L.B. Gaines

Five years after their whirlwind love story in Accra, Kofi and Aliza Mensah are building the life they dreamed of—careers thriving, a marriage full of passion, and hopes for a family that sometimes feel just out of reach. When Aliza’s best friend Tasha joins them for the holidays and...

Three months. One unforgettable love. A lifetime of what-ifs. When Aliza Monroe steps off the plane in Accra, she’s ready for an adventure—but nothing prepares her for Kofi. He’s grounded, magnetic, and everything her heart didn’t know it needed. As they fall in love under Accra’s...

She was the good girl raised to follow the rules. He was the street king who made his own. Twenty years later, fate is ready to play dirty. Chanel "Channy" Davis had plans. Graduate, leave Crestwood behind, and never look back. But the night her first love, Xavier, is ripped away in a blur of...

Ten years ago, Ayva Lenox did something she never does: she stopped planning and said yes. A Bentley arrived. A stranger waited. And for two days, she remembered what it meant to feel alive. Now, success surrounds her, but satisfaction does not. Between company launches and late-night loneliness...