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Cheris Hodges
The Goings Family and Friends series
Let’s Get It OnBetting on Love
No Other Lover Will DoHis Sexy Bad Habit

Step into the world of The Goings family and Friends. Meet NFL star Maurice Goings in Let’s Get It On as he’s stood up at the altar on his wedding day. He decides to take his brother on his non refundable honeymoon and runs into the woman who’s heart he broke in college when he cheated on her with the woman who left him humiliated in a Charlotte, NC church — Kenya Taylor. Is a second chance brewing or are some betrayals to deep to overcome.

In Betting On Love, James Goings, Maurice’s brother, finds himself in Las Vegas losing money and bored out of his mind, until he runs into Jade Christian, a sexy blur of black lace and dangerous curves. Growing up in the shadow of his famous athlete brother taught James that focusing on his career was far safer than trusting beautiful women. His sizzling encounters with Jade could almost change his mind . . . if he wasn’t afraid she’d use him for revenge on her ex.

What happens when Mr. Love ’em and Leave ’em finds the most irresistible woman he can’t forget? In No Other Lover Will Do, Solomon Crawford meets his match. Running from another scandal, he decides to leave NYC and check out his newest resort in Sugar Mountain, North Carolina.
What he doesn’t expect is to find the sexiest woman he’s seen in years in the resort’s hot tub, looking like a snack. Kandace Davis is taking a winter vacation because she’s overworked and in need of some relaxation. What she doesn’t need is a this wickedly sexy and arrogant man turning her on at every turn. But she’s not the only one who can’t resist his charms.
Carmen De La Croix, Solomon’s business partner, has loved him from the start—with a vengeance. There’s no way in hell she’ll allow Solomon and Kandace to play out their passion in front of her. In fact, she’ll do whatever it takes to keep Solomon away from the woman he’s finally ready to watch the sunrise with.

Love is just a four letter word to Serena Jacobs. But in His Sexy Bad Habit she becomes the one woman single father Antonio Billups can’t resist. Three years ago, his life changed, his wife died, and he became a single father, focused on raising his son A.J. But there’s something about Serena that has awakened something he thought had died with his wife. Serena has no qualms about satisfying his carnal needs, but his tender spirit and mind blowing love making has her rethinking how she feels about falling in love. Then a long-ago love affair threatens their steamy relationship and when their secret histories collide, they must choose between a future with––or without––love.

What’s more important, love or revenge? In Love After War Adrian Bryant has to decide if his quest for revenge is worth losing the woman he can’t stop loving. The Los Angeles club owner discovers that his biological father is hotel owner and the ultimate family man Elliot Crawford. Adrian hatches a high-profile plan to destroy the Crawford name––and the reputations of his two half-brothers. But to shield the woman he loves from the hell he intends to unleash, Adrian has to let her go in the ugliest way. Award winning photographer Dana Singleton is heartbroken and confused by Adrian’s behavior. She even returns to New York to push him and the love she thought they had out of her mind. Then she gets an assignment in Los Angeles, the scene of her heartbreak, and finds herself back in Adrian’s orbit. When the truth about Adrian comes to the surface, she will have to ask herself if she can love a man who is driven by revenge–or if he can learn to forgive. *Meet Dana for the first time in Too Hot For TV*

Too Hot For TV: Actress Imani Gilliam is gifted, beautiful-and broke. Facing a boat load of bills and eviction, her only hope of staying afloat is to do the reality TV show, “Let’s Get Married.” The show pairs up single strangers, and viewers vote for who say “I do” while America watches. Imani is only looking to be united with a paycheck-until she locks eyes with a sexy contestant. .Dr. Raymond Thomas is determined to keep his Harlem free clinic running-even if it means appearing on “Let’s Get Married.” He can’t imagine finding love on TV-but when he spots Imani, he definitely finds lust. And their attraction isn’t lost on the producers. But as the cameras start focusing on them, Raymond wonders if he’s just a tool in Imani’s career. Only time-and a life-changing choice-will tell.

Recipe For Desire: Marie Charles’ party-girl days come to a screeching halt with a DWI arrest and a totaled Jaguar. And this time, her famed attorney father isn’t going to pull any strings to get her out of this self-imposed calamity.

Sentenced to 500 hours of community service at a local women’s shelter, her supervisor is renowned chef and TV star Devon Harris volunteers at My Sister’s Keeper. And he’s not happy Marie is going to be working him and the ladies he’s been helping. All he knows about her is that she’s an entitled party girl who makes headlines for the wrong reasons.

But as Marie outgrows the selfish girl she was, Devon is turned on by the woman she’s becoming.

Strategic Seduction: Alicia Michaels has created success in Charlotte, but she needs a fresh challenge. So, she’s going back to Atlanta to launch her marketing firm and the last thing she wants to deal with is some man trying to sell her dreams of romance. But starting over in Atlanta throws a curb in her carefully laid out plan by way of businessman Richmond Crawford and his make-or-break project. For one thing, the risk-taking entrepreneur is nothing like the staid businessman he used to be. For another, she and Richmond can’t see eye-to-eye on anything–except that the reckless attraction between them is sizzling, off-the-charts trouble.
Richmond Crawford spent his life playing by the rules and all that got him was betrayal and heartbreak. Now, he’s going to go for whatever he wants in business and love. And what he wants more than anything is Alicia Michaels. While he agrees to keep things strictly business between them, when the sparks start to fly, neither of them can resist the desire.
But a shocking revelation will endanger everything they’re fighting to build. And making things right could be the final deal breaker. 

 

 Falling In Love Again

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Falling In Love Again

A collection of Second Chance Novellas

Reclaiming Her Heart

Winning the race or her heart? Elijah Taylor needs a wife to combat his playboy candidate moniker after a scandalous picture makes waves in the media. The only woman for the job just happens to be his college sweetheart. Too bad he broke her heart ten years ago. But if Desiree Carpenter gives him a second chance, maybe he can right a decade’s wrong. Desiree is successful, smart and beautiful and if Eli thinks he’s getting a second chance without strict ground rules, he’s mistaking. But can she fake being his spouse when old feelings and past secrets bubble to the surface? As the race for the senate takes a negative turn, Eli has to decide how much he’s willing to lose to win . . .

Melting Her Heart

Winter McMillian doesn’t make mistakes, but after an argument with her best friend and a few too many drinks, she wakes up in the arms of a man she can’t stand. Remington Corders. How in the hell is she going to face him in the FBI field office where they work?
Just what had she been thinking when she kissed this man? Doesn’t matter because she was going to forget it and Remy better do the same.
Besides, Winter has bigger things to focus on and that doesn’t include Remington. . .
Remington Corders has never met a woman like Winter. From the moment they spared in the ring at bureau headquarters, he wanted to crack the ice that surrounds her heart. But she isn’t making it easy at all. When Remington finds out what Winter’s hiding, will he risk it all to melt her heart?

 

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