What do you do when your best friend you've secretly loved pops up and tells you about his pending nuptials to another woman? Kerri DuBois keeps it moving as if her heart hadn't been ripped from her chest. She's loved her best friend and will need to get over him and soon. And there is someone who can help her do just that.

Black sheep, Brandon Wesely, returns home after a long absence to hear of "Saint Kerri" and is instantly enamored. When he looks at her, he can see her pain and wants to help her get over his little brother…and he selfishly wants to keep her for himself.

Secrets are hidden among the plush,moist forest of  Rio, Brazil in the summer of 1955. The Taluro's, a wealthy Afro-Brazilian family have kept to themselves for generations. Bobbie Taluro is the last remaining female in her family....it seems that past women in the families generation have only disappeared. No one knows the Taluro's mysterious secret...except Bobbie's grandfather.

But as the sun arises and shines down to the neigboring ocean by the Taluro house... a boat sinking Todd will quickly learn about the tragic and somewhat beautiful secret of the Taluro ancestry.

WARNING: MUCH SEXUAL CONTENT

An event of neglect brought them together and led to an healing neither one of them could ever anticipate.

Banner by: Sienna Gray

All Camryn Clifford wanted to do was live out her dream. She had made it out of her dead end town but her old life wanted to pull her back in.

Richard Hammonds wanted Camryn and he would have her. He has skeletons in his closet that he needs to keep from her to win her.

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?

Zoey Vance woke up in the hospital with no memory of her life before that moment. She doesn't even know her own name. Now she has to try and put the pieces of her life back together with the help of the man who hit her with his car that fateful night. As her memories start to return she wonders if she is better off not knowing who she really is. 

Brian Preston is consumed with guilt, the woman just ran out into the street with no warning. He coudln't avoid hitting her. He feels it is his personal responsibility to care for her until she can care for herself and moves her in with him and his fiance, Macy. As time wears on he starts to wonder if he wants her around to ease his guilt or if there aren't bigger emotions at play.

Jonah Ace gets a bright idea and offers to tutor Chanel Birladeanu in AP Calculus one afternoon. But there's a catch; for two months, Chanel has to 'fake date'  Jonah. This deal will get Chanel the grade she needs and give Jonah the girl he yearns for and the popularity he can only dream about.

But this isn't so bad. A full school year of tutoring for only a two month relationship? Easy. Plus, Jonah Ace might just be a real hottie underneath his nerdy exterior.

 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.

Elle always played it safe. She was used to being in control. Every accomplishment in her life was meticulously planned. The only thing she didn't have reign over was her stale love life. When an old flame from a past complicated relationship comes back into her life, she soon finds out everything doesn't go as planned---and that secrets will always come to light.

Anika Williams is use to people she love being ripped from her life. Whether by death or choice. When she was sixteen years old she and her mother were kicked out the only family they ever known. Now twenty-one years old, pregnant, and alone, she doesn't have time for the same family trying to make amends.

Anika would love nothing more than to give them her back like they did her all those years ago. Well that was the plan until the man who's responsible  for the life growing inside of her thinks she was the reason he was sent to jail and tries to get revenge. Now she must put her faith in this family to not only save her life but the life of her unborn child.

Take a ride with Anika as she finds a family,  love, and a chance at true happiness.

He was stuck, having a midlife crisis before the ripe age of fifty. But then he met her. And she became much more than life. 

Daniel has always been late for everything in his life. He's been late for puberty, dating girls, and even the "monkey in the bush". When he discovers his new neighbor next door is a woman, a very pretty woman, will he take a chance and ask her out? Or will his former bully, Nick Young, beat him to it?

Not everyone gets a happy ending...

Hey guys,

Heart of Lies Book 1&2 have now been published under one of my pennames Alma Muerte.

FB Author page: Alma Muerte.

Despite the absurdity of bargaining with the Almighty while topless and bound in the bedroom of a man whose last name she can’t remember, Diya De la Roy gives God an ultimatum:  Send her a man and a love worth having by next Valentine's Day, or she would give up on both.  Forever.  

Unbeknownst to Diya, she'll get that and more, along with a lesson in how perfectly wicked divine humor can be.

It's gonna be a bumpy road!