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Would you deceive your father to protect your mother?REVISED & UPDATED EDITION - Nothing is one-sided. Every choice pushes back.Senior year is supposed to be the victory lap, the job offers, the proposal, the finish line after four hard years. But for Natro, Resna, Xavor, and Silena, it's about to become the semester that cracks every one of them wide open.Natro is hiding something he can't outrun much longer. Resna is holding her whole family together with a secret that's finally too heavy to carry alone. And one accident, one moment nobody meant to happen, is about to give someone in their circle a kind of power none of them saw coming.Polarity doesn't look away from the hard stuff, family wounds, jealousy, the cost of staying silent for too long, but it never loses its hope either. This is a story about what happens when the truth finally breaks the surface, and whether the people who love you can survive what it reveals.This edition replaces all previous printings. If you own an earlier copy, this version includes new scenes, deeper character work, and a richer, more fully realized Jacmuir.

South BeachBook Two of the Sheridan SeriesLaila Sheridan has ended things with Malcolm Khalid, a charming man with an even more charming way of avoiding responsibility, and she's convinced that a girls' getaway to glamorous South Beach with her college roommates is exactly the reset her confidence needs. What she doesn't expect is for her vacation to turn into a media circus, with Malcolm circling back into her life at the worst possible moment, and Graham's magnetic Psyche colleague, Gray Ryley, sent to manage the fallout.Gray has been assigned to keep Malcolm at a distance and the paparazzi off her trail, a job that puts him closer to Laila than either of them planned for. He's spent years keeping his feelings for her carefully professional. Now he's the one man standing between her and the chaos she keeps attracting, and he's discovering that protecting her heart and guarding his own may be two things he can't do at the same time.Alongside her, Sofía and Marina are navigating their own South Beach seasons, one chasing a truth about her own beginnings she's spent years avoiding, the other learning that faith, not fidelity, is the hardest thing love ever asks two people to share. Together, the three women discover that the family you choose can hold you as fiercely as the one you were born into.This edition has been newly revised and expanded, deepening the Sheridan family's world with richer emotional interiority and the kind of hard-won grace longtime readers will recognize immediately, and new readers will fall into completely. South Beach is a story about learning the difference between a man who makes you feel wanted and a man who actually shows up, about friendship strong enough to survive real conflict, and about a faith that meets women exactly where they are.Rich with Black love, cultural warmth carried south to Florida sun, and a family readers fell for in North Star, South Beach is Book Two of the Sheridan Series, and Laila's story is only getting started.

A five-year-old girl. A bottle of relaxer. A promise that will bind two best friends for the next seventeen years.Dawn loves her daughter Aria fiercely, and she is exhausted. Between a single mother's schedule and a world that still reads natural hair as unprofessional, a relaxer feels like the only mercy she has time to offer. Her best friend sees it differently. She sees a little girl in tears at a kitchen table, and a beauty standard neither woman chose for herself.What begins as a Saturday afternoon disagreement over #TeamNaturalista versus #TeamRelaxed becomes something far bigger: a reckoning with respectability politics, inherited fear, scripture read two different ways, and the real headlines, a wrestler forced to cut his locs on a mat, a news anchor fired over braids, that make Dawn's caution impossible to dismiss as vanity. One promise, made to spare a child pain, will quietly reshape both women's mornings for the next seventeen years, long after the law finally catches up to the argument they had in that kitchen.Now Aria is grown, cap and gown ready, her hair entirely her own for one more day, and the question neither woman ever fully settled is still sitting between them.One conversation will make you ask yourself: is intra-racial discrimination, judgment from within our own community, any easier to forgive than the kind that comes from outside it? What would you do?Relaxed or Naturalista is Best Friends Short Reads, Volume 2.

North StarBook One of the Sheridan SeriesCaresse Aldana has already survived one marriage that nearly cost her everything. She isn't looking for another. But when her job puts her across the table from Graham Sheridan, the magnetic, maddeningly charming editor-in-chief of Psyche magazine, business starts to feel like something else entirely, and her heart, guarded for eight hard-won years, begins letting him in one careful inch at a time.Graham has never met a woman he couldn't manage. Then he meets a woman who won't let him. Caresse doesn't need rescuing. She needs a man who shows up, tells the truth, and chooses her again on the ordinary days, not just the beautiful ones. Whether Graham can become that man, before his own fear costs him everything Caresse has already survived once, is the real question at the heart of this story.Then someone starts targeting the Mason Community Center, the place that saved Caresse's family when her marriage nearly destroyed it, and the danger closing in threatens to take away the one thing she trusted to stay standing when nothing else did.This edition has been newly revised and expanded, deepening the Sheridan family's story with richer emotional interiority, a fuller cast, and the kind of hard-won grace longtime readers will feel right away, and new readers will fall into completely. North Star is a story about the courage it takes to love again after loss, the family you choose alongside the family you're born into, and a faith that doesn't erase fear but sits with you inside it.Rich with Black love, sharp with Southern warmth, and honest about what grace actually costs, this is the first book in the Sheridan Series, a family saga readers won't want to leave behind.

Some vows are made in the dark, sealed with nothing more than a promise and a promise kept.Chloe's life looks like the one everyone dreams of: a devoted husband, a beautiful home, a smile made for photographs. Only her lifelong best friend knows what it took to get here, and only she carries the secret still holding it all together.Twenty years ago, on a rooftop in the middle of the night, two teenagers made a promise neither one fully understood the weight of. What began as quiet loyalty grew into something larger: a plan, a transformation, a friendship built to shield one girl from a world that wasn't ready to see her. Their faith taught them that love proves itself through action, and for two decades, that's exactly what this friendship did.Now Chloe is married, and her husband wants nothing more than to start a family. He has no idea why it hasn't happened yet, and no idea what his wife has been keeping from him since the night they met. As the truth edges closer to the surface, the narrator is forced to ask a question she never expected to face: when does standing by someone stop being love, and start being complicity?One conversation will test everything these lifelong friends built together. One conversation will change how they define happily ever after, forever.What would you do?Selfless Vow or Duplicitous Pact is Book One in the Best Friends Short Reads series.

His dream girl opens a door and exposes his past nightmare.REVISED & UPDATED EDITION - Every kingdom starts somewhere. Before Jacmuir had its Kazuli Knights, its crown, its legends, it had four college seniors just trying to survive midterms, first love, and one massive Homecoming party.Xavor is the guy everyone comes to for advice, except when it comes to his own feelings. Natro is one bad decision away from becoming exactly the kind of man he doesn't want to be. Resna is falling for someone she never saw coming. And somewhere in the middle of a masquerade party lit up with floating lanterns and fog rolling off the pool, one girl's silent struggle is about to change all of them.Gestation is a story about the friendships that form us before we know who we're becoming, the kind of night that draws a line between who you were and who you're about to be, and the quiet, everyday courage it takes to actually show up for someone. Funny, warm, and honest about the things that hurt, this is where the Jacmuir story truly begins.This edition replaces all previous printings. If you own an earlier copy, this version includes new scenes, deeper character work, and a richer, more fully realized Jacmuir.