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Max Turner tries to stop his father from beating his mother and accidentally kills his old man in self-defense. His mother refuses to let him confess to the police and forces him to leave indefinitely. Max makes his way from Arkansas to Texas and is hired by Angie Rawlings, a widow nearly the age of his mother, to help with her farm. Angie teaches him to be a man, but when Max meets a beautiful, black girl named Mallory Washington, he’s smitten and soon realizes he must choose between working for Angie or being with Mallory. Only before he decides, fate throws out another curve ball and ...

Bree Washington, a young African American woman, has always wanted to become a doctor. When her father loses his job, she is forced to find other means to raise money to continue her schooling. Loving to dance and doing it well, she becomes an exotic dancer. Bree figures her dancing days will be history after she gets her medical degree. Though being a doctor gives her a sense of fulfillment, Bree fears life is passing her by. Alone without any family of her own, more than anything, she wants to marry and have children. Fate intervenes when she saves the life of a child who had been in a ...

A Most Horrific Crime: Following an operation to remove a malignant tumor, Jane Canby returns home to discover her husband Ralph, is wanted for questioning by the police. When love Hurts: Love should never hurt, and yet Jasmine Fara won’t leave her boyfriend, Eddie, even though he beats her. Her best friend, Leanne, has repeatedly tried to get her to drop him, but to no avail. Finally, after a bad beating, Leanne decides to use her secret weapon. I Kidnapped My Own Son: Crystal Green is forced to take her son and go into hiding. She changes their names and eventually feels safe until the ...

When a tall, handsome, hunk in cutoff sweats gets in Marnie Davis’s face for hijacking his Laundromat dryer, sparks fly and harsh words are said. Imagine her chagrin then, to find the barbarian, Scott Langley, dressed like a GQ model in her law offices the next day and the godson of one of the partners of her firm. When the partner forces Marnie to take Scott under her wing, they decide to bury the hatchet and behave like two professionals. Despite their growing attraction for each other, both are determined not to forge any kind of new relationship. They have been burned too badly by a ...

When Autumn Stiles lands the advertising job of her dreams, she feels it's the happiest day of her life. She doesn't count on the tall, handsome, dreamy-eyed Stuart Tanner doing his best to get her to quit. When Tanner learns that he has a new socialite employee at the advertising agency where he works, he is determined to get rid of her. She is obviously just trying out for a hard-working job that she thinks is glamorous. But soon the heat sizzles between them and he determines he will never give in to his desires.

What would you do for love? When Abby Minton agrees to host a book signing for Charles Greer, she never expects to date, let alone, fall in live with the handsome black man. As her relationship grows, she becomes petrified that if Charles ever meets her dysfunctional family, he'd run for his life. But when Charles finally does propose, Abby realizes she must introduce Charles to them. How can she keep the man of her dreams when her family is the stuff of nightmares?

What do you do when your womanizer of a husband loves your inheritance more than you and is the top divorce lawyer in Arizona? Vanessa Jeffers had had enough of her philandering husband, Jake, and wants to divorce him. Only...while she's making plans to dump him, Jake is making plans of his own.

Alicia and Kyle are tired of arguing. That's all they seem to do lately making their marriage shaky at best. In an attempt to bring them closer and save their marriage, they go on a romantic cruise to the Greek isles. Things are copasetic between them until Kyle becomes jealous of an entertainer's attention toward Alicia. They have an argument and Alicia falls overboard.

Emma Daniels discovers several weeks following the death of her beloved grandmother, Edith Weidner, secrets that have the power to alter her life forever.

Their love is the only thing that helps them survive the forces threatening to tear them apart. Evie Bennington faces a dilemma. She is attracted to Dillon, a blond, green-eyed hunk and he is attracted to her. They sizzle on the dance floor and between the sheets. But Evie promises her dying mother never to date a white man. So how can she even consider a future with Dillon? Then it seems as if Fate steps in to solve her problem when Dillon inexplicably disappears. Confused and heart broken, Evie tries to move on with her life. But she can never forget the man she now realizes is her one ...

Cala Gonzales, the publisher of a successful woman’s magazine does an interview for People and inadvertently places a target on her back because of events that occurred nearly twenty-five years before. While Cala finds love and excitement with Paul Silver, she’s unaware that she’s being stalked by a fanatic on a mission— to kill her

Attorney, Raven Gould, is tired of defending scumbags and fending off the advances of her boss. So she decides to quit her high-powered career and take a job at a popular ice cream parlor. Her aunt is alarmed at Raven’s decision and secretly convinces psychologist, Lucas Lusk, to check out her niece’s mental state. Reluctantly, Lucas agrees. But after meeting the dusky beauty, he realizes he wants to check out a lot more than her mental state. The problem is, Raven has a thing against psychologists and if she discovers why he keeps running into her—seemingly accidentally—she’ll ...

While on a job interview in Arizona, Peter Saunders is car-jacked and left for dead. However, his assailant is killed shorty afterward in a fiery accident with an oil truck. When Ruby Douglas, his fiance', is notified of his death, she is devastated. And, as if that pain and heartache isn't enough, Ruby, a school teacher, discovers she's pregnant and must fight to keep her job. Though she never truly let's Peter's ghost go, she eventually finds happiness with fellow teacher, Mark Winters...until fate intervenes once more.

What do you do when a ghost mistakes you for his wife? Furious with her boyfriend, journalist Nikki O'Connell visits Paris while reassessing their relationship. What she doesn't need complicating matters is the ghost of Claude Debussy crawling into her bed every night. Yet that's exactly what happens when the dead composer believes Nikki is his wife. Journalists deal in facts, not in the supernatural, and it's that guiding rule that forces Nikki to doubt the possibility her rented apartment is haunted. Instead, she's confronted with the possibility that she's inherited the insanity that ...

Struggling through an unhappy relationship, Carla Millhouse decides on a makeover—of herself and her life. She joins a gym to lose weight, buys a sexy wardrobe and changes her hair. But even though she is focused on trying to save her relationship, she finds herself gradually becoming intrigued by her hunky, green-eyed gym buddy, Richard. Especially when she starts having torrid, sexy dreams about him. Trying to put a devastating broken engagement behind him, high powered attorney, Richard Stein, is definitely not in the market for a relationship. Then he begins having hot fantasies about...

Defying her parents by marrying Adam, a white man, Jill Stone believed love could conquer all. And throughout Adam’s rise as an executive in a large New York advertising agency, Jill bottled up her unhappiness about his long hours and many trips out of town. But when their sizzling love life fizzled, she couldn’t keep quiet anymore. She wanted him home. More. And in her bed. Adam recognized his marriage was going down the tubes, but couldn’t exorcise the demons of Jill’s parents thinking he wasn’t good enough for her, and the fear that he might somehow end up a failure like his ...

Paige Winters thought she had it all: a charming fiancé and a great job, and a fairy-tale future. Only her world crumbles when she finds another woman in her bed. Heartbroken, she leaves immediately without hearing her fiancé out. She finds solace in another city, where fate leads her to an unexpected romance with an old acquaintance. Tragically, their time together is cut short. Paige is left grieving, but out of the ashes, fate intervenes once more, giving her a new beginning and a bright future.

An encounter on a bridge between strangers Brandi Jeffries encounters a stranger, Adam Pendleton, atop the Wabasha Street Bridge. Within minutes,they are arguing over where each should jump which results in destroying the spirit of the jump. They both storm off expecting to never meet again, but fate brings them to the same diner. There they decide to join forces to get even with her ex and his wife. They end up falling in love, but things get derailed when Adam’s wife is found murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.

ACCIDENTAL LOVE: Holly Davidson is hammering out the final details with her soon-to-be ex-husband, Jeff, one possession at a time. Leaving her lawyer’s office, she’s caught in a monsoon and falls as she runs to her car, breaking her ankle. One of the EMTs transporting her to the hospital takes an interest in her, but Holly doesn’t want another man in her life so soon. But will she let the handsome EMT merely walk away out of her life forever? BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: Jerry Blaine convinces his wife, Stacy, to join an exclusive, invitation-only swingers’ club with the intent of making ...

When love comes around a second time to Claudia Bell and Henry Williamson, their children are far from supportive of their newfound happiness. Henry’s daughters resent the fact he isn’t with an African-American woman. Claudia’s children would rather see their mother dating a Caucasian, as well. Their children conspire to destroy their parents’ relationship. But will Claudia and Henry squander their second chance at happiness by choosing family over their passionate love?