Bare in Sight
Simone Carter spent her whole life staying covered. One summer, one man she has no business wanting, and everything she buried comes up for air.
Read on AmazonNew Adult fiction · Florida-born
Yanni
B. Andrea
Romance. Erotica. Black culture. Forbidden love. New Adult fiction that feels like home.
01About the author
I write the love stories I never saw on the shelf.
I'm Yanni B. Andrea — Florida-born, raised on humidity, church fans, and late nights with a notebook I hid under the mattress. I write New Adult fiction about Black love, identity, and the messy stretch of years where you're grown but not finished.
My stories live in the space between wanting and knowing better. Forbidden. Tender. Loud. I don't write clean arcs because I've never lived one — my characters make bad decisions with their whole chest and then have to sit in it.
If you've ever wanted to see yourself on the page — desired, complicated, fully human — pull up a chair. This is home.
— Yanni
02The vision / mood board
The world behind Bare in Sight.
This isn't just a mood board. It's the atmosphere I wrote from. FAMU, early 2000s — Y2K nostalgia, forbidden love, faith cracking open, bodies being seen for the first time. Bare in Sight is a collage of experiences, exactly like the mood board built for this story.
03Character dossier
Meet Simone Carter
Who she is
Simone came to FAMU at sixteen — sheltered, homeschooled, raised by strict, church-going parents who pulled her out of public school over what she was being taught. She arrived with a curfew, a Bible verse for every situation, and a plan: valedictorian, student body president, the girl every freshman wanted to be. On paper, she becomes exactly that. Underneath it, she's still figuring out who she is without her parents' rules deciding for her.
Her arc
Simone spends the book unlearning the version of herself she built to be good — the one who followed every rule, kept every secret, and stayed perfect so no one had a reason to worry about her. Between a forbidden relationship with her professor, modeling nude for the first time, and a friend group that pulls her further from who she was raised to be, Simone learns that being seen — really seen — isn't the same as being caught. And that the life she was told to want isn't the one she actually does.
"I wasn't hiding. I was waiting for somebody brave enough to look."
04The books
Out now & coming.
Coming soon
Untitled — Book Two
Something forbidden is already in the works. Subscribers hear first — cover reveals, release dates, all of it.
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Untitled — Book Three
Something forbidden is already in the works. Subscribers hear first — cover reveals, release dates, all of it.
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What readers are saying.
"Im team Jade all the wayy"
"It's poetic, insightful, political, scandalous, and utterly captivating. This book paints every escapade in vivid, steamy detail. I loved the romance, the friendship, the messy, beautiful journey of growth, mistakes, pain, and heartbreak that ties it all together. This is a MUST-read, and I mean immediately."
"UGHHH I wish she would have ended up with Jade. F Kingston!!! and Dani deserves to burn, coward."
"The fav of fall"
"This was a RIDEEE Huntyyyyy. I loved this book so much. Long asl but worth every.single.minute"