Tressie Lockwood

Previously published. Forced to return to her hometown after the death of her cheating husband, Zuria Belle has hit rock bottom. She's hurt and humiliated, but she has hopes of starting over working in her brother's coffee shop. Unfortunately, she forgot just how hot and dangerous her brother's partner and best friend is. Fane Valentine cruises around town on his motorcycle with one mission-to bed every woman in North Carolina, and Zuria's next on...

Duke has always been the black sheep of the Marquette family. While his cousins were making billions, Duke was busy getting thrown out of the army and landing inside jail. He never cared too much about anyone else, least of all falling in love. Then he started working at the famous Marquette's restaurant in New Orleans, his cousins' venture. Creed demanded responsibility, but the word wasn't in Duke's vocabulary. Not until he met Takiyah Silver. At...

Sakura Keith, the oldest of the Keith Hunter sisters, travels to Miami to find out the real truth behind her mother's death five years ago. She's already lost so much-her mother, her two sisters, and now maybe even the love of her protector, Adam, when she rejects his proposal. Someone doesn't want Sakura digging into the past, and the attack when it comes changes her life forever. Adam Michael Martinez knows what it's like to be without family. That's...

Running from her abusive ex, Shira goes to her old school friend, Whisper, for help. Instead of Whisper, she meets Max, a sexy if gruff man she's immediately attracted to. Max seems just as dominate as her ex, but there's a gentleness to him too that draws Shira closer. When Max offers Shira a job, she jumps on it because she feels safe for the first time in a long time. Between Max and the leopard that saves her from her ex, Shira no longer has to...

Damen's wife left him to raise his daughter alone. She said he was boring, and she wanted something more. Since then, he's lived a carefree life without the ties of a relationship to hold him down. The only female that matters to him now is his little girl, and he'll give her whatever she wants. On impulse, Damen and his brother opened a restaurant called Marquette's in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter, and they're having amazing success....

Author's Note: This work is clean interracial romance. Declan will do whatever he needs to do to protect his best friend. He runs off Janessa's dates who are actually predators or ex-cons. He watches over her from afar because that's all he'll ever be able to do for her. No matter how much Declan loves Janessa, it doesn't change the fact that he has a secret he's ashamed of. Janessa is in love with her best friend and business partner Declan. She'll...

Shiya flew to Juneau, Alaska to confirm if the man she's been chatting up online is truly a shape-shifter. This was to be her first job in the field. As a tech geek, she's used to staying behind her computer and gathering all pertinent information about the existence of shifters so her family-shifter hunters for generations-can go and do the dirty work. All Shiya was supposed to do was to seduce Birk into revealing himself. What she didn't count on...

Previously published. Sam Belle knew what he was, a snowy owl shifter. He rejected that side of himself along with his people because of their violence and their arrogance. As far as he was concerned, he lived as a human and only gave in to the call to shift once a year. The one problem Sam had with his choices was that there was no one to share his physical needs, no woman who could handle him sexually. Then Tondi Jaeger walked into Sam's coffee...