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

When a high profile CEO, Zeke Ingram, clashes with the new boss in town, Naomi Cartier, it's clear that it's more than business and in the end, it gets very personal. Flaws are a given, but can they be looked over? Copyright © 2017 by Kourtney All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

"Shit happens everyday, bro. Might as well forget about it." - 12tH.S. God gives you a second chance for a reason. Either you acknowledge that chance or just let it go to waste. Only those who really want the second chance will take it and acknowledge it. Will a felon and a teenager, who was almost knocking at her death's door, take their second chance or will they let it go to waste? Published 2017. ©

❝YO, YOU BE ILLIN'!❞ In which a group of black teenagers face difficult obstacles and series of unexpected circumstances as they live in the rebellious streets of Southern California in the late 80's. STARTED: 9-17-16 COMPLETED: 6-23-17

"you should get what you deserve and that's a nigga like me. you should get what you deserve and that's some of this D." a story about young adults exploring sexuality, life, and love. disclaimer: this book includes very very VERY graphic sex scenes. frequent profanity mild drug use and violence. triggering/controversial subjects. * - an original writing by me, please do not steal my work. i don't play those games.

(Book 1) All Rights Reserved © 2017 "The Neverlasting", Rosè Cartier is probably the best friend/sibling anyone could have; she's always there when you need her. But who's there when she needs them? Kaivar Bellazan is, under one condition; there's no strings. But we all know that never lasts. Rosè and Kaivar have a thing in their own world but their family and friends aren't appreciating the shoulder they cry on to be taken all time. With everyone against you, will anything last? Will they be the stereotypical Neverlasting couple everyone wants them to be? Or will they make the journey everlasting until the end of time?

❝on the dead homies.❞ a book comprised of black excellence and the defiance of blackness throughout history. pages telling the truth of unspoken and ignored issues of the black community while covering every inch of black history and the future of black people. every day is black history month in Hood Politics. - heaven ✧

❝MAN, WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT?❞ ❝YOU LISTENIN' TO MY MUSIC!❞ you're never too young to appreciate music and the fulfilment that comes with it. enjoy music from every culture, genre, and subject. enjoy your "white people music" without shame. enjoy your "lame" music with pride. and enjoy the bomb ass music i put you on to. - bri ❀

Winner of the Watty's 2017 Awards ✿ Destruction is a form of creation; buildings crumbled as he walked past. Khari Spence, trapped in a city steeped in hatred, longs to embrace his true self even if it means risking everything. He finds a fragile refuge in an old apartment with peeling wallpaper and blank journal pages -- and hopefully in a girl. Milo Locke, disillusioned with the hollow lure of materialism, seeks to rid the ideologies her parents forced onto her. When their worlds collide, will they help each other heal from past wounds, or will their secrets tear them apart?

If you plan to read Forbidden Love don't read this!! Major spoil alerts! Five years later and Tobias and Reign's love story continues and they are stronger than ever after passing through the fire. But when Tobias hears a heart-breaking news, he becomes half the man he once was. He becomes cold and distant, unleashing all his frustrations on his other half and his daughter. Reign tries all her best to put up with him, after all she made him a promise. But when temptation sets in...