Preparing for Here Comes Love: Recommended Reading, Cameos, and the Journey Ahead

So, what can you expect from Here Comes Love? In short Here Comes Love is a love story born after loss, written for the readers who stayed through the storm.

Here’s my long answer…

There are stories you write, and then there are stories that follow you. Here Comes Love is the latter.

Rylee Daniels has lived in my book world since 2019. Her love, her loss, her motherhood, her resilience, all of it shaped the way I write today. And now, as we get closer to her final chapter, I want to make sure you’re ready for what’s coming.

Because this story… it doesn’t start in the fire.

It starts in the ashes.

It is about everything that happens after the storm. The grief you learn to carry, the pieces you choose to keep, the life you dare to rebuild, and the love that surprises you when your heart thought it was done.

And since I want us all ready for this final chapter, I have the recommended reading order and a note on cameos

Tentative Release Window: Winter 2026



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Alternate Story Ending: Keith and Alexis (Second Serving)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Second Serving, my first Thanksgiving romance, turned one year old a few weeks back, so of course I had to give you an update on our favorite couple. We checked in on them in Glimpses, Vol. 2, but that peek was through Alexis’s perspective.

This time, we’re in Keith’s head… and it is such a fun place to be.

Enjoy!

KEITH

I bobbed my head to the R&B joint drifting through the rooftop lounge, lifted my drink, and let my eyes do what they’d been doing all night…find her again. My attention had been drifting to my girl, Alexis, since she walked in with her friend and business partner, Maven Avery.

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So This is Love Chapter 10: “I love that girl”

Chapter 10 is the chapter I was waiting so patiently to write. I am, without question, Dominick’s biggest hater… Dallas’s brother Dominick, to be clear. From the moment we met him in Ayanna’s short story from Forbidden: An Anthology, I just knew he wasn’t going to be my kind of character. And that was by design. I poured everything I personally don’t care for in a man into Dominick and ended up creating a villain readers would love to hate.

So when the time came to humble him—and put him flat on his ass—I was all fingers and keyboard. This moment, set around the Thanksgiving dinner table at the brothers’ childhood home in Jersey, was necessary. It was history in the making. The day Dominick wrote a check his mouth couldn’t cash.

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Archetype Deep Dive: Melodee Jones (neé Delon)

My girl.

Melodee is one of my favorites, and that’s largely because of her archetype. We actually share the same one, even though I’m not a character. I see so much of myself in her… and I admire even the qualities in her that frustrate me about myself.

Melodee has always sacrificed her comfort for others, but not in a self-destructive way. She sees the bigger picture and shows up with that in mind. Will it always be perfect? No. Will she always meet the standard of perfect? Also no. But she tries. And she keeps the hearts of those she loves front and center… sometimes putting her own heart on the backburner to protect theirs.

She and Amir share so much—similar values, interests, energies—which is why their relationship started in friendship. But when two friends love the same way… it’s only right that it becomes something more.

Melodee is a hopeless romantic. She believes in fairy tales. And there is nothing you can tell her to make her stop loving love. We have that in common. She can take on the role of the mother hen, sometimes overly empathetic, unknowingly carrying the emotional weight of others. But she’s loving. Big-hearted. Loyal.

So what archetype does that make her?

The Caregiver.

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Character Q&A: Melodee Jones (nee Delon)

We’re high above the city in a glass-walled penthouse tucked in the Hollywood Hills, where the California sun spills across sleek marble floors and floor-to-ceiling windows that frame the skyline in hazy gold. The space feels both temporary and curated… minimalist decor softened by touches of home. A framed photo of Amir and their son sits on a side table beside a vase of white hydrangeas. A few open suitcases rest on the cream-colored sectional, half-packed with clothes and neatly folded scripts.

Melodee Jones (psychologist, wife of international R&B icon Amir Jones, and now temporary California resident) moves gracefully through the space, alternating between packing a travel bag and checking on her son, who’s rehearsing lines for an upcoming audition in the next room with his acting coach.

“Amir keeps calling California home these days, and I find myself needing to correct him,” she says with a soft laugh, finally taking a seat on the sofa across from me. “He always apologizes and says he calls everywhere I am home. And I’m always like that’s so sweet but let’s be very, very clear… home is and will always be New York!”

She fluffs her fingers through her fro, her energy equal parts poise and practicality, the calm at the center of a very busy storm.

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The Turning Point: Hassani Franklin’s Choice in My Only

Throughout My Only (the follow-up to my friends-to-lovers story My First, My Last), readers wanted to shake Hassani by the shoulders. He was people-pleasing at the highest level, especially when it came to his colleague Harper Royce.

Harper made it no secret throughout My Only that she wanted Hassani romantically, a fact that seemed to be clear to everyone but him. His involvement in the Greene Gardens project slowly chipped away at his marriage, and the cracks between him and Ayla deepened with every late night, every missed dinner, every misjudged boundary.

But it wasn’t until a dinner that never happened that Hassani took a sharp turn… from fault lines to rebuilding. That non-dinner became the moment that shifted everything.

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Inside the Character: Getting to Know Keith Aaron from Second Serving

Keith Aaron had been mentioned in passing in my book world, but I always knew I’d give him his own story. I’d been wanting to write about a hip-hop artist for a while, so please know, I’m not done with him or Alexis just yet. I love his character makeup. He’s a guy’s guy, but also a Loverboy at heart. An intellect in every sense of the word, but street smart too. What I loved most was seeing readers fall for him the same way I did. There’s still so much to learn about Mr. Keith Aaron.

So, for now, let’s get to know him a little more intimately.

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