**** THIS IS A COMPLETE NOVEL! NO SEQUEL, NO CLIFF-HANGER! *** When Alex’s daughter’s father, Q, is murdered in cold blood, Alex is left picking up the shattered pieces of her life. Instead of crumbling like she has in the past, Alex decides to avenge him by getting revenge on Ahab Miller, the infamous club owner. She plans her revenge by any means necessary even if it means exploiting one of her closest friends, Shalaya, a woman with nothing to lose. With not a penny to her name and her rent almost past due, Shalaya Adams is in a situation no single mother wants to find herself in: crashing and burning for the enjoyment of her son's father, Mar, who wants nothing more than to gain custody of their son and whisk him away to another happily ever after that doesn't involve her. Her luck takes a turn for the better when she meets a handsome stranger who's looking for a fresh start. Everything starts to go her way when she gets a strange request from her best friend, Alex, asking her to date Ahab Miller. What Shalaya expects to be climbing into bed with a cold-hearted monster turns into a sensual love affair unlike any other. But what happens when Ahab isn't the monster Alex has made him out to be? Shalaya is forced to make the decision of a lifetime. Will her allegiance remain to Alex or will she turn her loyalties to Ahab and end up between his sheets?

After being away from his neighborhood for more than nine years and finding a career as a Wilmington Delaware Police Detective, Jamal is lured back to North Philly when a shoot-out erupts, killing one of his best friends. A Detective, who becomes familiar with Jamal's past, unravels shocking truths about drugs, dirty cops, and their role in a drug war that is claiming lives in a North Philly neighborhood, daily. Jamal is blackmailed and forced into a position to possibly take down his cousin Samir. Now faced with a matter of kill or be killed, Jamal must decide whether he will return to his life from the past, or honor his badge. In this urban fiction sequel, all bets are off and everyone, including Jamal, is expendable!

They say if you don't have trust, you don't have a marriage. In the fifth and final installment of Good Girls Love Thugs: Nic and Kendrick, the couple learns just how important trusting one another is. When an incident occurs, putting Kendrick in the middle of a scandal, Nic has to figure out whether she should trust her man or move on to greener pastures. Kendrick loves his wife more than anything, but sometimes love just isn't enough; especially when there is another man who is willing to stick by Nic through thick and thin. Will Kendrick be able to convince Nic that despite his mistakes, she belongs with him, or will he have to accept that she's moved on to a man that she feels will treat her the way she deserves to be treated. Get on this emotional roller coaster ride, and find out if this good girl will forever love her thug, or simply leave him in the dust.

“I need to make sure Yara’s really for me. She’s seen the good, had my back through the bad, and I need to know if she’ll stick around for the ugly.” Still reeling from Quade’s near-death experience, Yara handles being the girlfriend of a savage with kid gloves. She showers Quade with the affection he’s been missing while in exchange he gives her the loyalty she’s always craved. Fair exchange quickly becomes robbery when Quade demands more from Yara than she’s able to give, and sends her straight back to the dark times of her childhood. The monsters that haunted Yara’s childhood have nothing on Quade’s wild side, a side of him he’s always been able to suppress but never tame. When their relationship takes a devastating turn, Yara has to decide whether or not love will be enough to salvage a relationship that’s falling apart by the seams. Quade has always lived life recklessly, with his acceptance and encouragement of death a rare trait, but in the eye of the very thing he’s always welcomed with open arms, he finds a new reason to live for: Yara. Her beauty, kind heart, and smart mouth have given him a new reason to live, and only as he accepts it his life is put on the line. Yara helps nurse him back to health, which proves to be a high point in their relationship until they reach the ultimate low. Quade’s inner demons come out to play, demons that he hasn’t relived since he lost the first woman to ever love him unconditionally—his mother. With his actions speaking louder than his words, Quade has to fight one of the toughest battles of his life with an enemy equally as lethal as he is. If he loses, he stands to lose the very woman to make him breathe again. Known jokingly to everyone as an aspiring Griselda Blanco, Cash starts making serious money moves. She’s got a distributor in her pocket, her clientele is expanding, and the styling business she’s been dreaming of is nearly ready to launch. Cash goes from being a kept woman to keeping up with the Joneses, and for everything she has, only one thing is missing: a relationship with Savion Townsend. In order to keep their situationship thriving, Cash piles one lie on top of the other to the point where she doesn’t know what the truth is anymore. And once those money moves turn bloody, Cash finds out exactly how ruthless the game can be when she goes from being the one holding the gun to the one staring down the barrel of it. The second installment of When a Heartless Thug Holds Me Close weaves a story of being stuck on the wrong side of love. Will Quade be able to mend his relationship with Yara? Can Cash command the game and Savion’s heart? And most importantly, when given the opportunity to start over with a man that offers everything Quade has without the baggage will Yara accept, or does her love for Quade run deeper than she imagined?

What do you do when the man you love won’t let you go? Denver Andrews is trying to move forward with her life and her new man, Myles. She is finally in a place of peace, but her ex-husband Malik is relentless when it comes to getting her back. He’s made it clear that he’s willing to go to extreme lengths to get her back, but Denver knows that he’s not the man for her. Aurora Andrews has never been a one-man woman. She enjoys playing the field and not taking anything too seriously, but all that changes when she meets Jermaine. He is the missing piece to her puzzle, but she isn’t sure if she’s ready to dive into something serious with a man she just met. Jermaine is sure that Aurora is perfect for him, but he’s not going to beg her to be with him. Will she realize that it’s okay to let him in? Or will she self-sabotage a relationship that could change her life? Cole is still on the run, and Myles and Jermaine are at their wits’ end trying to find him. Once they take care of him, they can get back to normal life. However, that isn’t as easy as they thought it would be. Saving My Heart for a Thug’s Love 3 is full of drama and love. This book shows the true meaning of family and loyalty in a way that readers haven’t seen before.

It’s hard to move forward when the past won’t let you go. Denver has finally taken control of her life and she is determined to move forward and enjoy all that life has to offer. With a new outlook on love, she is ready to start living, but there’s just one problem; her husband Malik won’t let her go. Borderline obsessed with Denver, he doesn’t know how to move on, and neither does he want to. He is focused on making his life with Denver work no matter what the cost. The only thing that is standing in his way is Myles. Myles Mills is putting his all into making Denver the happiest woman in the world. There is nothing he wouldn’t do for her. Myles is trying to be there for her while simultaneously heading to war in the streets. Will he rise to the occasion? Or will he be defeated by an unlikely enemy? Get ready to experience what happens when you save your heart for a thug.

In the final installment of the Good Girls Love Thugs series, a new connect proves to be bad news for the brothers and their ladies. This is the first time business becomes unfortunately mixed with pleasure, and threatens the relationships of every single King brother. Can the couples make it, despite everyone trying to tear them apart? Or will they be able to prove their loyalty to one another, and come out on top.

“If someone truly loves you then they’ll always leave a piece of their heart open for you.” After coming off the tour of a lifetime, the fairytale happily ever after that Symphony Haveras imagined for herself has vanished and is replaced by a living nightmare. Her once solid relationship with Carter is crumbling fast and every piece of it they patch together, someone tears it apart. From Carter's dramatic groupies, to Symphony's too-close-for-comfort relationship with her sexy label mate, Zayne, the only thing that can repair the solid foundation they once built is trust. But when a secret from Carter's past leaks and changes the dynamic of their relationship, Symphony has to make the decision to be the loyal girlfriend or seek happiness elsewhere. As if her love life wasn’t in shambles enough, she finds herself dealing with life sharing the face of a newly released murderer: her twin sister Harmony. After spending the past year in jail for a crime that she insists that she didn’t commit, Harmony Haveras is a free woman with a lot of time to make up. She wants to be the best mother she can to her daughter and rebuild her life by reclaiming the power behind the Haveras last name. Convinced that she’ll never have the success that her sister has, Harmony settles in for a life of normalcy when she finds herself skyrocketed into fame by one chance performance. She catches the eye of rappers, old flames, and every eligible bachelor in Miami, but none of them are Kason, the man who believed in her when she was nothing more than a meth addict living in Liberty City. In the end Harmony has to decide if she wants to live a life of fame and fortune, or will she settle down in the name of love.

The streets pump blood through Rocko’s heart, but his women are the electricity that spreads and causes it to contract. Though he’s madly in love with his fiancée, Troi, he can’t keep his past mistakes with other women from catching up with him. “Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before.” Troi is tired of his constant lies and cheating ways, while Heather and Mai find that being Rocko’s baby mamas comes with more than they bargained for. Troi discovers that she’s pregnant just when she’s wishing she could shake Rocko for the last time. When things seem as if they can’t get any worse, Rocko discovers he has yet another baby mama who hid his child from him. Trying his best to stay out of prison for a murder he didn’t commit, he keeps Troi out of harm’s way. While the streets want him, his children, and the women in his life dead, the only thing he wants to do is to marry Troi once and for all. Will Rocko be able to keep everyone safe and change his life for the better? Or will the street jury find him guilty and take everything away?

The crew is back at it again. Malika is in a medically induced coma. Dominic has baby mama drama. Keno has commitment issues, and Kia is fed up with it. All the couples are trying to make things work, but one couple has trust issues, and one of them is ready to throw in the towel. Malika and Dominic got engaged, and he is now ready to get married. Malika thinks it’s all glitter and gold until she quickly realizes when marrying a man in the streets, you’re not just marrying that man. You’re marrying the streets as well. Kia still hasn’t gotten over what happened when she and Malika were kidnapped and doesn’t know if she will ever be able to get over it. Keno is trying to be a good man, but of course like all men, he has a tempting moment. The question is does he fall for the temptations or not? In the end, sometimes love may not be enough, and maybe it is, but what happens when your happy life is cut short because of what your man does in the streets?