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Two weeks. It's a trial period during which hockey superstar Zac Quinn will prove to Reagan Thomas - his best friend's younger sister and the one woman he can't seem to keep his hands off of - that they can't possibly date for real. After all, the Thomas family is the only family he's ever had. He can't risk losing them, no matter how much he wants Reagan. She's too important to him; he can't let things get weird.

Kachelle Lewis is tired of waiting for love. As a successful pediatric orthodontist, she has everything else going for herself, but the one thing she desires most seems to be just out of reach. Coming home to an empty home has gotten old, and Kachelle longs for companionship. After dating every wrong man, she’s decided to put the fate of her love into the hands of Arranged Hearts, a professional matchmaking service, but there is a catch. While she’ll be paired with what she hopes is the man of her dreams, she will know nothing about him until she meets him at the altar.

It is incredibly stupid to write this text while I’m drunk. But what’s the saying? No gain, no pain. Or, no pain, no shame.... Whatever. You know what I mean. And let’s face it. There’s no way I would be doing this if I was stone-cold sober. But since I’m plastered? To hell with it. I want you. I know. Crazy, right? Not only am I your temporary roommate, but I’m a chatty nurse from Providence with an impeccable bedside manner and secrets. You’re a broody, commitment-phobe sculptor from England who communicates in grunts and single syllables.

Jason Tanner, protégé of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been by his mentor’s side in New York to spread the message of passive resistance. In Harlem, the epicenter of Black culture, poet Anita Hopkins tries to capture the message of Malcolm X, which she believes with all her heart: The time is now; enough is enough.

Unsettled… That is the word Desire Chambries uses to describe how she feels. Although her preschool students bring her joy, her personal life needs resuscitating. She’d love to get married, but the dating scene lacks quality men. Most were barely boyfriend material and definitely not fit to be someone’s husband. At thirty-five years old, her hope of finding the man of her dreams and becoming a wife is fading fast, as is the idea of having children of her own. One lonely Friday night, after being stood up for the third time, she sees an ad for Arranged Hearts on social media.

Mason Daniels is fine, and I swear I hit the jackpot when he offers to be my tour guide around Rio. They say the best way to get over a man is to get under a new one, but Mason is running from his problems too. On top of that, he’s 13 years my junior. Do we really have a shot when the odds are already stacked against us?

Dive into the secret world of Ebony Daniels, med student by day and sexy drug-dealing stripper by night. After falling in love with the area kingpin and club owner Bushwick, she gains it all - money, glamour, and popularity. But her two worlds collide when a drug deal goes bad, leaving her owing millions and in danger of finding herself behind bars.