"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?

Book Three Don't Read if you haven't read the first two books or you won't understand. "I'm a sinner baby, so are you and that's why I love you" With Ohaji sentenced to prison and Jade & Silas done with the game for good it's up to there children to keep the legacy alive but hustling doesn't come easy. Alijah Scott, now twenty is having a hard time trying to maintain her relationship with the Jamaican Cartel leader, Jesse Powell while he's still running from his responsibilities and afraid of commitment. With a new drug business stepping onto the scene taking mostly all of there customers Alijah is at a crossroads in her life on if this time the family drug organization and her relationship is really worth saving. Calvin Scott has changed tremendously in the past five years turning into a complete and utter monster. Only giving a damn about his family he takes out anyone in his way with out even blinking an eye. With the help of Jesse and Eli these young man have gone above and beyond to make sure this business doesn't go down the drain ruining all of his fathers hard work. With another powerful drug business coming along Cal, Jesse and Eli feel there throne being snatched from under there feet, and this time they may have met there match. But then again they are men who aren't afraid to sin, so they should be able to handle a little competition, right?

"Don't ever leave me again" With age comes responsibility, some comes sooner than for others. Being in a family filled with drugs and murder it's only normal to follow in the footsteps of those before you. With old beefs growing more and more deadly the family is more divided then ever. Everything comes at a cost and karma is very much real, it just hits in different ways. With the Jamaican cartel thriving in the drug world and deemed untouchable an old beef between Moriah and Kaine seems to be growing out of control leaving people stuck in the middle. New York also has stepped in to the feud when it's leader grows power hungry forcing sides to be chosen, their motto is 'Death Before Dishonor'. Ajani and Kaine's love story might be officially over, especially when mistakes are made and the past comes to light and sides are chosen out of lies and deceit. When it's all said and done only one side will remain and the California organization you all have grown to love might have just met its match.

"I need you" Corrine Parker was troubled. After her father was sent to prison for killing his mistress in a fit of rage and her mother diagnosed with stage four liver cancer, Seventeen year old Corrine is sent to live with her twenty five year old stripper sister named Isis who lives the fast life. Deemed a prude by everyone around her Corrine is in for a wake up call when it comes to dealing with her sister and her choice of men. After Isis agrees to house a hood rich hit man, Corrine's living situations grows a bit complicated after her sister and her open Pandora's box. Kareem Davis was only thirteen when he witnessed his father being killed by a drug related drive by and there was nothing he or anybody could do about it. As soon as he turned of age he decided that he'd enjoy nothing more than taking out the people who took his father from him. After a less than ordinary night at an strip club he and his boys regularly attend he finds himself in a storm of trouble when he attempts to kill the owner of the place after discovering he had something to do with his fathers death only to fail. Word in the hood travels fast and now he's forced to hide out while playing a cat and mouse game with his worst nightmare and dodging his feelings.

My parents are those boogie, stuck up black people who think they the shit. They've always brained washed me from young and told me not to go for the hood rats and thugs- to always find a good rich man to take care of me. Growing up in a rich neighborhood and private schools, money and success is all I know. In all my seventeen years of living I never thought I would go against my parents words and fall for a Thug.

Aniyah Smith, didn't live the most beautiful life. Her mother died when she was 14 in a car crash. She was repeatedly abused by her father years after. At the age of 16, She then decided to run away and live with her aunt in Georgia. There she met the person who she thought she was going to spend the rest of her life with. That changed with one bullet. She then changed her perspective on love. She planned on not being in a relationship for a LONGG while . Will someone enter her life and change that?

A 16 year old girl who lives in the hood with her over crowded family, deals with the surprising abuses at home from her own mother and father, dealing with high school, and a crush all at once. She's hated but yet at times she's love. Hood Gurl brings rollercoaster ride full of happiness, anger, and sadness all at once. Who said life was easy?

Sequel to Blood Line. "I love you more than Ive ever loved something and as much as it hurts to say goodbye, I have to because you deserve better than this" Alijah Scott, the fifteen year old daughter of Jade and Ivory has been living under the radar with Silas,her "Father". Unknown to Silas is the fact that Ivory survived that shooting nearly fifteen years ago and has missed most of her daughters life. When Silas feels like he needs a new scenery he decided to move his family back to California where it all started. But it's not just him and Alijah anymore, there's also Zaire. Alijah's seventeen year old best friend who's been living with them since he was eight. Jade and O are also running one of the biggest drug empires the state of California has ever seen, The brothers are deemed untouchable. While Jade still holds a grudge against Silas for taking his daughter away it turns into an all out turf war between old friends. Alijah also finds herself falling for two drug dealers in training with a dark pasts, while trying to escape her own troubles. When the secrets and lies finally come out and the truth is learned the empire and family everyone's worked so hard to keep might crumble to the ground, and Alijah's first romance may crumble along with it before it's even had a chance to start