It takes a strong heart to love. It takes an even stronger one to keep loving after it's been broken.
After ten years of marriage and a divorce that left her emotionally drained, Cassandra Holland swore she was done. Done rebuilding men. Done compromising her peace. Done believing effort alone could make love last. She fought too hard to get her life back to let another man come in and shake it.
Then she meets Greece Thompson.
He's younger. Confident. Magnetic in a way that makes her forget every rule she set for herself. Greece doesn't see her as somebody's ex-wife or a woman with baggage. He sees her. The woman. The softness she hides. The strength she doesn't even realize still shines.
Cassandra knows better than to get involved. Greece lives fast. Fast money. Street ties. Dangerous connections that don't mix with the calm she's trying to protect. He represents everything she told herself to avoid.
But he also makes her laugh again. Makes her feel desired again. Makes her believe she might not be too broken to love.
And Greece is not the type to walk away from what he wants.
The deeper she falls, the more complicated it becomes. Loving a man still tied to the streets means accepting the risk that his world could pull him back at any moment. Between trust issues, a bitter ex-husband who refuses to stay in the past, jealousy, and unresolved loyalties, Cassandra is forced to confront a hard truth.
Peace is safe.
But safe never felt like this.
In Never Had Something So Real, an African American romance filled with age-gap desire, hood love tension, second chances, and dangerous passion, Cassandra must decide whether guarding her heart is worth losing the one man who makes it beat in a way it hasn't in years.
Because sometimes the love you fear the most is the one that feels the realest.
Never Had Something So Real: An Unhinged Romance by Leilani is perfect for readers who love African American romance, younger man older woman love stories, emotional second-chance love, and street-connected heroes who fall hard.
