Tremaine has lived in Harlem for her entire life. She's just another young, misbehaving black girl from a poor family. Even though she misbehaves, she's still innocent. But there's a boy on her block by the name of Rakim who can change her forever. Is there more to Rakim than Tremaine thinks? Is he more than just a local rapping dropout? For all she knows, he can be anybody. A killer, or a millionaire. But whatever she does, Tremaine can't fall for him. That would be a love crime. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted by any means, including recording, photocopying, or other methods without the official permission of the author/publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For further information, please contact me at: info.awilliams@gmail.com. Please refrain from contacting me via the given address if not for inquiries regarding any of my published works or copyright details. Thank you.

Love is blind..well not really because I see it but refuse to believe it. For sometime now I had a feeling something wasn't right. But..I'm not prepared for that pain yet. My girls telling me leave him, and he saying believe him? We've been together for many years and still no ring yet. I feel like he's holding back, but his excuse is "I'm not ready." Sky has the full package beauty, career, and all you could ask of a 25 year old. She is currently working on a makeup line in connection with Mac Cosmetics. When she's not doing that she works with young girls who are apart of her dance team. With the help of her girls Destiny(Dee), Kalen, and Christine(Chrissy). Aside from this Dee owns a salon and Sky helps out from time to time. After graduating she decided to go to beauty school to have hands on experience with makeup and hair. Through all this she makes time for her boo Nigel.

26 year old Lyric Williams is a model and aspiring singer and as pretty and tough as she looks on the outside. You wouldn’t know she was in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend of 4 years, Cornell Hayes also known as Nelly. She puts up with like they’re the perfect couple. Her best friend, Fallon who she has known for years doesn’t even know what Lyric goes through. And that’s how Lyric wants it. Until Lyric meets Tremaine Neverson as in Trey Songz at a nightclub, and her life takes a turn for the better. Trey gets Lyric out of the relationship and she moves in with him and that’s when the romance begins. So get ready for some tears, laughs, heartache, life changes, love, break ups, make ups, and everything in between. Cause you never forget your first love.

Jada "Jai" Henderson is a young college student struggling through making rent, keeping her grades up, and getting over the recent death of her brother. Curious as to the strange and curious manner in which he died, she begins to conduct her own investigation into his death. Uptight glamor girl Destiny has lived most of her life pampered by aunt and uncle who live among the rich in the Northeast end of the town. Originally born and raised in the depths of the hood, she continues to find her way back and stumble foolishly over a dope boy. Expected to meet her aunt and uncle's expectations of her marrying into a wealthy business family, her trips into the hood are hidden. Andrea is a fresh high school graduate with a child on the way and a home life that is positively overwhelming. Her boyfriend of three years insists that she get an abortion. Yet, in the midst of it all is another who soothes her after every spat and argument with her mother and her father. With a family who insists on abortion and her own moral keepings, Andrea strugggles with making a decision. Nicoletta better known as Nicki is a professional exotic dancer and a frequent stealer of men. She has no qualms about encroaching another woman's territory. Yet at the of the day when it's all said and done she goes home to an empty bed. With no true belief in commitment or anything of the sort, Nicki's jaded and uncompromising when it comes to her heart, dancing, and keeping her own codes. When the unexpected throws all of these women together in the unexpected revelation of beings considered to be superior. The tests and struggles to keep all that they hold dearly and not fall prey to the stand up that seems to be taking over the area, bring forth things and times they'd never imagined. When secrets and pacts are revealed, what's a girl to do other than stand in unity and fight?

Her mother always told her that since she was a big girl, that she would always have a harder time than others. So with thick bones, she had to have a hard heart. Neveah Carter took a chance at love and let her heart soften one time too many. After being heartbroken when she seen her boyfriend Dawayne with another girl, she was over love. That revelation made her come to the decision s to pick up the pieces of her broken heart and start, slowly but surely, putting herself back together. Who know there would be a special someone to help her. Phillip Tyson is the C.E.O of a multi million dollar corporation. Everyone thinks he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth but what they don’t know is that his silver spoon was a little rusty and his roots started from the streets. But he turned over a new leaf and now he’s just trying to find someone to spend the rest of his life with. Who would have thought it was a struggling single mother.

What is the struggle? Well you can ask me because I'm starting to think I'm an expert at it. We all live life different ways, but you always wish for a different one some point in time...and this is my moment where I start throwing out that word "I Wish." My name is Ramira Dugetti and this is my story. This not the love story where the thug feels that heart to heart. This isn't the "I love her for her." Naw. Thugs don't fall in love with people beneath them. Thugs don't fall for the poor girl. AND THUGS DO NOT Fall in love....unless its worth it.

Nothing but a troubled 18 year old, hood girl. Fighting girls, stripping and failing in school. With an drugged out, alcoholic mother and a dead beat daddy. Who does Quanti have to lean on? Trying her best to be a good mother figure to her younger sister Neveah and doing anything for them to eat and afford to pay the bills. Will her super man ever come? Or will these boys just cause trouble. Quanti stays fighting trying to deal with her anger issues but it's getting out of hand. She's nothing but trouble. Can someone help her? Or will her and her friends just keep doing what they do. Will she finally grow up? Will her Mr. Right lead her in the right direction. --------- all cнaracтerѕ and evenтѕ ιn тнιѕ вooĸ are coмpleтely ғιcтιonal. тнιѕ вooĸ ιѕ вaѕed on мy ιdeaѕ and ιѕ мy worĸ. в.o.υ.y.ι (вe orιgιnal υѕe yoυr ιdeaѕ) ©copyrιgнт naнla green-walĸer 2014 ιғ any parтѕ oғ тнιѕ вooĸ are υѕed, ιт wιll вe reporтed -naнla :)

At the age of sixteen Lakeisha Moss was abandoned by her mother and left to fend for herself on the streets. Within days she's taken in by Ambrianna. During her stay with Ambrianna, Lakeisha is taught the difference between real women and fake women, the difference between a ho and a house wife. She's taught more than anything to ride-or-die. Angel DeAngelo was raised in the streets by neighbors rather than his own parents. With a father in jail and a mother who prostitutes, he brings the money to the table in the only way that he know hows: slanging. A notoriously feared street thug with respect from almost everyone around the hood. With money, power, and hos, he's got almost everything figured out. He's just missing one thing: a down chick. When the two encounter paths, sparks fly and everything is thrown out of proportion, as Lakeisha defies everything and anything involving, Angel. While Angel wants more than anything to explore what could be between the two of them. As a battle of wills begins, danger from another component stirs up trouble forcing the two to work together to confront it, or be killed.