Aaron Turner had come to terms with his bisexuality at the age of fifteen. His first real relationship was with the man he'd always wanted and it was something he'd never wanted to end. But like most teenage relationships it didn't last long and they eventually went their separate still holding a soft spot for one another but the timing just was never right. Now, at the age of twenty one Aaron is in college, he has the money and the looks but it never felt like enough. After a chance encounter with his first love - Moses a kingpin on the rise, things take a turn for the worst when they can't resist each other and precede to mess around not caring who they hurt in the process. It was like an addiction and once they got in too deep it was to late to go back. Aaron didn't think about the outcome, but the aftershock of messing with a married drug dealer when lots of lives and relationships are involved is more than just messy especially when things turn deadly.

"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?

Jennifer Banks better known as "ICE" is a 21 year old "Fire cracker" Who has a lot of trust issues. ICE has been betrayed all her life. The only people she can trust are her bestfriend "Carmen" and godfather "Terell" who is the biggest drug dealer around. ICE being apart of the game she has to watch her back at all times. ICE's world and perspective on a lot of situations is changed for the best when a unexpected person enters her life

Sarah Miracle Harris is an eighteen year old teenager who's life is congruent to a forty year old. Sarah's mother death resulted in her father's abusive and conniving ways. Her father believes that it's Sarah's fault she's in her grave. Once Sarah move out, you'd think her life got better but it actually worsens.

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.

Based on a blog post from Lashuntrice Bradley, being a sideline is like your favorite food. It's good while we're eating it, although, once it's gone you have a hollow feeling or will eventually crave more of it. But being a girl on the side is the exact same. Being with Antoine is good at the moment, but Sincere has to learn how to deal with the fact that the truth will eventually come out. However, she keeps doing it because of the momentary pleasure and attention she'll get from him. Will she be able to keep her secret hidden or will things begin to reveal themselves as time goes on?