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Sanaa Baptiste grew up around violence. She knows how to stay alive, how to follow the rules, and when to break them. When she is forced to marry Mikhail Smirnoff, the heir to a Bratva empire, she plays along to stay safe. He does not trust her. He watches everything. Tests her limits. Tries to control her. But Sanaa is not easy to control and the more he tries, the harder it becomes to let her go. What starts as a power play turns into something messy, consuming, and dangerously addictive.

What happens when the secret you've kept for thirteen years walks through your door with a camera crew? ESSENCE: I've kept two secrets for thirteen years. The first: my grandmother's Christmas cookies contain actual magic—the kind that makes grown men cry memories and sick children smile miracles. The second: my daughter's "dead" father is Stefan Andersson, the celebrity chef who just walked into my bakery with Food Network cameras and enough sexual tension to melt snow in Vermont winter. One look at Maya and he knows.

Romance with Zik was not on the menu. On the menu were carefully plated dishes. Not butterflies. Not longing gazes. Not replaying moments like a carousel. And definitely not romance with my friend’s brother. Or a younger guy. So why did my stomach feel weird? It had to be a stomach bug… right?

The Gift by B.D. Anderson is a powerful and deeply moving contemporary drama that explores family secrets, second chances, and the true meaning of forgiveness. Brought vividly to life through compelling dual narration by Dan Levy and Kimberly Yvonne Steele, this audiobook delivers an unforgettable emotional journey that will stay with listeners long after the final chapter.

Follow Sarah's story of betrayal, heartbreak, and unshakable strength from the one person who had never left her side. Not even when he realized he was going to have to watch the woman who held his heart get married to someone else. This is Sarah and Devereaux's story.

As a boxer, Max Cano knows the sting of a missed right hook and the redemption of a left jab if you know how to take a hit and keep moving. When Rainey Collins is thrust into his path, he recognizes the kind of blow you don’t see coming—the kind that knocks the air out of you, not with pain but possibilities. Lowering his guard proves difficult. In the ring, his guard is high; in life, it's even higher. Rainey is vibrant and beautiful, and their connection is unforgettable.

Elle est ma captive. Ma prisonnière. Je la ferai parler. La bratva m’a mis un flingue dans la main quand j’avais treize ans. Elle m’a donné la liberté, un sentiment d’appartenance, et la famille que je n’ai jamais eue. Aucune chance que je laisse ce petit bout de femme attirer des ennuis à mon chef. Même si elle est sublime. Ensorcelante. Et terriblement fragile. Mais faire du mal à une femme m’est impossible. Alors je trouverai d’autres façons de la torturer. Des façons bien plus agréables. Et ma petite prisonnière finira par me révéler tous ses secrets. Elle finira par devenir mienne.

Two strangers: A biker & a black woman. One night together... No Memories... Just a creamy mess to clean up. Magnum doesn’t flirt with loud, plus-sized black women rocking bubblegum-pink hair and curves for days. He has enough problems... He knows when a woman is nothing but trouble, with a butt that could have him wrapped around her finger. Damara draws him into her honey trap with a bright smile and high cheek bones. He can't resist her curvy, deliciously sweet peach, even if he tries. Magnum had to break his rules to buy her a shot. And it's the last thing they both remember.

Scarred by man and beast, Kira Fontaine has survived the Arabian desert and continues to search for a way back to America. But she can’t stop thinking about Sheik Jalil, the man who didn’t know she existed until he rescued her from Sheik Qadir and claimed her father's medallion as his own. Stolen from Jalil's father the day he was murdered, the medallion holds the secret to Jalil’s family legacy. Consumed with finding his father's killer, Jalil is convinced that Kira holds the key.

I'm far from perfect. I've made mistakes. And every day I wake up and make a promise to myself. A promise to stay on the right path and not let my past take hold. Relationships are risky for someone not in recovery. For a guy like me, it could not only be dangerous, but it could compromise all the work I've done to stay clean. At least that's what my family thinks. But Violet adds a purpose to my life that I didn't even realize I was missing.

Despite being surrounded by the dead, life is lonelier than ever. I tried to respect her wishes, but it turns out I can't live without her. When Solaneen Gomez left, she took my heart with her, and I want it back. There's just one thing standing in my way: the dead man who's obsessed with her.

After realizing she was sticking around for all the wrong reasons, Lola Lima leaves her fiancé and his manipulation tactics at the altar. The Latin dance instructor returns home to where her roots run deep and happen to tangle with her first love's, leaving them both more determined than ever to heal, in more ways than one.

I’m a successful entrepreneur who’s made a good life for himself. I’ve had a few intimate relationships, but none have lasted. Probably because I haven’t been able to be my authentic self. See, in my heart, I’m a pup. I want to curl into a wonderful Daddy‘s lap and be petted, stroked, and praised. I long for piles with other puppies where we play and I can make friends. But who’s going to accept a forty-five-year-old man into that puppy pile?

It had been 615 days, two hours, and 16 minutes since he last saw her. In less than 72 hours, he'd bought a dance studio. In ten minutes, she cursed him out and ditched him in said studio. Then, three minutes later, he found her list—and in one second, he changed the trajectory of her life with a single sentence. Sienna Jones didn't have a plan—she had a list. A perfectionist by nature, she was tired of trying to live up to that image. So, she made a list of all the imperfect things she'd never done in her "perfect" life, and by her 21st birthday, she was determined to complete it.

I’m Natasha Resnova. The miracle child. The one who lived when doctors said I wouldn’t. The one who hides behind a camera instead of facing my violent bloodline. The Resnov bratva thrives on brutality. I survive in stillness. Until one photo puts me in the path of Lachlan MacKenzie—Dodger’s star batter and son of a Scottish crime boss. Lach sees me. The broken parts. The girl behind the blood-soaked legacy. Then he appears, and everything unravels.

Un coureur, ça court après les femmes. Flynn Taylor, idole du rock, prend tout à la légère. Il rentre avec des filles différentes tous les soirs. Oui, des filles au pluriel. Sur le point de devenir une icône, pas seulement à Chicago, mais dans toute l’Amérique, il est tout ce que je devrais éviter. Mais après tout, cela n’a peut-être pas d’importance. Je suis tellement brisée que je ne suis même pas capable d’être en couple. Flynn est peut-être le parfait antidote. La tentation dont j’ai besoin pour m’attirer de nouveau vers le monde des vivants.

Of all the reckless things single dad and billionaire Brodie Rogan has done in his life, giving the woman he loves a job falls very high on the list. Julie Corbin meant it when she said goodbye, and Brodie knows desperate times call for desperate measures. His false help wanted ad for a too-good-to-be-true job is the perfect bait, and he’s sure sweet Julie will fall for it, until the whole ruse blows up in his face.

Courtney Vance never expected to inherit her family’s billion-dollar aerospace empire at just twenty. But when her grandfather dies unexpectedly, the company is hers—if she married or has turned twenty-one otherwise her irresponsible sister will be in charge until then, it is only a month but in the wrong hands her family's business could be ruined by then. Enter Jack Porter, the former Air Force pilot and head of security, a man whose dedication to duty is as strong as his irresistible allure.

Mira moves to Dubai from Texas to grow her abaya brand. Zayd is the CEO of a resort empire, fit, focused and every inch the image of refined Arabian prestige. They notice each other at a bookstore-cafe, and from there, she’s thrust into his world of grandeur.

In a town where health is currency and longing is lure, a reluctant investigator and seamstress must uncover whether hunger will anchor a man already slipping into the dark. Behind the decrepit doors of an infirmary said to offer miraculous cures to London's ailing elite, people are vanishing. Private Investigator and estranged heir to French aristocracy Jacques Valmont is summoned across the channel to sleuth, despite the lingering sickness of his own—one of grief that stirs in his blood and shadows his mind.