Bernadette Speakes

A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.

It’s nighttime in LA: a pill-addled screenwriter struggles with writer’s block; across town, two young drifters with a lost dog search for their stolen car.

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friends, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.

After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too much to resist.

When a water pipe bursts and disrupts her sister's wedding plans, Fancy finds herself drawn to the rugged yet charming contractor. Through all the chaos, she learns valuable lessons about faith, family, and the true meaning of Christmas.

After ending things with Shiloh Timmons, the woman he never stopped loving, Caden Granger is determined to win her back. But as the Granger family faces a web of secrets and a decades-old mystery, Caden must balance his family's legacy with the promise of a second chance at love. A Man’s Promise is the second installment in The Grangers series.

When a detective gets romantically involved with a woman trained by a gang to be an assassin, he embarks on a risky plan to bring down her boss.

Two strangers receive test results from the hospital: A young, up-and-coming sports agent has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, while a grim old loner, anticipating his own death, is sentenced... to live. We follow these two men as they are forced to leave behind their old lives and face the deep yearning in their hearts.