Nayah only came to the summer festival to sell custom sneakers, mind her business, and survive the California heat.
Then Elle walked past her booth with bad lemonade, perfect lip gloss, and the kind of attitude that made trouble look expensive.
Their flirtation should have ended with a few smart comments and a number neither of them planned to use. Instead, gunfire tears through the festival, Nayah pulls Elle behind her vendor table, and a viral video turns two strangers into the city’s hottest rumor.
Elle is polished, ambitious, and determined to protect the event business she built from scratch. Nayah is guarded, street-smart, and tied to people who know exactly how dangerous their city can get after dark. They come from opposite sides of old neighborhood tension, where family loyalty, public image, and street politics decide who gets trusted and who gets blamed.
When stolen money, fake security contracts, and a powerful crime boss connect the shooting to Elle’s company, Nayah and Elle are forced together in a fight bigger than both of them. Every clue pulls them deeper into a setup built on family secrets, rival crews, and men who profit from fear.
But the closer danger gets, the harder it becomes to pretend their chemistry is only survival.
From taco truck shootouts and rooftop exposés to aunties with receipts and a romance that refuses to stay quiet, Love in the Crossfire is a fast-paced sapphic urban romance packed with drama, danger, humor, family pressure, and two women brave enough to choose each other in broad daylight.
Perfect for readers who love Black sapphic romance, urban romantic suspense, street-lit drama, rival crews, forced proximity, protective masc heroines, glamorous femmes, messy family dynamics, and romance with heat, humor, and high stakes.
