"They say the first love is the truest. If you can hold on to it, do. For the others after will be different. Watered down versions tainted with your insecurities, their fears, each other's pride. Promises not to make the same mistakes twice, entering as a slightly altered version of yourself. Because that first love, you dive deep with no restrictions. You are you and they are them, fully. And you hit bumps, and turbulence, and at times think you'll crash headfirst until that love saves you . . . like a parachute. That first love. That true love.
Dalvin and Tahli fell in love as we often do, when looking for everything but. Two seeds in fresh soil, one is hyper focused on a future while the other is on a fresh start of figuring it all out. Both journeys best taken alone are defied by the two's will to do it together. Here's the start, some of the middle, and possibly the end to their story."
"Tahli and Vin fell in love one summer and their story began.
Through personal growth, love guided them. Watered by kisses, battered by storms, petals died off and grew again. Bent, twisted, and strengthened through adversities as love often faces . . . as one, they flourished.
The flower turns to a garden, the garden grows a tree.
But what happens when rot sneaks into the roots? When mistakes of your past threaten your future?
Taking the fall in Book One left us suspended in air in three intervals of time. Let's join them in their parachute and see how far love can carry us. This go, let's see if we survive the glide. Parachutes: Book Two is the second part of a three-book series."
"They say the first love is the truest. If you can hold on to it, do. For the others after will be different. Watered down versions tainted with your insecurities, their fears, each other's pride. Promises not to make the same mistakes twice, entering as a slightly altered version of yourself. Because that first love, you dive deep with no restrictions. You are you and they are them, fully. And you hit bumps, and turbulence, and at times think you'll crash headfirst until that love saves you . . . like a parachute. That first love. That true love.
Dalvin and Tahli fell in love as we often do, when looking for everything but. Two seeds in fresh soil, one is hyper focused on a future while the other is on a fresh start of figuring it all out. Both journeys best taken alone are defied by the two's will to do it together. Here's the start, some of the middle, and possibly the end to their story.
Parachutes: Book One is the first of a three-book series."
"She escaped the life she had to find the life she needed…
How much of our fate is circumstance?
Noor's life path has always been potholed with obstacles. But she is a survivor, an adapter… a proud wanderer.
Still, the deep yearning for more kept her motivated to conquer every hindrance because there had to be more waiting—somewhere.
Hitchhiking her way to a new coast, she lands at the feet of money, prestige, and a soul-touching love, all at the doing of a chance job opportunity. But it doesn't mean all even terrain, and her past has a problem letting go.
Still, Noor is convinced destiny has brought her to the life she deserves. She won't allow the girl she was to stop her from becoming the woman she needs to be.
Rules don't apply, and she's tired of letting life happen to her. She's determined to finally get everything she's ever wanted. Everything she's ever needed.
Noor's story begins in Needful Noor: Part One."
"These characters were too dynamic to leave lingering on the shallow surface.
Delve deeper into Denny and Neeka's world, and you'll either be begging to leave or won't want to. Too Devout is the anticipated mega-conclusion to the renowned Devout series. Listeners were left unsure but hopeful that they would be reacquainted with the two star-crossed lovers.
Denaché Denny 'D Rock' Graham, the ever-complex crime lord with his layers of mystery beneath his grime and his weakness for the simpler semi of the pair—the beguiling Neeka Perry.
Neeka was left in waiting, and it was not in vain. Denny is back, but back to what? Or better, in fact, back as what?
Busy hearts will go still in this last installment of a novel that was supposed to be left at a kiss in the wind.
With the tenacity of the characters and their determination to beat the odds tilting the scale at every obstacle… You, as the witness, will be the one to decide: Should it have been? Is love a game that you play to win and, by all means, to prove it true?
Or, are there signs we overlook that caution us when we are going against the course of nature?
Is there ever a danger of being… Too Devout?"
"She escaped the life she had to find the life she needed…
How much of our fate is circumstance?
Noor's life path has always been potholed with obstacles. But she is a survivor, an adapter… a proud wanderer.
Still, the deep yearning for more kept her motivated to conquer every hindrance because there had to be more waiting—somewhere.
Hitchhiking her way to a new coast, she lands at the feet of money, prestige, and a soul-touching love, all at the doing of a chance job opportunity. But it doesn't mean all even terrain, and her past has a problem letting go.
Still, Noor is convinced destiny has brought her to the life she deserves. She won't allow the girl she was to stop her from becoming the woman she needs to be.
Rules don't apply, and she's tired of letting life happen to her. She's determined to finally get everything she's ever wanted. Everything she's ever needed.
Noor's story continues in Needful Noor: Part Two."
"Have you ever loved someone so much that it hurt?
I have.
Have you ever cherished the pain because you knew the kind you'd face without them would be way too unbearable?
That's me.
To young Neeka Perry, Denny is one thing. In the streets, he's a whole other entity. She was brave enough to love both sides, upside down, all around, and back again.
He provided her with all a girl could believe she dreamed of—security, desire, and, most enviably, genuine love, all wrapped up in gold and diamonds.
He removed her far from the course of her ordinary college girl lifestyle and swept her into his world of whimsical madness.
For this and more, her love went beyond loyalty. She was devout… devout to him.
But is there such a thing as too much passion? Can you love someone too much?
And when you realize the person you love, and the person everyone fears, can also be the one everyone loves, and you can one day soon fear, who will save you?
Especially when the person you need saving from is yourself?
Stop right there. I don't want to be saved.
I've shackled myself to him with love. And I swallowed the key.
I'm in this for the long run.
I am devout."
"A nostalgic tale of first love, first loss, and the budding womanhood of a Black girl in the '90s.
Tragedy flips Amore Brown's world on its axis right before she heads off to college. Having to sit tight for the summer, she chooses Jersey City, New Jersey—the home of her estranged father—to pass the time. Here, in urban grit, a stark contrast to the comforts of suburbia, she reconnects with a long-lost cousin for some final months of summer excursions, enrooting, and evolving. But it could never be that simple, even if it were all so simple then....
How much will Amore have to lose in order to find herself? On the road to the woman she is becoming and removed from the girl she is no more, one stop changes her path forever.
'Girls just want to have fun' transforms into the kindling of summer romance tucked into the crust of good times, tribulations, close calls, and one hot summer in Jersey. Amore meets THE guy, finds solace, heals fresh wounds, and battles the thorny relationship with her father, all while learning that heartache has no limits."
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