Malik "Ghost" Carter spent six years in prison learning to be a better man. Now he's home, working at the community center and trying to prove that people can really change. But the streets don't forget, and old enemies are waiting for him to slip. Janelle Price owns the neighborhood salon and trusts her own judgment above all else. She's watched too many women fall for men who promise change but never deliver. When the infamous ex-con starts showing up outside her shop, she's not buying what he's selling. But when they both step up to help Marcus and DeShea-teenage siblings trying to survive on their own-everything changes. Suddenly Malik and Janelle find themselves fighting the same battles: protecting the kids they've come to love, building something real in a neighborhood that tears dreams apart, and learning to trust each other with hearts that have been broken too many times before.

"What we got going ain't nobody business."

In which she gets pregnant at 14🥴.

Just another Black Love Story

Cover by SaniaaRose Yasmine Mercedes is a smart seventeen year old girl who always has a smile on her face, until her father recently died. Her father was her world and for her to not be able to see him anymore hurt her. She no longer speaks to anyone besides her mother. She's attempted suicide three times just to be with her father again. He was such a great man, he never did anything wrong so why did he have to die? It was because of his biggest secret that he never told her. Now Yasmine's life has to change drastically.

read to see what happens when an introverted Zalia (Amber Riley) meets the well known gangster Xavier (Dave East)

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WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT Follow Talia Booker As She Proves That She Is One Of The Baddest Bitches To Ever Run Chicago.

21 year old A'leah Jones is the perfect 21 year old. Working hard everyday at Atlanta's Marta Bus Transportation while going to school to pursue her dreams of opening up her own hair shop. While trying to pursue her dreams she runs into Yung "the man of the streets" or should we say Mr. August Alsina. When they first meet the two have a very rough run in and exchange words. What happens when A'leah keeps running into August? Will she keep bickering with him or end up stepping outside of her element and fall for a thug?

He had the whole bad boy/thug thing going on. His pants were sagged just enough and he had multiple gold chains hanging from his neck and a gold watch. He also had 3 phones on him and the muscles in his arms stood out in shirt. Little did I know he's what I need.