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Needing His Love: Burning Embers is an urban novel with an exciting twist of events. This stand-alone chronicles Ember Montgomery, recently released from incarceration and out on parole. She must work hard to rebuild her life. Ember is also newly engaged to a wonderful man named Jacob Clay. He is understanding, compassionate, and most of all, willing to help her cope on a daily basis living with mental illness.

Are you ready to meet King and Blaze? Is their relationship 'Goals' or an example of everything isn't as good as it seems from the outside? Only time will tell!

Become engrossed as Empress Simone spins a tale of epic proportions. A tale which details the battle between good and evil actions of the Thompson Family.

Nine Lives: For the Love of Money is an exciting tale of cat and mouse - murder for hire with a street-lit twist. It features siblings Boogie and Lil Bit, who has ventured into a world of party promoting instead of drug dealing, or so Lil Bit thought.

Albie has had his fair share of disappointment. It's become clear that the word loyalty has lost all meaning. In fact, it's become nothing more than a word etched in his flesh, lost in the sea of tattoos decorating his body. Were it not for the hate seething from his soul, he'd all but given up. His thirst for revenge brings us to his own saga. A tale of a real savage with nothing to lose and everything to get back. Follow Albie on his journey to right the wrongs he feels have been cast upon him and witness the creation of the next Kingpin.

Sit back, relax and enjoy with JaDori Johnson Quick, a young, sexy, ride or die chick who plays the survival street game just like a man, for a tumultuous journey of an inner struggle and turmoil for the goal and sake of marriage.

India Perini has always focused her attentions on maintaining the love of her children’s father, Veontrae Simmons. However, as time and life pass them by, she is faced with the stark reality that Veontrae wasn’t all that he seemed. His thirst for extra-sexual encounters, including those with her own family but excluding India, are the cause for his spiral and depression. India becomes Veontrae’s victim of lust, infidelity, and domestic violence. After trying hard to make things work, she can no longer take any more of his abuse.

The Cherry Spot dives into the lives of dancers Apache, Tropics, and Tamara, along with madam Ja'kiera and her stable Erika, Paisley, and Serena. We witness firsthand the battles they won as well as those they lost. Throw in a demented serial killer and you have the perfect recipe for disaster. Who lives and who dies all depends on how hard they fight to survive. Listen to the minutes of this full-length novel to find out the outcome of their tribulation and trials.

What happens when someone you love is in trouble? Do you endanger yourself to help lift their burdens? Or do you remain neutral in hopes that the trouble fades away? These were questions Sky Cunningham was faced with when approached by Arien Carson. What was her decision? Did she risk losing everything to save and avenge her loved one from the demons out to get them? Listen along to find out what became of Sky and Arien and those close to them, and those whom they loved dearly.

Being the wife of a hustler is all Sky Cunningham has ever known. He basically saved her life and taught her to have high self-esteem. But now she is on her own, facing the scorn of his old partners and trying to boss a new crew of three other females. She struggles with trusting their loyalty to her, and the daunting question of who to keep in her circle of team members. Tag along as Sky decides who joins her winner’s circle.

Meet Yasir Patterson. He is an attractive Black business owner. He, along with his wife Taquia, run a tight ship not only regarding their businesses but their home life as well. At least that is what Taquia thought until Krista Coche steps on the scene. It's like living out a real-life Fatal Attraction. Find out who wins and who fails in this interracial urban drama.

She comes from a broken home and looks for love in all the wrong places with all the wrong people. In this classic predator vs. prey teen drama, we will find out if Caprice's family can save her from a life of turmoil or allow her to succumb to a predator's advances and live a life of hardship.

Hurt by love, Empress, "Zorah Franklin", lives life on the conservative and celibate side. She is a single mother of one, an educator, and a woman who loves her community. Not quite ready to love, pro-black activist Redd, “Xyshaun Smith”, an entrepreneur and educator, falls in love with Empress’s essence. She is everything he wants in a woman, and he is ready to step up to the plate to make her trust in Black love again.

LLoyal Carter and Bev Hines have both power and privilege in the underworld. Lloyal is the boss of a powerful syndicate that everyone respects and fears. He is deemed untouchable. Bev is his beautiful wife and mother of his children. It seems as if they have the perfect, loving home on the outside, but things aren’t so sweet on the inside.

In this third installment, Geena: A Bronx Chick’s Story 3, Geena finds herself in jail with an unlikely buddy. The brutal prosecutor and her ex-lover Malachi try and snatch Geena’s freedom away for a very long time. As events unfold in this climactic third and final installment, we meet new characters as Geena battles with old ones which include taking their lives.

New York City's tough girl and Bronx native, Geena Samuels, is back with even more drama. She has left the drug game alone. Geena is refocused on getting herself back on track and healthy while taking care of her children and man. However, her one time allies have now become her enemies. Geena embarks on a deadly cat and mouse game in order to come out victorious. Get ready because the bait has already been left in the trap. Who will bite first? To find out Geena must encounter new friends and family members just as strong as her.

The anticipated second installment of In These Streets: Koi’s Saga is here. It picks up where the first installment has left off, informing you of the events after young Koi and older boyfriend Griff were rushed to the hospital. This second installment is just as hot as the first, introducing you to a new cast of characters with even more secrets and scandals. Find out what happens when their paths collide as the saga continues.

Everything from life, love, infidelity, murder and death are explored as seen through the eyes of Eliza Ma'Koi MacDougal. A young feisty teen who was forced to grow up fast due to the death of the first man who ever loved her. Yes, her dad. She then watches as her mother spirals out of control as she chases her crack demons. Forced to grow up fast and take reins of the household and younger siblings to try and keep them out the foster care system, she meets and falls in love with a 19-year- old male named Griffin.

>Meet Geena Samuels, a single mother raising two sons in one of New York City's toughest boroughs. This Bronx story is nothing like you've ever witnessed before. Geena encounters violence and betrayal from those who claim to love her most. She is on a roller coaster ride of a struggle to make ends meet and find true love, with emotions raging between love and an anger that sometimes leads to war.