Elise is a struggling college student that can barely pay tuition. With a lousy job and is on the verge of getting kicked out of med school she has to find a way to pay. So with no only choice she looks in the personals and looks for a sugar daddy.

Jameson is a successful man that does not have time to date. With the pressure of his family to wed and women using him he just wants to experience a relationship without the drama. So he makes an ad to find a sugar baby.

What happens when both of these two get together?

Clark E. has always been the mysterious one out of all of his friends. With a new company on the rise and heartbreak in his past he has many doubts about women. Taking a chance and from the suggestion of his good friend he goes online and starts a romance with Katrina.

Katrina is the ugly duckling that has been named in her family. Living in the shadows of her older sister and cousin she becomes closed off from the outside world. Her only escape is the internet that gives her confidence. She makes a fake profile pretending to be someone else but then starts to develop feelings for Clark.

What happens when these two get to meet in the real world?

A virtual wallflower for most of her life, what will Sasha do when she encounters the first man to ever make her want to be noticed? Dmitri is a man used to being surrounded by the most beautiful things, including women. Will he accept Sasha, a woman who is usually overshadowed by the beauty of her friends? Is he capable of noticing that while her beauty may not be as blatant, it should still be treaured? This is the story of a wallflower and the man she loves.

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 Camille Jackson was rejected since birth over her dark skin complexion. She has grown a tough skin and doesn’t get attached to anyone because of how some people have viewed her without even getting to know her. However Camille opens her heart to a baby in need and for the first six months Camille has grown to love the baby as if she were her own. That is until the baby's biological father comes into the picture.

Hiram Whitfield Jr was brought up in one of the most well known Ku Klux Klan families in the south and as the only son he feels the pressure to carry on his family's tradition. After finishing his prison sentence all Hiram wants to do is change his life for the better and be a good father to his child. If that means being disowned by his bigoted family then so be it. Ironically enough Hiram would have never thought that Camille would be the one to be his rock and strength to do so.

In the wake of an ugly divorce, Natalia executes a scheme meant to move her beyond the hurt inflicted by her ex-husband, Richard.  The plan is to ease her suffering by increasing his, and her weapon, a younger man unwittingly drawn into the illicit plot. 

In the quest for revenge, will Natalia realize her goal of bringing Richard to his knees?  Or will vengeance and her weapon of choice become her undoing?

In the small southern town of Perry, Mississippi, an unlikely pair get much more than they bargained for when they fall madly in love.

   In the year of 1648 B.C, the Nubians reigned over Pharaohs army and won with victory over the territory of the West Nile. In celebration King Kladon communes a marriage for his daughter's hand.

   Princess Kira is a highly trained warrior of the Nubian Kingdom, alongside her boisterous brother, Keitou. When she is told that she is to marry the Royal Lords son, Akisou, she is furious and rides away from the Nubian Palace. However, Kira finds herself caught in a trap when her and her party are ambushed by Pharaohs soldiers.

   Pharaoh Raad is a stoic and tenacious king who shows no mercy when it comes to slaying his enemies...all except one. Only trying to prove vengeance against the Nubian King, the mighty Pharoah himself cannot deny his budding desire for the beautiful, yet dangerous Queen to be.

   War will sprout...love will flow...who will be the true winner of the Nile.

WARNING: Graphic violence, and much nudity.

Five years ago, Breezy Collins, left Baton Rouge, Louisiana and vanished without a trace leaving everything and everyone behind in order to save herself from further heartbreak from the only man she has ever loved. Breezy's sister Phoenix is the only person who knows her whereabouts but not her secrets. It's her sister's wedding that brings her back home for a week. She can only hope that she can avoid running into the man that still haunts her dreams and owns her heart.

Jace Bennett, has spent the last five years searching for something that he knows doesn't exist anymore. His Heart. He's colder and more distant. All the things that use to give him joy now only bring him misery because of her but a promise is a promise and he'll uphold his end of it no matter the cost. But when a chance encounter brings him face to face with the one woman who holds the key to his happiness, he'll do everything in his power to ensure that she never leaves him again. By any means necessary, he'll try to convince her to give him Just One More Try.

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Kendra Dentaris is scared of her luck. At twenty-nine, she's the head graphic designer of a popular gaming website, the brand-new owner of a gorgeous downtown condo, and independent to the bone. And she may be in a relationship that's actually going somewhere. That's if Chase McGuire would stop cheating on her.

According to her best friend Prince, he's totally going to propose. That had to be why he invited her out to a remote village out in western Pennsylvania for the weekend. But Kendra takes a wrong turn and the life she knew before literally disappears.

Ellie finds herself living the life that she could only imagine in her dreams. She has graduated from college with a degree in accounting, she is with the man she loves who is just as succesful, if not more than her, and he has just asked her to marry him. What more could a girl ask for? What could go wrong? Everything begins to change once she meets his family and realizes they dont like her. Can this break up their relationship? What is she to do? What about their "family" business? Will their marraige go on? After being on top the only place left to go is down, and Ellie is sure on her way there.

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When the lines are drawn, will you risk your life to cross them for love?

In the Summer of 1988, tragedy hits home for Charlene Jacobson and her father when her little brother is killed playing a game of basketball in their Detroit housing projects.  She soon finds herself living in the small rural town of Millersville, Georgia, with her estranged grandmother. Millersville is a place where time stands still and the racial divide is as prevalent as the 1950s.  Secrets, lies, and betrayal lurk in every corner. Yet, through it all she finds solace in the arms of Ryan Quinn, a white senior track star and the son of the town Sherriff.  

Will their love cross the finish line?  

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Leslie West is a quiet beautiful southern belle who just moved up to New York, Blake Caldron is a fashion guru who can't seem to keep his eyes off of a new church attendee. Due to certain circumstances he needs to watch from a far... But for how long?

Always the odd woman out, Keisha Barrett, for once wanted to be the woman on the arm of the man of every woman's dreams.  Who knew a lunch date with her girlfriends could hold the answer to her dreams.

Ethan Carrington, British international businessman and confirmed bachelor, was tired of the lifestyle he had been living. Expensive cars, trendy night clubs, leggy models/actresses, and gold diggers were the norm until the day her meet her...

College student Rory Daniels has a problem, and it isn’t how she’s going to pass her final exams.

You see, she can do this thing where she can manipulate objects… and other things, and as far as she knows she’s the only one who can. So when she’s forced to use her powers at a crowded bookstore and attracts the attention of a fellow student, she’s anything but happy about it. When it turns out the student has no interest in turning her over to the government and actually wants, of all things, a double date, she’s pleasantly surprised. That is, until her date ditches her for her friend and she ends up stuck with his.

His friend turns out to be Victor Ryken. He’s tall. Built like a Greek god and has a set of the most memorizing hazel eyes Rory’s ever seen. And, oh yeah, he does nothing but infuriate her. After the date from hell, Vic has for some reason taken an increased interest in her and what’s worse… her powers light up every time he touches her. When Vic’s around her abilities go haywire and his presence marks the beginning of a string of unusual events. Suddenly, she’s become a person of interest to nearly everyone she meets and strange people pop up in her life that have her question her own weirdness. When Vic himself displays a whole new level of weird while saving her from an attacker, Rory ends up concluding one thing. 

Maybe she’s not as alone as she thinks.

Taylor Mooreland has more than her share of problems. Her mother's an irresponsible dreamer who's more interested in floating from audition to audition than she is in paying her bills. So, Taylor's got to keep the ship afloat, taking care of her little brother and working to help pay the bills while she's going to school. And if life wasn't difficult enough, now she's gotten herself into quite the mess with a guy who thinks she's a man.

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After being hired as the executive assistant to one of the youngest most influential and sexy corporate raiders of the 21st century Kenya Price comes face to face with her destiny.

Kenya is a mild mannered 22 year old thick sista with a beautiful soul and a caring spirit. Though her ultimate goal is to go back to university and earn a Degree in Childhood Education to become an Elementary school teacher, she takes the job working at the Roswell Corporation so she can save and finish off her schooling. Her motto is "Love can heal all wounds."

Grant Abraham Roswell III is a man that prides himself on a being a level headed, hardworking, no nonsense go getter. At the age of 24 he is a MIT graduate with more money than he could spend in a lifetime, he parties with rock stars, sleeps with models and feels that life cant get any better than that.His moto in life is "Who needs happiness when you have Money and Power?"

When Kenya enters his life and shows him there is more to life. Will he trust in Love or Will he let society take love away from him?

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 One night in Vegas changes the luck of two strangers.

Grace is a good girl to the bone, though she loves her job as a teacher she wants some excitement and for her twenty-fifth birthday she wants to shed that good girl image. Not be predictable Grace but a sexy wanton vixen,so her friends take her to Las Vegas, where her life is changed forever.

Kevin is an NFL all star and all around player. He is in Vegas because he was told to lay low after sleeping with the wife of one of his team mates, he has to figure out a way to change his image and quick.

 Sometimes what happens in Vegas shouldn't stay in Vegas and in Kevin and Grace's case it wont.

She despised celebrities, maybe even hated them. That was until she met him. 

21 year old Tatyana Dragovich has been an honorary member of the Aleksandrov crime family since childhood. Known as the Aleksandrov Princess, her life as an under ground street racer was perfect with Nikolai and Mikhail, the current heads of the family. What happens when a super sexy cop moves in next door and Tatyana finds herself in bed with law enforcement AND the mob? HELP!

Sometimes when it comes to family and their issues, a lie is more acceptable than reality.

Acceptable Lies is an original work of fiction. Please do not copy or post this story to any other websites. Copyright 2011 BRAnderson