Zara Mensah didn’t plan to walk into Blackwell Industries in a red dress with a coffee stain on her résumé and attitude in her eyes. She didn’t plan to spill an entire cup of coffee on the most powerful man in the building thirty seconds after walking through the door. And she absolutely did not plan to find out that the man she just soaked in Colombian dark roast was Dominic Blackwell — billionaire, CEO, and the person who would be deciding whether she got the job she needed to keep her lights on.She needed the job.She took the job.Big mistake.Dominic Blackwell is thirty-eight years old, built like a bad decision, and has a rule he has never broken in eleven years of running his company — he does not touch his employees. He has never wanted to. Until a twenty-three year old woman with fire in her mouth and coffee on his shirt walked into his boardroom and told him, to his face, that his interview questions were outdated.Nobody talks to Dominic Blackwell like that.Nobody has ever made him want them to do it again.Now she works for him. She sits twenty feet from his office. She wears red like she knows exactly what it does and refuses to apologize for it. And every single day Dominic Blackwell sits behind his glass wall and watches her and thinks about his rule.And how much he wants to break it.The Devil Wears My Lipstick is a story about power and who really holds it. About a man who has controlled everything in his life for so long that one woman’s refusal to be controlled becomes the most dangerous thing he has ever encountered. About a woman who knows exactly what she wants and refuses to pretend otherwise even when wanting it could cost her everything.It is fast. It is hot. It does not apologize.

Almost Her is a story about two trans women building their lives in real time…Nova is twenty years old and already exhausted by a world that was not built for her.Born into a body that never matched the woman she knew herself to be, Nova has spent the last several years constructing a life from whatever materials were available — a shared bedroom in West Philadelphia, a best friend who understood her without needing everything explained, hormones sourced through back channels, and a face she rebuilt every morning at a secondhand vanity like an act of quiet defiance.She is pre-op. She is mid-transition. She is also sharp, resourceful, and magnetic in a way that has nothing to do with how she looks and everything to do with how she moves through a room.Her best friend Reign is the same — full-figured, fearless, and completely unwilling to shrink herself for anyone. Together they have built something that functions like survival but looks, from the outside, like confidence. They navigate Philadelphia’s clubs, its cold January streets, its consignment shops and corner restaurants and crowded trolley cars with the particular alertness of two women who have learned that the world will not warn you before it turns on you.Then Nova meets Damon.Damon is not what she expected. He is not careless with people. He does not perform. He runs a business he built from nothing, laughs without calculating the effect, and looks at Nova like she is someone worth the full cost of his attention. Twenty-three days after meeting him in a lounge on South Street, Nova is sitting in a bath gone cold trying to figure out where the line is between the right moment and just being afraid.Because Damon does not know who she fully is. Not yet.And Nova is running out of reasons to keep it that way.Almost Her is a story about two trans women building their lives in real time — before the surgeries, before the safety, before anything is certain. It is about the specific kind of love that finds you in the middle of becoming. About money and survival and the way those two things shape every decision a person makes when the margin for error is thin. About what it means to let someone see you — really see you — when you are still in the process of seeing yourself.It is not a tragedy. It is not a fairy tale.It is something more honest than both.