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BOOKS BY LAQUANA BRUMFIELD
Just His Luck
Releasing on 3/17/2026
Lucky Jones and Navi Wade have been best friends their whole lives. So, when she asks him for a favor, he agrees to a fake dating plot to fool her mother and sisters. Lucky’s only goal was to enjoy her little sister’s wedding weekend without being set up or pitied for being the single sister.
It was supposed to be one favor over St. Patricks’ Day weekend, and after, they would go back to their normal lives like nothing ever happened. But once feelings develop, it is hard to erase them. Is it possible for Navi to experience a relationship with the only woman who holds his heart for a weekend and just return to duty after? Or will this fake-dating plot blow up in both of their faces?
96 Hours and Forever
Karina Stevens is Editor-at-Large of LuxRay Magazine and is home for the holidays. When her grandparents pressure her about marriage and kids, she catches the first flight back to Vegas to bury herself in her next story. When she finds out that story is on her high school sweetheart that she never quite got over, she can’t help but get entangled in his world.
Kareem Shaffield is an expert in his field. He’s taken the knowledge he gained as master gunner for the US Army and turned it into a multimillion-dollar AI and weapons integration company. There is nothing he can’t do, except keep his mind off Karina Stevens, the girl who got away and completely disappeared… until now.
Heart of Stone
Shanet Ellis is thirty and thriving in a career she loves. She’s a youth counselor at the local high school and volunteers at Renewed group home. She has life all figured out until her most complicated child at the group home, Sakani Washington, is set to get adopted and the man adopting him is too fine for her to stay focused on just the job.
LaMicheal Stone is an army vet who came back to his hometown with one mission: build the life he would have had if he hadn’t spent so much time away. When Stone decides adopting a troubled teenager is the right move for him, he never expected that adoption would be a two-for-one.
Solo the god
Tash
All I wanted was my freedom.
A way out of a bad situation but I ran straight into the arms of a devil dressed as a god.
Solomon Solo Godfrey was cruel, calculated, and merciless but he was also the savior I needed.
I should have backed out the moment he pierced me with those soulless eyes.
I shouldn’t have let him kiss me, but I did.
I should have listened to the heart that was beating out of my chest.
but I’d bent around ruthless men before, so I made a deal with Solo.
Now he owned me, and every part of my body will bare his name.
On My Command
Alpha Third Battalion Book 1
Lieutenant Anissa James’ life seems to be on the rise. She is at the top of her career field and has spent her whole life with the same man. He was her first love and heartbreak. Now that she has caught him cheating again, she has finally decided to pack her bags. Before heading home to a cheating man, decides to make a pit stop in Vegas. She had no idea one night in Vegas could change her whole life.
Captain Cameron Means has no love left in his heart. After being abandoned by his parents at birth and messed over in his last relationship, his only goal was to have sex with as many women as he could. But when he bumps into the most beautiful girl he has ever seen at a club in Vegas, everything he thought he knew becomes a blur.
Can one night in Sin City repair shattered hearts, or will Anissa and Cameron leave just as broken as they came?
First Comes You
Alpha Third Battalion Book 2
Alexis James may have been the oldest, but she was never the one to take life too seriously. She believed in taking things as they come and enjoying them while they lasted. Her live in the moment attitude is the only thing that helped her bow out gracefully when the man she’d been spending all her time with decided that time was up. The only problem was she still had to go to work the next day and he would be right across the hall.
Emmanuel Cooper had been married before and decided never to go down that road again. After his ex-wife took him for everything he had, he vowed he’d never commit to another woman. The sight of Alexis James walking down a beach wasn’t going to change that. At least it wasn’t supposed to, but it was becoming harder to fall asleep without her tucked safely in his arms.
A Medic’s Cure
Alpha Third Battalion Book 3
I didn’t know when it got as bad as it did, but lately, I’d been moving through life for the sake of of not being stuck. Losing the man I loved in a drowning accident could have been the straw that finally broke me, but I met someone who refused to allow me to be broken.
Amare Grady was tall, handsome, and had a heart made of pure gold, but I had no idea why he was determined to save me.
I didn’t want to be saved.
I didn’t know if I deserved it, but he refused to give up on me. Now, we’re on a constant rollercoaster with me determined to self-destruct and him doing everything in his power to not let me.
Amina Carver
Method of Love
Alpha Third Battalion Book 4
Ramel Method is the executive officer of Alpha Third Battalion. He prides himself on commitment and his ability to always accomplish the mission, until the mission in front of him is a wedding that ends in a marriage he never wanted. He thought by calling off the engagement that the pre-wedding stress would be behind him, but when he bumps into the most peculiar woman he has ever met singing drunk karaoke, he realized the stress he was running from was nothing compared to her.
Regina May is the daughter of music royalty. At the young age of twenty-three, she’d mastered the art of being alone due to her parents’ schedule that always seemed to be more important than their daughter. After finally cutting ties with them once and for all, she settled on the idea of being alone forever. But after one conversation with a stranger in a bar, she was reconsidering everything she knew to be true.
Secrets of the Game
To make it in this game you have to know what to do, how to do it, and when the doing should be done. Skyla McNeil sits at the head of every table because she knows what it takes to climb to the top as well as stay there. Young, beautiful, and living it up in the city of Atlanta Skyla McNeil is collecting all of her chips without a care in the world until she gets a phone call from someone she thought she’d buried a long time ago, her mother. Karen McNeil is in prison serving a life sentence for killing her husband. She has accepted her fate and conformed to life behind bars. The only thing she asks is that her daughter Skyla takes care of her drug-addicted sister. Skyla left Mississippi with no intention of returning but she is quickly reminded that family is like a drug habit you cannot shake. For the first time in years, Skyla is forced to face the past that she has been running from. A story filled with love, lust, and empty promises “Secrets of the Game” will take you on a never-ending emotional roller coaster. Can falling in love save Skyla? Or, will she be just another victim of the game?
Secrets of the Game 2
Seeing her husband in bed with her sister sends Sky running back into familiar arms, Pernell’s. Sky cut Pernell off when she married Julius and decided the grass was greener on the other side. Now that the chips have settled, she sees the married life is not all it’s cracked up to be.
Pernell is the married son of a crime boss who’s organization does not tolerate adultery. He upheld that standard until the day met Skyla McNeil. Pernell’s love for Sky is undeniable, so when she calls he comes running. Pernell is willing to give up his father’s legacy to be with the woman he truly loves but it may cost him both of their lives.
On the run for their lives this couple is under fire from every direction. The enemy is behind every corner but they will soon find out family should be watched the closest. Together, Sky and Pernell is ready to take on the world and fight for the survival of their love.
Secrets of the Game 3
The gang is back, but this time they are coming harder than ever. Skyla has learned, the hard way, that all is fair in love and war. She also learned that just because a man tells you he loves you, that doesn’t mean you have to put your life on hold to wait on him to get his shit together. Pernell is still a married man, and when no signs of divorce linger, Skyla finally decides to throw up the deuces.Hearing that Skyla has made up her mind to leave was something Pernell would never be okay with. But seeing her with another man might push him over the edge. Back from the dead, Shelton is wreaking havoc on the city of Atlanta when he is released from the hospital, only to find out his wife is missing, and he’s left to be a single father to his son. Trying to fit back into your old life can be hard when everyone else has moved on and you’re still stuck in the past. Shelton soon finds that having his head constantly flooded with bad memories may prove to be worse than not knowing who you are at all. Family is family, and blood will always be thicker but when love is involved things can quickly become tricky.
Send Me Rella for Christmas
A Cinderella Story just in time for Christmas!
Rella Holiday has one dream, to make it out of her stepmother’s house and as far away from her stepsisters as she can get. Working multiple jobs, she is saving her money and buying her time. When she hears King Mace, one of the most poppin’ music producers in the game, will be in town to host the Annual Christmas Eve Ball, she refuses to miss her shot.
King Mace is on a mission to pump new blood into his record label and the entire music industry. Tired of hearing the same type of music and watching the same dancers move to different beats, he is determined to discover talent that reminded him of his own come-up.
1 ripped invitation
1 missing sneaker
No names given
And no time to waste.
Will Mace find his way to Rella for Christmas, or will he be left with nothing more than a shoe to remember her by?
Rescue Me
Almost two years have passed since the day Haze tried to end her life but there she was, still “living”. If you could call it that. Tucked away in her cottage in the middle of nowhere, the only time Haze had human interaction was on accident. Well, that was until she decided to step out on faith and bumped headfirst into Mr. Sire Sutton.
Sire is a businessman whose only concern should have been making sure he closed the biggest deal he’d ever worked on. Not only would this deal be life changing for everyone connected to him, but it would also sever ties he had been dying to cut. He just needed to stay focused long enough to get the job done… but there was Haze.
God created the world in seven days, and in those same seven days, your whole life could change. This week, Sire and Haze are getting something neither of them knew they needed—time to heal.
Haze needed to be rescued and Sire needed someone worth saving. Will they each get what they need, or will they be left longing?
The Naughty Nomad
Gypsy West was a twenty-five-year-old elementary teacher when she gave up all hopes of ever finding the man of her dreams. Deciding to find herself instead, she set out on a road trip that never ended. After traveling and living in her van for the last three years, Gypsy finds herself stranded on the side of the road when her van gives out.
Jelani Carter is a veteran who owns the only mechanic shop in Kiln, MS. Returning home, his only hope was winning the heart of his newly divorced high school sweetheart. However, he finds chasing his first love a lot harder than he imagined. When a stranded beauty shows up in his shop, she may be just the distraction he needs to rid him of his childhood love.
Both resolved to never getting what they truly want, Gypsy and Jelani agree to be together for the short time she’s in town. But there are rules that must be followed. Will these two hopeless romantics be able to stay the course, or will they end up breaking all the rules?
My Heart at Ease
When friends become lovers, they forget the rest of the world exists. Even the people they were supposed to be in a relationship with.
Ten years was a long time to go without speaking to someone. Especially when that person was the only man to ever hold your heart. Kitty Carrell is a Country music singer at her wits end with the industry she used to love. Needing time away from her tour and a boyfriend from hell, she decides to go back home for the weekend. The only thing scary about going home is, Marcel is there.
Marcel had just returned from a twelve-month deployment and home wasn’t feeling like home. The house he shared with his fiancée, Chanel, had been completely changed around and he no longer fit. When he finds out Chanel has been cheating, seeing Kitty at his parents annual St. Patrick’s Day party could either be the best or worst thing to ever happen to him.
Kitty and Marcel are in a fight against the urge to love each other. Will they stand firm on their principles or lock in and forget the world exists?
The Weekend: A Homecoming Novelette
It’s homecoming weekend baby! Homecoming weekend for HBCU alumni is a national holiday that must be celebrated the right way; with BBQ, Greek parties and drunken nights! Newly heartbroken Chiya, who came back to campus strictly for the turn up, expected some foggy nights. What she wasn’t expecting was to run into him. Troy. Troy and Chiya has that once in a lifetime kind of love. Well, they did until he cheated and she had to show him just how quickly she could move on. Now, five years later they’re in the same place, at the same time, with the same bad memories. Will the ex-lovers make it out unscathed or will this be just another homecoming weekend filled with regrets and hookups with your ex?
Release Me: A Short (Broken Women Need Love Too)
Sometimes we think we’re shackled in love when in reality we’re shackled in pain. We’re so quick to fall, never realizing our person may not be there to catch us. Lonnie was the only man Akilah had ever been with. The only man she’d ever loved. Imagine her shock when she realized he no longer loved her back. When your man refuses to touch you, what do you do next? Find out what Akilah does in this revitilizing novelette.
Please note that this story contains many provocative themes and tackles topics such as adultery and suicide. If you are easily provoked by these topics, please find one of my more lighthearted stories.
The Colonel I Crave
After her dream of being a professional ballerina was shattered by an injury, Raven moved to the other side of the world with hopes of saving enough money to open a dance studio. Just when she thinks things are coming together, an unexpected text sends her spiraling. Needing a weekend away from reality, Raven books a solo trip to Dubai. However, running into the soldier who had been making her life a living hell wasn’t on the itinerary. What will Raven do when the only man who raises her temperature in every way possible challenges her to spend the weekend locked away in a hotel suite with him?
Lieutenant Colonel Jaxon Jackson has given his life to the United States Army. With retirement hanging over his head, he has no idea what he will do next. Instead of making permanent life decisions, Jaxon decides he will spend his Labor Day weekend getting as drunk as possible. But when he bumps into Raven at the airport those plans quickly change. A weekend with the girl who had been consuming his every thought was something he was unwilling to pass up. If she agreed, he’d spend every second committing the curves of her body to memory.
You For Christmas : A Holiday Novelette
It’s Christmas and Opal Stone is coming to town.
Wild rich girl Opal Stone has avoided commitment her whole life and never sticks to anything for longer than six months.
Relationships included.
Opal needs a new wig.
Opal needs new shoes.
But what Opal doesn’t need, is love.
Langston Quick is a single father dedicating all of his time to his hotel and raising his daughter Sara Grace. With a soon to be ex-wife, he has little time to waste looking for love no matter how much he needs it.
Langston is busy.
Langston is dedicated.
But he’s not available.
He’s the stability she needs.
She’s the excitement he craves.
And a Christmas miracle is all it takes to these estranged best friends together.
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