Elyrian Brides Series by Sunshine Taylor Reddick

Octavia Bryant is everything a well brought up young buppie woman from the Old Line State of Maryland is supposed to be. She is smart, classy, hardworking, respectful, independent, and waiting for a milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or café au lait colored Rhett Butler of her very own. Just as long as he’s black she’ll make her father proud. More than anything she wants love and a home and a family... moreOctavia Bryant is everything a well brought up young buppie woman from the Old Line State of Maryland is supposed to be. She is smart, classy, hardworking, respectful, independent, and waiting for a milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or café au lait colored Rhett Butler of her very own. Just as long as he’s black she’ll make her father proud. More than anything she wants love and a home and a family. The universe throws a wrench in her little buppie life after the men from Elyria arrive on Earth looking for wives. And they only have eyes for women of color. But Octavia isn’t having any of them until six feet six inches of muscles covered in a sunset yellow skin named Kade Egon sees her and turns her life upside down. Kade Egon wants a wife and he has his heart set on Octavia from the moment he lays eyes on her. He wines her, dines her, and takes her on spaceship rides around the Milky Way. He promises her love, a home, family, and passion. How can she say no? Kade just seems too good to be true. There are still things he won’t tell her about Elyria and himself. Octavia has been lied to before by smooth talking men who only wanted one thing. How can she be sure that Kade means all that he says? And what are Elyria’s secrets? As her mother reminds her, the last time blacks got on a boat run by non-blacks they were enslaved. Can Octavia overcome her fears and leave her family and Earth behind to take a chance on love among the stars? (Amazon.Com) less

Sancecrea Jeané Wilson wants to be a gold digger and she is set on digging for Elyrian gold. She came up hard in the ghettos of Baltimore City. She knows she’s a hood rat but she doesn’t want to die a hood rat. She’s hoping that the riches of the Elyrians will help her rise above her humble beginnings. She’s just hoping that her schemes don’t backfire on her so that she ends up married to one. Izan Zenizer is in charge of a team of elite charmers from Elyria sent to Earth do what they do best... moreSancecrea Jeané Wilson wants to be a gold digger and she is set on digging for Elyrian gold. She came up hard in the ghettos of Baltimore City. She knows she’s a hood rat but she doesn’t want to die a hood rat. She’s hoping that the riches of the Elyrians will help her rise above her humble beginnings. She’s just hoping that her schemes don’t backfire on her so that she ends up married to one. Izan Zenizer is in charge of a team of elite charmers from Elyria sent to Earth do what they do best. Izan has been charming his way into women’s hearts and beds for as long as he can remember. Add to it the women of Earth’s love for all things sparkly and shiny and he has very little problem charming women away to Elyria. His has his eye on one in particular, Sancecrea. He’s positive she’ll make some man a very good wife. In time he realizes that man is him. Crea knows The Game and has studied the one that Izan is playing. She’s sure she won’t get caught. However, her heart gets caught in Izan's charmed web of passion. Can she see through the lies to the truth and still find a real love beneath all the deception? less

Elyria is a dream paradise come true for any black/brown woman with a heart longing for the love of a good black/brown man. Black or tan. Brown or beige. Golden or bronze. Tall, very tall, and extremely tall men of every delicious shade of brown skin ever imagined can be found on Elyria. All of them with extraordinary eyes in shades of blue, green, or grey. It is just as they said and more. The men long for a woman all their own to spoil and spoil and spoil some more... moreElyria is a dream paradise come true for any black/brown woman with a heart longing for the love of a good black/brown man. Black or tan. Brown or beige. Golden or bronze. Tall, very tall, and extremely tall men of every delicious shade of brown skin ever imagined can be found on Elyria. All of them with extraordinary eyes in shades of blue, green, or grey. It is just as they said and more. The men long for a woman all their own to spoil and spoil and spoil some more. A woman can lose her heart and head to a man and trust that he will treasure it always. Though, if she’s not careful she could lose her husband in the heat of a jealous battle.Octavia Egon, formerly Bryant, awakes to a utopia of brown people. There is an abundance of everything she had longed for on Earth. Peace, love, and the hair grease. She finally has the passion filled nights with a good strong man who makes her feel loved and safe.Still the Elyrian men have their secrets. Things start to change as secret after secret is unraveled before her very eyes. She’d complain if she could but she did ask for the truth. She learns quite quickly to be careful of what questions she chooses to ask.Kade Egon has returned home with the one thing he never dared dream he’d have, a wife of his very own. As the ruler of Elyria he never dared hope that a woman would love him enough to accept his marriage proposal. But a fateful trip to Earth lands him the woman of his dreams in Octavia. Now he must unlearn the golden rule of Elyrian men: Please your woman by any and all means necessary. Even if it means lying. He soon finds that when it comes to Octavia, the ends do not justify the means.As Kade and Octavia struggle against tradition and gender roles of Earth and Elyria, their rule is threatened by inside and outside forces.Can their love stand the tests of their secrets and political intrigues even as Earth is poised on the brink of what could be a disaster? less

Peerren Niaiderh is one of the first Elyrians to arrive on Earth looking for a wife of his own. A chance encounter finds him staring face to face with the woman he is sure will be his wife. Tawnya Jackson is a woman unlike any he had ever met on Earth or anywhere else. She is quiet and shy on the surface with a heart full of love to give. Peerren looks like the man to give it to. Join them for a short sweet courtship to their own happily ever after.