{"product_id":"just-once-paperback-5","title":"Just Once - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEllington Rixx Sr. Bass\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThey could love anybody. They just can't love each other right.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZaria \"Zae\" Coleman built everything she has with her own two hands - a soul-food kitchen grinding toward a real restaurant, and a wall around her heart high enough to keep every man who ever hurt her on the other side of it. She learned young, watching her mama shrink for men who always left, that the only way to never get left is to leave first. So she tests. She keeps receipts. She'd rather be right than be held.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalik \"Leek\" Devereaux came up in the streets and got out clean, flipping the block into a recording studio and a shot at a name. He'll give a woman the world in cash and a locked door for a heart, because the men in his life taught him that love and a fist can live in the same hand - and he swore he'd never be that. He loves the only way he knows how: with everything, and out loud never.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Leek speaks first to Zae one 4 a.m. in a gold-lit window, two people built from the same broken pieces - cut the exact opposite way - fall into something neither of them knows how to keep. What follows is a love story with the volume all the way up: the grind, the makeups, the breakups, a young girl they both come to love like their own, and the ghosts of everybody who wrecked them before, waiting at the edges for their moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePride does what pride does. And when Zae goes looking for greener grass, she hands a stranger the map to her own heart - only to learn too late that the man she trashed to leave is the one who'd never hurt her, and the man she left him for is the one who will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in Atlanta's realest corners and written in a voice you can hear out loud, JUST ONCE is a raw, tender, gut-punch of a novel about trauma, trust, and the people we love too hard and too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt asks the only question that ever mattered: can two people who love each other this much finally learn how - before it's too late?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome doors don't open in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 14, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54090067542323,"sku":"9798233569883","price":54.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/PqKv7sBCMg9798233569883.webp?v=1789599362","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/just-once-paperback-5","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}