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Alicia meets Nick and they begin a Journey full of love, forgiveness and Passion. From two different worlds their love bridges the culture gap and emotional walls come crashing down. This is a Story of faith and love in its purest forms.

Alicia is in her third year of nursing school, at 23 she is more than ready to take on the real world after moving to New York far away from her overprotective family where she is learning to depend more on herself and taking big steps to her independance.

Nick is a first generation Chinese-American living in New York, at 25 he is done pleasing everyone but himself, he was to be a doctor like his father and for most of his life he spent his days and nights studying and working at that goal... In the last year before his graduation from medical school Nick decides to take a break and
somehow how ended up buying a club with his bestfriend Sean. one year later Nick is conflicted though he loves his life the one he made for himself he misses his family and he even misses medical school. After his little detour from the path his father wanted him to take his family relationships are strained at best. Alicia teaches him the meaning of forgiveness and shows him that its time to let go of the past to embrace the future. 

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...

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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?  

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. 

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It happened one night. No biggie. Right?

Until Moliere Baker realizes her one night with Simon Ford has repercussions that affect not only them and those they care about, but a brand new life as well . . .

Now there's a wedding approaching and time to come clean is running out. Is there enough love between two friends to last a lifetime once the secret's out?

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You have had life mapped out at a young age. Get into a performance arts college. Own your own dance studio and stay away from boys.... But what happens when you meet the love of your life?  Then come to find out he has a girlfriend? But, he has eyes for only you...

For married author Dove Morgan, the trip to the big city was the first in a series of things she never thought she'd do. 

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?

A story about what it is to love that which you cannot keep.

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Welcome to the city of Baltimore, MD and into the life of Devyn McKnight. Jewelry designer and entrepreneur, Devyn McKnight, thought she was secure in the shell she built around her life, made of family, friends and her jewelry business but an unexpected encounter challenges all that she is and all that she believes she wants to be.  

Round three of the Ant and Adina chronicles...Will the luck of the Irish finally pull these two together?

Marisol Smith left in the wee hours of the morning but her heart and mind won't let her move beyond the time she spent with Grady James Halpern. Part two in Mari and Bear's sorta kinda love story.

Emery Johnson has been crushing on her older brothers best friend for years, too bad in his eyes, she will only ever be recognized as 'Darrell's sister'. Ready to change that, Emery enlists the help of a single book to snare her dream man, but along the way someone else steps into the picture, shaking up the feelings that Emery thought were tightly secured and forever stable.

Esther Hendrickson has loved teaching young children, mainly because she cannot have children of her own. What was once society's trophy wife, her abusive past has led her deep into dementia, but the love of hardened FBI agent A.J. Thomas may be just what she needs to heal her torn heart.

While investigating the murder of Marley Preston, Carl Townsend finds himself falling for her mother and developing a close friendship with her older brothers who will stop at nothing to avenge her death.

Carmen Shelly preyed on married men and usually won her sought after prize. Business is booming until her partner sets his sights on her single sister.

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?

Matt was the love them and leave them type till he met Azalea. She turned the tables on him but not for the reasons he thinks. Will he forgive her when he learns the truth?

After finding a beautiful young woman unconcsious on the sidewalk, Travis Mayfield finds himself in the middle of a battle between The Titans and The Olympians.

Loving a man is hard enough try loving the devil?

How do you love a man that doesn't want to be love?

How can you care for a person who could careless about you?

How do you try to find a soul mate from a soulless man?

Jacqueline finds herself sold to devil she try's to unfreeze a heart that seems untouchable.

The harder she try's to love him the more lost she gets into the battle of loving the devil.