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Rated: Mature Content
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[Reviews - 960]
Summary:

 

COMPLETED! (CHAPTER 30 & 31 UPDATED ON 4/20)

 

Thirty-seven-year-old Sugar Wallace used her bitter divorce as a sweet inspiration to pursue her lifelong dream of opening a trendy dessert and wine restaurant called Sugar Mama. Her friends and family want her to dive back into the dating game, but Sugar refuses to open her heart to another. Not when the man she gave her heart to for eighteen years of marriage crushed it after cheating on her with a young Instagram model. She's perfectly content with a busy life of running a successful business. Then one night, she witnesses a forty-six-year-old beaten man get pushed from a car and everything changes.



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Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Drama, Erotica, Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 31
Completed:Yes
Word count: 119166
Read Count: 284151
Published: July 18 2017
Updated: April 20 2019


Rated: Mature Content
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[Reviews - 231]
Summary:

Nyla Rogers is a 26 year old widow, she has just rrecently begun to live again when she meets handsome Dr. Gavin McKeough. She doesnt feel she'll ever love again. Gavin wants to pick up the peices of her shattered heart will she let him?



Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: General
Genre: Family, Romance
Story Status: None
Pairings: None
Warnings: Original Characters, Sexual Content , Strong Sexual Content , Un-betaed
Series: None
Chapters: 25
Completed:No
Word count: 70273
Read Count: 218742
Published: August 23 2012
Updated: August 29 2014


Retired
Rated: 17 and older
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[Reviews - 450]
Summary:

 

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William Lucas Kapori was a self-made millionaire. At 40 he had everything he ever wanted, a beautiful twenty something girlfriend, a luxurious mansion, and a job that he loved. His life was perfect, so why was he pursuing Ana Kay.



Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Drama, Family, Friendship, Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Extreme Language, Graphic Violence, Original Characters, Rape, Sexual Content , Un-betaed , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 13
Completed:No
Word count: 52745
Read Count: 78024
Published: March 29 2012
Updated: April 10 2014


Rated: Mature Content
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[Reviews - 415]
Summary:

 

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* ON THE CHAMBER'S TOP TEN MOST FAVORITE STORIES LIST

& NOW KINDLE VELLAS TOP 250 FAVORITES LIST *

FIVE STARS ON AMAZON

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?  

EDIT:  Crossing the Finish line has been removed from this site and a revised version with added new content has been published on Amazon Kindle Vella (as of November 2022) under the penname, Shelly B Williams. To those of you who have left reviews, added me to your Favorite Authors and Story Alerts, and helped to make CTFL one of the Top Ten Most Favorited Stories on Valent Chamber, I trully appreciate all the support you have shown me over the years. I hope you will continue to support me as I begin the next phase of my journey as a published author. I couldn't  have done this without you. 

Much Love!

 



Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Drama, Romance
Story Status: Completed
Pairings: Male/Female
Warnings: Adult Situations, Drugs/Drug Use, Extreme Language, Graphic Violence, Homosexuality, Original Characters, Racism, Strong Sexual Content , Work in Progress
Challenges: Deep, dark, and mysterious
Series: None
Chapters: 4
Completed:No
Word count: 5758
Read Count: 214786
Published: November 07 2010
Updated: January 09 2014


Rated: 17 and older
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[Reviews - 305]
Summary:

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...



Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Comedy , Drama, Family, Romance
Story Status: None
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Fluff, Sexual Content , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 11
Completed:No
Word count: 22532
Read Count: 42348
Published: December 02 2009
Updated: September 26 2013


Rated: 17 and older
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[Reviews - 508]
Summary:

 

A Special Thank You to TokenBlackGirl for the AMAZING banner.

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?



Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: General
Genre: Comedy , Friendship, Romance
Story Status: None
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Extreme Language, Fluff, Original Characters, Racism, Strong Sexual Content , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 19
Completed:No
Word count: 20252
Read Count: 76150
Published: May 29 2009
Updated: April 29 2013


Rated: 17 and older
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[Reviews - 489]
Summary:

 A Special Thank You to TokenBlackGirl for the AMAZING banner.

 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.



Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: General
Genre: Comedy , Romance
Story Status: None
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations, Extreme Language, Fluff, Original Characters, Sexual Content , Strong Sexual Content , Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 14
Completed:No
Word count: 14996
Read Count: 61704
Published: June 07 2009
Updated: April 27 2013


Rated: 17 and older
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[Reviews - 282]
Summary:

 

Cara Nightingale had made the same mistake twice.  Could she recover from past mistakes and get her life in order?



Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Romance
Story Status: Active
Pairings: None
Warnings: Work in Progress
Series: None
Chapters: 14
Completed:Yes
Word count: 66737
Read Count: 81070
Published: August 07 2012
Updated: October 15 2012


Retired
Rated: 17 and older
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[Reviews - 31]
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33 year old Jack Hodgins swore he was done with love. He was going to die a single billionaire. Guess it was time to give all his money to charities because there was no one else to share it with.

Then he met her. He hit the ground hard when he saw those brown eyes.

Then tragedy striked. She needed him just as much as he wanted her.

But what about love?

Maybe he could give love one more chance.

Based on the show Bones.



Table of Contents
Categories: Primetime Television
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: Romance
Story Status: None
Pairings: None
Warnings: Adult Situations
Series: None
Chapters: 4
Completed:No
Word count: 2947
Read Count: 5038
Published: September 03 2012
Updated: September 22 2012


Rated: 17 and older
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[Reviews - 302]
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Lorilei Riley is a large black girl who was uprooted at age five when her mother marries and relocates to the small mostly white mining town of Appalachia.  She is the object of ridicule and scorn.  She immediately bonds with Micah Hamilton a young classmate who is also an outsider because of a large growth on his face.

Micah gets a chance at a normal life by having a surgery to remove the growth and Lorilei wonders as they both reach adulthood if Micah has remained with her out of friendship and loyalty or if a guy like him, could really come to  love a plus size girl like her.

 

In The Eyes of the Beholder is an original work of fiction. Please do not copy or post this story to any other websites. Copyright 2011 BRAnderson

Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.



Table of Contents
Categories: Original Fiction
Characters: None
Classification: None
Genre: None
Story Status: None
Pairings: None
Warnings: None
Challenges: Ugly Girls Need Love Too
Series: None
Chapters: 2
Completed:Yes
Word count: 84367
Read Count: 80852
Published: September 29 2011
Updated: June 15 2012


Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.