Crown After Midnight Oakland Moon, Book Two. Oakland Moon Series, #2

Hope changed the room. Now midnight brings the crown. Roman Greer and Dr. Candice Monroe survived Club Hope, but the night is not finished with them. Only hours after the events of Hope After Dark, Sacramento calls with a warning: Oakland found Hope, but Sacramento kept the crown. A mysterious old book opens in Deja Gaines's kitchen. A black Lincoln waits outside her house. A man named Marlon Vale arrives with polished language, old power, and an invitation no one asked for.
Crown House is waiting, and every room inside it seems built to test the difference between love, ownership, protection, and control. Roman is trying to become a different kind of man. Candice is trying to keep her life from becoming someone else's inheritance. Together, they must travel north into a world of dangerous family names, old rooms, blood-stained history, women who remember too much, supernatural ledgers, and a crown that does not simply sit on a head.
It studies hunger. It rewards control. It asks men what they are willing to become. Crown After Midnight: Oakland Moon, Book Two is a grown Black romance, romantasy, and crime saga about desire, power, inheritance, supernatural pressure, and the terrifying cost of choosing love without surrendering yourself to it. Roman said no crown. The crown heard him.