Soul Ties

Winner of the 2023 Best Urban Fiction Audio In Black Award K. Renee's Gem Award for 2023 Breakout Book of the Year 2024 Audiobook of the Year from AAMBC Literary Awards From the moment his eyes met hers, there was something. Time stood still, the world around them vanished, and electricity... instant electricity. Immediately, she owned him in an inexplicable way he couldn't quite understand. He couldn't escape her. Not in his dreams. And soon, not even in his reality. He was the man that made her soar. There was nothing in the world she wanted more than him. Absolutely nothing. His touch made her levitate. When she was with him, she was limitless. He felt like home. Sadly... he was home for someone else. Soul Tie: An intense connection between two people that binds them together mentally, spiritually, and physically.

In his new position as head of the Baptiste family business, Saint faces many challenges. Nothing could have prepared him for the challenges that came with dealing with the alluring Naoki Childs. She was the insoluble problem his big brother, Jahad, talked about. A problem that couldn't be handled with a phone call, a meeting, or by simply emptying his clip. Saint thought he'd never be faced with a problem he couldn't handle, especially where a woman was concerned. But he quickly learned that Naoki wasn't just some woman. She was much, much more than that. Naoki was trapped in what felt like a never-ending cycle with the same man. Except, he wasn't the same man… not exactly anyway. In many ways, he was. But in very distinctive ways, he wasn't. Saint Baptiste belonged in a category of his own. He made her feel in ways no man ever had. In ways she vowed to never feel again. But at the end of the night, when she'd awaken to a cold, empty bed, she'd be reminded of the ways in which he was just like the men before. For a while, his being the same didn't bother her. But when feelings got involved, and she found herself wanting to venture outside of the box she put herself in, things got complicated.

Saint Baptiste fell in love. That was never part of the plan. His relationship with Naoki was supposed to be purely physical. He never intended to feel anything for her, but from the moment they locked eyes four years ago, he felt something. At the time, he didn't realize that the feeling was love. Uncertain how to handle his emotions, he put up walls and tried to maintain control-the one thing he didn't have with her. In focusing on his ego, he did the very thing he never wanted to do: ignored the 'fragile' label only he could see and mishandled her. By the time he was willing to embrace his feelings for her, he feared it might already be too late. After years of untreated trauma, Naoki Childs finds herself trapped in a whirlwind of emotions. She's stuck in a cycle, unable to dig herself out of the hole she's in. The saddest part is that she can't find a mask to hide behind; all her pain is on the surface. The remedies she once relied on no longer work, and she feels herself sinking deeper every day.