"Let's imitate some Fifty Shades of Grey over some Jodeci grooves" You build. You love. You grow together. Rosalyn felt that with Denim; she would have happiness that would always last. But when the romance died down, so did his loyalty. After discovering Denim's infidelity, Rosalyn decides to end their relationship and start anew, or so she thought. Loving Rosalyn wasn't as hard as staying faithful to her, when Denim finds himself in compromising positions with other women. But, when Rosalyn decides to break up instead of working it out, he is forced to know what it feels like not to have her in his life. Temporary pleasures don't work for him and when he discovers Rosalyn may be moving on, he must decide to finally step up and be the man she wants, or walk away. In the follow up to The Words I Didn't Say, Denim gets a second chance at love, but like most, he doesn't know what to do with it. Sex, lies, deceit, and betrayal will have you wondering whether these two will finally let go of their pride and speak their heart? Or will love be lost once again?

Words are quite a powerful thing, right? They are just words until we dress them up with emotion, flavor, life, passion, meaning. We give the words we speak meaning. These are the words I couldn’t say to you. These are the words I thought about saying to you. These are the words I wrote and erased, wrote and erased. These are the words I couldn’t turn into lyrics for once, but rather turned them into part pain, part poetry. painful, positive, powerful, poetry. These are the words I finally told you, and by your response, which was no response, for years on end, is why I wrote this book. Here are the words I couldn’t say to you, then finally told you, now I’m using the love I had for you for all those years and using it to love myself. Thank you. ? the woman who had so many things to say but you never gave her the time of day to say it.

Joel Higgins has 901 unsent text messages saved on his phone. Ever since the thing that happened, there are certain people he hasn't been able to talk to in person. Sure, he shows up at school, does his mandatory volunteer hours at the soup kitchen, and spends pretty much every moment thinking about Eli, the most amazing girl in the world. But that doesn't mean he's keeping it together, or even that he has any friends. So instead of hanging out with people in real life, he drafts text messages. But he never presses send. As dismal as sophomore year was for Joel, he doesn't see how junior year will be any better. For starters, Eli doesn't know how he feels about her, his best friend Andy's gone, and he basically bombed the SATs. But as Joel spends more time at the soup kitchen with Eli and Benj, the new kid whose mouth seems to be unconnected to his brain, he forms bonds with the people they serve there-including a veteran they call Rooster-and begins to understand that the world is bigger than his own pain. In this dazzling, hilarious, and heartbreaking debut, Joel grapples with the aftermath of a tragic loss as he tries to make sense of the problems he's sees all around him with the help of banned books, Winnie-the-Pooh, a field of asparagus, and many pairs of socks.

All the Words I Never Said is a collection of poems, letters, and short stories put together by Kenzie Lou after years of experiencing and observing oppression, sexism, love, hate, friendship, hardship, and addiction. These poems began as journal entries that were never meant to be read by another set of eyes. It's this aspect that makes these poems and stories so vulnerable and intimate. Kenzie Lou doesn't hold back and uses full honesty in her writing when expressing how heavily the world can blindly impact people while adding both beauty and personal warfare to their lives. There are also two short stories included in this book: "Ghost" and "The Addiction Effect." "Ghost" is about a friendly ghost who seeks refuge in an abandoned house. One night, a group of curious boys wander into the house. The ghost--fearful that the boys' knowledge of the property might cost him his home--scrambles to find a way to scare the boys away so he can keep his residence. In "The Addiction Effect," Neveah is visited by her ex, Addy. Addy begs and pleads for Neveah to give her a second chance. The two women have been together since they were teenagers and are now in their midtwenties. With all the history and loving memories that the two shared together, Neveah is torn between giving Addy another chance and her fear of being let down once again. Addy begins with loving and sweet pleas for forgiveness. But as Neveah continues to resist, tension builds between the two women, and Neveah is faced with an impossible decision.

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