle down to create, or will the lady next door be willing to do some product testing?
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Keyiara & Emile
Emile is brothers with Matt business partner from Toying with Temptation
Jackson, MS is a city full of history and culture. It's also a city suffering from local, state, and national neglect.
In August 2022 when newspapers announced that the city had issued a boil order for the city's water, many were reminded of Flint, Michigan, and other working class, primarily Black cities around the country who have been left without a vital service for days, weeks, months, and years.
Safe drinking water is a human right.
The rising crises around water are worrying, and it is easy to be overwhelmed by so many concurrent crises. However, the desensitization of many to the pain and suffering of Black people spurred the creation of the CURRENT ANTHOLOGY.
Volume One Features:
A.H. Cunningham
Meka James
Dria Andersen
Karmen Lee
Jayce Ellis
Nicole Falls
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Knox and Aisha
Aisha's best friend Mila is Mariana's sister from Ablaze Knox's potential business partner Liam Kwon is brother to Matt Kwon from Toying with Temptation
She’s stopped believing there was a Dom out there for her that could match her mind and her kinks.
Aisha McKinney thought she had everything figured out: her dance school Mrs. Brown Dance Studio, was the best in her community, she had the support of her friends and family, and at night she indulged in her other…passions. But when her studio starts losing students and she has to turn to her sex work to keep the lights on, her life takes a turn for the unexpected.
He’s accepted this was all life had to give.
Knox Davenport had an orderly life. Work is expanding, his seven-year-old daughter is flourishing, and after a difficult divorce, he’s starting to explore his kink through dominant classes with an experienced submissive. But there is only one obstacle to his peace of mind. His daughter's Ballet teacher. Why does Aisha McKinney, the owner of Brown Dance Studio and her half-baked Holiday dance show, threaten to unravel all of his composure?
When Aisha and Knox’s goals converge, will they let their pasts dictate their futures, or will they both bend to the needs of their heart?
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Sal and Devon
Sal has some mystery siblings.... but I won’t spoil them yet here...
Sal is about her business, her friends, her video games, and some light criminal activity.
When the criminal activity lands her in hot water, she goes to her tried and true methods, but they all fail her.
Devon is about his art, his physical therapy, his brother’s well-being, and his teaching.
When his status in the US is threatened by his tendon injury, he realizes he's going to have to make some hard decisions.
His solution? A modern marriage of convenience. Protection for Papers.
When both realize they have way more in common than their friendships and passions, a primal connection threatens to upend everything they thought they knew.
Can they overcome their past hang-ups and figure out a way forward together?
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Jardel & Solange
Everyone has hidden desires...
Jardel has a structured life, a successful career, and a fine woman beside him. Solange Rivera is everything he wished for, but he's no Prince Charming.
Betting it all on her seems to be the answer to all his troubles, but Solange has other plans. When Solange refuses Jardel’s vision for the future, there is nothing left but to prove to her that they are meant to be together. By any means necessary. Even if it takes a little help from his friends.
This series is a spinoff of Wicked Moves. The series can be read on its own, however, it's enhanced by reading A Turn in the Air first.
Each book in the Hidden Desires series is interconnected and I highly recommend you read the series in order.
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Would she ever have a stress-free December?
Monica Jameson stayed busy. When December rolled around each year, it found her stressed out, needing rest, relaxation, and release, the kind only her partners could give her.
Until this year.
This December, her family gifted her two weeks at a beach house and family quality time, and she was going to make the most of it.
Time with her 21-year-old twins? Check. Baking and cooking? Check. Keeping Busy? Double-check. Having all the adult time with her husband and boyfriend? A must.
But when Monica over-extends herself during her relaxing holiday, what are her men to do but help her get some release? After all,’ 'Tis the Season of giving…