When a Virgin Falls for a Street King by Justin Rofe, Spencer Taylor

For twenty-eight-year-old Harper Ellis, being a virgin has never meant being naïve. She knows exactly what men can do with a woman’s vulnerability when it falls into the wrong hands. After one humiliating lesson left her questioning the one person she should have been able to trust—herself—Harper built a life around certainty. She has her mother, her work, and the Delmar Community Youth Center she has spent seven years keeping alive. Romance doesn't fit anywhere on that list.

Neither does Knox Malone.

Feared on the streets, quiet by nature, and powerful enough to own six blocks without most people knowing his name is on the paperwork, Knox has survived by one rule: never leave anything you love where an enemy can reach it. Then an eviction notice bearing his company’s name threatens Harper’s youth center, and the soft, curvy woman who should have been afraid of him walks straight into his territory demanding answers.

She refuses to bend.

He refuses to explain.

And somewhere between their battles, unwanted protection, dangerous attraction, and the secrets neither of them wants dragged into the light, Harper begins seeing pieces of Knox that the streets never get to see.

But Knox’s world was built long before Harper entered it—and some buried things refuse to stay buried.

When a dangerous piece of his past resurfaces and discovers exactly which woman has become his weakness, Knox falls back on the only language he has ever trusted: control. Unfortunately for him, Harper has spent too many years protecting herself to mistake a beautifully constructed cage for love.

Now the man who protects everyone must decide whether he can love a woman without controlling the outcome, while Harper must decide if trusting Knox means repeating the worst mistake of her life—or finally refusing to let an old betrayal choose her future.

In this emotionally gripping urban African American romance, a guarded BBW virgin and a feared Street King discover that falling for your enemy may be easy.

Learning how to feel safe in his love could cost them everything.