Alyssa Carter has rebuilt her life from the wreckage. After tragedy and betrayal made her headline news, she packed up her son and moved to Lennox Falls for a fresh start. She has a list of must-haves for her next chapter: locks, lighting, and a bathtub she can soak in. Finding love is nowhere on her list.

Julian Wade doesn't let love anywhere near him. CEO of WadeHouse Records and the man who raised three siblings after their family fell apart, Julian has built his life on discipline and control. He noticed Alyssa Carter the day she cussed him out on a football field, defending her son, and he's been noticing her ever since. But noticing isn't wanting, and wanting is for men with less to lose.

Between morning runs and Tuesday lunches, they develop a friendship that doesn't need a label. Until the friendship stops being a friendship, and not wanting becomes the most exhausting lie either of them has told themselves.

A widow rebuilding her life. A man who has spent two decades making sure he doesn't need anyone. Always Yours is a slow-burn, friends-to-lovers contemporary romance about grief, survival, and love that arrives after you've stopped looking for it. If you love slow-burn romance with literary depth, Black love rendered with care, and HEAs that feel earned to the very last page, this may be your next good read.

• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0H7TN9766

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chapter & Soul LLC

• Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 7, 2026

• Language ‏ : ‎ English

• Print length ‏ : ‎ 456 pages

• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8994022757
  

The limited deluxe edition will include sprayed edges

A steamy, forbidden enemies to lovers romance about love after loss. It is the first book in the New Haven series, interconnected standalones featuring second chances, fiery passion, and Black heroines who get their happily ever afters.

Sloane

Dominic Alexander is my late husband's best friend and the last man on Earth that I should want. He's arrogant, dismissive, and up until recently has only ever used those dark eyes of his to look right through me. For the last twelve years, he's taken a sick pleasure in making me feel paper thin, like my entire existence is of no consequence to him at all.

But now, things are different.

After one drunken night and a surprisingly sexy act of heroism, he's started to be...nice. Treating me like something other than the physical embodiment of his annoyance, which would be nice if it didn't make me feel all the things I swore to never feel for another man after my husband died.

Dominic

Sloane Kent is going to be my undoing.

What's worse: I think I'm going to enjoy being unraveled by the gold flecks in her hazel eyes and the adorable little way she scrunches her nose up when we're arguing, which we've done a lot of over the past decade. She thinks it's because I hate her, and I've always let her think that because the alternative is...untenable.

But something is changing between us, and I don't know how to stop myself from breaking every promise I've ever made to myself regarding my best friend's wife. Promises that include never telling her that there's a long list of things I feel about her, but hate isn't one of them.

"Nothing is hotter and more fun than Danielle Allen’s writing."-- Ali Hazelwood

Because life’s too short, and mean girls ain’t sh…
Jazmyn Payne fled her hometown―and the fatphobes who made her life hell– the minute she graduated high school. Growing up, her haven was her Aunt Addison, and when her health takes a drastic turn, she insists that Jazz should spice up her life. Emphasis on spice.

But dating is the last thing Jazz had on her mind.

Until Lamar Anderson sits next to her at the local sports bar. He is sexy, fun, and refreshingly drama free. With him she's able to pretend that everything is alright. But as real life intrudes, Jazz has to decide if she can leave the past where it belongs… for a love that she deserves.

A scorching second-chance romance between a talented screenwriter and a phenomenal musician from "a fantastic storyteller and superb writer." ―NPR

​You never forget your first love. Isn't that what they say? Verity Hill knows this truth intimately. She didn't simply miss Wright "Monk" Bellamy when they parted ways in college. She's haunted by his touch. Every kiss, any lover since—it's a shadow of what they had. 

Time heals all wounds. Isn't that what they say? Monk doesn't believe that for a second. He wasn't simply betrayed when he and Verity split. He was devastated, with parts of him left behind in the ruins of all that was destroyed. 

More than a decade after their disastrous breakup, Verity and Monk must work together on the set of an epic Harlem Renaissance biopic. With Monk, now a world-class musician, creating the score, and Verity, an award-winning screenwriter, penning the script, there's Oscar buzz before shooting even begins. This once-in-a-lifetime project could catapult them both to new heights, but can they can put the past behind them for the sake of the film…for the sake of something more?