Jade Black

Romance grounded in heat, heart, and reality

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Everything After

One Halloween weekend.

One secret she's been carrying ever since.

One very inconvenient reunion.

Leiliana Collins built her new life the hard way — dream job in a new city, baby on hip, no safety net. She didn't expect to walk into Spherestone on day one and come face to face with Kanakami Mishada: a man from her past, now her colleague. The man she told herself she was over.

What follows is messy, electric, and slow in the best way. Office politics. A rival determined to burn her career down. A secret she's not ready to share. And a man who keeps showing up — quietly, persistently — proving that she was wrong about being over him.

Everything After is latte foam and lightning storms. Velvet dresses and daycare pickups. The burn you came for, and the family you didn't see coming.

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The Books of Jade Black

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One Halloween weekend. One secret she's been carrying ever since. One very inconvenient reunion.

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When Cerys Duncan trades predictability for open water, she never expects to find love waiting for her on the shores of Te Motu Aroha.

The Worlds of Jade Black

Te Motu Aroha

Adventure • Beaches • Love at First Surf Lesson

Enter This Realm

Enter This Realm

The Element of Everything

Slow Burn• Secret Baby • Workplace Romance • Single Mom Romance

Notes from Jade

Book cover Everything After by Jade Black surrounded by notes reading cozy but make it spicy, interracial and workplace romance.

Less Than Three Weeks Out: Where to Get Everything After

Come sit with me a minute. The light in here is soft this afternoon, the kind that makes everything look a little golden around the edges, and I've been thinking about how close we are now — less than three weeks from September 22, when Everything After, Book One of The Element of Everything, finally leaves my hands and finds its way into yours. If you've already been feeling the pull of Fujiyako — that slow burn, that secret she's been carrying since October, that particular

Love Shouldn't Cost You Your Dreams

A few weeks ago, a reader sent me a message that stopped me mid-scroll. She said: "I've been in a relationship for six years and I've been afraid that wanting things for myself meant I loved him less. Your book made me feel like maybe that's not true." I read it twice. Then I closed my phone and sat there for a minute, because that—right there—is exactly what I was trying to say. I didn't always know how to say it out loud. But it was the thing underneath all of it, the whole

Dusk city skyline with glowing orange sky and heavy traffic on a lit highway, cars streaming between tall buildings.

The Geography of Slow Burns

Jade Black ——— A slow burn doesn't just happen between two people. It happens somewhere. This is what I think about when I talk about setting — not backdrop, not decoration, not the descriptive paragraph you skim past to get to the dialogue. Setting as pressure. Setting as a third presence in the room, one that has opinions about how things are going and expresses those opinions through atmosphere, architecture, weather, and the specific way light falls through a window at ex

About Jade

Jade Black writes stories where love is powerful, complicated, and never an afterthought. Her work spans contemporary romance, epic gothic fantasy romance, and romantic suspense, blending emotional intensity with lush worldbuilding and high-stakes devotion.

Drawn to relationships forged in fire rather than convenience, Jade’s stories explore identity, resilience, and the transformative nature of partnership. Her characters fall in love amid political intrigue, generational secrets, dangerous loyalties, and the quiet, everyday courage it takes to be fully seen. Romance, in her world, is not a subplot. It is the catalyst.

Influenced by gothic atmospheres, layered mythology, and the fragile line between vulnerability and strength, Jade crafts sweeping narratives where passion and power exist side by side. Whether set in a contemporary city or a crumbling empire, her stories promise emotional depth, immersive settings, and love stories that feel earned.

When not writing, Jade finds inspiration in art museums, architectural history, and the subtle choreography of human connection.

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