When Lauren's mother died, her abusive father looks to her to play the role of house wife and bedmate. Lauren finds a way to escape it all when she meets local barbershop owner and Kingpin Rio.

26 year old Lyric Williams is a model and aspiring singer and as pretty and tough as she looks on the outside. You wouldn’t know she was in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend of 4 years, Cornell Hayes also known as Nelly. She puts up with like they’re the perfect couple. Her best friend, Fallon who she has known for years doesn’t even know what Lyric goes through. And that’s how Lyric wants it. Until Lyric meets Tremaine Neverson as in Trey Songz at a nightclub, and her life takes a turn for the better. Trey gets Lyric out of the relationship and she moves in with him and that’s when the romance begins. So get ready for some tears, laughs, heartache, life changes, love, break ups, make ups, and everything in between. Cause you never forget your first love.

"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to fight for her freedom. There's only one problem: a powerful man blocking her way.

Kara is a struggling restaurant owner in the most famous city. Her father taught her everything he knew about the business. She learned from her mother to never fall in love. Her mother didn't want Kara or the middle class life she had with Kara's father resulting in a divorce between her parents when she was a child. Her father died three years ago leaving Kara to struggle with holding onto their family restaurant in an area of New York that has become full of high-rise condos and skyscrapers. She hasn't seen her mother since she was a child but all she has to do is look in the mirror to see her look alike face. She had a front row seat watching her mother use her beauty to get what she wanted. Some of the things her mother did are now affecting her. Kara's restaurant is the latest target of developers and businesses using any means necessary to gain access to land they need to build their dream high-rises. Two of the biggest corporations determined to get her land are major rivals with a secret between them that has already destroyed a marriage. Will Kara align herself with the family that now has her mother as their matriarch or will she give in to the demands of the Hurst family. Their need for her land borders on desperation and Braylin Hurst is fighting his need for her.

Sicilian heiress Laila Fiorenza is ordered by her strict father to meet the Greek billionaire fiancé of her runaway twin sister in her stead in order to keep the Fiorenza's prestige intact. But can this prim and proper princess truly shoulder this sham of an arrangement as a substitute bride? *** The sweet and lovely Laila Fiorenza was groomed to be a perfect lady by her prestigious and noble Sicilian family. But what happens when she is given a task of a lifetime by her own father--to pretend to be her rebel twin sister and meet Nikos Pallis, the fiancé of the runaway Leila? Can she truly adjust from her sheltered life in the old town in Sicily for bustling New York as a substitute bride? Cover design by Rayne Mariano

Its been 5 months since Ive been kidnapped. He took me. He took me and locked me up in this basement. Ive been raped, beat, and starved for doing nothing. I did NOTHING to deserve this. I dont even know him. Help me escape. © 2013 by TrueDepth. All rights reserved