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.

Mónéy is a 17 year old girl who has lost herself after the death of her brother. Left to deal with her indifferent mother and little brother Mónéy tries extra hard to be normal and live the life that she was restricted from. But when an old relative pop up Mónéy's life take a turn for the worst. After another tragedy Mónéy's brother old friend Icy takes her in. Icy, a big time drug dealer isn't a fan of Mónéy and her nasty attitude but puts up with it out of respect for her brother. Mónéy didn't mean to fall for Icy but once he show her she matters everything fall into place. Icy isn't the type of nigga to cuff a girl but Mónéy's loyalty made him think different. Follow Mónéy and Icy on a journey filled with love, heartache, lies, loyalty, betrayal and so much more.

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-

2 sisters with the same goal of happiness but with different paths. For Fatima it's a straight and honest life, keeping family together and for Faith, it's money, sex and drama. Will Fatima's love hold her family together and keep them safe? Or will the greed and lust of Faith, kill them all?

Works #1: Ahmad Hassan Sinclair, 25, was taught to always fight and work hard for what he wanted. In the life he was given nothing was ever handed to him. He grew up in the hoods of Houston, witnessing things no child should ever see in their life. His mom and pop worked hard just tryna make ends meet, to keep food on the table and clothes on their kids back. But it was far from easy .. Seeing his parents struggle the way they did for years, motivated him to work ten times harder. He made it a mission to not end up like his folks, he wanted more in life. He knew there was more to life than what he grew up seeing. But he also knew in order to be somebody in this world as a black man he had to fight and strive for it and also dodge the bullshit that came along with it. He set goals, he had dreams, he had a vision and nothing could stop him from achieving them. Now that he's at the top of his game, making money, living the live he always wanted, seeing the things he never seen and moving up the success path .. he figured life would eventually turn out to be great but sadly he still isn't happy or content with how things are.. there's this one missing piece in his life that will fully complete him. But let's see how determined Ahmad will be to find what that missing piece is or what he will do to get it.

"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?

Serenity Banks recently graduated from Howard University and is training to become a counselor at a middle school, she is currently in an abusive relationship but is scared to leave him because her family loves him. Clarence is a drug lord seeking revenge on the people who killed his pregnant fiance, he sleeps around but never wants to fall in love again in the fear of bringing another woman into his lifestyle. What will happen when their paths cross, will she run scared or will he open up and take the chance of loving again? Book 1 of 2 (Sequel is Wild Thoughts 2)

Compton changed everything. In Riverdale, I used to be able to walk outside at night without having to worry about anything happening to me. I could walk outside in broad daylight and wouldn't have to worry about drive-by's. I used to be able to come home and be able to rely on a homemade meal made by mother-and my father sitting on the couch with her. But now, everything's changed. My dad dipped out on me and my mom, my mom and I are struggling to make ends meet, and I'm in these streets. Never would I imagined that myself, Egypt, would be out on the streets selling drugs to support myself. But if it helps me support me and my mother, I'm willing to do whatever it takes. Now I have responsibilities that I would've never expected, and people depend on me more than ever before. © all rights reserved // livythecreator

Between juggling the struggles of being a teen parent, going to a new school in a new neighborhood, being ridiculed and bullied by his own mother, finding interest in a new girl that's more dangerous for him than he might think and being severely stabbed by his own family member, will Theodore ever be able to break free of this downward spiral his life is tangled in? After being pushed out of a window on the fourth story of hotel, Lindsey hit the concrete pretty hard. She has no clue as to what happened to her, how she got to the hospital, how she fell out of the window or anything up until the moment she was told what happened to her. Without being able to remember an ounce of the past, how will she continue to live her life the way she did in the past or get the courage to tell her child, that her parents are raising as their own, that she's his mother? And while all of this is happening in Lindsey and Theodore's life, a problem from their past is still brewing a master plan to exterminate the entire west coast of the McDonald-Reed family. Soon, this problem from their past will arrive with an army of their enemies in full force, ready to take out their entire family. Over the years, this family has been through ups and downs, high points, low points, lies, cheating, deceit, addictions, assaults, back stabbing but never anything of this caliber. They crossed a lot of people in their past, but did they cross just one too many people? Follow the 8th installment to The Sideline Series, filled with love, hurt, pain, scandal and deception and see where the McDonald-Reed family ends up once it's all said and done and they're all left to stand up against their enemies alone.