Author's Note: This work is clean. Gerard had a shifter mate who died years ago. Lachelle can deal with that. She’s confident about the love she and Gerard share. Their relationship has never been better—until said mate shows up very much alive! Kelly wants Gerard back, and she wants to take her rightful place as leader of the dragon shifters. What is Lachelle supposed to do when no one believes a dragon shifter can have a second mate? Gerard has gone silent. Lachelle doesn’t know if his love for Kelly has revived with her reappearance or if he still loves her. She doesn’t know where she belongs or what she should do. Social unrest between dragons and humans is coming to a head. Does a dragon go with their DNA, their gut, or their heart in the search for the truth? * interracial romance, multicultural romance, clean romance, bwwm, shifter romance, dragon

Author's Note: This work is clean. Gerard has lived alone for many years, and that’s the way he likes it. When he hears that Declan Hughes has taken over leadership of his people, he goes to see for himself. That’s when his life gets too complicated. She’s human, and apparently she’s his mate. He wants nothing to do with humans—or her. But she’s headstrong and determined to put her life in danger. He has to protect her. He has to…make her his. Lachelle has one thing on her mind—well two. She wants be a cop, and she wants a baby. She thought she was on the road to having both. Until she learns secrets about her boyfriend she can’t ignore. And a man drops from the sky who makes her want to rethink everything. **interracial romance, clean romance, wholesome romance, shifter romance, paranormal romance, bwwm

Author's Note: This work is clean. 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 never be in a serious relationship with him because both of them lie for a living. How can she trust him if Declan turns to her for more than friendship? Choices for both are ripped away when Declan’s past comes knocking and they’re taken hostage. This time, Declan’s not sure if he’s strong enough to protect Janessa, and Janessa doesn’t know if she can accept that Declan isn’t even human. ** interracial romance, multicultural romance, shifter romance, clean romance, paranormal romance

Author's Note: This work is clean. “I’m marrying Garner, and I want you to be my maid of honor!” Chanda can’t believe her cousin would get involved with the man she left behind, not to mention marry him. How can Chanda return home with the secrets she’s kept from Garner all this time? How can she wish her self-centered and manipulative cousin happiness? Trying her best to be a good person, Chanda goes along with the plan. She’ll zip into town, do the deed, and get out fast. Too bad everyone is against the marriage, including Garner’s family. Everyone’s pushing for Chanda to rekindle things with her old love. And Garner? He’s as sweet as he used to be, as gentle, as pushy about looking after her. From the first night, she’s tempted to walk into his arms and stay there. Surely, Garner is over her by now. And yet, that look in his eyes says she was wrong for leaving, and maybe she should stay.

Author’s Note: This light-hearted, slightly whimsical romance is clean. Audre Thompson loves her life. She’s living the dream being a self-employed woman and working with her best friend, Alessandro Sordi. Unfortunately, their mountain resort in the small town of Heweville isn’t seeing the success the two envisioned. If Audre and Alex don’t figure out a plan to get more customers this Christmas, it’s over. Life gets complex in a hurry. Audre and Alex have a lot more enthusiasm than skill. The very eligible, very handsome sheriff is interested in Audre. Alex calls in his snow bunny ex to help with ideas. Someone is trying to ruin Christmas and the town’s traditions by stealing gnomes. And Audre has just discovered her own heart, which beats for no one but Alex. **interracial romance, holiday romance, Christmas, contemporary romance, humorous romance, multicultural romance African American romance

Irresistibly seductive and beautifully complicated, Hunter Golden finds himself constantly at war with his inner beast when it comes to women. His human side is attracted to sinfully wild bad girls while his wolf wants a quality woman who knows what she wants in life and isn’t afraid to take it. His world is about to be turned upside down when his beast finally agrees with his human, and the target is in his sights. When the billionaire playboy finds himself tangled up in a property scandal and comes face-to-face with the wickedly curvy Kia Nash, he knows his hedonistic bachelor lifestyle is over once and for all. She is everything both he and his beast have always wanted, and what the shifter wants, the shifter gets. What he doesn’t know is that, unlike the other women he so easily attracts with his skillful hands and fiery passions, the buxom beauty isn’t going to go down without a fight. It’ll take more than sweet whispers and soft touches to win her over. It’s time to let his beast take control. Hunter is a standalone novel in the Wolf Elite Shifters series by Sedona Venez. If you love riveting storytelling, sensual shifters, and paranormal romance that never quits, then you’ll love the Wolf Elite Shifters series. Buy Hunter to dive into a world of sexy shifter secrets today! Keywords: cowboys, paranormal romance, fantasy romance, urban fantasy, shifter romance, bear shifters, steamy romance, shifters, alpha heroes, alpha shifters, myth, mythology, love story, werewolf, werewolf romance, action adventure, vampire, witch, demon, devil, psychic, shapeshifter, alpha, vampires, vampire series, shapeshifter werewolf romance, fantasy, lycan, mate bond, vampire, vampire romance, immortal, vampire slayer, fae, T.S. Joyce, Terry Bolryder, Harmony Raines, Zoe Chant, Regine Abel, Roxie Ray, Lee Savino, Renee Rose, Milly Taiden, Laurel K. Hamilton, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Christine Feehan, Gena Showalter, K.F. Breene, Shannon Mayer, Ruby Dixon, JR Ward, J.R. Ward, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Vampire Diaries, Twilight, Crave, Tracy Wolff, The Vampire Diaries, Bella Forrest, A Shade of Vampire, Harry Potter, witch, wizard, fated mates

Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do us part." It is an impression that imbues beliefs about black families to this day. But it's a perception primarily based on documents produced by abolitionists, the state, or other partisans. It doesn't tell the whole story. Drawing on a trove of less well-known sources including family histories, folk stories, memoirs, sermons, and especially the fascinating writings from the Afro-Protestant Press,'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part offers a radically different perspective on antebellum love and family life. Frances Smith Foster applies the knowledge she's developed over a lifetime of reading and thinking. Advocating both the potency of skepticism and the importance of story-telling, her book shows the way toward a more genuine, more affirmative understanding of African American romance, both then and now.