Born in the heart of Brooklyn to a dope fiend mother and ghost of a father, Moette Henderson, aka Moe, learned at a young age that cash ruled all. Raised by her money hungry foster mother, Moe quickly became one of the best hustlers in the game, wooing some of the biggest kingpins in the game and hitting them where it hurts the most: their pockets. Moe has been hardened by the game, and the only thing keeping her sane was her little sister, Roni. It's Moe's dedication to making sure that Roni had the life she's always dreamed of that kept her pushing, and she's convinced that she's got it under control until she meets Savant, a bandit turned businessman. A born paper chaser with no fear of the law or losing his life, Savant is every woman’s dream and hustler’s nightmare. After being betrayed by the love of his life in a heist gone wrong, Savant has sworn off his trigger happy ways and decides to lay low while building an empire of his own. He's content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Moe, a mysterious beauty that might make him a believer in love again. She's everything that he could ask for: smart, loyal, and a natural born hustler like himself. The problem? There's something about her that he can't quite put his finger on. When Moe’s best friend, Damaris, comes up with the idea to go from robbing hustlers to banks, Moe’s apprehensive until she gets a taste of that dirty money. With an insatiable taste for the thrill of heist after heist, Moe has to keep her lifestyle hidden from the reserved Savant. Forced to live two lives, Moe must decide whether to take a chance on a love that she never saw coming or to keep chasing the almighty dollar.

Moe and the crew are back in the final installment of the Dirty Money Saga for one final heist where they have the opportunity to get rich or die trying. No matter how much dirty money she has chased, no dollar amount has ever filled the void in her heart the way Savant has. He's the Prince Charming that she's always imagined taking her away from her troubled life and giving her the normalcy she deserves. However, Moe finds that the fairytale life she envisions won’t happen when two old ghosts reenter Savant’s life: his treacherous ex-girlfriend, Nik, and the very slick Kasiim. Between Nik’s desire to stir the pot and Kasiim luring Savant back into his fast lifestyle, every step forward Moe and Savant takes comes with four drama filled steps back. Moe finds herself constantly questioning Savant’s loyalty to her, and their relationship is tested when a huge family secret threatens everything they’ve built. As if her life wasn’t difficult enough, Moe's mother, Deborah, reenters with the intentions of spilling secrets and reigniting old grudges. Like any hustler, Deborah’s silence comes with a price, and Moe has to make the decision to pay...or make her go away for free. Since the reformed life doesn’t offer a large enough payout, Moe rejoins Poochie and the team for the planning of one last heist that can set them up for life, or have them doing twenty-five to life. Stepping back into the game comes with reminders of the good times, with one good time in particular: Onyx. Although Moe fights her feelings for Onyx, the Brooklyn boss becomes a constant in her life when the going gets rough with Savant and the only man who embraces her love of the pursuit of dirty money. In the finale of So Obsessed with a Brooklyn Boss, allegiances change, loyalties are tested, and love comes with a price at the pursuit of dirty money. Moe must tread lightly and determine if she wants to be the bad girl gone good with Savant, or be the queen that Onyx is searching for to help rule his kingdom one dollar bill at a time.

Heartbroken over the demise of her relationship with Savant, Moe struggles to go back to life before him, finding it easier said than done. Hovering between bouts of depression and attempts of promiscuity, Moe is convinced that she’ll never find another man to care for her the way Savant did. Until she meets the mysterious Onyx and discovers that she has a debt to settle. Forced to work off her debt, Moe discovers a new life in the drug trade that small cons never afforded her. For the first time in her life, she works for her money, and it feels good. But, as usual, with more money comes more problems. Moe has to juggle being a big sister to a difficult Roni, a shoulder to lean on for an incarcerated Damaris, and discovering a normal life with Juju. And just when she thinks she has it under control, the opportunity to reclaim the love of her life pops up with a cost larger than any dollar amount. Hailing from Jamaican royalty, Johann “Onyx” Walcott is a beast in the streets and in the boardroom. A successful connect by day and prominent club owner by night, Onyx lives the life many would envy enough to steal from it, which is what happens when Moe walks into First Continental Bank and robs him of his attaché case containing a quarter of a million dollars. It doesn’t take him long to find her, and when he does, he discovers that a beautiful face and cold heart lie behind her ski mask. Instead of killing her, Onyx turns Moe into a ruthless runner, who wreaks havoc on the streets and slowly builds a name for herself. Onyx soon learns that there is more to Moe than meets the eye and finds himself slowly falling for her, but he’s wondering in the back of his head if she was true to the game or simply playing it because the price was right. Connected by a contract to Onyx while remaining loyal to her feelings for Savant, Moe is stuck in an emotional tug of war, finding herself in a situation that money can't solve. And when an opportunity to be free of Onyx presents itself, she has to decide if she's ready to give up the fast money for love, or pledge her allegiance to the dead presidents.

“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?

"After watching my mother be beaten in the name of love, I always dreamed of having my own perfect love story void of pain. One where my very own Prince Charming would sweep me off of my feet. And then I met Quade, who showed me that love should be everything but perfect.” Yara Samuels has experienced her fair share of hurt in life. Growing up in a home ridden with domestic violence, Yara was taught at a young age that if it isn’t painful, then it isn’t love. It takes watching her mother be beaten to death by her stepfather for young Yara to learn that love taps shouldn’t send you to the grave. All grown up, she searches for a man who knows how to love a woman with his heart and not his fists. After years of looking, Yara believes that she finds the embodiment of this philosophy in her boyfriend, Amir, until she discovers that while he may provide physical peace, the mental isn’t there. With her sense of self-worth challenged, Yara is content with loving Amir when Quade comes hurtling into her life. The youngest of the infamous Townsend Brothers, Quade isn’t your run-of-the-mill hustler. A walking oxymoron, Quade has a baby face with a heart bred cold courtesy of the streets. Quade has been given the gift of sticky fingers, a trap king philosophy, and a trigger finger that hasn’t missed a target yet. When his aim leads him straight into the path of Yara while in the midst of a hit, Quade's heart melts and he's drawn to the mysterious Yara, who for some reason unbeknownst to him, can't stand him. Never one to back down from a challenge, Quade pursues Yara with the same recklessness that he handles business, and it makes for the start of a memorable love affair. Beneath her expensive clothing and designer handbags, Yara's best friend, Cashmere, is a woman tired of being kept at the expense of her sanity. While putting on a brave face for the world, Cash hides her frustration with her boyfriend behind her Chanel sunglasses. There's nothing picture perfect about the couple, and with each of Vito’s antics worse than the last, Cash finds herself seeking a backup plan in the event that her days of being a hustler’s princess are cut short. When Cash is greeted with an opportunity to secure the bag, she jumps at it immediately and finds herself on the path to becoming the queenpin that the streets have been begging for. What's standing in her way? Savion Townsend. Cash has got it bad for one of the Townsend Brothers, but between forming her own empire and her complicated relationship with Vito, Cash has to decide if she's willing to risk it all in the name of love.

The cards have fallen where they may and in the final installment of When a Heartless Thug Holds Me Close, this true love story may come to a tragic ending if the Townsend Brothers are unable to dead their beef with the Assan Brothers once and for all. The confidence Yara restored in herself has come under fire after Ghetto’s vicious attack on her, leaving her body as well as her mind under duress. However, she doesn’t have to fight this uphill battle by herself because Quade is there for her, kissing her scars and healing old wounds that threatened to reopen. With the budding romance between her and Quade being placed in jeopardy, Yara returns the favor by becoming Quade’s solace throughout a war for the books. Her loyalty to Quade is enough to keep him from teetering over the edge, but when tragedy strikes the Townsend Brothers, Yara’s love might not be enough to tame Quade’s wild ways. Quade Townsend has always kissed death on the lips, played a game of tug-of-war with it, and thinks of it as a badge of honor to end his premature life. Fighting against the Assan Brothers has made him a friend of it as he gifts casualties of war over as fast as his deadly trigger finger can allow. But what happens when death stakes a claim to someone he loves and in return promises to return back for seconds after a bullseye has been planted on another? Quade finds himself trapped between guarding his life so he could have a future with Yara and sacrificing it for the sake of family. After making the decision with a heavy heart, Quade discovers that a new life is on the line and even if he manages to save it, his days with Yara will certainly be numbered. After being entangled in a bed of lies, Cash wakes up to the reality that her relationship with Savion is no longer salvageable. Her fears are confirmed after the betrayed Townsend Brother teaches her a hard lesson on the game she's never likely to forget. Cash quickly falls out of love with the game as she had once fell in love with it, vowing to go on the straight and narrow to pursue her styling business. She's finally achieved inner happiness at the thought of a life filled with normalcy when Savion returned offering her the opportunity of a lifetime. Unbeknownst to Cash, this deal comes with the return of an old flame that never quite ignited. Torn between a promising future with Mr. Right and her undeniable feelings for a heartless thug, Cash has to decide if she's going to go with her head or her heart.

“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.

Still battling the grief of losing her parents, Heart is one of the youngest kingpins running the streets and she uses her power to start a war with Spade. Just like her name, Heart only sees red as she tears through the streets knocking down Spade’s pawns like only a real queen would. However, with her soldiers dropping left and right, Heart is forced to take on an unlikely ally: her long lost cousin, Ace. Cunning and mysterious, Ace takes on a new identity and finds himself breaking bread with Spade, his father and enemy. The road to hell isn’t easy, but he soon discovers that in Spade’s world it’s called Headquarters, a large building in the middle of the hood holding the secrets to Spade’s organization. Forced to wear two faces, Ace teeters the blurred lines of being the faithful soldier and the scorned son. Bitter and angered by her sudden replacement, Diamond’s eyes are only set on revenge: revenge for the embarrassment of being tossed aside by Spade, revenge for being replaced with someone younger and prettier, and most importantly, revenge for her love being rejected by Spade. With a new alliance formed with King and Ace, Diamond may have the key to Spade’s undoing or possibly the last piece of her undoing. Once one of the most respected lieutenants in the hood, King has been exiled and not only has his pride been stolen from him, but a piece of him that can't be replaced. As King comes to term with this sudden life change, he wonders if his condition will ruin any chance he had of reuniting with Heart or will he be able to his queen rule the streets as her king? Once divided by separate goals, Heart, King, Diamond and Ace have now come together to right the wrongs caused by the king of the streets, Spade. Will they be able to overthrow Spade or will he defeat them again and this time have no mercy?

Life has been anything but easy for twenty-year-old Nubia Monroe. After witnessing her parents’ execution at her tenth birthday party, Nubia hasn’t been the same. The lavish lifestyle that came with being the daughter of the notorious Apollo Monroe was snatched from under her feet, forcing her to become the foster child her evil aunt never wanted. After years of dealing with her uncle’s hand problem, Nubia goes from a plaything to a punching bag for her husband, Vincent. Believing that Vincent is the best thing to happen in her life since the death of her parents, Nubia suffers in silence until she meets Maine. A notorious hustler by day and ruthless hustler by night, Jermaine “Maine” Emerson is as savage as they come. Born a child soldier in Sierra Leone, Maine was given the opportunity for a new life in America working as a hitta for Sampson, a distributor for the Solares Cartel and an infamous gangsta known for his heartless antics. Maine’s first mission: kill Apollo Monroe’s family, including his daughter. With a heart made of steel, Maine slaughters her family relentlessly, but there is something about ten-year-old Nubia that gives fifteen-year-old Maine pause. He spares her life, and the two never cross paths again until Maine catches Nubia being beaten on the street by her husband. Although he has everything he could ask for—money, cars, and his pick of women—Maine is drawn to the broken Nubia and the mystery she brings. As he tries to repair her broken spirit, he has no idea that he's responsible for it. In the middle of Nubia and Maine's battle of the hearts, is Nubia’s best friend, Shahani. After losing the love of her life in a gunfight, the kept Shahani takes refuge on a pole, rebuilding her life one dance at a time. She meets the suave and charismatic Donovan, who takes her from dancing and introduces her to the world of pimping. While Donovan is focused on building his empire, Shahani has other dreams in mind, one of which is opening her own hair salon. She's content with building with Donovan until a chance encounter with Sampson leaves her sleeping with the enemy. Again.

**** 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?