The passionate story of Tessa and Hardin continues as family secrets, deep betrayals, and career opportunities threaten to tear them apart.

This is the sequel (continuation) of After. Hardin and Tessa's relationship will be tested in ways she never expected, but he knew of all along.

Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

To Riley, boys like Asher don't fall for girls like her. She's the average girl, with nothing that makes her stand out. Asher is the boy who everybody wants to be friends with. He's reckless and headstrong. So, what would a boy like Asher be doing with a girl like Riley? "Let's do this."

At the age of 14 Sydir Thomas and his family moved to a new city. It was there in middle school that he met the love of his life. Miccayla Avery was not one of the most popular girls, but she caught the eye of Sydir who became instantly popular. They loved each other despite their young age, but there were other people who didn't want to see them happy. After a messy breakup they stopped speaking. No other females ever stood a chance. Everyone he dated after that was always compared to Miccayla. She was the one who truly held his heart. Now after 8 years their paths cross. Will the love the once had rekindle or will they allow the pain of the past to stand in their way?

"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?

Carter Harris is coming up in the game determined to fix everything his late father ruined starting by taking back an empire that was supposed to be left for him. Rising to the top is far from easy but right now that is the least of Carter's problems. -NOT EDITED-

They say never Mix Business with Pleasure. Both Candice and her Boss Samuel Peters strongly believed that until one lustful moment shared caused them to change their minds. Candice is an attractive coco skinned beauty with the brains to match. She doesn't normally fall in love so quick, but Samuel the man with the hazel eyes captured her heart. Maybe the rule of mixing business with pleasure was meant to be broken. A series of twists and turns makes it seem like that rule exists for a reason. Will Candice and Samuel work out? Even though Samuel has something big to hide. Not to mention the other secrets that get revealed by friends, ex lovers and even parents.