Everybody in Hightower Heights knows Menace.

Eboni Phillips knows Rich Lawson.

Twenty-four years after leaving the neighborhood, and the first man she ever loved, Eboni returns home to raise Carter, the brilliant, guarded nephew her imprisoned sister left behind. She expects a difficult adjustment. She doesn’t expect Rich to step back into her life as if the years between them were nothing but unfinished business.

Rich has spent those years building his power, protecting his neighborhood, and regretting the night he let Eboni walk away. Now that she’s home, he intends to prove that Menace is more than the violence attached to his name. He can be the man Eboni trusts, the steady presence Carter needs, and the lover she still remembers when the house goes quiet.

But Carter’s father has been watching.

Joe arrives demanding money tied to Tia’s criminal past, and his threats soon become impossible to ignore. Eboni refuses to surrender control of the life she’s rebuilding, but Rich knows how to answer men who threaten what belongs to him.

This time, Menace isn’t letting Eboni go.

And loving her may be the most dangerous promise he has ever made.

The Way Menace Loves is a gritty, high-heat Black romance featuring second chances, first love, found family, a possessive morally gray hero, an independent heroine, and a hard-earned happily ever after.

Adrianna Bradshaw knows how to help other people build families. Creating one of her own may be the only dream beyond her reach.

Trey Holland has built a luxury hotel-and-spa empire, but wealth cannot give him the wife and child he wants. After one unforgettable meeting, and three months spent trying to find the woman he never stopped thinking about, he returns to Adrianna with an outrageous proposition. Marry him. Build a family together. Let a carefully written contract protect them both.

Adrianna knows accepting would be reckless. She also knows the handwritten promises Trey added sound less like a business arrangement and more like the life she has always wanted. Their marriage is supposed to be practical. Instead, it becomes shared beds, Sunday dinners, undeniable desire, and a future neither expected to find.

But when their private agreement becomes public and a media storm threatens Adrianna’s company, Trey’s determination to protect his wife could cost him her trust.

To save the family they’re building, Adrianna and Trey must decide whether love can survive the contract that brought them together, and whether the most important promises are the ones no lawyer could ever write.

Jacki Williamson thought she knew her marriage.

Then her housekeeper mentioned interrupting her husband with someone on a Thursday Jacki wasn’t even home.

One early arrival, one unfamiliar woman, and one wedding ring later, Jacki finds herself doing something she never imagined: trying to track down the other woman’s husband.

Wayne Hutchinson is not nearly as oblivious as she expects.

In fact, the former FBI agent already knows his wife is cheating.

What Jacki doesn’t expect is for Wayne to know even more about her husband than she does.

Their shared betrayal should make things awkward.

Instead, it makes them friends.

And somewhere between divorce attorneys, late-night conversations, bakery dreams, and chemistry neither of them planned for, Jacki and Wayne start building something that feels dangerously real.

Their exes started the mess.

Jacki and Wayne might just be the best thing to come out of it.

A sexy, grown Black romance about betrayal, unexpected love, and what happens when moving on looks better than getting even.