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After thirty-three years of marriage, Marlie Bennett finds herself alone, invisible, and starting over.

At fifty-three, she isn't looking for fairy tales. She's looking for herself.

A new home in New Jersey, an unexpected online match, and a circle of remarkable women who refuse to let her disappear into loneliness become the beginning of a life...

Searching for Platinum Chocolate

A Platinum Chocolate Romance

Book 2 of the Ebony M. Elite Series

Success, privilege, and passion come at a price.

After building a life defined by ambition and determination, Ebony M. Elite finds herself standing at a crossroads between the future she planned and the desires she never expected. When a charismatic,...

When the Chat Paused: A Platinum Chocolate Bond

By LongTemple

What happens when the messages stop—but the bond doesn’t?

In When the Chat Paused, four accomplished women in midlife navigate friendship, visibility, desire, and reinvention in a world where connection is constant—until it suddenly isn’t. What begins as a subtle pause in their group...

Some love stories begin with fireworks. Others begin when two people finally stop rushing past themselves.

At fifty-nine, Keema Hart has built a successful life around competence, independence, and carefully considered decisions. She does not need rescuing, managing, or completing. But an ordinary visit to Livingston Avenue Cleaners introduces...

Entangled Frequencies: A Platinum Chocolate Romance by LongTemple is a contemporary, character-driven romance that explores love in the age of algorithms, emotional autonomy, and unfiltered truth.
Set against the pulse of modern city life, Entangled Frequencies follows four accomplished women-Maya, Zaria, Imani, and Nia-whose lives intersect...

In a world where information moves faster than truth, one young woman discovers that seeing clearly can be the most dangerous power of all.

Gia never intended to step into something this deep. What began as a single moment—an encounter that didn’t feel right—quickly unfolds into a hidden structure operating beneath the surface of everyday life....

Loved in Chaos – A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga by LongTemple is a deeply immersive, emotionally layered novel that explores identity, trauma, resilience, and the fragile balance between love and survival. Set against the vivid and ever-evolving backdrop of New York City, this psychological saga draws readers into a world where memory,...

Luxuries & Lies - A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga
By LongTemple

Power doesn’t always announce itself.
Sometimes it erases you quietly—and waits to see if you object.

Mercedes has mastered the art of professional calm. She knows how silence moves through rooms, how decisions are made without names attached, how labor disappears while...

When Love Learns to Heal

A Faith-Leaning Reflective Companion to the Rhythm Series
by LongTemple

Some love stories don’t end when the final page turns.
They linger.

When Love Learns to Heal is a faith-leaning reflective companion to Rhythm and Design and its sequel, Rhythm’s First Lady, created for readers who felt the quiet power of Oliver and...

Between Grace & Fire

A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga**

Some lives are shaped by love.
Others are forged by survival.
And a few are tempered—slowly, painfully—between grace and fire.

Between Grace & Fire is a psychologically layered, emotionally searing literary saga that traces one woman’s interior life from childhood into adulthood...

Rhythm’s First Lady: A Platinum Chocolate Romance
by LongTemple

Power does not always arrive as cruelty.
Sometimes it arrives as opportunity.

Claire Graham is an architect whose talent is finally being seen—just as the church that shaped her husband begins to claim him. As invitations multiply and doors open, Claire and Oliver must decide what kind...

Just Run: A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga

by LongTemple

Just Run is a visionary work of modern women’s literature—part psychological saga, part historical reckoning, part interior survival map.

Set against the shifting social landscapes of early-20th-century America, this novel follows Run, a woman shaped by systems designed to discipline,...

Flip and Run: A Platinum Chocolate Sibling Saga
Every silence has a song.
Every goodbye finds its echo.

From the fire escapes of the Lower East Side to the quiet hills of Wilkes-Barre, Flip and Run: A Platinum Chocolate Sibling Saga unfolds a powerful family saga about love, loss, and the unbreakable ties of a sibling bond that outlasts the...

Cotton Sheets and Velvet Dreams
A Platinum Chocolate Romance
by LongTemple

When life unravels, love can still bloom—soft as cotton, deep as velvet.

Elena Velasquez was once a fashion icon adored by millions. Now, betrayal and a devastating diagnosis have driven her to a quiet coastal town to heal and rediscover her strength. But when a sudden...

A soulful architect. A gospel-rooted musician. A love built to last.
Rhythm & Design: A Platinum Chocolate Romance is a powerful story of purpose, passion, and divine timing.

Claire Baldwin is used to building beauty from structure—dreaming in blueprints, raised among silver spoons and Ivy League expectations. Focused, brilliant, and...

The Colors of Us

Olivia Carter never imagined she’d be starting over at fifty-five. Two months before the pandemic, she walked away from a loveless marriage, seeking solace and rediscovery in her vibrant hobbies and quiet solitude. Alone for the first time in decades, Olivia finds comfort in sewing, cooking, and losing herself in intricate...

For years, Kianna has kept her heart locked away, content in her quiet routine—until Marcus walks into her life with a sultry smile and a voice that wraps around her like silk.

A former jazz musician turned mysterious charmer, Marcus has a way of lighting up her senses and teasing her out of the shell she’s built.
One touch, and Kianna’s world...