Mariah L. Stevens
I am a Black Autistic author who writes contemporary romance, trauma recovery, and paranormal romance novels and fanfiction.
I take the traumatic experiences I have had and channel them into my work in a way that seeks to help with recovery.
I like to write with compassion and diversity, and especially love to give Black characters their happy endings.
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It’s been five years since Aaliyah William’s father died, and now, she lives at the bottom of a pit. There are other prisoners here with her, lying in the dark, waiting to be taken. When a familiar face from her past takes her from the pit, she has one goal: find a way to come back for her friends.
There’s just one problem.
Her new captor is a vampire who gives her two choices: give him her blood, or he will take it.
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Ten years after high school, Zae Richardson is stuck.
He's delivering food, suffering from depression, and living with an abusive, drug-addicted father. One night, he sees the girl who once made his life Hell: Janiyah Jones. She's walking down the street in the lower districts, dressed in glitter and heels with bruises painted onto her skin. After discovering her in a traumatic, compromising situation, Zae makes a choice that will change everything for both of them.
He takes her home.
As they hide from Janiyah’s past and Zae’s future, they're forced to confront the lives they've been running from. In the harrowing space between trauma and recovery, they must decide whether or not to take the first step. Because to Zae, the most dangerous thing is what he's willing to risk to feel something real.
Over the course of two weeks, Zae and Janiyah will find out what it means to love and be loved while broken, and what it truly means to choose each other.
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Five years ago, Aiyana Davis graduated with the scars of relentless bullying and a trauma no one knew Cailen Evans helped cause. Now, she’s a gifted but unknown singer with three songs and a plan.
Cailen, once her tormentor, is the lead screamer of a popular metalcore band. He’s arrogant, jaded, and exactly like she remembers: an asshole. Five years later, Aiyana decides it’s time to cash in on the bill he owes her for everything he put her through. On the final night of his band’s tour, Aiyana sneaks onto his tour bus and lies in wait with a flash drive and one demand: give her studio time.
When the desire to follow her dreams blurs the line between attraction and hatred, Aiyana must choose between the justice she came for and the future she never thought she’d want…with the one person she hates most of all.
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Everything seems simple when you’re a child...until it isn’t.
After a childhood of trauma, betrayal, and pain, Jaeda has learned that the safest place to be is unseen. She told the truth, and no one believed her. So why bother trying anymore?
Three years after everyone she loved took her abuser’s side, she returns to college, determined to move forward. But when she’s paired with her ex-best friend, Cassiel, for a term project, his cold hatred threatens to destroy the carefully built walls around her heart.
Jaeda thinks Cass’s cruelty is as simple as truth and lies. But she’s about to learn that nothing is as it seems...and the secrets he’s hiding are more dangerous than she ever imagined. And when the truth finally comes to light, Jaeda learns too late that some betrayals aren’t just painful.
They’re deadly.
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Naima Okeke is trapped, her heart surrounded by chains.
Her boyfriend, Callan is a monster who maps her brown skin with bruises, holding hostage the key. His stepbrother, Jaden longs to free her heart and help it beat again. Her parents and brother, Amari are terrified; her friends suspicious. But Naima loves them all enough to hide from them, no matter what the cost—even if that cost is forcing them to watch her waste away.
Can she balance surviving Callan on one hand and falling for Jaden on the other, or will her dangerous coping mechanisms destroy the fragile web of lies she's built to protect everyone who loves her?
For adult fans of Sharing the Secret, No One Would Tell, and After who long for a book they can relate to, that makes them feel less alone.
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