Hood love hasn't done anything but cause me pain. Maybe I fell for the wrong hoodlum. But I'm over it, my new man’s going to be a square. I'm going to find some who can treat me right. -Raeya Everything that Raeya Duval does is for her son. She's determined to provide him a better life than she's ever had. At twenty-four, she has a bright future ahead of her. There's just one problem… Her no good baby daddy. Fed up with the lies and cheating, but trying to keep her son’s father in his life, she stays, but the love has been gone. Flacka loves his son and Raeya, but he loves the attention other women give him too. Being faithful is the farthest thing from his mind. He knows that Raeya’s not going anywhere. Not as long as their son adores him. But when he commits the ultimate betrayal, he learns that every woman has a breaking point. But he’s not going to let his family go without a fight. Raeya has to fight for the life she wants for her and her child. Sometimes it’s better to be a single mom then to let your child watch you be treated like nothing. Can this hood girl find the love she deserves? Will Flacka be able to win Raeya back? What will he do if he doesn’t? When a new man steps in and tries to be everything Raeya’s ever dreamed of, will she let him in or go back to Flacka and his mess? Hood love is addictive but sometimes you have to give it up to find true happiness. Javari is far from hood, but he sees something in Raeya that makes him want to give her his all. No one understands what he sees in her, but they just don't know. When A Hood Girl Puts It On Ya’ its hard to resist!

    progresses with the pandemonium of ever changing twists, secrets, lies, and love in Pretty Lips That Thugs Love 3, the final book of the series. Ashanti McNeal finally walked away from the only relationship that she had ever known with Kentay Mills. However, Kentay vowed to never let his wife Ashanti go, especially to his brother Ahmad. But, is he fighting a losing battle? Despite Kentay’s protests, Ashanti has moved on with her life to delve in new beginnings with the only man who has shown her what true love is about, Ahmad Jones. Just when Ashanti and Ahmad thought their footings were on solid ground, life came blazing in a flash to interrupt their fresh start. Will the new couple’s life together end before it really had a chance to begin? Fate had a way of testing the new couple’s commitment and love to each other. Will the tests proved to be too much? Or, will Ahmad and Ashanti stand strong in their love for one another? Karma finally came crashing into Kentay Mills’ life and sent him to the place that he didn’t want to go, prison. However, his circumstances didn’t prevent him from hoping to see the outside world again. Kentay still behaved and acted like the boss that he was, even behind those prison walls. Due to negligence on behalf of the police department, Kentay received word that his sentence would be cut short. Unfortunately, an unexpected brawl sent him to the infirmary that led him to come face to face with his past. Kentay had no choice but to succumb to the shocking secret from his past. How will this new eye-opener affect him? Will Kentay become a changed man after his stint in prison? Or, will he continue down the same old path that led to heartache and destruction? Ashanti’s world is rocked upside down when lies and secrets are discovered. These revelations will undoubtedly have a crucial impact on her life. Can she still trust the people who were always supposed to be straightforward and honest with her? Kentay and Ashanti. Ashanti and Ahmad. Brother versus Brother. Revelation after revelation. Will the turmoil ever cease? Will love win in the end? Find out in this final installment of the Pretty Lips That Thugs Love.

    At the tender age of eight, her mother sold her to men in order to supply her drug habit. After her mother overdosed, Brandy was sent to live with the father she never knew, who promised to give her the world, only to rape her and put her out on the track.While working one night, she meets a gentleman who changes her life and makes her believe that someone finally has her best interest at heart. Soon after falling in love with her savior, she finds out that he’s not the man she thought he was. Fed up with being lied to and used, Brandy vows to never again let another person get close enough to hurt her. Revenge leading to a stacked bank account isn’t enough—she wants more.Coming up with scheme after scheme, Brandy steps on quite a few toes. While doing that, she begins to make enemies along the way; some chalking up their losses, while others want payback in blood. Take this journey filled with drama, sex and lies with Brandy, and see if being Heartless brings her a life of wealth or death.

    She don’t care how she get that paper as long as she eats well and rides plush. She is a heavy hitter that don’t take no shit. She been sitting doing a five year bid now that she’s out Bonnie is ready to take the hood over once again. Clyde is fine a laid back hustler that owns most of the hood. Its only one person stand in the way of him being the king of it all. A nigga name Lynch. Clyde is determined to have it all because whatever he wants he gets. Nothing will stand in his way or so he thinks. When Bonnie & Clyde bum heads will it be love at first sight or battle of the King & Queen it only one way you will find out….is by reading the book.

    When Wise is locked up and sentenced to fifteen years, he tells Emery to go on with her life if it’s meant to be they would get back together. Now years later Emery is happy with a career and family of her own, when Wise is released earlier than expected he sets off to do what he said he was going to do, find Emery. Emery’s heart belongs to Wise but it also belongs to her husband. Now she is forced with the hard decision to choose between the man who was there with her from the start through everything and the man who picked her up when she didn’t have anything or anybody. Who will Emery choose? Filled with sex, betrayal and drama

    There are many more magical beings on Earth, and they live amongst us as humans that are in touch with a side of them that makes them powerful.
 Surreal’s parents give him the life that every kid dreams of. He grows up with friends that look at him as if he is a brother. He doesn’t like the title because of the big secret that he has kept from them, a secret that brings out too many questions that can’t be answered without putting them in danger. He gets away with it for years, until a pool party ends in a blood bath with most of his peers as the victims. With the secret out, he has to travel with a group of friends to get to the Olympian Stadium to connect with the primary source of his power to defend himself from the sons of Hades. Surreal is looking forward to the tough journey ahead. What he doesn’t count on is the new company of a human woman… so he thinks.
 Nova has been on her own since she was thirteen. She notices how different she is and decides to travel the road alone. Nova never knows where she is going until she gets to her destination. It is a pull that she can’t escape that draws her to a stranger that was walking across the street. When they touch accidentally, she feels something different, something that she has never felt before. The stranger promises her the comfort that she doesn’t know to exist. Being on the opposite end of people’s anger makes it hard to trust him. That all changes when she learns of the common trait they hold as a secret.
 Once upon a time, the world was ruled by the gods of lightning and of the seas. It would be their descendant that will protect them from the one dangerous enemy they couldn’t seem to kill.

    With a secret dangling over their heads, Cuba leaves her marriage to Khi and decides that she’s better off on her own. Khi refuses to let his wife go and does everything in his power to get his wife back with him where she belongs especially when something comes up that may have Khi fighting for all the time he has left. Tangie and Cass are back together and Tangie finds herself being a mother to a child that she never wanted to accept. After Cass brings his daughter home to live with them, Tangie finds out that Cass is still up to his same old ways and has the both of them questioning if their relationship is even meant to be. KaeDee’s police girlfriend’s intentions are finally revealed and just when KaeDee thinks he has her out of the way, she comes back harder than ever showing him how better they were together as a team than apart. Dae finds that it’s easier to move on and start over when it’s revealed that Amber is dating other men. No longer the one to fight fire with fire when it comes to the ones he love, Dae is ready to put in work while in his search for love. The finale is fast and filled with drama from the very first page. Be sure to read along in full and stay tuned to see why everyone is Still Addicted to a Dirty South Thug.

    Mia – All any kid ever wants is for their parents to love them. True... I made mistakes, but how could I not? No one but me knows what it was like growing up in a home with Terri. Yeah she paid the bills, fed and clothed me but she never loved me. The man she moved in got all my mother’s love, time, and affection. So as a kid, when you don't get the love you feel you deserve at home... You'll try and get that feeling from anyone. I was young. I made mistakes, I was also taken advantage of. I just hope I don't have to pay for those mistakes for the rest of my life and lose the only people that really love me in the process.Terri- Kids don't appreciate shit nowadays. I worked my fingers to the bone to give that child of mine everything I could. I gave Mia anything a child could want! It's not like she was some starving child living in the projects. So what I moved a man in! Didn't I deserve to have a life? Yeah, Quinton's a little rough around the edges and he's young, but hell I like a young buck! If I'm not happy... no one is going to be. Least of all my bitch of a daughter Mia, and Quinton; the man who I've given up everything for.Quinton- I almost lost the woman I loved messin' around with Terri's crazy ass, but she came back like I knew she would. Who wouldn't wanna have Quinton Jones as their man? Hell you see I got her mama going crazy! I don't give a damn what anyone says... even Mia. What we share is special. Everyone thinks they know me, “ Quinton ain’t shit,” but they can all go to hell. I was the one there for Mia in her darkest times and now Jeremiah's bitch ass thinks he can just have my woman Mia and my son? Anyone who thinks that is as crazy as Terri! Jeremiah- I fell in love with Mia the day I met her and when she needed me I was there for her. Three years ago I walked away from my own life to create one with her, and I've never regretted it. I know her deepest and darkest secrets; and she trusts me not only with her life, but with her child's life also. Blood does not make a family... Love and and loyalty does. The love, loyalty, and bond that Mia and I share could never be broken. I don’t think.

    Years ago, her affair with Frank Anderson, the very handsome but very married lead news anchor, had taken her body, soul, and career to new heights. But Kai’s thrill ride with Frank ended in an unspeakable tragedy. Now, she avoids his advances, despite the deep feelings she still has for him. Anxious to move on, Kai initiates a summer fling with Deandre Grant, a sexy NBA player with mind-blowing bedroom skills. Soon, Kai finds herself hungering for more than a casual relationship, and she’s overjoyed when Deandre confesses that he feels the same way. Unfortunately, their beautiful beginning is tainted when their relationship hits two major roadblocks: Kai’s sister, LaNaya, a video vixen and exotic dancer, who gets caught up in a sexy webcam operation with dangerous consequences; and Janice, Deandre’s deranged baby-mama.On a business trip to Atlanta, Kai discovers something about Frank, her former flame, that changes her perspective on the past. Will this new information open the door for reconciliation with him, or will she go all the way with Deandre? Kai reports the news every day, but there is much more drama off the air, when it comes to her own life. This novel is a tale of fate, desire and the unexpected.EXCERPT:Although Deandre hadn’t popped the question yet, all signs point to us jumping the broom. He had been to three Sunday dinners in a row at Mama’s house, and we would be flying, first-class, to Atlanta together the following weekend. He’d even invited me to training camp to watch him work out. I sat in the bleachers, cheering him on, along with all the other basketball wives and girlfriends. Most of them were half a decade younger than me, with bodies sculpted by a plastic surgeon’s scalpel, but the passionate way Deandre kissed my lips at the end of practice made me feel like the most beautiful woman in the arena.Now, I sat on the couch next to him as he popped open a bottle of champagne and poured us each a glass.He handed one to me and said, “I’d like to make a toast…to the smartest, sexiest, most passionate woman I’ve ever known.”I smiled as we clinked glasses. “Wow! You’re gonna give me a big head talking like that.”“Reese’s, you’ve got everything a man needs. Plus, you make your own money. I’m always worried about gold-diggers, but I know that’s not something I have to worry about with you. That’s one of the reasons why I love you.”I blinked at him, wondering if I’d heard him right. I had waited for months to hear those three words. I was so excited I could scream.He stroked my face. “I’ve been waiting a long time to tell you how I feel, Reese’s. Yes, I love you. It’s been so hard to keep it inside.”Joyful tears filled my eyes. “Oh, Deandre! I love you too!”He kissed me with so much emotion that my whole body trembled. Minutes later, we were in his king-sized bed and I did something between the sheets that shocked us both...

    However, everything changes the night she meets an immediate member of the Konkwo Mafia Family. Handsome, powerful, rich, and charming, Greek is everything she's ever wanted...There's only one problem though. She already has a man in her life—one that is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her where he wants her. Tyler has been putting up with her boyfriend Gunner's shit for the last five years. Fighting off the birds he's constantly cheating with and taking the rap for a drug charge are just a couple of the things she's endured along the way. Tyler soon finds herself questioning her own morals and relationship after an attractive new prospect comes in her life. But with a crazy, erratic African boyfriend, falling for someone else might not be the safest or smartest decision. Will Tyler get the storybook ending she envisioned, or will her toxic relationship ultimately be her demise?

    No more chicks after Conic and most importantly no more mysterious letters to their family. However, that was the calm before the storm because an unexpected shooting shatters the families short lived happiness and when Pooch and Queen are followed the family suite up for war.

    

    Shaneice, bka Neicee and her boyfriend Quentin, known as Q takes you on a whirlwind of surprises. Q loves Neicee with everything in him, but he can't remain faithful. Neicee is from the hood and she grew up the only girl of 6 kids. She was determined to never have to go back to the hood. Despite where she is from, she graduated from law school and has built the reputation as the baddest hood lawyer to ever grace the streets of Charlotte. Now, someone is out to kill Neicee. Could it be one of Q's sideline hoes? Unbeknownst to Q, Neicee has her own secret. Will Q lose Neicee or will she remain his ride or die chick?

    Her mother being sent to prison causes Rielle to start battling depression, but despite the dark hole that she tries to overcome daily, she begins her journey into adulthood with little obstacles. That is until a visit to her friend's apartment in the projects pushes Rielle into a darker place than she's ever been before. The support of a new person in her life is enough to keep her from going completely over the edge, but is it enough to keep her from completely self-destructing? Hussein Jacobs wants the finer things in life, and he's willing to work for them. He knows how it feels to have nothing, but he doesn't want to risk his freedom to get what he wants. Completely satisfied with living a modest life and having a simple relationship, he's prepared to work hard at staying out of the streets until a long lost family member starts to entice him with an opportunity that not many would turn down. Rielle's friend, Trisha, is the complete opposite of her. A wild child from the hood, like Rielle she came from foster care, and now that she's grown, she wants it all. The first thing on her list is the sexy, rich, Rico Carter. He is already spoken for, but that's not enough to deter Trisha. She wants her man and plans to get him at any cost, but once she finally does, she realizes that she bit off way more than she was prepared to chew. From a distance, the hustler lifestyle seems like a lavish one, but there is drama, lust, betrayal, and revenge at the center of it all.

    DAMAR KING, the heir to the throne, is a young, brash leader who is intent on solving the riddle of his brother's murder and taking the organization to new heights. And whoever opposes him will be eliminated with no regard as he searches for the enemy from within his own crew.When the hidden opposition becomes strong, Damar becomes stronger, and the gunplay becomes fierce. However, the treachery that surrounds him is just as lethal as Damar's gun.To avoid the snakes that slither in his garden, Damar learns he must use brain over brawn as loyalties are forged and broken to remain on top.Will Damar learn that lesson in time? Or will his enemies bring him down to his knees? Will the burgeoning love that sprouts amiss all of the bloodshed become Damar's strength or his ultimate weakness? The only thing that's certain is that nothing is sacred in Love and War, and that Damar will go to any means to protect THE KING CARTEL.