A chance encounter on an elevator causes two people to reevaluate the meaning of love and life. Can true love be met all while Chasing Venus? Can a wallflower change? Can a savvy businessman learn that love is the riskiest deal of all? Interracial romance. What happens when cultures cross, in-laws meet, and an unconventional woman faces a very traditional family?

Jake is a cynical Chicago bar owner just looking for some peace.  Josephine is a woman with a shady past just looking for a second chance.  When their two worlds collide during a city blackout each knows that the other presents a threat and yet they can't resist each other.  They along with several people from different walks of life converge on Jake's bar while chaos erupts around them.  Everyone is in for a night of secrets, revelations and lessons learned.  Who will survive the blackout with their heart intact?

Enter into the world of political drama and intrigue as Payton Samuels takes on the job of Director of Media Relations for the campaign of the nation’s golden boy Senator Cameron Marshall. Millionaire playboy and heir to the international fashion conglomerate The House of Marceline, Jared Marcel seeks to win Payton’s affection. Experience the back door deals in Washington…knowing everyone has an angle and no one is what they seem.

Serena Davis is a shy young lady that has had a crush on her boss Mr. Ki, king of jerks, for 2 years. Mr. Ki, in order to stay the head of his family company must marry. What happens when he suddenly asks her to marry him?

When the time comes and you find yourself at a crossroad... who will you be... what will you do?

Art Historian Aidan Bell and student Collista Carson can't stand each other. Yet for some reason, he asks her to be his new assistant.  Although doubtful that they can co-exist without killing each other, Collista has her grade in his class to think about and so accepts the position.  One thing leads to another, and before long, the two are finding it hard to maintain their professional distance.

Then the specter of Aidan's murky past casts its shadow over the forbidden relationship.  Add a priceless painting, a ruthless art collector and soon Collista finds herself in the position of having to help Aidan solve a mystery before he goes down for the count.  Will he have enough time to teach her what she needs to know about the art of the steal?  

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a short addition to the Series Love Bears All

It was an hour to show time.  With the trunk full of chafing pans lined with her love's labor lost inside each one, a fifteen minute drive to her destination seemed now like a hike across the Great Plains-impossible to meet in the time she was now allowed.

"What seems to be the problem ma'am?"  His blue eyes sparkled as he spoke.

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A part of the Kerrington & Associates series. Donovan Williams is a rookie in the Miami Dolphins Football Organization. He's lonely and praying for love to find him. Kendra Davis is a rookie in some sorts as well to the Dolphins organization as an athletic trainer.  Will she and Donovan become fast friends and later lovers?

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 Perhaps I have a little of the monster in me after all...

How much would you sacrifice for those you love? To save her father, Sunshine must give up the life she's longed for to a powerful gangster.

Can she go with him and keep herself?

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Broke and in debt from college, Mary Oluwanke gets a job at one of Chicago's most popular Italian resturants, Mambo Italiano. The resturant is a family buisness. And like all families this one has a great deal of problems.

Buon cibo e buona compagnia vanno di pari passo. Faccio buon cibo, così ho prendersi il merito per la buona compagnia"*

*Translation: Good food and good company go hand in hand. I make good food, so i take credit for the good company.