Sexual Chocolate by Mikayda Davine, Puurrsia

Christina Richards learned the rules of survival before she learned much else: read the room, notice who's watching, never want anything you can't hold onto with your own two hands. Bounced through the foster system and out of an abusive first relationship, she finds herself dancing for rent money — until Miss Puurrsia walks in.

A former social worker who got tired of filing reports nobody read about girls nobody was going to save in time, Miss Puurrsia built Divine Art Supplies from nothing: an escort agency run less like a hustle and more like a family business, complete with etiquette classes, vetted clients, and a boss who treats her employees' safety like a mission. Inside those doors, Christina finds the family she never had — Amber, Destiny, Cherry, Heather — women who understand exactly what her life costs without needing it explained.

But family doesn't mean safe. A predator is targeting the agency's women. A dangerous affair threatens to blow up the business from the inside. And every relationship Christina builds outside those walls teaches her the same hard lesson: the difference between being needed and being loved.

SEXUAL CHOCOLATE is the first book in The World of They Called Me Pimp — a raw, unflinching, and ultimately hopeful story about the families we build when the ones we're given fail us, and about a woman who refuses to let her past write the ending to her story.