Novels by Elani
*This is the best reading order
available in Ebook, Paperback and Virtual Voices Audio on Amazon
Love on the Way Series
Standalones set in Waldon County
She thinks it’s war. He knows it’s just foreplay.
Lora Chase has one problem, and his name is Omari Smith.
To everyone else at the agency, Omari is the golden boy—the creative genius who can do no wrong. To Lora, he is the biggest threat to her career and the rival she intends to crush.
But Omari has been playing a very different game.
While Lora has been keeping score, Omari has been keeping secrets. To him, the sparks flying between them have nothing to do with competition.
One night at a bar is all it takes to blur the lines. Lora finds herself vulnerable and alone with the one man she’s sworn to despise fighting the heat between them. She’s forced to consider that the rivalry she’s waged for years, might actually be a front for something else far more dangerous.
What if everything she hates about Omari Smith is exactly what she loves most?
This is the perfect short read if you adore:
🤎 Workplace Rivals to Lovers
🤎 Reverse Grumpy x Sunshine
🤎 Secret Admirer
🤎 Drunken Confessions & Caretaking
🤎 He’s A Little Younger
Note: The Love She Hates is a steamy short story in the Love on the Way standalone series featuring a guaranteed HEA.
Nya Adams had it all until she didn’t. On one of the worst days of her life, DeVaughn Harper, a brawny mechanic from a different side of town, comes to her roadside rescue. Instantly, Nya finds herself drawn to Vaughn’s simple existence, and the headstrong niece he parents alone, Tiana.
But does she really know the man who’s helping her find love and passion again? Every minute spent with her is a betrayal that comes with consequences her tech millionaire ex, Carter Adams, wants Vaughn to feel. Their shared secret is one of two tragedies Vaughn is determined to keep buried when Carter's mayoral bid and Nya’s cop brother become threats to his freedom.
Will Nya and DeVaughn survive their tangled pasts and looming secrets to claim the love they both want more than anything? To find out, dive into this captivating story of self-discovery, releasing the past, and finding an unconventional HEA amid a messy divorce, featuring:
🔧 A Reformed Gangster x Bougie Divorcee
🔧 A Roadside Rescue Meet-Cute
🔧 Single Guardian x Found Family
🔧 Tangled Pasts & Buried Secrets
🔧 Forbidden Love
This is a contemporary, steamy African-American urban romance with mature language.
Thugs N Roses Series
Interconnected Standalones set in Miami
He owes his brother a favor. He’s claiming her as payment.
Bolen Daymond values three things: his jazz club, his solitude, and his Bullmastiff, Barkley. But when his brother, Melo, calls in a favor, demanding to turn Bolen’s upscale sanctuary into a strip show for one night, he plans to stay in the shadows and hate every second of the raucousness.
Until he meets her.
Kassia James is a woman on the run from her own reflection. Her nomadic lifestyle has left her fractured and scarred. Hiding behind dark sunglasses, she moves through life in the shadows of her brother Kameron “Kamera Ready” James.
Until she lets him see all of her.
Bolen doesn't look away from her scars. He wants every part of her—especially the broken pieces. The grumpy millionaire wants to own her pain and replace it with pleasure.
Melo promised him anything in return for one night of sin and Bolen is cashing it in. But he doesn’t want money or power.
He wants the stripper’s twin sister to stay.
This is the romance novella for you if you like:
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🌹 He Falls First & Hard Insta-love
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🌹 Grumpy Club Owner x Shy Nomad
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🌹 Beauty & The Beast Vibes (Reverse)
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🌹 A Protective Alpha Hero
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🌹 A Bullmastiff Fur Baby
Note: This novella contains urban adult language, steamy scenes, and depicts facial disfigurement and recovery from past trauma.
She asked for a night of sin. He demanded a lifetime of salvation.
Makenna Boyd had the perfect life mapped out until her old money fiancé dumped her for an heiress. With her life packed into her car, she’s penthouseless, and afraid to break the news to her meddling mother. The only balm for her pain is the nearest bar and alcohol.
Until she spots him and makes a reckless move.
Exotic dancer, Kameron “Kamera Ready” James, is the party king of Kama Island alongside Melo Daymond. To the world and his new circle, his brand is thriving and his money is long. But behind the designer clothing he is fighting a losing battle against his own demons. On the night of his twenty-eighth birthday, he is standing on the edge of the abyss, ready to let the darkness take him away.
Until he looks into her ocean eyes.
Kenna wants a one-night stand but Kameron sees the anchor he needs to survive. He doesn't want a fling; he wants to save them both.
And he’s about to make her an offer she literally cannot afford to refuse.
This is the romance short read for you if you want:
🌹 Forced Proximity
🌹 Insta-Lust to Forever
🌹 Wounded Millionaire Alpha x Down-on-her-luck Pampered Princess
🌹 A Reckless Bathroom Proposition
🌹 Mental Health Rep
Note: This novella contains urban adult language, steamy scenes, and themes involving alcohol addiction and recovery.
A Baller's Love Complete Series
College Series set in Chadwin, LA
The Star Player. The Coach’s Daughter. The Ultimate Foul.
Israel “El Salvador” Pierce is a walking highlight reel. As the freshman prodigy of Boseman University, he has the skills to go pro next season and a swagger that rules the campus. The basketball god knows the rules: play hard, win big, and stay out of trouble.
But the moment he meets his coach’s daughter, he’s strictly out of bounds.
Fresh out of a scandal and living in “Dad Jail,” Kiela Armstrong plans to keep her head down and her history hidden. But staying invisible is impossible when she becomes the obsession of the team’s star baller and notorious bad boy.
The attraction is instant. The yearning is strong. And the delinquency is inevitable.
But at Boseman U, these freshmen are surrounded by predators. With a jealous team captain desperately plotting to squash El’s success and a campus filled with scheming social climbers, El and Kiela are playing a game nobody wants them to win.
Falling in love isn’t just a mistake. It’s a career-ending foul.
A Baller's Love Forbidden is the first installment in a 4-part serial.
This basketball romance serial features:
🏀 HBCU College Romance in a “Black Hollywood” Small Town
🏀 Forbidden Love (Coach’s Daughter)
🏀 Virgin x Bad Boy Obsession (First Love)
🏀 Messy Ensemble Cast Drama (Multiple POV)
🏀 Secrets, Lies & Scandal
🏀 Cliffhanger Ending
the interlude Series
Con't of A baller's love
He's a billionaire producer fleeing a Hollywood scandal. She's the one-night stand who got away—raising a boy with his unmistakable birthmark.
Deuce Daymond
I’m playing a dangerous game. To secure an Oscar for my studio’s breakout film, I’m locked in a high-stakes "showmance" with a volatile leading lady. It was supposed to be strictly business, but when a humiliating scandal shatters our timeline, I need an escape.
I head home to Miami to lie low until the PR storm passes. I don't expect to run straight into her, a face I haven’t seen since Boseman University.
Ayani Simms. The one who got away.
She’s guarded, beautiful, and raising a toddler son she swears belongs to a ghost from her past. But when I come face-to-face with the boy, I see what she doesn’t. A familiar mannerism. A specific birthmark on his ear. A timeline that aligns perfectly with our one, unforgettable night.
She’s left me no choice but to decide what matters most: chase my Hollywood illusions for the sake of glory, or burn it to the ground and claim the only legacy that matters—my blood.
Interlude With A Billionaire is a standalone, dual POV, spicy Black romance novel encompassing both of Elani’s Chadwin (A Baller’s Love) and Kama Island (Thugs N Roses) worlds.
Read on if you like these tropes:
🖤Second chance
🖤Secret Baby
🖤Billionaire x Single Mom
🖤Fake Dating
🖤Hollywood Scandal
