Hope After Dark Oakland Moon, Book One: 1

Dr. Candice Monroe has built her life around control, discretion, and truth. As a respected therapist in Berkeley, she knows how to listen beneath the words people say. She understands desire, shame, power, secrets, and the wounds people hide behind polished lives.Then one invitation changes everything.When Candice agrees to accompany a famous client to Club Hope, Oakland's most magnetic and dangerous nightclub, she expects music, money, and bad decisions. What she does not expect is Roman Greer.Roman is the owner of Club Hope, a man with power in every corner of the room and ghosts buried deeper than his reputation. Their connection is instant, unwanted, and impossible to ignore. But before either of them can decide what that attraction means, the lights go out, a woman begins to sing from beneath the floor, and the past opens its mouth.What follows is a night of supernatural warnings, family secrets, criminal debts, ancestral power, and a love that refuses to stay clean or simple.Candice and Roman are pulled into a mystery tied to old women, buried bargains, bloodlines, keys, ledgers, and a building that remembers every debt ever made inside it. To survive, they must decide what kind of truth is worth uncovering, what kind of love is worth risking, and whether hope can be reclaimed after dark.Hope After Dark is the first book in the Oakland Moon series, a dark adult romantic suspense story blending Black love, urban fantasy, crime drama, ancestral mystery, and supernatural power.

Pagina's: 684, Paperback, Darius Blackman