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Just Run: A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga
295 pages, Paperback
First published January 3, 2025
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Long Temple
33 books6 followersI am LongTemple—author, survivor, and the creator of the Platinum Chocolate Universe.
I write stories about love that doesn’t rush, women who refuse to disappear, and people who survive the fire and still reach for joy. My work lives at the intersection of romance, psychological truth, resilience, faith, and survival—where desire and dignity walk side by side, and healing is just as essential as happily-ever-after.
I’m a daughter of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and my stories carry the rhythm of the streets that raised me—layered, unflinching, and deeply human. One of the core pillars of my work is the exploration of dysfunctional yet unbreakable sibling love. In Flip and Run — A Platinum Chocolate Sibling Saga, I tell the story of siblings fighting to survive systems that fail them while standing guard over each other anyway. Their bond is forged in hardship, loyalty, sacrifice, and survival—imperfect, fierce, and protective in ways only siblings who grow up fast can understand.
That story continues in Just Run — A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga, which turns inward and forward at once—examining trauma carried in the body and the mind, and what survival costs long after the danger has passed.
My contemporary romance roots live in the Ebony M. Elite Series, which should be read in the following order: Caramel and Steel, Searching for Platinum Chocolate, and When the Chat Paused — A Platinum Chocolate Romance, the continuation of Caramel and Steel. Together, these three titles form a complete Ebony M. Elite box set—stories of sisterhood, later-in-life romance, laughter, longing, and the courage to begin again.
Faith, calling, and spiritual legacy shape another corner of my universe. Rhythm and Design and Rhythm’s First Lady — A Platinum Chocolate Romance: A Spiritual Awakening form an ongoing two-book series centered on purpose, marriage, and love shaped by service, surrender, and growth.
I also write about dissociative trauma—the quiet fracturing of self that occurs when survival demands disappearance. Between Grace and Fire — A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga and Luxuries and Lies — A Psychological Saga explore identity fragmentation, survival masks, and the spiritual and emotional reckoning that follows when the mind learns to split in order to endure. Both titles are scheduled for release on February 24, 2026—inviting readers to stay tuned for the next evolution of the Platinum Chocolate Universe.
These stories were written over years of living, observing, and surviving. Some were drafted long before illness ever entered the room; others were born in hospital silence. While undergoing chemo and radiation therapies, I finalized certain books and found myself writing new ones—sometimes weak, sometimes in tears, sometimes with a feeding tube in my stomach while hunger haunted me. Still, writing fed me. These stories became my lifeline, my refuge, and my proof that creativity can carry you when your body is tired but your spirit refuses to rest.
The Platinum Chocolate Universe is a living body of work—stories filled with mature, complex, unapologetically Black characters who love deeply, fracture honestly, and rise anyway.
And because story doesn’t have to end at the final page, I also create adult-themed coloring books designed as immersive companions to my novels—an experience meant to please the senses and awaken the creative spark hidden within.
I don’t write fairy tales.
I write earned love, psychological truth, and survival with tenderness.
Welcome to my world.
Welcome to the Platinum Chocolate Universe.
I write stories about love that doesn’t rush, women who refuse to disappear, and people who survive the fire and still reach for joy. My work lives at the intersection of romance, psychological truth, resilience, faith, and survival—where desire and dignity walk side by side, and healing is just as essential as happily-ever-after.
I’m a daughter of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and my stories carry the rhythm of the streets that raised me—layered, unflinching, and deeply human. One of the core pillars of my work is the exploration of dysfunctional yet unbreakable sibling love. In Flip and Run — A Platinum Chocolate Sibling Saga, I tell the story of siblings fighting to survive systems that fail them while standing guard over each other anyway. Their bond is forged in hardship, loyalty, sacrifice, and survival—imperfect, fierce, and protective in ways only siblings who grow up fast can understand.
That story continues in Just Run — A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga, which turns inward and forward at once—examining trauma carried in the body and the mind, and what survival costs long after the danger has passed.
My contemporary romance roots live in the Ebony M. Elite Series, which should be read in the following order: Caramel and Steel, Searching for Platinum Chocolate, and When the Chat Paused — A Platinum Chocolate Romance, the continuation of Caramel and Steel. Together, these three titles form a complete Ebony M. Elite box set—stories of sisterhood, later-in-life romance, laughter, longing, and the courage to begin again.
Faith, calling, and spiritual legacy shape another corner of my universe. Rhythm and Design and Rhythm’s First Lady — A Platinum Chocolate Romance: A Spiritual Awakening form an ongoing two-book series centered on purpose, marriage, and love shaped by service, surrender, and growth.
I also write about dissociative trauma—the quiet fracturing of self that occurs when survival demands disappearance. Between Grace and Fire — A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga and Luxuries and Lies — A Psychological Saga explore identity fragmentation, survival masks, and the spiritual and emotional reckoning that follows when the mind learns to split in order to endure. Both titles are scheduled for release on February 24, 2026—inviting readers to stay tuned for the next evolution of the Platinum Chocolate Universe.
These stories were written over years of living, observing, and surviving. Some were drafted long before illness ever entered the room; others were born in hospital silence. While undergoing chemo and radiation therapies, I finalized certain books and found myself writing new ones—sometimes weak, sometimes in tears, sometimes with a feeding tube in my stomach while hunger haunted me. Still, writing fed me. These stories became my lifeline, my refuge, and my proof that creativity can carry you when your body is tired but your spirit refuses to rest.
The Platinum Chocolate Universe is a living body of work—stories filled with mature, complex, unapologetically Black characters who love deeply, fracture honestly, and rise anyway.
And because story doesn’t have to end at the final page, I also create adult-themed coloring books designed as immersive companions to my novels—an experience meant to please the senses and awaken the creative spark hidden within.
I don’t write fairy tales.
I write earned love, psychological truth, and survival with tenderness.
Welcome to my world.
Welcome to the Platinum Chocolate Universe.
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January 16, 2026
Author Review by LongTemple for Just Run: A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga
Writing Just Run demanded a different kind of honesty—quiet, deliberate, and unflinching.
This book asked me to peel back layers of history, memory, and survival until the only thing left was the interior truth of one woman navigating institutions that were never designed to nurture her becoming.
Run is not a character who arrives adorned with certainty; she arrives formed by pressure. Systems pressed into her long before she had the language to name them—foster homes that felt temporary, institutions that misread brilliance as rebellion, streets that taught vigilance before freedom. Her world teaches her to stay still, stay watchful, stay prepared.
As the author, I wanted to honor that vigilance—not as spectacle, but as lived psychology.
To write her interior world as both map and mirror.
In Just Run, I explore how a Black girl learns to read every room with the precision of someone who has lived too many consequences of being misunderstood. How silence becomes strategy. How intelligence becomes armor. How the body keeps score long after childhood ends.
This novel is less about plot and more about pressure points—the places where memory presses against the present, where survival becomes an instinct so ingrained it nearly disguises itself as personality.
At its heart, Just Run asks:
What does it cost to be alert for decades?
What breaks when a woman has never been taught to exhale?
And what shifts when she finally decides her life belongs to her—and not to the systems that shaped her?
Writing this book required restraint. It required respect. It required a voice calibrated to the rhythm of a mind navigating trauma without surrendering to it.
I wrote Just Run for readers who appreciate:
psychological depth over spectacle
interior complexity over easy resolution
narratives where language carries weight
women’s stories told with literary precision and emotional truth
This is not a story of escape.
It is a story of alignment—of Run stepping into a life authored by her own beliefs, not by the institutions that once defined her.
Just Run is one of the most introspective works within the Platinum Chocolate universe, and perhaps its most essential: a testament to resilience, perception, and the long journey toward self-ownership.
— LongTemple
Writing Just Run demanded a different kind of honesty—quiet, deliberate, and unflinching.
This book asked me to peel back layers of history, memory, and survival until the only thing left was the interior truth of one woman navigating institutions that were never designed to nurture her becoming.
Run is not a character who arrives adorned with certainty; she arrives formed by pressure. Systems pressed into her long before she had the language to name them—foster homes that felt temporary, institutions that misread brilliance as rebellion, streets that taught vigilance before freedom. Her world teaches her to stay still, stay watchful, stay prepared.
As the author, I wanted to honor that vigilance—not as spectacle, but as lived psychology.
To write her interior world as both map and mirror.
In Just Run, I explore how a Black girl learns to read every room with the precision of someone who has lived too many consequences of being misunderstood. How silence becomes strategy. How intelligence becomes armor. How the body keeps score long after childhood ends.
This novel is less about plot and more about pressure points—the places where memory presses against the present, where survival becomes an instinct so ingrained it nearly disguises itself as personality.
At its heart, Just Run asks:
What does it cost to be alert for decades?
What breaks when a woman has never been taught to exhale?
And what shifts when she finally decides her life belongs to her—and not to the systems that shaped her?
Writing this book required restraint. It required respect. It required a voice calibrated to the rhythm of a mind navigating trauma without surrendering to it.
I wrote Just Run for readers who appreciate:
psychological depth over spectacle
interior complexity over easy resolution
narratives where language carries weight
women’s stories told with literary precision and emotional truth
This is not a story of escape.
It is a story of alignment—of Run stepping into a life authored by her own beliefs, not by the institutions that once defined her.
Just Run is one of the most introspective works within the Platinum Chocolate universe, and perhaps its most essential: a testament to resilience, perception, and the long journey toward self-ownership.
— LongTemple
January 16, 2026
Author Review by LongTemple for Just Run: A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga
Writing Just Run demanded a different kind of honesty—quiet, deliberate, and unflinching.
This book asked me to peel back layers of history, memory, and survival until the only thing left was the interior truth of one woman navigating institutions that were never designed to nurture her becoming.
Run is not a character who arrives adorned with certainty; she arrives formed by pressure. Systems pressed into her long before she had the language to name them—foster homes that felt temporary, institutions that misread brilliance as rebellion, streets that taught vigilance before freedom. Her world teaches her to stay still, stay watchful, stay prepared.
As the author, I wanted to honor that vigilance—not as spectacle, but as lived psychology.
To write her interior world as both map and mirror.
In Just Run, I explore how a Black girl learns to read every room with the precision of someone who has lived too many consequences of being misunderstood. How silence becomes strategy. How intelligence becomes armor. How the body keeps score long after childhood ends.
This novel is less about plot and more about pressure points—the places where memory presses against the present, where survival becomes an instinct so ingrained it nearly disguises itself as personality.
At its heart, Just Run asks:
What does it cost to be alert for decades?
What breaks when a woman has never been taught to exhale?
And what shifts when she finally decides her life belongs to her—and not to the systems that shaped her?
Writing this book required restraint. It required respect. It required a voice calibrated to the rhythm of a mind navigating trauma without surrendering to it.
I wrote Just Run for readers who appreciate:
psychological depth over spectacle
interior complexity over easy resolution
narratives where language carries weight
women’s stories told with literary precision and emotional truth
This is not a story of escape.
It is a story of alignment—of Run stepping into a life authored by her own beliefs, not by the institutions that once defined her.
Just Run is one of the most introspective works within the Platinum Chocolate universe, and perhaps its most essential: a testament to resilience, perception, and the long journey toward self-ownership.
— LongTemple
Writing Just Run demanded a different kind of honesty—quiet, deliberate, and unflinching.
This book asked me to peel back layers of history, memory, and survival until the only thing left was the interior truth of one woman navigating institutions that were never designed to nurture her becoming.
Run is not a character who arrives adorned with certainty; she arrives formed by pressure. Systems pressed into her long before she had the language to name them—foster homes that felt temporary, institutions that misread brilliance as rebellion, streets that taught vigilance before freedom. Her world teaches her to stay still, stay watchful, stay prepared.
As the author, I wanted to honor that vigilance—not as spectacle, but as lived psychology.
To write her interior world as both map and mirror.
In Just Run, I explore how a Black girl learns to read every room with the precision of someone who has lived too many consequences of being misunderstood. How silence becomes strategy. How intelligence becomes armor. How the body keeps score long after childhood ends.
This novel is less about plot and more about pressure points—the places where memory presses against the present, where survival becomes an instinct so ingrained it nearly disguises itself as personality.
At its heart, Just Run asks:
What does it cost to be alert for decades?
What breaks when a woman has never been taught to exhale?
And what shifts when she finally decides her life belongs to her—and not to the systems that shaped her?
Writing this book required restraint. It required respect. It required a voice calibrated to the rhythm of a mind navigating trauma without surrendering to it.
I wrote Just Run for readers who appreciate:
psychological depth over spectacle
interior complexity over easy resolution
narratives where language carries weight
women’s stories told with literary precision and emotional truth
This is not a story of escape.
It is a story of alignment—of Run stepping into a life authored by her own beliefs, not by the institutions that once defined her.
Just Run is one of the most introspective works within the Platinum Chocolate universe, and perhaps its most essential: a testament to resilience, perception, and the long journey toward self-ownership.
— LongTemple
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