Tasha L. Harrison

“He looks like he could plow my north field without a horse.” Sonja Watts needs to re-enter the workforce after divorcing her husband of thirteen years. Taking the advice of her sister Birdie and her best friend Estelle, she signs up for a six-week course for entrepreneurs; hoping that she will learn everything she needs to know to build a business to support herself and her kids.  On the first night of class, Sonja is able to ignore the fact that most of the students were younger than her by ten years or more. It was what she expected. But when the instructor walks in, she debates packing up her new twelve hundred dollar laptop and walking out. Sonja couldn’t remember the last time she looked at a man with little more interest than she give a sturdy dining room table. She was just disinterested.  But wow, did Atlas James grab her interest.  Atlas hasn’t been interested in dating since he moved back home from California. Adjusting to new found success in the town where everyone sees him as that big, geeky guy who cut grass for pocket change when they were in high school has been awkward. Aside from a couple of one night stands, he hasn’t really wanted to pursue a relationship with anyone until sweet, shy Sonja signs up for his class. Compact, curvy, and juicy in all the right places, being in the same room Sonja Watts ignites all of those giddy feelings he felt when he had his first crush. He wants to know her and he’s pretty sure she wants to know him—despite the age difference that she seems to be so fixated on. With her future riding on the success of her new business, Sonja has no time for distraction. Will she be able to keep her eyes on her own paper or will they remain glued to Atlas’s biceps and thick thighs?

Tomás Martinez has had a crush on Darcy MacFarland, his best friend’s mother, for longer than he’s willing to admit. Would it be wrong to make those feelings known the weekend of his best friend’s wedding? Or would that a big-time party foul? Tying himself up and offering up his body for her to defile wouldn’t be on his list of best man duties either, huh? What if he dropped to his knees and begged her to let him worship her in every way he fantasized about over the years? Would that be a wedding day faux pas? And what if... What if she said yes?

Hadassah Ibrahim’s high school crush is in town for his little brother's graduation and she is avoiding him like it’s her job. The last time she saw Ahmad Williamson, she drank too much and spent the night on her knees in his hotel room doing things that still make her blush and cover her face with shame. The last thing she wants to do is relive that humiliating moment. She’d much rather spend the evening at her family’s laundromat; sweeping and mopping the floor as she reconsiders her life choices. Ahmad Williamson is certain that Hadassah doesn’t remember that night the same way he does. And he’s spent every night since last summer wishing one of them had been brave enough to call. Was it just a fling for her? Was all that flirting she’d done over the years just a joke? Confessions slip from lips and clothes hit the floor in Liquor & Laundry. - high school crush - #BlackRomance - jerked chicken wings - steamy laundromat make out sessions - dirty talkin’ hero!

After years of struggling to make a living at writing, Yves Santiago finally has a contract to publish her blog The Lust Diaries with Leaf Press, the most prestigious literary publishing house in Philadelphia. She owes all of that to Elijah Weinstein, a man who genuinely respects her hustle and her intellect. Yves would be the first to admit that she has a knack for falling for the wrong guy, but Elijah is wrong in all the right ways. The kinky, pretty boy and his filthy, delicious mouth has burrowed his way under her skin and she isn’t sure how or if she wants to get him out. All of it seems a little too good to be true. As Yves begins to explore her submissive and kinky tendencies and their affections for each other become more intense, she fears that she is falling into old patterns, losing herself in him. Elijah keeps pushing her boundaries, making her want and feel things she isn't ready for, but when they come right up to his limits will he be brave enough to let her in?

She said yes … and now she has everything she ever wanted. Blowing up her life and getting on a plane headed for Costa Rica with her son’s best friend is the most reckless and impulsive thing Darcy MacFarland has ever done. Now she’s was in a beautiful, wild country with all of her intentions set on falling in love. She’s also discovering things she didn’t know about herself, things that make the connection between her and Tommy deeper and more real. There are thirteen waterfalls in Costa Rica, and Tomás wants to kiss Darcy under every single one of them. But he knows they can’t hide out in Costa Rica forever. He knows he’s in love with her and wants everyone in his world to know it. Can what they’ve built will survive telling his best friend?

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0757TG746 "WHERE I COME FROM, COPS AREN'T SUPERHEROES." Photojournalist and wedding photographer Ava Greene has been unlucky in love, and even though she calls herself a hopeless romantic, she is more than a little bitter about it. The only attention she seems to get is from the men she has absolutely no interest in and has become unintentionally celibate in her effort to avoid “trash ass dudes” and has officially given up on the idea “the one" when Officer Friendly rolls up on her block. "NOT ALL COPS..." Arrogant and just shy of being a cornball with his bad-dad jokes, she knows that this stocky cop might just be the one to make her second-guess every thought she ever had about cops. Ava tries to make it clear to Levi that she doesn't need saving, that she doesn't need to be worshiped, but he is convinced that is exactly she needs. But when Ava finds herself on the wrong side of the law, will he be the hero she needs or toe the "thin blue line?"

Julian Webster needs a muse. After leaving Philadelphia to escape a woman who couldn’t love him the way he needed, he’s beginning to wonder if he left every creative cell in his body back there too. Agostina Malone knows that too much heartbreak can make you bitter. She loves the idea of love but knows she's just not built for it. Good sex, recognition from those she loves and respects, close relationships with friends and family — those were the things she craved. But romantic love? No. Romantic love can drain you. Steal your light. Leave you empty and depressed. But with her own two hands she has carved out the life she wants, the life she can manage. Big, broody Julian keeps invading her sacred spaces, and they share a wall at ArtCrush Studios, making him impossible to escape. Agostina offers her spiritual practices to help him snap out of it. But even a fistful of crystals and all the mojo bags in the world can't seem to put this man right. Maybe a mojo bag isn't what he needs... Maybe they both need something only love can cure.

Sous Chef, Birdie Malone is willing to do anything to disprove the rumor "she doesn't play well with others." Even if it means taking a job as a line cook at a local meat and three while trying to be the superhero her five-year-old daughter Amara believes her to be. Competing in her hometown’s yearly foodie competition would definitely help. If she wins, she will finally get the position and recognition she's been desperate to receive. Even if Saxon Turner, world renowned chef and ruiner of her life is one of the judges. No one ever needs to speak about what happened between them. She can keep her secrets. Chef Saxon Turner is in danger of having his foodie travel show canceled after he gets caught in a dark room with the Governor's daughter. Luckily, a long time friend steps in and offers him an opportunity to judge a foodie competition and a chance to lay low until it all blows over. Maybe this time he will be able to shed the bad boy image he's carried with him through most of his life. Or at least he thought it would be until he saw that one of the contestants is Birdie Malone. It's been six years since he’s seen Birdie and he’s more than surprised to find the petite, brown-skinned, talented chef competing in a small town food competition when she should be commanding a kitchen of her own. When they met, the passion between them was hotter than a pit barbecue fire and the way he left things between them when she got kicked out of culinary school is chief among his regrets. Now that she’s back in his life, he can only hope that she will trust and respect him again. Birdie just wants to win the money to start her own catering business and ignore the fact that Saxon has unexpectedly become an unwanted distraction. But the passion, intensity, and creativity he inspires in her can’t be denied. Will she be able to keep him out of her bed and her head in the game?

"GOOD COPS DO EXIST..." Camden City Police Officer Levi Alistar Raymond has a Superman complex. He is determined to serve and protect even if that means, risking his career to support his girlfriend, Ava Marie Greene, in making sure a fellow officer who murdered her friend is brought to justice. Good cops do exist but if good cops stand by and allow the bad cops to harass, abuse, and kill the very people they are meant to serve and protect, they are not good cops. They're accomplices. "I'M THE WIND IN YOUR CAPE..." Falling in love with a cop was the last thing Ava wanted or needed in her life, but somehow, loving Levi came to her as naturally as breathing. Keeping their relationship intact while everything in the world seems to want to pull them apart feels impossible, but she is determined to be the wind in his cape, no matter what adversity they face.

“I don’t get it. And it sounds like you don’t either." Yves Santiago, anonymous sex blogger turned memoirist, is rarely at a loss for words, especially when it comes to sharing the details of her sex life. But when her sister asks her to explain what spanking has to do with sex, she’s struggles to find a way to make her understand. Yves takes this confusion home to Elijah who enthusiastically explains why spanking is so erotic for her…and a little of why it works for him. (Includes an excerpt from In Her Closet, The Lust Diaries: Book One)

"Be careful of that one. I hear she's some sort of maneater." When Julian Webster lands his first big group showing at an exclusive gallery in Philadelphia’s Old City, he is hardly ready to deal with the attention focused on him. Particularly from a pint sized, so called maneater by the name of Yves Santiago. Women are his weakness…a weakness he has chosen to avoid to focus on his career, but Yves is a force of nature that demands to be acknowledged. (Prequel story for In Her Closet, The Lust Book One. How Julian and Yves meet.) READING ORDER FOR THE LUST DIARIES A Slant of Light (prequel short story) In Her Closet, The Lust Book One The Shame in You--A Short Story Everything She Never Wanted, The Lust Book Two (coming May 25)

Grief changes you, and no one is more aware of that inescapable fact than Carlotta Mercier. It’s been four years since her husband, John Paul, passed, but moving on feels impossible. She feels like a shell of the woman she once was, but what else is there? Better to just lose herself in work. Better to fill her days to the brim so she doesn’t have time to wallow. Never mind that she’s so lonely for his company that she’d rather be alone if she can’t have him. Never mind that she’s so starved for his touch that her dreams of him border on hallucinations. Never mind because her heart will always be broken after losing the soul mate she waited most of her life meet. How can anyone move on from that? Apparently, her late husband, John Paul, knew. In a letter, written the year before he passed, Carlotta’s husband, who loved to celebrate his wife and the day they married, guides her through a tenth-anniversary trip he planned before he got sick. A trip that will take her to his hometown of New Orleans, where she will finally get to know the man he was before he left that city. Will this trip down memory lane help Carlotta discover who she is now that he’s gone? Can a young man who idolized her husband introduce her to the woman born from the love that remains? Content Death of a spouseCancerIVF (but not infertility)Unprotected sex

Yves Santiago has always prided herself on knowing how to be alone, but in the wake of her break up with Elijah Weinstein she seems to have forgotten everything she ever learned. Boys and booze don't seem to fill that emptiness as easily as it had before and as depression threatens to take her under she turns to the one thing that has always buoyed her: writing. Alarmed by her depressive blog posts and concerned about her mental well being, Yves's family and friends rally around her along with the one person she least expected to reenter her life, Julian Webster. His sweetness and caring turns out to be exactly the thing she needs to rebuild her confidence in herself and her talent. Yves works her way back to some semblance of normalcy but as her book moves toward publication she knows that she will have to face Elijah. Will the confidence she worked so hard to rebuild crumble in his presence?

Entertainment columnist Yves Santiago unapologetically lives her life as carelessly as a man. Her day job keeps her flush in men, with few regrets and even fewer mistakes. By night, she details her exploits on her anonymous sex blog, Lust Diaries. Yves leads a happy, delightfully filthy life. Until she meets nonfiction editor Elijah Weinstein. Moss green eyes, sun-kissed shoulders and a mouth so damn sensual that it should have a NC-17 rating, this perfectly suited and coiffed, Fifth Avenue prince is everything she never wanted yet can't resist. He methodically lays waste to the walls she's built around herself, looking to get closer to the real Yves Santiago. With the the promise of a fairytale turned real, Yves must dig into the depths of her past. But once she shakes out the skeletons in her closet, will she be ready for all Elijah has to offer?