The Way Menace Loves

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.