Completed ✅ *BOOK 1 in the Gang Life series. * "You are mine! Do you understand?" He says. His soft lips are right up against my ear, his hands either side of my head and my back is up against the cold wall behind me. I roll my eyes at him, looking away. He slams his hand into the wall, making me jump and the white paint crack and chip. "Did you just roll your eyes at me?" He asks, voice dangerously low. "Don't do that... unless you want to see how I handle it" He groans, his dangerous dark brown eyes bore into mine. *** When young African-American girl Adeline Carter is faced with possibly one of the most interesting business deals of her life, how will she handle it? Will she rise above the challenge? Or will she crumble to his charms first?

She's fallin' in love now Losin' control now Fightin' the truth Tryin' to hide But I think it's alright

Spin-off to All Of Me

Revised version of All of Me ✨ more characters & a better storyline (in my opinion).

Trinity Copeland gave her heart to the man she loved. Only to have him rip it from her chest with his lies and infidelity. Her sisters are determined to her out of her slump, so they send her to a resort for a few weeks to unwind, relax, have fun and remove all thoughts of him. Enter Spencer Grant. Spencer, an internet millionaire and workaholic, needs to get away from his match making mother for a while. When the two meet sparks fly; but Trinity I'll find that forgetting Eric may not be so easy.

In South Central L.A., sixteen-year-old Arnani "Nani" Sinclair is growing up fast in a house full of secrets, scars, and survival. Her father runs the streets, her mother is slipping away, and her brother-once her protector-is unraveling. Behind the designer gates and dollar signs, Nani carries a truth too heavy to speak. But when secrets start bleeding through the cracks and love shows up where she least expects it, Nani finds herself caught between the life she knows and the freedom she dreams of. Torn between loyalty and liberation, Nani must confront the trauma that shaped her and the truth that could free her. As love, violence, and legacy collide, will she risk it all to save herself? Hear Our Cry is a raw, emotionally charged journey through the heart of the hood, told through the eyes of a girl coming of age in a house built on lies, power, and pain. TRIGGER WARNING ; contains, s*xual abuse, dr*g abuse, physical and mental ab*se.

[I initially wrote this in 2017, but I am doing a big re-write in July of 2021, I hope you enjoy the updated version!] Bria is a straight A student in high school, who at 17, is faced with the responsibility of taking care of her younger brother, balancing school..and social activities. Christopher isn't as much as a star student, he's not great when it comes to school, but he's a social butterfly and popular with girls. After being assigned as permanent partners in a class, the pair (who aren't very fond of each other) find themselves growing closer over a rumor, a fake relationship, and their common struggle with abuse and family issues. When they're both faced with deep, dire situations, they look to each other for help. [UNDER EXTREME EDITING]

Jaycee Burden, let's just say she ain't a easy chick but her friends know that. That tough skin is needed for the type of guys she's always had and the one she's about to deal with. She's in for a such a ride trust me.

Lelaih a recent divorced women is trying to pick up her life and trying to move on. Even though she now has a hard time trusting men and believing she can ever love again. So when Cordell, a well respected owner of his own company Jackson Industries, tries to show her he is different and not like her ex-husband she has a hard time believing him. This is a story of two people who go through numerous of hurdles to be together and in the end they may or may not work.

After being lied to constantly, hurt repeatedly, and cheated on more times than she can count, Kamille Riley Paige just wants to be loved and appreciated for being the good woman that she is. Being in an on and off six year relationship with her child's father, Raemond Woods, has taken a complete tole on her at only twenty four years old. He was the man that she loved so much, but treated her so badly in return. Kamille was the perfect woman for any man, a blessing in a form of a slim-thick figured, browned skin woman with a sassy mouth. She was beautiful, hard-working, independent, and she was loyal, but he just didn't notice it until she was both feet out of the door. All Kamille wanted was to love and be loved, to commit and be committed to, to cherish and be cherished. She just wanted a man that could provide her wants and needs, as well as accept her daughter Raegan with open arms, in exchange for her. Will Raemond step up and be the man and father that she wants and needs him to be, or will she stray elsewhere in search of someone who was willing to meet her half way with an even exchange? VANESSA WRIGHT © COPYRIGHTED 2016. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.