Takashi and Toryn met each other when they were five. Became best friends at ten. Were inseparable by time they were fifteen. Built an indestructible bond at twenty. And now at the age of twenty five, after twenty years of friendship, due to the slowly deteriorating memory Toryn has had since she was a baby, she will one day forget everything. Including the one thing Takashi told her the first time they met. "Don't forget about me." -Takashi Maxwell Cover by: @lucida-

There's so many positive 4 letter words: Love Like Hope Care Life Then there's negative: Hate Evil Dead For once in her life Desdemona wanted to hear negative. The word in itself: Negative. Instead she heard positive. Her whole world came tumbling down when she found out she was positive for HIV/AIDS. She just wants to experience that four letter word, that thing called: L O V E

Beauty life was predictable and the same... until she met drug selling street bad boy of their school and Hood. Kemontre White aka Beast. He gives her the Hood fairy-tale she always dreamed ... but hey some people just dont want Beauty & Beast to be together. Trying to rip them apart. Sneaking around her mother to see the man she loves, Beauty has alot going on.. Will Beauty & The Beast be the Hood Fairy Tale or will the haters be able to keep them apart? Its all Drama, Drama, Drama! -- Not edited -- YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

" I got a bad bitch in my Chevy. Selling Miley Cyrus in my brand new Monte Carlo I got the Justin Bieber please believe me! A quarter million hanging on my colla Half a million in my duffel bag Now im riding in my Cadillac Hammers in them fucking vouges Im riding clean and im fucking hoes " Handsome and Hassan Harris were twin brothers. The biggest Dboys on the block right about now. With no worries and money to spend the brothers want to end their senior year with a bang. Isis is the girl every guy has their eye on. Including one of twins. But Isis has a charm of her own! She refuses to settle for less or take anything from anyone. Good girl with a bad mouth. Things aren't always as they seem. More money more problems was the thruth. When the twins met Isis they open a world that is a mix of drama. Tears, exgirlfriends, hood love, laughs, and more drama. The journey is only beginning. Only the dopest may survive. This is ......THUG LIFE @Copyright 2013/2014 Shantii All rights Reserved.

Isis, Handsome, Hassan, Carmen, Ivan, Da'chelle...and everybody are back. Forever and Always...Thug Life Part 2! They've grown up and now has to face some of the most difficult times in their relationship. Will Isis and Handsome be able to make it? Will forever and always stand? Or will they reationship fall. A whole is better then two halfs. Hasssan is back....with his baby mama. And the rest of his hoes! Twin ain't grown up now..will he be able to make it in college with everyone else..or be kicked out before his journey even starts. With college comes new people, new challenges, and alot of growing. Will the couples be able to stand everything thrown at them? Will everybody be able to make it through college? How is going to go. New faces, new drama, deaths, break ups, make ups, babies, marriages, and so much more...In " Always and Forever? " The Thug Life SEQUEL!! ©Copyrights!!! All rights reserved to Ashantii Sanders, Violaters will be charged !!!

It's been 7 years now. Single mom, Starr, becomes a very successful Club owner in LA. With her thuggish, rude, and bad 7 year old son Kyrie, she has a hard time raising him alone. With people judging her of all her tattoos and flaws, Starr has an extremely hard time without King there to motivate her....or has he been there the whole time. IT'S BACK! Street Love 2: All Grown Up! Read the secrets coming out the shadows!

"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 Four, must read books 1-3 "It's all bout who you know, street ties mean everything love" Ajani Powell now Fourteen was raised in Jamaica with her younger brother very aware of her father and her families street life but she preferred to keep to herself spending time studying and keeping her brother in check. Being one of the oldest of the next generation the family business is hanging on Ajani's shoulders and she's forced to make a tough choice, she could either fix her families mistakes or keep the cycle of violence going to keep her families legacy alive. When her father and mother make the decision that Jamaica is no longer safe for their family they move back to California unbeknownst to them that Cali may not be the same or as safe as they think it is with a feud growing between two young men with very different ideas for the drug world and Ajani is stuck right in the middle of it all. Little did everyone know this feud would soon turn into the most deadliest turf war the state of California has ever seen and would go down in history.

"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.

Jade is the new girl in Inglewood. All she know is basketball. She live, eat, sleep, and breath basketball. With her mom in a early grave and her step dad left to take care of her she runs into nothing but trouble.....until she runs into Drew