Smoke & Skylines

🎶 SMOKE & SKYLINES

A Novel of Love, Music, Addiction, and Second Chances

In the streets of East Orange, every block has a rhythm—and every love story comes with a song.

Mavis James has dreams bigger than the neighborhood she calls home.

She writes.

She creates.

She believes her words might one day carry her somewhere beyond the streets that raised her.

Then there is June.

A talented musician carrying more pain than he knows how to name.

Their connection is electric.

Their love is complicated.

And sometimes, the music is the only thing loud enough to drown out the truth.

As dreams collide with addiction, secrets, ambition, and the weight of the past, Mavis and June must decide whether love is enough to save them—or whether some people have to lose everything before they can finally learn how to begin again.

Set against the soulful backdrop of the 1970s, Smoke & Skylines is a powerful story of Black love, music, addiction, creativity, heartbreak, and second chances.

Because sometimes love isn't about finding someone to save you.

Sometimes it's about learning how to save yourself—

and discovering who is still standing beside you when the smoke finally clears.