Urban African American

This is the PREQUEL to a 5 book series. The Prequel + 4 books. This is an introduction to the series. An urban fiction novelette. Meet Summer Vance, a Chicago transplant new to the Atlanta experience. Name a better city than the ATL that welcomes pretentious perpetrators and successful scammers. Summer's outrageous attempts to set up dope boys, run abortion schemes on professional athletes, to extorting rappers' secrets leads her to build a fake women's empowerment brand until she's exposed. Armed with a slick mouth and a Miami doctored BBL, Summer's adventures will leave readers shook ...

MASK ON… The problem with being fake is that eventually your mask starts to fall and when it does, people around you won’t recognize the person before them. This is what happens to Ember. Ember has had to wear a mask most of her life to not only keep people from getting in but to also keep herself from having her heart crushed into a million pieces. Her first heartbreak didn’t come from a man…it came from her mother Neecee. When Neecee leaves Ember to be raised by her father she builds an ice box around her heart. Eventually she meets her knight and shining armor Iro. Iro is a man ...

There's an old saying that says everything that look good isn't always good for you. The saying has never rang true in the case of the beautiful Siyah Mills. A chance encounter will cause her to cross paths with the sexy but deadly Kingston "King" Banks. A sexy but ruthless drug kingpin who has the ability to bring the strongest nigga to his knees and break down a woman's very existence. It was lust at first sight when they laid eyes on one another. What was supposed to be a one night stand turned out to be more than Siyah ever bargained for. Kingston takes over not only her body but her ...

Kalif is everything his adoptive family wanted him not to be: treacherous, conniving, and coldhearted. As much as he wishes to please them, he can't deny who and what he is destined to be. The hot-tempered young man is indeed his father's son. While off his meds, Kalif discovers the circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of his birth parents. In a matter of seconds, he totally snaps, ignoring the possible consequences.

Jessica is one of the baddest chicks to ever walk the streets of Brooklyn. Thick in all the right places, she has a figure that drives both men and women crazy. She’s always fresh to death, sporting the latest fashions by well-known designers every time she stepped outside. She’s street smart, well versed on how the boys played on the block. And her older brother’s notorious reputation made her bullet-proof from harm in the neighborhood. Jessica’s the full package, every man’s dream girl. Lil Pop is far from the typical Brooklyn thug. His murderous reputation in the streets earned...

In the final installment of this highly anticipated series, everything comes to a head. Arabia is rushed to the hospital after an attempted suicide when Savario’s secrets and lies become too much for her to handle. With the woman he loves laid up in a hospital bed, Action is angry and out for blood, with Savario as his number one target. With his secrets and lies being laid out on the table for the world to see, Savario’s whole life unfolds right before his eyes. Not willing to let go of Arabia and let her live her life happily, Savario hatches a plan to get her back into his life or ...

Bella was born into wealth and raised by strict parents. She is green to the hood life. On the other hand Jayceon was born in the hood and raised by parents who robbed banks for a living. His father taught him the game and now he runs it. To the streets he's Blockka Leader of the infamous Ski Mask Mafia. A group of professional bandits that includes his friends Tristan, Dominic , Rashad, and his baby momma Fatima. Regardless of his street life he loves Bella with all his heart. He's just too ashamed to tell her who he really is so he keeps that part of his life separate from the life he ...

When Chris goes to confront Kaine, he has no idea that Kaine would make a discovery that causes things to get deadly. After Treasure’s two love lives collide in the worst way, she is left figuring out what the right decision is to make involving her heart. Coco is still fueled by anger and on her payback tour when she runs into a fun piece of revenge who is one of Deion’s homeboys. As love is being formed between a few people, enemies are being made between others making Atlanta a dangerous place for everyone involved. Will love win in the end or will the secrets amongst the city block ...

Nazir appearing out of nowhere leaves everyone speechless, well not everyone. Someone in the crew knew. Can Nikki forgive Nazir for putting her through the worst pain of her life and live happily ever after? Deedee, also known as Kiya, can’t seem to catch a break. The man she loves is in jail, all because she talked to the very person Dozer told her not to. Will Dozer forgive her after all the shit they’ve been through, or will he decide they’re better off not being together? Fizz and Riah had so many ups and downs. As soon as they get up, someone brings them right back down, only ...

BOOK ONE of The Collide Series Sometimes love comes unexpectedly... Lauren is a spoiled daddy's girl, brought up under the protection of Miami's elite black society. With a law professor for a mother, and a state attorney for a father, she has been raised to understand the law down to its most fundamental form. She's what they call, in every sense of the term, a Good Girl. As her father prepares to take on the biggest case of his career--going against Miami's most notorious kingpin, Silas Montgomery--tensions begin to rise, and our Good Girl becomes Silas Montgomery's newest target. Now on ...

What do you do when you’ve fallen for a man who belongs to someone else? Nydia Johnson is the scandalous Philadelphia vixen who’s only concern in life is the almighty dollar. With a troubled past leaving her scarred and cold inside, she swears off becoming anyone’s housewife; that is until she meets Malik. The king of VA has her in total lust and she’s determined to make him love her, whether he wants to or not. The King of Virginia, aka Malik Grey, is not your average hustler. A life changing past with his wifey, London, removed him from the streets as a mere child of a crack head ...

The fast-paced, hood drama concludes in BBW Hungry for Love 5. Kalisha is desperate to get out of New York. It's her only hope. Her baby daddy is after her and so are the police. The only person she can turn to is Keon. But she hasn't been able to get in touch with him. Will he be able to save her before it’s too late? After being released from police custody, Keon tries to contact Kalisha. But she's not picking up her phone. He fears the worst. If something happens to her and he's unable to save her, he’ll never get over the guilt. He's got to find her before it's too late. Kalisha's ...

Synopsis: Ebbson (Ebb) Scribbs is one of the most cold-hearted men in Nashville. He is one of the top accountants in the state and has accounts with top businesses and criminals. He loves money, and money is the only thing on his mind. Life has taught him not to care about anything or anyone until something changes his cold heart. Bobbi Cramer is a single mother, working hard to take care of her daughter, Timea. She has worked as Ebb’s assistant for over a year and puts up with his standoffish ways. Bobbi doesn’t care because all she needs is a paycheck to support her child since her ...

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage.

In the world of love, fast money and guns, life is a gamble, and in order to survive it, you have to be all about your poker chips. However, that didn't scare a slick talking go getter like Spring Stewart. What and who she wanted, she got. She lived life teetering on the edge, but always came up on top...usually. When a robbery goes bad and she is arrested for a double homicide, everything goes downhill and the only person she can depend on is her sheltered twin sister, Summer. Will Summer have the strength to pull her sister out of the line of fire, or will the bloody street life be too ...

In a matter of days, Bay-Bay had stolen Semeya’s heart and sent her life spiraling out of control. He was a coldhearted womanizer who had been hurt one too many times to ever take a woman seriously. He was hard on women, determined to protect his heart at all costs. He was afraid to feel pain and let a woman play him for a fool. He knew everything there was to know about a woman, except her ability to rehabilitate a broken heart. Semeya was the cure to his past injuries. She came into his life healing old wounds, reawakening his belief in love, and stirring a passion so strong within him ...

Jordan Davis is an image consultant for Pro Athletes. He does damage control, branding, marketing and most of all he fixes problems when they arise. His worst client is All Pro Wide Receiver Terrell Cummings, a player with the potential to be a Hall of Famer on the field, but who keeps having character issues off the field. Whitney Cummings, Terrell’s wife has always been aware of her husband’s indiscretions, but she had learned to turn a blind eye despite the fact that she was with him when he had nothing and helped to mold him into the man he is today. She has been a dutiful wife, ...

Being a natural-born leader comes with a certain type of responsibility. The streets will never respect a man who is not rightfully holding down the position he was born to uphold. Some are created to lead while others were created to follow. Money will always keep stacking as long as everyone plays their position. The weight of the world rests on those that are born to be great... Haze Ellis has no idea just how true that is until the moment he realizes that he is the descendent of a King... A "Street" King!

Being in love tends one to be in a battle with the mind and the heart. The mind is telling you all the right things you should do but the heart wants what and who it wants. No matter how wrong it is. Loving the infamous Jayceon Bennett has its perks and pitfalls. Isabella Santos has witnessed the struggle of being his wife and mother of his son. What was once a dream come true has become one big nightmare for Bella. The happiness she longed for has turned into Hell and she's receiving the brunt of all the choices her husband made. Bella is in the fight of her life as she tries to get back ...

A Harlem kingpin meets a struggling, single mother. Hood love is in the air. Harmony's demons have come back to haunt her. And they may cost her everything. If she loses her job at Shakerz, she’ll find herself out in the streets with her two children. She can't let that happen. She's going to try her best to explain to Drako what happened. But that might not be enough. He doesn't want to hear her stories. And doesn't care about her tears. He just wants her gone. Drako is feeling the pressure on all sides. And the heat is about to get turned up even more when he finds himself at the center...