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.

Seth Woods is your typical 18 year old trying to make his Senior year of high school count. Seth is moody, possesive, and overly protective but it's what lurks the ladies in. When new neighbors move into the empty house next to theirs, Seth takes an intrest in the girl next door. But what seems like a normal girl will forever change Seth. Lacey Mitchell is a 17 year old reserved girl with secrets. Secrets that are meant to be hidden. Her heart has been shattered into broken pieces and never to be put back. She's good at one thing and one thing only, hiding herself but what happens when she can't be hidden to the boy next door? What happens when he sneaks his way into her secrets..? (bad description! I know but if I do end up going with this story it will be revised and edited!)

(MUST FAN TO READ!!)Eve Johnson is trying to keep her faith through the death of her mother. Her burdens weigh her down as her father marries his pregnant mistress three months after her mother's funeral. Shortly after the wedding her stepmother's brother Joe moves in. Joe is an ex-con with an obssession with Eve and will make her his willingly or not. Eve finds out that her dear stepmother is blowing her father's money and stealing from their church, but try as she might she cant stand up to her father, who is turning agaisnt his daughter and treating her like a outcast. she prays for her life to get better but the days only become darker.Eve is sinking in a abyss of darkeness and just when she is ready to give up Jayden Williams catches her. Jayden Williams, an notorious drug dealer from the streets of Chicago, who wants to get out of the game while he still can. Abandoned ,by his mother, at a young age to raise his younger brother the streets welcome him. But now the game aint what it used to be anymore and he has to leave with his life and freedom while he still can, but the saying "If you live by the streets, you die by the streets" reigns true. No matter how hard he tries to leave his hustle, the streets hold him tighter. With his bestfriend fresh out of jail, a crazy baby mother, and his enemies surrounding him he has enough on his plate and leaving the game will only add to his troubles. But being with Eve, he feels one thing he has never felt before, happy. But how can he help make her life better, when his is so F@$#%d up? Will he beome the man that Eve deserves or will he become his worst fears?