Cheryl Barton
Coming Valentine's Day, 2026
The Hating Dating Game
Going from friends to lovers never occurred to Kara Fleming and Malik Powers, who've been in the same friends' circle since college. After agreeing to be on a live dating game show, unbeknownst to each other, they wonder if they've been going about love and relationships all wrong.
Kara and Malik discover that surviving the public scrutiny of life on a reality show isn't the hard part; it's the explosive passion they discover behind the scenes and in the sheets in their agreed upon one fling with no-strings night of passion
Off-camera, neither realized that one night of unanticipated, five-alarm, passion-filled fire wouldn't be enough...and then reality came calling and so did their hate of the dating game.
***NEW - Urban Drama - Coming Soon
Amerikka: Justice or revenge
Someone killed Tori Hylton's family. After living abroad while hiding in public, she's returning to Baltimore, Maryland to bury them and get some answers. Shedding her persona as Tori and becoming Amerikka Denton once again, the question is, will she be returning to seek justice or get revenge? Tori would get justice but as Amerikka, revenge will be a dish served cold as ice, just like her true persona.
February 2026 Release!
Winter's Wonderland
Winter Shaw once had a sexy wonderland where she played up, down and all around to her delight. That wonderland was her ex-husband, Dante Eastman. After tragedy struck, their marriage didn’t survive. It’s Christmas time and he’s back in her life for the holiday.
Winter is having a hard time denying herself the heated passion she knew he would bring. Did she really want to?
Dante is more than willing to give Winter an all-access pass to any part of him for all of the naughty and nice pleasure she told Santa she wanted for Christmas. He hasn’t forgotten that he hurt her by walking away. Now, he wants his woman back in his life, in his heart and in his bed.
Can Winter leave her heart out of their sultry, heated nights between the sheets or did Santa grant her a one-time wish just for Christmas?
Either way, it’s time!
**New Release - Now Available**
Never Can Say Goodbye
Hello? Or more goodbyes…
Book publisher, Taryn Novack, who lives in Paris, has lost more than she loved, and she’s had enough of saying goodbye. When she finally gets a chance to be close to unapologetically sexy attorney, Adrian Jarreau, it wasn’t the best of circumstances. She had fallen at his feet and when she looked up, she got more than she bargained for. He was in a towel, and nothing else.
Adrian has been secretly lusting after Taryn, the intriguing and stunning beauty who has captured his soul without knowing it. He feared that after their uncomfortable encounter, he would never get the chance to have her in his heart and in his bed.
Another loss in her family has brought Taryn back to New York and back to Adrian. What was an instant attraction for both may not be enough to never say goodbye again when a secret indiscretion from Taryn’s past catches up to her. She fears it could destroy her life and newfound love with Adrian.
Is saying goodbye on the horizon again or can their love withstand a threat to her livelihood?
Inspirational Novels
Upcoming Inspirational Release - Restore Me (When God Says Yes), Book 3
March 2026 Release
Kimberly and Daniel Wright were living a life that looked perfect to anyone on the outside looking in. Their love seemed perfect, their wedding was the talk of the town and expensive cars and a mansion to live in made their life look like a fairytale, The truth is, they are far from that a divorce was on the horizon.
Daniel’s addiction threatened not only his life and health, but his marriage to Kimberly. The struggle to be a successful executive was an around-the-clock job. Liquid courage is what he counted on to sustain him through the ups and downs of living a life in the eyes of those who admired him with great expectation.
Kimberly was at the end of her rope in her five-year marriage to Daniel. The love she thought they shared was dissipating before her eyes. She was exhausted trying to keep the image of a happy and loving marriage for the sake of family and friends. In a desperate move to get her life back, she walked away from her marriage, hoping to find happiness again.
With Daniel and Kimberly losing hope that restoration and healing could save their love, is there any fight left for their life together that once had so much promise?