Hidden Agenda – Kisha Green

In Hidden Agenda, Bebe Jordan has it all beauty, brains and a promising career as a journalist for a popular women’s magazine. Her crazy no holds barred cantor has received praise and admiration from many. Except one follower who wants to takes things a little bit too far when his online affection becomes an offline obsession.

Story Notes: Hidden Agenda

Writing Hidden Agenda was fun because of the plot but hard because of the true development of the story. I was plagued with personal battles of giving too much or not giving enough. Through dedication with open ears and eyes for learning, I was able to deliver a story, readers will be entertained and enlightened with.

Kisha Green is a Jane of all trades whose mantra is “turning literary dreams into published realities.” She has a strong passion for assisting authors in their writing and achieving their goals as she serves a literary consultant and promoter. For more information visit www.kishagreen.com or by following these social media sites.
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This Can’t Be Us – Terri Ann Johnson


This Can’t Be Us – A House Divided…

Greg and Karen have found true love after years in empty marriages, but their children have no desire to blend into one, big, happy family. Meanwhile the six siblings, who appear to dislike each other, have formed an alliance fueled by the respective exes, to disrupt what their parents thought would’ve been a happy union. Just at the point the parents learn their kids are in cahoots to sabotage their love because they’re more comfortable with their ‘new’ parents being apart, a near tragedy serves to put everyone in the household on notice when an emergency school lock-down forces the oldest teen to realize that there is more to lose than just time away from his mother and his homies.

Story Notes for This Can’t Be Us

When I begin a story, I think of plot lines that are relatable to everyday people. Then I add a mix of conflict and humor to it. My goal is to dangle my protagonist over a cliff and watch them recover. This story, the Black Brady Bunch was no different. This time it was the parents trying to regain control of their family before all is lost.

Terri Ann Johnson is a national bestselling author for her contribution to the Brown Girls Books anthology All I Want for Christmas. Her enthusiasm for reading blossomed into a desire to write. Terri is a mom and loves to travel. She is a finance professional in Washington, D.C.
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The Spice of Life – J. L. Campbell

The Spice of Life by J. L. Campbell

Nyoka Emerson knows what love, success, and loss look like. She’s been betrayed and devastated and is finally pulling her life back together when a smooth Jamaican man walks into her dressing room and makes her long for everything she didn’t know she was missing. Unfortunately, he could cost her career and peace of mind.

Anif Montague is focused on keeping the attention of his adoring readers when he lays eyes on Nyoka. She’s the perfect cover model for his next book, and to be the woman in his life, but can he convince this mysterious woman to take a chance on him? Will she accept the deal he’s offering? Or, will the secrets she’s keeping explode between them with dire consequences?

Story Notes: The Spice of Life
Most of my stories are outlined in my head before I sit at a keyboard. For The Spice of Life, the plot evolved from a real-life situation I came across while scrolling on Instagram. A significant amount of research ensured authenticity on the subject. The unique quality in this romance is that the main theme involves secrecy about an uncommon, life-threatening illness that has disastrous results.

J.L. Campbell is an award-winning Jamaican author who has written over thirty books. She writes contemporary and sweet romance, romantic suspense, women’s fiction, as well as new and young adult novels. Campbell, who features Jamaican culture in her stories, is fascinated with the island’s flora and has hundreds of photos in her collection. She is a certified editor and also writes non-fiction.

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Heaven Can Be Hell – Pat G’Orge Walker

About Heaven Can be Hell by Pat G’Orge Walker – Spice Anthology

Heaven Foxx thought she was on top of her sex game until she meets the Rev. Averic Domingo; a young man handsome enough to grace the cover of a fashion magazine but much too attached to his pulpit. The good Reverend preached against having any type of kinky sex until Heaven walked into his life. She is hell-bent on showing him just how wrong he had been. They both have met their match and have a lot to lose when they find out … Heaven Can Be absolute Hell!

Story Notes: Heaven Can be Hell

I wanted to show what could happen when a confident, carnal-minded woman works her magic to seduce a sexually inhibited reverend. She got him but now can she keep him if God wants him too, kinky-free? It answers the question … is the bed ever defiled between a consenting husband and wife when their explorations go outside the regular “missionary” position.

Pat G’Orge-Walker, aka Sister Betty, multi-award winning Essence and National bestselling author, Christian Comedienne published by Kensington Books, a recording industry veteran, and former member of Arlene Smith & the Chantels. A recent transplant from Long Island, NY to North Carolina.

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Carnal Confections – Shakir Rashaan

About Carnal Confections –
Caressa Sidaná is a chocolatier magnate, expanding her family’s empire into new and exciting directions. She has more than a few tempting options vying for her attention—in the boardroom and the bedroom. Unbeknownst to her, one of those plans unearths sins from her father’s past that could threaten the company’s future. Can Caressa indulge in her confections—literally and figuratively—sate her palate, and keep her company safe?

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Story Notes: Carnal Confections
The uniqueness of my story within this anthology is the fact that my leading lady is Eritrean, but she does not conform to what she describes as the “antiquated” mentality of the men who live in that country. She wields power as adeptly as a man would, including when it comes to the men in her life. This was a fun journey for me to step away from a typical United States locale and play with other cultures for a change, with an ending that I think readers will find interesting.

Shakir Rashaan is the author of the national bestselling novel In Service to the Senator, Unthinkable, the national bestselling series the Nubian Underworld, the Kink, P.I. series, and the upcoming novel, The Devil’s All-American. He is also developing projects under the pen name PK Rashaan. You can find out more about Rashaan at www.ShakirRashaan.com and connect via social media at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest.

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Sweet Summer Breeze – Anita L. Roseboro

Sweet Summer Breeze by Anita L. Roseboro – Sugar Anthology

Summer gasped at the sound of her voice, wondering how could a dead woman be on the other end of the line?

“Summer, are you there?”

Summer was shaken. Karen Reynolds had been her best friend since middle school. They were tight as sisters and could pass as twins. They shared everything until one day Karen took it too far and thought sharing extended to Summer’s boyfriend.

“What the hell do you want?” Summer said, sitting up in bed, thoroughly awakened in the middle of a good night’s sleep.

“You need to know why I disappeared.”

“I’m more interested in why you reappeared,” she snapped. “I can give you directions to my house. I’ll be here waiting.”

“That’s not necessary,” she replied. “I made an appointment in your office for tomorrow.”

Summer had checked her calendar before leaving and was sure Karen’s name was not on the list, only a Charity was penciled in, a woman who’d been cagey about her reason for wanting to see Summer, but had cancelled multiple times. “Is this personal or business?”

“Personal and business.” Karen’s phone disconnected.

Summer rushed downstairs to the lower level of her townhouse, opened her laptop, after a few clicks and searches, brought up the article about Karen’s car crash. Now she had to wonder who was in the car because Karen was somehow on this side of the grave.

At exactly noon, Summer’s assistant escorted Charity into the office and gently closed the door upon her exit. As suspected, Charity was actually Karen, with a little cosmetic surgery and nearly fifteen years thrown in. Summer pulled the papers and slid them across her desktop. She had grown tired of this masquerade, thinking it was time to play a little of her hand. “Karen, do you want to tell me why you’re really here?”

Charity was silent for a long time, then she let out a long sigh, “Here I thought I had you fooled, but all along I’ve been the fool.”

“The voice and the mole were the dead giveaways for me. Everything else is different, but I know that trouble follows you wherever you go.”

Charity’s expression morphed from anger to relief. “Seemingly it does.”

“Tell me the whole story? Why’d you come here?”

“Your father sent me to find you.”

Summer smirked at the response. “You and I both know my father’s dead.”

“No, he isn’t. He’s in prison for the murder of the man who hurt you as a kid. Telling you that he was dead was a lie told to you to protect you.

Now that took the wind out of Summer’s sails. “How can you prove any of that? I have no reason to believe you whatsoever.”

Charity opened the folder she brought in with her, pulled out several pictures and spread them out in front of Summer

“Juan Carlos had them delivered to your father,” she explained. “Thinking it would buy his silence and cooperation. Everything I’m telling you can be verified in the documents your mom sent you before she died. The cartel went after you to keep your father in line. Your mother had lied to protect you, Summer. I didn’t know you all were in witness protection. When I tried to make up for what I’d done by finding your father, it led them right to you.” Charity took in a deep breath and blew it out slowly. “It’s my fault your mom died.”

No sooner than the words were out of her mouth, three men burst through the door. The first one Charity recognized as a man who’d she spotted at the coffee shop she frequented.

“Ladies,” Juan Carlos said rubbing the tip of his gun on Summer’s face.

Summer turned her face, wishing she had brought her own weapon with her today. He moved on to Charity and rubbed the gun around the baby.

“What do you want?” Summer growled.

“Oh, besides the kid? I think she already told you what I want. Didn’t you, doll?” Juan Carlos kissed Charity across her lips.

Summer tried to gauge Charity’s expression but couldn’t tell if she was disgusted or if the frown was because she’d been busted. “So, you’ve been working for him all along?”

About Sweet Summer Breeze

Summer is still mending a broken heart from a relationship that ended long before its expiration date. When she runs into her ex, Devon, he tells her the most devastating news she’s heard since her mother was murdered. Then she learns that a mysterious woman, with ties to Devon, is stalking her under the guise of becoming a client. Summer now has to figure out if she’s been targeted as her mother had been.

Devon, promised to love Summer forever. Unfortunately, forever came much too soon when she made it clear that they had different goals in life and love. After their breakup and a few drinks, he finds himself engaged and soon to be a father with a woman he barely knows. The more Summer and Devon fight their feelings for each while they uncover the truth behind the mysterious situations that occurs, the more they are drawn together. Now with new developments that are not in his control, he must face Summer and risk breaking her heart again, while figuring out the secrets that his new wife is keeping.

Karen has infiltrated Summer’s life, trying to right old wrongs. She will do anything to save the child she carries, even sacrifice herself to put it in the hands of a woman who will protect it from a man who wants the child—and her—for his own lurid purposes. How long can she hide in plain sight, redeem herself in Summer’s eyes, before all that is hidden comes to the light?

Devon and Summer are soon confronted with the fact that one woman holds the keys from a dangerous past and an even more devastating future.

Story Notes: Sweet Summer Breeze

My process for this story wasn’t the greatest. I started this story many years ago with different names and a different scenario. After developmental editing, the story took shape into more than I could’ve dreamed. Now reading the story in the final stages and growing from the put from veteran authors in the project, I’ve become stronger as a writer and am applying what I’ve learned to a work in progress.

Anita L. Roseboro, a native of North Carolina. She has a B.S. degree in MIS (Management Information Systems) and a Master’s in Business Administration from Gardner-Webb University and the University of Phoenix respectively. The road has finally curved to the path of her life-long dream of writing, she stands ready to take on the world as she lends her devotion and passion to her own life long motivations.

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