After spending years in Atlanta building brands and careers that were not her own, Taji returns to her hometown of Mobile, Alabama, and spends a year laying new roots, restoring her confidence, and betting on herself. When Mardi Gras season arrives, she sees more than tradition and celebration. She sees opportunity. Parties, concerts, and events flood the city, and Taji is determined to use the biggest moment of the year to elevate her career and solidify her name in the city she once outgrew. What she does not plan for is Mars. Mars was her first love, her first heartbreak, and the one man who still knows how to get under her skin. Now divorced and back in Mobile for Mardi Gras, Mars is forced to face the woman Taji has become. She is sharper, more confident, and no longer willing to dim herself for anyone. One run-in turns into late nights, charged conversations, and chemistry that never cooled, no matter how much time passed. As Mardi Gras unfolds with day parties, balls, and long nights filled with temptation, Taji is caught between everything she is building and everything Mars still represents. The pull between them is familiar, dangerous, and hard to ignore. Loving him once changed her life. Loving him again could cost her the future she has worked so hard to create. Throw Me Back My Love is a grown Black romance about ambition, timing, and what happens when first love meets the woman you became after the lessons. Set against the rich culture of Mobile’s Mardi Gras, this story explores career ambition, emotional intimacy, and the kind of love that never really lets go, even when you try to leave it behind. For readers who love second-chance romance, Southern Black love stories, emotionally layered characters, and relationships that feel real, messy, and earned.