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"If you just leave when shit gets hard, why should I stay?"Tai Chamberlain comes from love. Her parents had raw unapologetic love as did their parents before them. They poured so much into her that she had no choice but to demand nothing less than what she deserved. They loved her so much and sheltered her to the point it made her sick. How did they expect the 24-year-old to grow up? How did they expect the naïve young girl to navigate through her environment when love wasn't enough? Florida was more than just palm trees and beaches. There was beef and pain, sadness and lost adolescents.When Tai sets her sights on the most enigmatic of them all, her entire love construct is torn down into pieces. Her life is turned upside down. She's never felt violence and pain like this before. How could she be pining for Crook Sanders, the crooked-smiled hoodlum who was younger and only knew how to survive?…

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Boys, Finstas, Drama and more boys.Fourteen year old Ashanti Allan comes from an affluent household, things have always come easy to her.Henderson Prep however, is an entirely different ball game. Starting her freshman year with her girls and chasing after the boys who grew a foot taller over the summer - was suppose to be the dream.The once confident teenager finds herself struggling like a fish out of water. The struggles get even worse when two members in her trio take on the same interest in something..and someone.With Ashanti feeling butterflies of her own and going through a tough time at home, the teenager finds herself in a sink or swim situation, with her head barely above water.…

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It's been a year since the day that changed Aaron Turner's life forever, and with the daily reminder looking him in the face every morning - it's a day he'll never forget.After cutting off the love of his life and running off to escape his past - the young man is plagued with trust issues and fighting his inner demons.When an old friend is murdered, Aaron finds himself whisked back into the cold world that nearly took his life and the man who he'd once risk it all for.…

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(Book One of the Promise Series)Franklin Diaz was an urban legend after his reign of terror over Texas ended. The blood bath and chaos that ensued on one faithful night not only took his life, but left his wife Sasha widowed and his three children, Chantel, Quincy and Alexis without their father.After years of trying to protect her children from their father's past it comes back to Sasha once her husbands former right hand is released from prison and begins manipulating her children as they become more entangled in the life their father once lived.With Quincy preparing to take up where his father left off and Chantel and Alexis following in their mothers footsteps, the Diaz children take on more than they bargained for when they're forced to pay for their fathers passed sins and learn more about his shady dealings.…

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"Don't ever leave me again"With age comes responsibility, some comes sooner than for others. Being in a family filled with drugs and murder it's only normal to follow in the footsteps of those before you.With old beefs growing more and more deadly the family is more divided then ever. Everything comes at a cost and karma is very much real, it just hits in different ways. With the Jamaican cartel thriving in the drug world and deemed untouchable an old beef between Moriah and Kaine seems to be growing out of control leaving people stuck in the middle.New York also has stepped in to the feud when it's leader grows power hungry forcing sides to be chosen, their motto is 'Death Before Dishonor'.Ajani and Kaine's love story might be officially over, especially when mistakes are made and the past comes to light and sides are chosen out of lies and deceit.When it's all said and done only one side will remain and the California organization you all have grown to love might have just met its match.…

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"I need you"Corrine Parker was troubled. After her father was sent to prison for killing his mistress in a fit of rage and her mother diagnosed with stage four liver cancer, Seventeen year old Corrine is sent to live with her twenty five year old stripper sister named Isis who lives the fast life.Deemed a prude by everyone around her Corrine is in for a wake up call when it comes to dealing with her sister and her choice of men. After Isis agrees to house a hood rich hit man, Corrine's living situations grows a bit complicated after her sister and her open Pandora's box.Kareem Davis was only thirteen when he witnessed his father being killed by a drug related drive by and there was nothing he or anybody could do about it. As soon as he turned of age he decided that he'd enjoy nothing more than taking out the people who took his father from him.After a less than ordinary night at an strip club he and his boys regularly attend he finds himself in a storm of trouble when he attempts to kill the owner of the place after discovering he had something to do with his fathers death only to fail.Word in the hood travels fast and now he's forced to hide out while playing a cat and mouse game with his worst nightmare and dodging his feelings.…

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Book Four, must read books 1-3"It's all bout who you know, street ties mean everything love"Ajani Powell now Fourteen was raised in Jamaica with her younger brother very aware of her father and her families street life but she preferred to keep to herself spending time studying and keeping her brother in check.Being one of the oldest of the next generation the family business is hanging on Ajani's shoulders and she's forced to make a tough choice, she could either fix her families mistakes or keep the cycle of violence going to keep her families legacy alive.When her father and mother make the decision that Jamaica is no longer safe for their family they move back to California unbeknownst to them that Cali may not be the same or as safe as they think it is with a feud growing between two young men with very different ideas for the drug world and Ajani is stuck right in the middle of it all.Little did everyone know this feud would soon turn into the most deadliest turf war the state of California has ever seen and would go down in history.…

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Gianna Alexander was only sixteen when she met Marcus Anderson, the man who she'd fallen hard for and had eventually had a child with years later. The notorious man had taken the once innocent church girl and showed her the streets and her life was never quite the same.Now at the age of twenty four Gianna and Marcus had long been over and he was in the middle of serving a five year prison sentence. Gianna had moved on to Alonzo Marshall who'd set his sights on the single mother and unlike Marcus he was just starting out in the drug world trying to build a name for himself, but that proves to be difficult when he burns the wrong bridges and unintentionally starts a drug war amongst some of the kingpins in Florida.Things heat up once Marcus is released from prison earlier than expected with blood and revenge on his mind and Gianna is stuck in the middle of the brewing feud between her baby daddy and her current boyfriend.When the fast life starts to catch up and become too much for her, Gianna realize it's too late to go back and is forced to choose between life or death when the lies and deceit come out.…

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Book ThreeDon't Read if you haven't read the first two books or you won't understand."I'm a sinner baby, so are you and that's why I love you"With Ohaji sentenced to prison and Jade & Silas done with the game for good it's up to there children to keep the legacy alive but hustling doesn't come easy.Alijah Scott, now twenty is having a hard time trying to maintain her relationship with the Jamaican Cartel leader, Jesse Powell while he's still running from his responsibilities and afraid of commitment. With a new drug business stepping onto the scene taking mostly all of there customers Alijah is at a crossroads in her life on if this time the family drug organization and her relationship is really worth saving.Calvin Scott has changed tremendously in the past five years turning into a complete and utter monster. Only giving a damn about his family he takes out anyone in his way with out even blinking an eye. With the help of Jesse and Eli these young man have gone above and beyond to make sure this business doesn't go down the drain ruining all of his fathers hard work.With another powerful drug business coming along Cal, Jesse and Eli feel there throne being snatched from under there feet, and this time they may have met there match. But then again they are men who aren't afraid to sin, so they should be able to handle a little competition, right?…

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Aaron Turner had come to terms with his bisexuality at the age of fifteen. His first real relationship was with the man he'd always wanted and it was something he'd never wanted to end. But like most teenage relationships it didn't last long and they eventually went their separate still holding a soft spot for one another but the timing just was never right.Now, at the age of twenty one Aaron is in college, he has the money and the looks but it never felt like enough. After a chance encounter with his first love - Moses a kingpin on the rise, things take a turn for the worst when they can't resist each other and precede to mess around not caring who they hurt in the process.It was like an addiction and once they got in too deep it was to late to go back. Aaron didn't think about the outcome, but the aftershock of messing with a married drug dealer when lots of lives and relationships are involved is more than just messy especially when things turn deadly.…

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"This was suppose to be easy, nobody was suppose to get hurt". Twenty year old Ivory Santana was what most people would call friendly and caring. She'd be the person you'd least expect to have a father running one of the biggest drug trafficking industry's in America. Ivory has went through great measures keeping that part of her life private while attending college at NYU, that is until she's taken. Twenty two year old Jade and his older brother Ohaji are 2 completely different types of people that you wouldn't expect to even associate with each other if they weren't related. With dreams of one day being as legendary as their father once was. The two brothers were given the task of kidnapping their boss, big Al's enemy's daughter until he agrees to compromise. Sounds simple enough right? WRONG. What happens when Ivory teams up with the brothers and this turns into a cat and mouse game between bonds and blood?…

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Sequel to Blood Line."I love you more than Ive ever loved something and as much as it hurts to say goodbye, I have to because you deserve better than this"Alijah Scott, the fifteen year old daughter of Jade and Ivory has been living under the radar with Silas,her "Father". Unknown to Silas is the fact that Ivory survived that shooting nearly fifteen years ago and has missed most of her daughters life.When Silas feels like he needs a new scenery he decided to move his family back to California where it all started. But it's not just him and Alijah anymore, there's also Zaire. Alijah's seventeen year old best friend who's been living with them since he was eight.Jade and O are also running one of the biggest drug empires the state of California has ever seen, The brothers are deemed untouchable. While Jade still holds a grudge against Silas for taking his daughter away it turns into an all out turf war between old friends.Alijah also finds herself falling for two drug dealers in training with a dark pasts, while trying to escape her own troubles.When the secrets and lies finally come out and the truth is learned the empire and family everyone's worked so hard to keep might crumble to the ground, and Alijah's first romance may crumble along with it before it's even had a chance to start…