Love on the Fence: An Interracial Romance

By Queenink Watkins and Schertevear Watkins

Sometimes love isn't about choosing someone else. It's about choosing yourself-together.

Carmen Diaz thought leaving her past behind would finally give her peace.
What she didn't expect was how tightly it would cling.

Balancing single motherhood, unfinished wounds, and the quiet burden of survival, Carmen is doing her best to rebuild a life on her own terms. But the man she walked away from is still pulling her strings-and she soon realizes he remains tied to her life in ways she can't easily escape. Old patterns resurface, hard choices arise, and her chances at real love hang in the balance.

Since a heartbreak years ago, Jamal Adams has kept his emotions guarded, but he can't ignore the connection he feels with Carmen. Jamal has been there through it all. Consistent. Protective. Present. The kind of man who feels like home when everything else feels uncertain. But loving Jamal comes with its own quiet battle. To Carmen's parents, a Black man will never be the right choice. Their disapproval lingers in every decision, forcing Carmen to choose between honoring the life they imagined for her and embracing the love that feels true.

As timing complicates even the safest love, Carmen must decide whether she's ready to step fully into something real-or remain trapped between who she was and who she's becoming.

As emotional lines blur and the past refuses to loosen its grip, Carmen learns that healing isn't clean, love isn't always simple, and survival sometimes demands decisions no one talks about.

Love on the Fence is a powerful women's fiction novel about love, resilience, and the quiet battles women fight when life doesn't offer easy answers-where the strongest holds aren't always physical. Sometimes, they're emotional.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947045490
• ISBN13: 9781947045491
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Baobab Publishing
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"