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Ben Mervil

📚 Urban book writer | Crafting worlds & characters that resonate. I enjoy creating stories that linger in the mind of the reader.

About You & Me
About You & Me
 
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About You & MeBen MervilEbook'About You & Me' by Ben Mervil is an emotional urban romance about Hakeem Robinson and Staci Jenkins, two former lovers who unexpectedly find their way back into each other's lives after years apart. Once deeply in love, they must confront the heartbreak, mistakes, and unanswered questions that caused their relationship to fall apart. As Hakeem fights to prove that he has matured into the man Staci deserves, Staci struggles to balance her dreams of becoming a lawyer with the fear of giving her heart to someone who once broke it. Meanwhile, family struggles, complicated friendships, domestic violence, betrayal, and unexpected tragedies challenge everyone around them, revealing that love is not always as beautiful as it appears. Through laughter, passion, poetry, forgiveness, and emotional healing, Hakeem and Staci discover that sometimes the greatest love stories aren't about finding someone new, but rediscovering someone you never truly stopped loving. Above all, this story celebrates Black love in its rawest and most authentic form... imperfect but powerful, sometimes painful but deeply healing, and worth fighting for when two hearts are willing to grow together. At its heart, About You & Me asks one powerful question: When life gives you a second chance at true love, will you have the courage to risk your heart all over again?
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In Memory Of Us
In Memory Of Us
 
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Ashes To Ashes
Ashes To Ashes
 
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Ashes To AshesBen MervilPaperbackIn the shadows of Baton Rouge, where rain falls like a confession and old wounds never truly heal, 26-year-old Layla Jones appears to be the perfect woman—beautiful, calm, intelligent, and impossible to forget. But beneath her composed exterior lives a mind fractured by childhood trauma, obsession, and secrets she can barely remember herself. When she becomes fixated on nightclub owner Ace Hunter, a grieving man still haunted by the death of his fiancée Naomi, Layla convinces herself that their connection is destiny. What begins as an intoxicating romance slowly transforms into a chilling psychological nightmare filled with manipulation, haunting visions, buried memories, and a love so consuming that it threatens to destroy everyone it touches. As Ace falls deeper into Layla's world, he discovers a horrifying trail of hidden photographs, missing years, mysterious deaths, and a darkness stretching back long before they ever met. Baton Rouge itself becomes a living character in the story—a city rich with Southern Black culture, music, family traditions, and resilience, yet haunted by generations of unspoken pain. As ghosts from the past emerge and long-buried truths rise from the Louisiana swamps, Ace must confront a terrifying question: Is Layla a monster, a victim, or both? And how much responsibility does a broken person bear for the damage they cause? 'Ashes To Ashes' is a haunting psychological erotic horror novel about obsession disguised as love, generational trauma passed down like inheritance, and the devastating consequences of unhealed emotional wounds. Filled with shocking twists, Southern Gothic atmosphere, heartbreaking tragedy, and unforgettable characters, this novel explores the thin line between devotion and possession. At its core lies a chilling truth: sometimes the most dangerous ghosts are not the dead—they are the people still living with the scars of what they survived.
My Brother's Keeper
My Brother's Keeper
 
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My Brother's KeeperBen MervilPaperbackSome brothers are bound by blood. Others are bound by the secrets they can never outrun. After losing ten years of his life behind bars, Ben Mervil returns to Southside Jamaica, Queens at twenty-seven determined to leave the streets... and the boy that he used to be... behind, but home has changed while he was gone, and Ben quickly discovers that freedom doesn't mean much when the past is still waiting outside the gate. Ben Mervil went to prison at seventeen and came home ten years later carrying the scars of a decision that cost him his youth, determined not to let those lost years decide the rest of his life. Shamar Muhammad escaped the consequences that swallowed Ben and used those same ten years to transform himself from a neighborhood kid into a feared and powerful street figure, but power has a way of changing what brotherhood means. Destiny spent Ben's incarceration living with choices and secrets that could destroy the relationship waiting for him when he came home. Ben wants peace, but the streets remember something else. Old loyalties begin feeling like debts, love becomes harder to separate from betrayal and the people Ben once would've died for may be the same people who force him to decide what kind of man prison actually sent home because if Ben can't break free from the loyalty, anger, and history connecting him to Shamar, he risks losing more than his freedom this time... he could lose the last pieces of himself that ten years behind bars couldn't take. How far would you go for someone you once called your brother… after discovering they didn't protect you when you needed them most? My Brother's Keeper is a gritty story of brotherhood, betrayal, love, loyalty, redemption, and the dangerous difference between coming home and actually being free.
Chopped and Screwed
Chopped and Screwed
 
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Chopped and ScrewedBen MervilEbookIn a world full of losses and gain... What are you willing to lose and sacrifice for love? In this book, the author takes the readers down a rabbit hole of love, lust, manipulation, suspense and karma. Through the characters, he makes you question where loving someone is truly worth it. Love can make you feel like you are on top of the world and other times it can make you feel like your whole world is crumbling before your eyes. "I'd burn the world, just to stop your tears from falling". What does love look like to you?