There's so many positive 4 letter words: Love Like Hope Care Life Then there's negative: Hate Evil Dead For once in her life Desdemona wanted to hear negative. The word in itself: Negative. Instead she heard positive. Her whole world came tumbling down when she found out she was positive for HIV/AIDS. She just wants to experience that four letter word, that thing called: L O V E

A lot of people don't get as many opportunities at success & even friendship as Dave and Bernice did. David Brewster aka Dave East and Bernice Burgos were just 2 Harlem kids from the east side trying to make it. They were best friends..at one point at least. After a couple moves out of NY then back their friendship ended, but now as adults could they respark it? A reunited friendship will change them for the better. Watch these Black Roses bloom... ⚠️Book 2: Gold Petals⚠️ All events in this book are fictional. Some instances such as events and characters may be based off of real life but nothing is 100% factual.

"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.

Kyra is a good girl. She makes straight A's, has three best friends, one who doubles as a secret crush, and has the perfect reputation. But what lurks around the corner will change all that.... or should I say who? RJ is the guy your parents try to keep you away from. He's the reason you can't wear tight clothes and stay out past curfew. He's trouble, in every sense of the word. But in all his malice and mischief, he manages to stumble upon Kyra, his ray of innocent light. What happens when polar worlds collide and emotions act as deciding factors? This is the story which tells you what happens.... once you go hood.....

Here we have Shay Dennis: the witty, emotional damaged, shy, good girl. Once her and her dis-attached mother moved to the city of Sacramento, California she stumbles upon Loriella High's one and only bad boy, Bryce Kelly. Everything about him screamed danger, from he's cold-like eyes to he's numerous tattoo across he's body. Nevertheless, that only fueled Shay's curiosity more. One night at a local street race, Shay least expects that night that Bryce and he's blue Lamborghini is only the beginning of her adventure. Who wants that perfect love story anyway?