D'Anthony Carlos has skated through life always being protected. When you're related to the biggest drug cartel in the DMV you gotta be protected. When all of your uncles are the most feared and respected you automatically garner the same attention. With his head held high he maneuvered through life not giving a damn. Not about the stares, whispers and rumors that surrounded his last name. People think they know him, but they have no idea. More detailed description in story...

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...

The sequel to the Hood Don't Love You is back with a bullet. In this one, you will learn that the hood still has no regrets, no loyalty and especially NO LOVE. Tamel Richards alias MeloDrama, learns this lesson the hard way as he watches his empire fall down around him. Charmaine Davids was a woman that got pulled into a dirty game that wasn't her own, and now must found a way out as she founds out who she really is. The sarcastic and diabolical Train, real name Darren Bishop, is learning firsthand the meaning of watch your back. Welcome to your second course in Hood Math. Copyright ©2014 by Ashon Thadon Books. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO CONTENT IN THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM AUTHOR Coverpage: Colormemimi

Tamel Richards, street alias MeloDrama, runs his block like an emperor. He doesn't believe in anything but his way. Charmaine Davids was a good school girl that wanted to get out of the hood and better herself. When her father owes a debt to the notorious dealer Drama, she founds out she has become his collateral and now her world is about to go from sweet to hell. This is what happens when the Hood Don't Love You Copyright ©2014 by Ashon Thadon Books. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO CONTENT IN THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM AUTHOR Coverpage: Colormemimi

Derek Knight has always been Kingsbury's bad boy. But when he's arrested his freshman year of high school, for the murder of Thomas Harding, his reputation goes from bad to worse. After a short three year incarceration in juvenile detention, Derek returns to Kingsbury High to finish his senior year. He's feared by everyone and afraid of no one. When Arabella Masterson, a quiet girl who prefers to blend in, is assigned to tutor Derek for the rest of the school year, Derek finds his hard shell slowly beginning to crack. When Derek brings a little spice to Arabella's world, she finds herself craving more. With issues from Derek's past and his bad boy reputation always getting in the way, can Derek and Arabella somehow fight through it all, or is the relationship they worked to build a means to an end? (This is an updated description for the book edit)

Grief-stricken over the death of the boss who was like a father to her, Olivia Bailey is left to deal with the aftermath--the arrival of his dashing but estranged son, Pierce Alexander. But she can't stand him and he doesn't trust her. Will working for the new CEO remain to be an impossible task? *** Olivia Bailey might be plain and boring, but she's content with her current lifestyle, working for the kind but lonely old man who owns Alexander Corporation. But his untimely death flips her simple life upside down. Now, she must deal with his estranged son, the heir to his business empire, together with the growing feelings building up between them. Will Olive manage to bear the pressure and issues cropping up along the way--or is this too much to ask? Disclaimer: This story won The Wattys 2014 People's Choice Award. Cover Design by Ashley Marie Bandy

Neriah Calvin is 23 and is starting a once in a lifetime internship with one of the most successful teams in the NBA. When she lays her eyes on the rookie of the team, Jacques Zion, jealously becomes a battle to stay together or a way to grow closer.

When billionaire bad boy Eros meets shy, nerdy Jade, he doesn't recognize her from his past. Will they be able to look past their secrets and fall in love again? ****** When Jade Collins goes to work for billionaire bad boy Eros Petrakis, all she thinks she'll be doing is making his coffee...but when sparks fly, the shy Jade (who wears a disguise to mask her beauty and the secrets of her past) and the fiery, cocky Eros (who is solely focused on business and doesn't believe in the distractions of love) begin to grow closer and closer. Will Eros be able to see past her disguise to the beauty within? And will Jade be able to tame his heart -- and her own -- once the man of her dreams finally notices her? ****** Officially now a series! Watch it for free on MediaCorp's Youtube Channel- MediaCorp Drama. [[Word Count: 150,000 - 200,000]] The Girl He Never Noticed (Book 1 + 2) by Neilani Alejandrino (Sweetdreamer33) Copyright © 2015. All Rights Reserved.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and for these two, their lives have been planned down to a science. For Wylan Olson, being yourself can be very stressful. Since she was young, her emotions have always been backwards. The embodiment of 'tears of joy,' that laughs to keep from crying, not many people understand her struggle. Mostly because she barely understands it herself, but she's making it...barely. All she wants to do is make something out of herself, and she's willing to work for it. Kwame Okari has been raised to be perfect. His parents' strict expectations at son leave no room for friendships, which they regard as frivolous. Their only concern is for him to be Ivy League, and he cannot afford to disappoint. He is a boy on a mission, with a clear objective: be first. And there's only one person standing in his way-Wylan. As the two develop a better understanding of each other, competing agendas complicate their relationship forcing them to decide which is more important: attraction or ambition, satisfaction or success, friendship or fruition, and lead them to wonder if one has to be mitigated for the other.

My work #1| Meet Alyssa-- Alyssa thinks that you should treat people how you want to be treated. She's the type to give homeless people her last dollar. She's a little ditsy, a bit naive but a lot of smart. Meet Jayceon-- Everybody calls him JC, he's In a gang called NOL which stands for "No One Lives", he sells weed and when someone life needs to be ended, he's the first person people call. He doesn't trust many and only sticks to his squad. He says trust gets you killed and that's why he barely makes conversation with people. Jayceon thinks Alyssa just a stuck up princess and Alyssa thinks Jayceon is a rude boy who uses girls. When Jayceon get paired with Alyssa for a school project will their opinion change or stay the same? Will she be the antidote?