Jayce Ellis

If You Love Something, out from Carina Adores in December 2021, sends DeShawn Franklin, executive chef at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Washington DC, back to his grandmother, who tells him she has cancer and will not treat it. She also means to leave half her estate to his ex-husband Malik, and the divorce, it emerges, was never finalised. When an uncle contests the will, the two men have to act married long enough to see off the lawsuit. Jayce Ellis practises family law and writes romance with Black and queer leads. She told stories as a child, let about twenty years of working life get in the way, and came back to fiction having moved from mystery to romance.