Black love. Real chemistry. Complicated people.
Love can be funny, frustrating, and worth the trouble. Corey L. Johnson writes contemporary Black romance about people figuring it out—with sharp humor, slow-building chemistry, and lives that don’t pause just because someone falls in love.
Based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Corey centers Black women and Black relationships in stories that leave room for ambition, vulnerability, family, and the choices that make love complicated.
The stories
Corey’s romance puts Black couples at the center of the story. The attraction matters, but so do the conversations, the history, and the decisions that come after it. His characters have careers, opinions, and something to lose. They can get in their own way—and still have you rooting for them.
If you enjoy slow-burn tension, enemies-to-lovers chemistry, and grown-up relationships with room for laughter, start with Into You.
The R&B Mixtape Series
Each book stands on its own. No reading order required.
Available now · Slow burn · Enemies to lovers
She plans weddings. He ends marriages. When their worlds collide, the tension is electric. A slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance that proves love doesn’t always follow the plan.
Read Into You on Amazon
Coming soon
Childhood friendship. Unfinished business. Another chance at love. Look for Corey’s upcoming romance in the R&B Mixtape Series.
Get release updates →For Corey, writing romance means giving Black women room to be fully realized people: funny, imperfect, ambitious, loved, and chosen. His essays explore that approach, along with the vulnerability and honest conversations that shape relationships.
Explore Between the Lines, Corey’s blog →Corey also writes psychological suspense and Christian fiction, bringing his interest in complicated relationships, family, and consequential choices to stories across genres.
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