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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.

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Darius Blackman is the pen name of Bryan Frazier, a soldier of 22 years, father of three daughters, and independent author whose work is built around discipline, pressure, legacy, survival, love, history, identity, and the standards people live by when life demands more from them. Blackman's nonfiction foundation is The Darius Blackman Standards Series, a five-book leadership and self-development collection shaped heavily by the lessons he learned through more than two decades in the Army. Through books such as A Man With Direction, Hold Your Ground, Built for Pressure, The Disciplined Man, and The Provider's Discipline, he writes directly to men who are ready to stop drifting, build stronger habits, protect their peace, carry responsibility, control their emotions, manage pressure, and become dependable in the places where weakness costs the most. But Blackman's writing does not stop at self-development. His fiction moves with the same concern for consequence, identity, and power. In the Empire of Kimmett series, including The Exodus of Kemet, Convergence War, Fractured Infinity, and Thorn of convergence, he builds an Afrofuturist universe where ancient legacy, hidden history, advanced civilizations, leadership, survival, and the future of Black identity collide across worlds. His Khemara books, including The awakening of Khemara: The first signal and Khemara Unbound, continue his interest in awakening, transformation, mystery, and ordinary people being pulled into realities larger than they ever imagined. These stories reflect one of Blackman's strongest creative themes: the moment when a person realizes the life they thought they understood was only the beginning.

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