You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose. But you can't pick your family.  

She's always been a safe bet. The go-to girl. No expectations, low risk.

But this time around it's getting harder not to feel sorry for herself.

Working as a Home Health Aide and struggling to make ends meet. All Aries Washington wanted to do was prove the child she had three years ago, was in fact the son of Cameron Marino. She didn't have any delusions about them putting their differences aside and falling madly in love. Why would she? Cameron was engaged to her ex best friend Ambrosia, A.K.A Ms. Perfect. So imagine her surprise when he not only demands she moves in with him, but marry him too.

Aries had no idea that once she gave birth to her own little Marino, that, that meant she automatically belonged to the whole Marino family. With a group of people who take their strong family ties seriously, she's about to find out that once your in, there's no out. 

Nathaniel Hendricks lived alone in his lakehouse on Lake Michigan spending his days remebering the young son he tracgically lost and the wife who left him when he needed her the most. The only thing that kept him remotely happy was the lake he lived by boating and fishing. He already failed as a father and a husband so why would God give him another chance?

Eden Wilson spent most of her life running from abuse and now as a young adult she finds herself running from an obsessive abusive ex-boyfriend. Not wanting the child she's carrying to be in danger she spends most of her pregancy running until she tries to get in contact with her uncle for help. Eden finds herself with her uncle's friend a lonely handsome man Nathaniel who gives her shelter in a snowstorm. 

Little did either of them know how close the baby would bring them together or how much this little bundle of joy would help them learn about secound chances.

 Her life was to be scarificed. She was sent to die in order to keep the treaty of her people, her family from her same fate but Kora's intuition was soon brought to light of her true calling ... that involved her complete submission over her body. What awaited her was neither man or beast but both and he wanted to consume her whole with a fire that burned deep.

Veles lived and breathed war.As a warrior of Drakon clan, battle was his only outlet, fighting with his brothers and taken the glory for all was the creed he lived by.When given the oppurtunity to take a slave for the sake of her village he agreed but what he didn't realize was the war it create to keep her.

Renay is one of the hottest music performer's rght now. With her ex famous-boyfried out of the picture she is newly single. She has a unique opportunity to find love on her own dating show. The catch is she is in a remote location and her family members get to have their own picks of men for Renay to choose from. 

Will Renay find real love or real drama?

While returning home to Chicago from a business trip Anika Wallace and Hunter Sterling IV find themselves the only surviors of a plane crash on a South Pacific island. There's no telling when they'll make it back home or if they ever will make it back home for that matter. One thing is for sure they're going to have to learn how to get along their survival is depending on it.

The year 2016 looks promising for Faith Jamison she's finally going to acheive her purpose in the world and feel good about herself for the first time in her life. Women are now finally allowed to train to be Navy SEALS. Faith isn't going to let that oppurtnuity slip by her not when she sees a future that is brighter than her painful past.

Sometimes hurting the person you love is easier than showing them love, especially when you're hurting inside.

Saint-Luc and Naomi Adebayo-Roux aren't any different.

This is their story.

Once bitten, twice shy, Marrisa is one bitter lady after her husband cheats on her under her nose, with her sister. Bitter and broken heart Marrissa tells herself she is done with men, One little detail foils all of her plans and now she has to find out what happened to her on the night of her post break up drinking rampage.

It's gonna be a bumpy road!

Coming home can be harder than staying away sometimes.

Home has now been published on Amazon and there's quite a bit more added from where I had originally ended this story. Hope you all enjoy it.