Why Don't You Love Me?

Yalonda Matier- Hines doesn't have time for love, and for a while, it seemed as if Cupid and his arrow didn't have time for her either. Her big, baggy clothes, Brogans, and ponytails were the least of her concerns when she walked through the doors at her job. She worked hard at the local paper daily, praying for a promotion that the retiring owner's pretentious and obnoxious daughter, Margaret, could care less about, but Yalonda did not think that her looks would be an issue. That is, until sexy, hood, and freshly released Donovan stepped into her office with her nemesis, Margaret, and her fiancé, Dominique, his twin, proposing a double date for the two couples that would prove to change both, if not all, of their lives forever. Yalonda is unsure if her dreams have come true or if she has walked into her own living nightmare.

Donovan Harris is fresh out of the pen. He's been in and out of trouble, and for a while, he could not remember anything that had happened to him when he was imprisoned the last time. He has a chip on his shoulder for his twin brother's lifestyle, yet he could really do without the bougie attitude that he feels his brother and his fiancé, Margaret, have towards him. They want to fix him up on a double date with one of her coworkers, and he couldn't be any less enthused until he walks into Yalonda Hines' presence. He never thought love was for him, but was this love at first sight? Donovan would never have imagined that the tomboy that he first met would become the woman of his dreams.

They say fairy tales don't often come true, unless you work hard to make them. Yalonda and Donovan's relationship goes on a wild ride as they both find out that dreams can easily turn into nightmares when others have hidden secrets, agendas, and issues of the heart and mind. Will her love for Donovan make the pain she soon begins to feel seem like a walk on the beach? Will Donovan find a way to love her beyond his hurt and conquer the demons of his past to find out why he has never been able to love? Yalonda finds herself questioning Donovan after many nights of playing Ike and Tina. How long will she continue to be the victim? How long will love not love her back, especially when secrets come to the light? Come on the journey with them both as they ask the hard questions of true tests of faith that come with love, lies, and lust, beginning with, why don't you love me?