Jorja Tabu

Phaedra Jenkins feels used, abandoned and utterly alone--until she meets her new boss, Ashton Nagakura. After her long-term boy-friend breaks up with her, stranding Phaedra in the exquisite small town of Hilo, Hawai'i, she takes a job at a smoothie shack called Papaya or Die on the beautiful Hamakua Coast. Her first day introduces her to the most beautiful man she's ever seen: Ash, a surfer and die-hard local boy.Ash has never been serious about much; he runs a smoothie shack and catches decent waves, and his bed is never cold. What could be better? But something about Phaedra twists his heart and his tongue, and he can't shake the sudden need to tease her, take care of her... And touch her.Are they meant for each other? Enjoy your trip to Hawai'i in this sweet, sexy contemporary.

Charlotte Goodtree is all that stands between her family's plantation and destruction. The only problem? She's black. Her family's white, and the handsome contractor responsible for all the damage has no idea how much it's going to cost them both...Gabrielle Harris is embarking on her first big tour as the opener for a Grammy winning rapper. She thinks he's sexist thug, and he's given up on love after facing terrible obstacles on the stage of life... So why can't they stop thinking about each other?Lisa Tyrell has climbed the corporate ladder out of poverty and into the corner office as an executive secretary. Her boss is a domineering perfectionist that just can't seem to live without her--is it really because she's so good at her job? Or do they share a deep, secret longing, the kind of bond only the most sensitive Dominant can draw out of his submissive...Each of these strong women walks into a situation where there's no escape from their feelings... And in the end, they don't even want to. Passions run high as time runs out... DEEPER, LOUDER, HARDER is a compilation of three novellas that are available individually as ebooks. JORJA TABU's imagination explores the love between three black women and men of a different color, where no one is who you expect, and the sex follows suit.