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Us Against the World: Finding Love in the Trap
Porscha Sterling - 2015
Days later, her brothers were arrested by the Feds and she was left alone with no way to support herself. Then Andre enters her life and tries to help her set things right. Although Queen is hesitant to trust anyone, she can't ignore his boss nigga status, impeccable swag and thug mentality. Soon he becomes everything she needs and teaches her the rules of the streets as well as the rules of the heart. With him by her side, Queen gets control of her father's empire but when jealousy rears its ugly head in the form of a childhood enemy of Queen's who has her eyes and affections set on Andre, things start to go very wrong. Tiffany has hated Queen since grade school when she first laid eyes on the pampered princess whose family was treated like hood royalty everywhere in Harlem. When she sees the relationship that Queen has with Andre, someone she had been sweating for months, she can't help but want to ruin everything Queen has going. And although she's nothing but a hoodrat, she has a sister in high places who could help her with her plans.Kelis is an NYPD officer in East Harlem with a secret of her own; her baby daddy is Trinidad, a notorious dopeboy in the same area she patrols. When she lands a promotion that puts her on a case, she is ecstatic until she realizes she may be hunting the man she loves. But Trinidad has another secret, which he shares with Kelis' ratchet sister, Tiffany.
Let's Make Love Tonight
A.C. Taylor - 2016
With just one glance, the golden-eyed beauty captured his heart and sparked a fire within him that couldn’t be contained. But no matter the time, something always stood in their way. Shaunie was like a forbidden fruit—one touch and Tat could find himself in a world of trouble—the kind of trouble that wouldn't be easy to get out of. But for her…it was worth the risk. Shaunie has always gone after what she wanted, and Tat is no exception to the rule. But when word gets out that the two of them are more than just friends, Shaunie is hit with something that she never saw coming. Before she can get a grip, her entire world comes tumbling down—forcing her to make decisions that she normally wouldn’t. With so much at stake, Shaunie is left with no other choice but to play by the rules and staying away from Tat is one of them. Will Tat & Shaunie be able to handle the challenge that’s being forced upon them? Or will they give in to their desires and risk everything in the process?
Love is All we Have
Chelsea Maria - 2018
Love Publications come together for five highly entertaining, emotional, and edifying love stories that are guaranteed to leave you wanting more! Authors included are: A. Marie Johnson ShanicexLola Chelsea Maria A. Jones Alexis Cñe Foreword by: B. Love
Better Days
June Tate - 2000
Life would be good if it wasn't for her mother, Eve, who likes more to drink than is good for her. And when Gemma's dad walks out and Eve starts bringing strange men home, Gemma doesn't know where to turn. Desperate to escape, she seizes the opportunity to be a stewardess on the Queen Mary, voyaging to and from New York. When she discovers that Nick is also on board, it seems an affirmation that she made the right decision. But a chance encounter with Vince Morelli, a gang boss in the New York docks, looks set to jeopardise her newfound happiness.
At the Coalface: Part 1 of 3: The memoir of a pit nurse
Joan Hart - 2015
This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the youngest age girls could do so at the time. She continued working after she married and her work took her to London and Doncaster, caring for children and miners.When she took a job as a pit nurse in Doncaster in 1974, she found that in order to be accepted by the men under her care, she would have to become one of them. Most of the time rejecting a traditional nurse’s uniform and donning a baggy miner’s suit, pit boots, a hardhat and a headlamp, Joan resolved always to go down to injured miners and bring them out of the pit herself.Over 15 years Joan grew to know the miners not only as a nurse, but as a confidante and friend. She tended to injured miners underground, rescued men trapped in the pits, and provided support for them and their families during the bitter miners’ strike which stretched from March 1984 to 1985.Moving and uplifting, this is a story of one woman’s life, marriage and work; it is guaranteed to make readers laugh, cry, and smile.
Caught Between A Beast And A Hitta
Mystique - 2018
She’s proven her loyalty to him time and time again, even helping him and his brothers rise to power. Soon, his infidelities bring out a raging beast in her that she can’t control and she’s thrown into a cycle of destruction. That is, until she meets a mysterious man that’s far more than a coincidence. This new love will also bring new enemies, deception and turmoil. Will she finally get her fairy tale ending or will it turn into a nightmare she never expected? Not too many people know about Siren’s inherited worldly gifts. Once they find out, it’s something they will fight hard to try and forget.
Another Time and Place: A novel of World War II
Samantha Grosser - 2006
So begins a passionate affair.Their happiness does not last. Shot down over Europe, wounded, in hiding, Tom has no way of telling Anna he is alive. And Anna, left waiting in England, has no way of finding out. How can she know that Tom is struggling to return to her? Or that the thought of her is all that keeps him going on the long journey home?Interwoven with the danger of Tom's fight to survive is the story of Anna's own struggle to face the uncertainty of waiting. Set vividly against the hardship of the Second World War, Another Time and Place is at once a compelling love story, an enthralling adventure and a moving depiction of the resilience of the human spirit.
Power of Love: Infidelity, Love and Lies
Tynessa - 2017
For eighteen years, she has been in love with only one man, and that man happens to be her best friend's husband, Mike. With a secret relationship that consisted of infidelity, love, and lies, Sarah nor Mike are ready to let go just yet. No matter how wrong it appears to be, Sarah feels in her heart that they were destined to be. Loving two women isn't easy, especially with the other woman being your wife’s best friend. Mike has been holding on to this secret for eighteen years with no intention of telling his lovely wife anytime soon. Yet, that isn't the only secret he's keeping from her, and it's something that will attach him to Sarah for the rest of their lives. Secure about her husband and best friend's relationship, Tiffany had never seen a problem with Sarah hanging with her husband when she wasn't present. In her mind, neither of them would ever cross that line. Will she forever be naïve when it comes to them, or will Tiffany start to put the puzzle together sooner than Mike and Sarah think? In this unfaithful love tale, loyalty, trust, and bonds are tested as we see just how powerful love can be.
A True Love Story: Dino and Lexus
Sha Jones - 2017
She spends many nights lying on a filthy hardwood floor crying for her mother in the dark and wondering where her next meal is going to come from. All of her thoughts and worries suddenly vanish when she wakes up one morning and decides that she will no longer be a victim of her circumstances. With her best friend, Karma, in tow, she turns to the pole and becomes one of the hottest strippers in H-Town, dominating every strip club in the city with her bombshell body and gorgeous good looks. Her name rings more bells than a school alarm, and it gives her confidence. Over the years, Lexus learns to tuck her feelings away and show no love until she meets a real bad boy, who steps in like Prince Charming and quickly humbles her. Dino is cool, charming and Rich! His smile is so electrifying, it can knock any woman off of her feet, but his playboy persona is put on hold when he and his best friend, Kaine, show up at a bachelor party one night. As soon as he lays eyes on, Lexus he makes up his mind that he wants her and her only. But when he finally get her, he realizes that Lexus comes with more complications than he could have ever imagined. Although Lexus falls hard for Dino, she's scared to love him out of fear that he will unexpectedly pack up and leave her the same way that her mother did. Dino does everything in his power to love and take care of Lexus, but her hard exterior makes it tough, and it's only so much he can take. What Lexus doesn't know is that Dino can relate to what she's been through and knows her pain all too well, but when she finds out that Dino is just as damaged as she is, the tables unexpectedly turn... Now, Lexus is left with the decision to either be there for her man or abandon the one person who loves her deeply and leave him with the same scars that are engraved in her heart. Will Lexus put her fears to the side and allow Dino to love her the way that she deserves to be loved, or will she throw it all away because of her heartbreaking past? Find out in Sha Jones' new spinoff series from Kaine And Karma.
A Gangsta A$$ Love Story
Mesha Mesh - 2017
I knew deep inside, baby girl would always be mine.” The words spoken by the late, great Tupac could never deem truer with Kenya and Beast’s twisted love affair. Although their lives are intertwined from all angles, life doesn't always work out the way they would see fit. However, things always happen right on time. Kenya Nicole Black, the ghetto girl from South Dallas with skin the color of Columbian coffee and a big curly afro knows exactly what she wants in a man, and for a while, she thought she’d found the one for her. In the beginning, he was everything and had all the qualities of a gangsta she looked for. However, with those same qualities came trouble she’d least expect. When life gets a little too heated for Kenya’s liking, her hand is forced, and things don’t end quite as expected. Amid all the drama, she stumbles upon the likes of Beast, a not so friendly, no nonsense type of man, and she’s smitten with him. Cornelius “Beast” Lucas lives by the motto, if it don’t make money, it don’t make sense, and he’s on a mission to get it by any means necessary. When Kenya falls onto his radar, he’s automatically drawn to her and wants to know more about her. However, he has Heaven, a woman who’s spoiled beyond all means, and she’s pushing him for more than he’s willing to give. When things take a drastic turn for the worse, the only thing on Beast’s radar is vengeance, and he’s forced to bring out his animalistic side. Meanwhile, the one that got away falls into his lap, yet again, and he’s ready to break her off nice and slow. Kenya and Beast’s lives are in a whirlwind of trouble, pulling them in ways they’d never imagined, but when their eyes are finally open and they team up, the world’s in a heap of trouble because they have one heck of a Gangsta A$$ Love Story to tell.
Loving A Jamaican Boss
KB.Cole - 2016
Forbidden love is exciting but when a baby's involved the secrets become too much for Moni to deal with. Being someone's little secret is only fun for so long and four years is too damn long. Tru is torn between love for the girl of his dreams and loyalty to his friend. Even though she understands his loyalty to her brother Moni feels like Tru should have her back and just tell Redd and be the man she needs. When she finds out she's pregnant again she's had enough, Tru has to decide. Dmitri is the youngest son of the head of the Jamaican Cartel, he's a boss in every sense of the word. He has everything he's ever wanted all he needs is someone to share it with. Love seemed elude him until a trip to the states to meet up with his friend leads him to love at first sight. But she's not ready to give love another try. Used to getting his way Dmitri knows that he’ll win her heart but things get complicated when he finds out who she really is. Will Moni stay in the shadows or move on? Will Tru man up or will his loyalty be stronger than love?
Keep Your Friends Close and Enemies Closer: Love, Lies & Loyalty
Belleza - 2017
Back in the day they were as thick as thieves going to school, partying, and fighting whoever got in their way. Now that they are older and more mature they are living their lives in different ways while still holding onto their friendship and going through their own trials with love. Tiara been rocking with her husband Antonio since they both had nothing. She played the background while she helped build him into the man that he is now. They had their issues before and he promised to change once they got married, but Antonio is falling back into his old habits and she’s slowly forced to face to truth that her happy home isn’t so happy. Porsha always believed that no man was off limits. Love was a thing she didn’t indulge im until she put too much time and attention into the wrong man and she’s fallen for this guy. She’s tired of getting put on the back burner and is willing to do anything to make him hers even if she have to break up a happy home. Renae got slapped with reality learning that a man gonna be a man regardless of the situation. She’s been riding with Charles for years and went even more hard once he got locked up and helped take care of the kids he had on her with another woman. Finding out he was still cheating she wiped her hands clean of the situation and decided to put herself first. Although heartbroken Jamar and Jason steps into the women's lives and try to show them that there is still good men. Playing the rebound can be a dangerous game but it’s a risk they are willing to take. Jamar been gone for a while and let the love of his life slip through his hands doing his time upstate. The bad part about it is the girl he love is with the man he use to call a friend. Jason have baby mama drama to the max and is trying everything to separate himself from Andrea. He’s broken hearts, and been hurt before but he’s determined not to hold himself back from finding the right one. Love shouldn’t be so hard but it’s became a task that unravel secret, lies and disloyalty and have them all questioning who’s a real friend?
Trap Kings: Fall In Love Too
Taniece - 2017
He may have been sitting at the top but he was straight hood at heart. Running with the same people that you jumped off the porch and got it out the mud with, you would think that your bond would be airtight. In Reapa’s case, his foundation wasn’t as solid as he thought. After a disaster of a relationship with his ex Ava, he wanted no other relationship because his trust was messed up. Unity Galore had to constantly remind herself to fix her crown; embrace her melanin. Growing up, she was always joked on for her rich skin and country accent. As she got older her love for kickboxing grew fonder which killed her love life altogether. That quickly changed when Reapa made his appearance into her life. Everything seemed to be looking up until Unity got a business proposal that could potentially change her life for the better. Phoenix “Nix” Quartz was far from a good girl. She stayed in out of jail behind her boyfriend Axel. It really hurt when you go hard for someone to only be messed over in return. After finally making a fool of herself for the very last time, she leaves him alone for good. In the heat of the moment, a one-night stand changed her life forever. There was a time in life when Blake “Kase” Watts once loved his baby mother, Harper more than life itself. Their relationship was slowly withering away and she was the one to blame. A chance encounter with the beautiful Nix was the first time that he felt like he could be himself around someone. Her looks were what caught his attention but her personality was why he desired her so much. Will Unity take that job opportunity and leave everything behind her including her new found love, Reapa? Nix being different from Kase’s normal might be just something that he needs but is she too diverse for him? Find out in Trap Kings Fall In Love Too.
I Want You Both
Amanda Martinez - 2017
But after several weekends of driving eight hours both ways, Stella was regretting that decision. The only thing worse than the long drive, was not seeing Paul at all. Then Stella met a new friend who made the distance and separation a little easier to bear. Now Stella had a choice to make. Stay with her new friend, or forget her and go back to her husband.
We Both Can't Be Bae 2
Twyla T - 2017
She was successful with not getting caught up; until she carelessly sent photos to Phebe and they got back to her husband, Malcolm. Once he got news of her infidelity, he rushed home and tried to kill her. Was he successful in his attempt? Keith has been Cameron’s secret lover for some time now. However, his fiancé Phebe is tired of playing house with him and wants a ring. Will he marry her or will he dump her and play second to Malcolm forever? Charlotte, Cameron’s sister has always been envious of her and never really knew why until Malcolm helped her put pieces of her life together. How long will this love triangle last before someone gets hurt? Secrets and lies keep spilling and it’s another crazy, sexy, and dangerous roller coaster ride that will either make or break Cameron.