Sharnard, born Josiah Jones, is the eldest brother of Jacobi, Jamari and Joriah. Not only that but he is the adopted brother of Zaii, Joriah’s girlfriend. After successfully gunning those two down but not killing them, he is now on the run trying to get out of Dodge. Not only do Jacobi and Jamari have to worry about Joriah recovering, Luna has now been contacted by her ex, Jose, who is threatening to murder her parents if she doesn’t come to Mexico to save them. Although she seems distraught, everything is not what it seems. Jamari and Piper seem to be going pretty strong, besides crazy Trina who keeps popping up and causing problems in the couple’s new relationship. Jamari has never felt this way before over any woman. This is new to him but he is beginning to like it. He just needs to get Trina out of their life for good, but when she drops a bomb that could make Piper leave him for good, he’s torn as to what to do.

    Kylan can't help but to question himself and more importantly his judgment. He can’t seem to figure out how he keeps choosing the wrong one. It’s making him doubt his every move, creating an internal battle within himself. Will Kylan ever get rescued by the love of a real one? Nichelle is doing her best to live up to Jimmy standards, but what she has yet to recognize is that he loves her just how she is. He only wants her to get the notion that sometimes, less is more, and it's okay to let your man lead. Nichelle may have to learn this lesson the hard way, as she has no idea the dangers that Jimmy is trying to keep her protected from. Will Jimmy's love be able to rescue Nichelle? Ty’Kym is over all the drama that’s been going on. He wants nothing more than to eliminate all the adversaries that have risen against him and his family. However, Ty’Kym is trying to balance his business affairs with his new family’s needs. In this final installment, he is determined to show Michelle she is the one who has been rescued when she believes the opposite. Ty’Kym has been rescued by the love of a real one, and he doesn’t care who knows it.

    That's exactly what Poca did for Makhai. She was by his side when he was broke and had nothing as well as when he was on top of the world and had everything at his fingertips. When outside forces come in and threaten to destroy everything the couple built together, will they be able to stick together and weather the storm? Or will the damage be too much for the couple to handle? Cali had everything he ever wanted and needed in his girl Love, but he just couldn't seem to get his act together. With his life spiraling out of control on a path of destruction, will Cali be able to get his life together before it's too late? Or will Love have enough of his doggish ways and leave him at his lowest?

    Donavan “Trouble” Troy is heartless and ruthless. Since the day, he was abandon and forced into the foster care system he vowed to never care about anything. Being tossed in the worst homes only fueled his hatred turning him into the vicious man he is today. After his first taste of blood, he's been craving it ever since. Trouble is feared in the streets. Malaika Coleman is the closest you could get to an angel on earth. Her parents never knew when they named her that she would one day live up to it. After she survived a fatal car crash at sixteen, her whole perspective on life changed. Now she devotes her life to giving to others and spreading joy to the world through her music. Lai believes that music can change anyone’s life for the better, but can it change hers? Trouble and Lai's paths cross in the craziest way when he ends up saving her from a bullet meant for him. What happens when Trouble saves a life instead of taking one? Is Lai the angel he needs to pull him from his dark path or does his darkness pull her in. Maybe they have more in common than everyone thinks. Find out what happens when a troubled man meets an angel.

    Havok and Shannon met on a glimpse. Although the chemistry was deeper than tree roots, Shannon’s attraction is flipped into fear when she becomes an unintended target. When the smoke clears, can she put her trust in the man who gunned her down? These two lives are tainted from the beginning. In the long haul, it may not work out, but maybe the journey will result in the best love that can’t be replaced. Shannon Mitchell didn’t set out to be a single mother. Nevertheless, she has a backbone of steel and a heart of gold. Losing her job, which forced her to relocate back to her hometown of Saint Louis was never in her plans. Shannon made the choice any real mother would. Picking up the late night shift at a strip joint in East Saint Louis, she is quickly pulled in by the fast money. Staying on her grind leads her to many late nights and early mornings. The one morning she sets out to go home to her son, Teon, she ends up being rocked to the ground by a stray bullet. Profusely bleeding, she lays eyes on the shooter. The compromising situation leaves her to lean on Havok to get her medical attention before she bleeds out. When she thinks he is taking her to the hospital, she is sadly mistaken when her heavy eyes roam on a poverty-stricken Clinton Peabody project building. Shontez “Havok” O’Neal went from being broke as hell and sleeping on his Grandma Uma’s couch, to flipping bricks. With a fast come up, the hate is heavy on him. Watching his back and not giving anybody a chance to knock him, Havok is placed between a brick and a hard place when Shannon falls victim to his chaotic lifestyle. Nursing her back to health is the least he can do for this single mother. Even when she pushes him away, he goes the extra mile for this woman. Shannon becomes his weakness, and with time, Shannon’s weakness is him. What should have placed these two far apart, glued them together for a ride they didn’t see coming. The right thing to do becomes the last thing to do when your heart is on the line. Find out what happens when you cross lines with a thug named, Havok.

    He’s rude and obnoxious, but Asia cant seem to shake her feelings for him. She was always apprehensive in revealing her love for him, but when they find themselves in an unusual situation, they decide to give their relationship a try. Dinero has never been a relationship type of guy, but when Asia enters his life, he begins to reconsider. She’s everything he’s never wanted but can’t seem to be without. Yet, when a blast from the past pops back onto the scene, he’s caught between a place of lust and love. After a series of events takes place, Asia finds herself on the losing end of the stick when a new man enters her circle. He comes in and rearranges everything in her life, including her relationship with Dinero. While she fights to prove that things are not what they seem, Asia is hit with a truth that sends her into a frenzy. Follow Dinero and Asia in this drama-filled romance as they try to work their way through the many obstacles that try to tear them apart.

    Karmyn is a girl who doesn’t know love. She never had any friends and barely spoke a word. Her mom was an addict who never showed her love. She was sent to live with her dad when she was just fourteen years old and Karmyn was happy with that. She found out she had an older brother and was excited to know that she had a family. A family to love her, embrace her and treat her like she belonged somewhere. Things never turn out as planned. Karmyn’s dad is a ruthless pimp with a past and his only interest in Karmyn is to sell her to the highest bidder. Because of the people closest to her, Karmyn thought she would never find love. She felt like love was hiding from her…. until she met Chance. Chance is a survivor. With no parents and an evil aunt, Chance has to do whatever he can to survive in the streets of Brooklyn. He meets Karmyn and he finds a friend in her. One night, he discovers that his boss has been killed, and he meets a lady that would change his life forever, Tru. She took him under her wing and treated him like family. He finally has a steady place to lay his head and to call home but it came with a price, his friendship with Karmyn. Will Chance be able to balance his new family and his friendship with Karmyn? Will he be the one to show Karmyn what it’s like to be in love or will he break her heart like everyone else in her life? Can he be Karmyn’s Chance at Love?

    With no way to make ends meet, she turns to the world of stripping in order to keep herself afloat. Jersey feels that she is simply existing, and finds nothing interesting about her life, until she meets Tommy Brownson. Tommy is cute, sweet, persistent, and patient. Jersey finds herself smitten with him, but soon after becomes just short of infatuated with his frenemy Kilexis Camren. Conflicted, Jersey is having a hard time figuring out if she wants the kind and gentle Tommy, after all he did approach her first, or the mysterious, rugged, and frank Kilexis. Not able to decide right away, Jersey dabbles with both, showing a much more favortism to the latter. Will she be able to pick in enough time to preserve the losing man's feelings? Or will fate choose for her, causing a heightened rivalry between the men? Cheyla Austin is a pill popping stripper, who has no idea where she wants to go in life, and to honest she's perfectly okay with that. Living life one day at a time, and having to answer to no one, has proved to be Cheyla's method for achieving contentment. She has no interest in dating anyone who may disrupt her easy going and detached life, until she meets the sexy, ambitious, and clever Kantwan Camren. Kantwan is a no nonsense guy, and refuses to be with a woman who will cower when met with true love or hardwork. Will Cheyla be able to mature into the woman Kantwan needs? Or will she continue to live life as a disconnected and afraid little girl, causing her to lose out on the man of every girl's dreams? Ivy Horne, hasn't had it easy for the past few years. With her child's father being thrown in jail for reckless petty robberies, she is forced to make sure her son has everything he needs. In order to put food into her son Donovan's mouth, she joins best friends Jersey and Cheyla, by dancing every night for cash. Her plan is to focus on making money, while looking for a new job to obtain before her man Portland comes home. In addition to that, there are no ifs, ands, or buts about her being faithful to Portland while put away. That all changes upon meeting the intelligent, handsome, and aggressive Elijah Camren, who tries to show Ivy that she is way too good to hold a man down that has been so disloyal to her in the past. When Ivy falls for Elijah's charm, just a teeny bit, she is stuck with having feelings for him even when Portland returns. Will she dibble and dabble like Jersey? Or will fate have to pick for her as well? Everyone seems to be in a love that's forbidden, frowned upon, or just downright wrong. Follow Jersey, Cheyla, and Ivy, as they all share forbidden love with a thug.

    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!

    That devil just so happens to be Trenae’s boyfriend of two years, Silas Jackson. Trenae is head over heels in love with Silas, but he only uses her for money while he turns to other women for his sexual needs, since Trenae doesn’t plan to give up the goods anytime soon. Blinded by Silas’s fake love for her, Trenae can’t see Silas doing any wrong in her eyes. When she meets Nahlij, Trenae just maybe forced to open her eyes to a whole new world of possibilities. Life for Nahlij has been one disappointment after the other. At the age of five, his mother abandons him, leaving his father to take on the responsibility of being a single father. On the night of his 15th birthday, Nahlij witnesses his dad be murdered in cold blood by a crooked cop who had a gambling habit. “Don’t let them get away with this shit,” were the last words his father spoke before he took his last breath, and Nahlij vowed to make the officer pay for the death of his father. Now at the ripe age of 30, Nahlij is an undercover killer, trained by his foster parents. Still heart broken and hurt by the abandonment of his mother, Nahlij has vowed to never love a woman out of fear that he’ll be left again. When he’s assigned to a mission in Tallahassee, Fla., Nahlij just may push his ‘no love’ persona to the back of his mind when he meets the beautiful Trenae Wallace. They say what happens in Rome, stays in Rome, but will that hold true for Nahlij and Trenae? Can one night with Nahlij make Trenae forget about Silas? Can Trenae make Nahlij forget about his vow to never love a woman and make him fall for her? Can’t Hide From Love will leave you on the edge of your seat, begging for more. The plots and twists of love and betrayal will leave you obsessed and possibly make you question…Who the hell can you really trust?

    Mega’s tired of playing games and there’s a new chick in his life, but there’s something about Taysia that he just can’t seem to shake. Will they finally let go and throw in the towel? Or is their love for one another strong enough for a happily ever after?

    Instead of going away to college or turning up every weekend, she spent her days behind the counter at McDonalds. With a mother fighting Lupus and bills that had to be paid, Azuri put her life on hold to be whatever her mother needed her to be. A night working the late shift changed her life. It was the day she met Kashmir “Gotti” Banks. Gotti is an arrogant, smart mouthed boss from Harlem and used to getting everything he wanted, that is until he met Azuri. Love ‘em and leave ‘em had been his way of life for the past twenty five years. Chasing women was never his style and being caught, had never been Azuri’s style. The chemistry between the two was far more than either of them could ever imagine. Not sure if Gotti is good for her, Azuri built a wall up that he was determined to tear down. A day at the Rucker started a whirlwind romance between the two, but will they have a happily ever after? Lies, drama, murder, sex and deceit threaten to destroy the union the two have built. Will their love stand the test of time? Or will too many lines being crossed, tear the two apart? Find out in this juicy tale, unlike anything you’ve ever read...

    Years after Hurricane Katrina took her parents she moved back to her city to find that nothing changed. With no job and money, her only option is to turn to the streets. When the streets take someone close to her Miracle takes heed and proceeds to turn her life around. Mystery Jones was respected throughout New Orleans and he was just as deadly as the guns he sold. Mystery is done with his womanizing ways and is ready to settle down. An unexpected shootout brings him in the presence of Miracle Anderson. He’s immediately captivated by her beauty and rude demeanor. After being in a physical and emotionless relationship Miracle had vowed that she would never get involved with someone like Mystery again. She couldn’t ignore the sexual tension that was brewing between the both of them. An unforeseen event takes place and Miracle finds herself riding shotgun with Mystery. Miracle finds out that Mystery is nothing like her ex and she let’s her guards down. Mystery is bursting the walls down to her heart but when bitter ex’s pop up and a chance of a lifetime is presented to Miracle will she pick the come up or a chance at love again?

    The twins decide to give Alexa a second chance, but due to an unexpected reaction from Casey, the situation spirals out of control. Caught up in Ronnie’s troublesome behavior, Alexa isn’t prepared for what eventuates. Will she be influenced by Ronnie? Or will she manage to stand her ground and make her own decisions as she had originally planned? And when confronted with a whole new dilemma, how will Alexa respond? You’ll have to read to the end of the book to find out what eventuates for the new girl who has rocked the twins’ world. It’s another fabulous book for girls and all fans of the Twins series.

    It had other plans.Now the world is dying beneath squalls of acid rain. The earth is being strip-mined for minerals to support the AI’s vast factories. Fields no longer grow green. Trees no longer sprout leaves. The only choice people have, if they want to live, is to pledge their souls to the AI, and serve its perverse ambitions.Tim, Logan, and Aella don’t like living in a world where they have to scratch for crumbs. They intend to change it. They’re going to kill the AI with a virus that’ll worm its way through the planet’s networks, destroying everything coded in bits and bytes, every piece of software that controls a machine, makes a decision, or thinks it’s alive—especially if it thinks it’s alive.They just need to find a way to upload the virus to the system without it killing them first.