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Between Grace & Fire: A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga
Between Grace & FireA Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga**
Some lives are shaped by love.
Others are forged by survival.
And a few are tempered—slowly, painfully—between grace and fire.
Between Grace & Fire is a psychologically layered, emotionally searing literary saga that traces one woman’s interior life from childhood into adulthood—not through spectacle, but through consequence. This is not a story about what happened. It is a story about what it cost.
At its center is Aurie—a woman raised inside precision, performance, and expectation, groomed for appearance rather than protection, exactness rather than care. As a child, she learns how to stay still, how to be useful, how to survive without being seen. As a woman, she learns that survival does not end when danger does—it simply becomes quieter, more refined.
What unfolds is an intimate psychological
of identity shaped by control
of memory fractured by necessity
of truth that arrives long after safety
Through an ongoing internal dialogue—part conscience, part witness, part alter ego—Aurie navigates relationships, ambition, and visibility, discovering that clarity is not liberation, but exposure. That naming the truth does not heal the wound—it reveals it.
This saga does not rush resolution. It honors the long arc of becoming.
Written in cinematic, lyrical prose, Between Grace & Fire
Childhood trauma and psychological survival
The cost of exactness, authorship, and truth-telling
Power, silence, and emotional inheritance
The interior lives of women who learned to endure before they learned to choose
Identity as something claimed, not inherited
This is not a redemption story in the traditional sense.
It is a reckoning.
A witnessing.
A reclamation of voice without apology.
For readers of literary women’s fiction, psychological fiction, modern legacy narratives, and emotionally intelligent storytelling, Between Grace & Fire stands as a quiet, unflinching work—one that trusts the reader to sit with discomfort, nuance, and truth.
Some stories are meant to comfort.
Others are meant to tell the truth.
This one does both—without asking permission.
Some lives are shaped by love.
Others are forged by survival.
And a few are tempered—slowly, painfully—between grace and fire.
Between Grace & Fire is a psychologically layered, emotionally searing literary saga that traces one woman’s interior life from childhood into adulthood—not through spectacle, but through consequence. This is not a story about what happened. It is a story about what it cost.
At its center is Aurie—a woman raised inside precision, performance, and expectation, groomed for appearance rather than protection, exactness rather than care. As a child, she learns how to stay still, how to be useful, how to survive without being seen. As a woman, she learns that survival does not end when danger does—it simply becomes quieter, more refined.
What unfolds is an intimate psychological
of identity shaped by control
of memory fractured by necessity
of truth that arrives long after safety
Through an ongoing internal dialogue—part conscience, part witness, part alter ego—Aurie navigates relationships, ambition, and visibility, discovering that clarity is not liberation, but exposure. That naming the truth does not heal the wound—it reveals it.
This saga does not rush resolution. It honors the long arc of becoming.
Written in cinematic, lyrical prose, Between Grace & Fire
Childhood trauma and psychological survival
The cost of exactness, authorship, and truth-telling
Power, silence, and emotional inheritance
The interior lives of women who learned to endure before they learned to choose
Identity as something claimed, not inherited
This is not a redemption story in the traditional sense.
It is a reckoning.
A witnessing.
A reclamation of voice without apology.
For readers of literary women’s fiction, psychological fiction, modern legacy narratives, and emotionally intelligent storytelling, Between Grace & Fire stands as a quiet, unflinching work—one that trusts the reader to sit with discomfort, nuance, and truth.
Some stories are meant to comfort.
Others are meant to tell the truth.
This one does both—without asking permission.
187 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 21, 2026
About the author
Long Temple
23 books4 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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