Taryn Ellison doesn’t do relationships.

She learned early in life that standing still for love gets you hurt. So she runs from anything that asks too much of her heart. After watching her mother fall for the wrong men over and over, Taryn built a life where no one could get close enough to leave scars. Walls up. Exit routes ready. Always moving.

Then there’s Zion Wade.
The steady one. The patient one.

Her best friend’s brother and VP of A&R for his family's music empire, Zion understands why Taryn runs. He sees the fear beneath her sarcasm, and the independence she uses as armor. So when they finally cross the line they've been dancing around for years, and she tries to act like it meant nothing, he doesn't push.

He just stays.

Long enough for her walls to crack.
Long enough for her to realize the thing she’s spent her life running from might be the thing she wants more than anything.

She can’t avoid him. Not at his family’s record label, not at Sunday dinners with his sister Simone, not when everyone around them feels the pull between them long before either of them admits it.

But Taryn knows what no one else does: Good things don’t last, and love doesn’t stay. And the closer she gets to Zion, the more she sees herself becoming the one thing she swore she'd never be.

Her mother's daughter.

Set against the backdrop of a Black Southern music dynasty navigating legacy, loyalty, and healing, Always Running is a story about choosing vulnerability over self-protection, and discovering that the scariest love doesn’t rush you, but it does ask you to trust it.

This isn't a slow burn. It's a slow surrender.

Perfect for readers who love:

• A soft, steady hero who values patience over pressure

• Heroines who feel real, guarded, and deeply relatable

• Big family energy and Sunday dinner traditions

• Best friend’s brother romance with years of wanting

• Romance that unfolds like a slow R&B groove

• Steamy scenes with emotional depth

• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0GM6RQ9KY

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chapter & Soul LLC

• Author: N.W. Brown

• Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 13, 2026

• Language ‏ : ‎ English

• Print length ‏ : ‎ 484 pages

• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8994022719

Can Abby keep her cool after turning into a social media superstar?

When Abby accidentally becomes a viral sensation on the intergalactic social media network GalaxyGram, she goes all in on raising her follower count as high as she can. But as she struggles to keep up with her audience's endless appetite for new content, she starts to wonder if online fame is worth the toll it takes on her personal life. When the galaxy's biggest influencer, Moxie on Mars, offers to collab, Abby wonders if it might be too late to go back to the way things were. Can she figure out a way to get her real life back on track and keep her followers engaged at the same time?

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Albert Whitman & Company

• Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 9, 2026

• Author: Andrea J. Loney

• Language ‏ : ‎ English

• Print length ‏ : ‎ 96 pages

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 080750436X

• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807504369