Takashi and Toryn met each other when they were five. Became best friends at ten. Were inseparable by time they were fifteen. Built an indestructible bond at twenty. And now at the age of twenty five, after twenty years of friendship, due to the slowly deteriorating memory Toryn has had since she was a baby, she will one day forget everything. Including the one thing Takashi told her the first time they met. "Don't forget about me." -Takashi Maxwell Cover by: @lucida-

Savage Black was born and raised in Harlem, New York for half her life. After her father passes away from Parkinson's Disease, two months later her mother loses her job. Now at the age 21 struggling to make ends meet, Savage tries to make her dreams of becoming a poet come true. Her mother however, wants her to go to college to pursue a "real" career. Poetry was just a hobby in her mother's eyes, but to Savage poetry is a way of life. After finding her father's journal and letters, a lot of things unfold to her. Like her neighbor Avant and his suspicious ways, a man that shows up at her job looking for her, and the men that flock towards her widow mother. Savage tries to tell the people closest to her that her father might be trying to warn her about something, but no one will believe her. They thinks she's hallucinating just like her father did when he was sick, but she can feel the vibes around her. This is the life of Savage Black...

Let me put your mind to rest I'm nothing like that other guy Ima put yo ass to bed, just call me a lullaby Believe it, believe it Girl I'll be your quarterback, receive it Go deep, baby work them lips no time to speak When I lay back, shawty don't know how to act She ready when the lights go off she climb on top Her body rocking we don't stop No handle bars or falling off, cause cause She ride me like a porn star She ride me like a pro she did this shit before I hold her tight no letting go till she say she can't take no more I'm speechless All I say is oooooooh She ride, she ride She ride, she ride, she ride All I say is oooooooh She ride me like a porn star [Verse 2:] She ride it like she never gonna ride this dick again She thinking like a G and she ain't never giving in She ride it in the back of my car, on the bar, on the stash, on the bed she ain't scared Cause when I lay back, shorty don't know how to act. She ride me like a porn star

"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.

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.

" Say she in King of Diamonds Monday Ain't scared to get that money In back in church by Sunday But we all know shes in love with that pole, pole, pole Shes in love with that pole, pole, pole Ugh, say she in school Tuesday through Friday Friday night thats my day But Saturday through Sunday, she bout money She ain't scared of that pole, pole, pole Said she in love with that pole She so in love with that pole She love wakin up, love wakin up, wakin up with that doe I love it when she come home all the way drunk and all the way throwed Said boy be on that way, so you call me on that road Got that drink up in my cup but that dont mean that I move slow Drank up in my cup but that dont mean that I f*ck slow " She was 5'5 foot. Redbone. Black mixed and thick as coke bottle. She had that bad bitch mentality. She was...Innocent Or in Players Paradise better known as, Ice the stripper. Innocent was not your regular black girl from the hood. Even if thats how it sound. She was a 22 year old stripper. With the hustle comes the game. You got to know life is hard...But the life of Innocent Brown is even worst. Right when she think she's found a easier path, everything get worst. Book filled with Lie's, drama, death, and most of all Money making. Im Innocent Brown..But you can call me ICE..Step into my world. Only the realest may survive.! ©CopyRight Shantii2013/2014 Do Not steal anything !!!

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

"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?

"The finale piece to my story in Schaefer, a true Gangland." - Josh.