Beauty & The Don

She saw the man, not the monster.Sanaa Brooks has rules for The Velvet Chair.No bad attitudes.Don’t touch her mama’s neon sign.And the salon closes at eight.So when a mysterious client pays four thousand dollars for a private 9:00 p.m. appointment, Sanaa knows she should say no.Then Malachi Reyes walks through her door.Scarred. Hooded. Dangerous.The kind of man who arrives with black SUVs, armed guards, and an entire block suddenly minding its business.Malachi hasn’t willingly shown his face to a stranger in five years. Since the night an ambush left him scarred from temple to throat, the man they call The Ghost has lived behind hoods, locked doors, and a reputation powerful enough to make grown men afraid to say his name.But Sanaa doesn’t flinch.She tells him to sit down.And come back next Thursday.One appointment becomes two. Then five. Soon Thursday nights belong to them. For the first time in years, Malachi has somewhere he can go and simply be a man.For the first time in Sanaa’s life, the most dangerous man she’s ever met becomes the place she feels safest.But loving a man like Malachi comes with a price.He spent years making himself impossible to find.Then he fell for a woman who keeps a schedule.Beauty & The Don is an urban romance about a feared man learning to be seen, a woman who refuses to fear him, and the Thursday night that changes both of their lives forever.For readers who love scarred heroes, protective men, strong Black heroines, mafia romance, found family, emotional healing, danger, and a love story with heart.