Simply Cheris. . .

Coming this September,  Tempted At Midnight  is gaining advanced praise. “Scandal and seduction…nobody does them better.” —Zuri Day, author of the  Sweet Heat “Once again, Cheris Hodges brings the heat with a sensual and romantic page turner that doesn’t disappoint. In  Tempted at Midnight , Sylvie and Erik heat up the page!”  —K.M. Jackson, author of  As Good as the First Time For fans of Brenda Jackson,  Cheris Hodges  brings the heat in a new contemporary romance where New Years Eve fireworks last long past the stroke of  midnight . Here’s a little sneak peak inside this forthcoming novel! Ten! Sylvia hated the countdown to a new year. Especially in a crowd of couples. Everybody would be kissing in nine seconds and she was standing there with her third glass of champagne. Sylvie didn’t even like champagne but as the room celebrated the engagement of her best friend, Olivia Brown and her man LJ, she had to drink the swill. Th...

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By now, you have to be a fan of romance author Kathy Douglass . If you're not, then let me tell you that it is time to treat yourself to some of the sweetest romance on the shelves right now. Kathy introduced us to the small town of Sweet Briar, NC in  HOW TO STEAL THE LAWMAN’S HEART   – Harlequin Special Edition – February, 2017 Forgiveness starts with a stolen kiss… Chief of police Trent Knight had it all until an accident took his wife and he was left alone to raise two beautiful girls. Now the person he always blamed for his loss is back in town, and all bets are off. But soon his anger toward Carmen Shields gives way to a very different emotion — awareness of Carmen as a woman. On one hand, it feels like a betrayal of his late wife’s memory. On the other, it could be his second chance at life — and Carmen’s shot at redemption. Maybe she can go home again — with the help of a certain lawman. And she takes us back in her latest,  THE RANCHER’S RETURN   – ...

I went to a historically black college, Johnson C. Smith University. And while a lot of people my age credit A Different World  for the reason why they chose an HBCU, for me it was only one of the reasons. The main reason I wanted to go to a historically black college was because of my aunt and uncle. Two of the smartest people I had ever known, she was a graduate of Benedict and he was a graduate of South Carolina State. They both made history in education, he at the University of South Carolina and she in Richland County's school district. I wanted to be like them. And it started with going to a black college. My uncle passed away earlier this mont h. And the tributes to this wonderful man have been pouring in like a soothing rain. White was USC’s first African-American coach in any sport, but his greatest impact on the school and on hundreds of its athletes came after he left that role to become an academic advisor for the team and then build from scratch the athletic depar...

I'm lucky to have a tribe of friends who are smarter than I am. Who are better writers than I am. And what a blessing it is to know, KD King!  First, let me introduce you to my sis! KD King is the author of Torn :  Anaria Okam breathes war. She lives for vengeance. Wekari, an enemy planet, took the most precious thing from her –her mother. Though her mother lives in body, she is broken in spirit. Since the time Anaria could understand words, her father, ruler of the planet Loden, instilled in her the need to seek vengeance and destroy Wekari. While trading goods on the neutral planet of Atlzo she spots the enemy, Marshall Kalil Umba, leader of the Wekarian armies. Seizing an opportunity, she follows him. As she gets close to him, her body lights with need. Then the embers of desire cause her whole body to glow.  Kalil, of the space ship Destruction has finally found his mate. He realizes she is a warrior from the enemy planet of Loden. He captures her. Now he must ma...