She keeps all eyes on her while her team cleans out the mark. brings us Chloe Wright and her team of thieves and grifters. If I can get my criminals with hearts more golden than not, stealing from bad people and then indulging in sexy interludes, I would be even happier. What I want more of in the world is heist stories. Chloe is immediately fleshed out both as a physical and emotional presence. She was a five-foot ten-inch thick bitch with a size eleven shoe and an ass that made grown adults’ mouths water fitting in would be a tragedy when she looked this good. The politics, the pining, and the reward of two lovely people who are doing their best getting a Happily Ever After was soul satisfying. Jackson is a professor and imbues her fictional college with steely eyed reality. She is overwhelmed, exhausted, and without much support. Deja didn’t hear any more of the boring report or Marie’s annoying mutterings because the sound of her own racing pulse had filled her ears.Īs important as their romance to the book is Deja’s experience being a junior, tenure track faculty.

They stared at each other for so long that the rest of the room disappeared. She watched as his smile faded and his eyes warmed into a banked fire, and even if she’d wanted to look away, now she couldn’t. While she’s been pretending not to look at him, he has been looking at her. Fueling her fantasies and providing a little day dream material is Dr.

She wants to support the BIPOC who, like her, are the first in her family to pursue academia, but she doesn’t have a lot of support herself. She’s trying to be a good colleague, a good academic, and a good professor. Deja Evans is a professor on the tenure track at a small Midwestern college. The rest are better described as erotic romantic suspense. Of the books of hers I have read, I would only describe Office Hours as a romance. I would love it if someone smarter than me wrote a thesis on the genius of Katrina Jackson. Very few of her interracial relationships involve white people. Her stories are centered around black women and their desire. She is a college professor who writes high heat, queer, often polyamorous, diverse stories. Katrina Jackson has been one of my favorite discoveries this year.

Pink Slip by Katrina Jackson