Anna J.'s riveting Hell's Diva series continues as Mecca Skyes returns to take her ultimate revenge on the only person she ever thought she could trust. . . Beautiful Mecca was only a kid when her parents were killed, and she was saved from the rough streets of Brooklyn when her aunt, Ruby, "the godmother of crime," took her in. Ruby rubbed out the goons that murdered Mecca's parents and everything seemed fine--until Ruby betrayed Mecca by sleeping with her man, setting in motion a series of e...
In the tradition of Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim comes A Pimp's Life, the story of the rise and fall of Mack Jones. He's at the top of his pimp game in Queens, New York, until he breaks one of the cardinal rules of Pimping 101 and falls in love with one of his girls. Destiny was once an innocent young girl tricked into selling her body, but now she's as tough as the most seasoned professionals on the street. Then a tragic turn of events causes her to open her heart once again. When Mack is...
Satin Doll is a witty, insightful, heartbreaking and honest tale about romantic relationships, friendships, and class distinctions. Until that fateful moment when she was shot and left for dead, Regina Harris was living la vida loca with pimps and hustlers and using whatever money she had to get high and forget that she was living in poverty in Harlem. Now she's a college graduate and journalist who has turned her life around, living on the Upper West Side and hobnobbing with movers and shakers....
The Final Lines Of Loyalty (Lines of Loyalty, #3)
by Brittany Pitteard
When Makeda and her twin sister Abby are born, they come into the world conjoined and sickly. The surgery to separate them weakens Abby so much that she will surely die-unless her parents make a bargain with the gods. For Makeda and Abby are not ordinary children, they are the offspring of Boysie, god of growing things, and his wife, a beautiful human woman. In exchange for Abby's life, Boysie agrees to live as a human, and his wife must spend her days as a monstrous sea creature.Twenty years...
As a child growing up in rural Georgia Lena McPherson was different - she was able to see spirits. Now a young woman and running her late father's bar, she mothers the motley crew of winos, prostitutes and shoplifters who have frequented it since her childhood, but she is lonely. Until, after finding a cache of old papers, she detects a ghostly presence: male, curious and interesting. The fragility of modern relationships is lyrically captured in this powerful and sensuous novel, the sequel to A...
