**16+ ONLY** This story contains dark romance, heavy possessiveness, violence, obsession, and explicit content. *"Try speaking to her again-and I'll bury your tongue with my bullets. > Touch her, and I'll make sure your mother can't recognize your corpse."* --- He is a walking nightmare wrapped in silk suits and bloodstained hands. The name **Luca** is enough to silence a room. King of the Underworld. Ruler of shadows. A ghost even the law refuses to chase. His empire is built on violence, betrayal, and bodies no one dares to count. He does not speak twice. He does not leave witnesses. Mercy died the day he first picked up a gun. He is cruel to the world. He is lethal to anyone who looks at her too long. And for her... he becomes something almost gentle. Almost human. Almost soft. Almost. --- She is softness in a world that never deserved her. **Lily** is light-pure, untouched, and blissfully unaware of the darkness waiting just beyond her little bubble. She believes in morning coffee, quiet laughter, and happy endings. She still thinks love is supposed to be kind. Until he decides she belongs to him. And the moment someone dares to lay a finger on her, Luca does not simply arrive. He brings war. She becomes his obsession. His addiction. His only reason to keep breathing-and the only reason he is willing to burn the entire world to ash. There is no escape from his grip. No hiding from his gaze. No running from the twisted fate that has already claimed her. But what happens when the angel starts falling for the demon? What happens when she begins to see the fractured, dangerous good buried beneath all that blood? She was never supposed to love him. He was never supposed to let her live long enough to try. Now neither of them has a choice. --- **#1 in Kidnapped** **#56 in Bad Boy × Good Girl** **#58 in Possessive** **#1 in lovable**

A group of senior friends, Missy, Tray, Taffy, Lena, and Starr, struggle to maintain their personal lives and still stay together as friends and finish off their last year of high school. Senior Missy Kirkland must prove herself worthy and Pretty being Dawn Kirkland's little sister, and still try to show and prove her love to her best friend Tray who is slowly falling for junior A'Kayla. Tray is put into a difficult situation having to choose between his best friend Missy who he secretly has feelings for and new love interest A'Kayla who came into his life and was slowly stealing his heart. Taffy grew up struggling and living with an unstable mother who fosters more children than she can handle. Taffy falls in love with one of the on again off again foster child who's her age, while trying to maintain a relationship with her 22 year old boyfriend who has a whole other family. Lena must keep her love for her best friend Tenise a secret from her mother, who is strict in church, and her circle of friends afraid of what they might think of her, all while Tenise practically lives with her. Starr is the simplest one of all, she's just a smart, classy party girl who has to find it in her heart to trust her ex boyfriend not only her body but her heart and soul after he cheated on her with multiple girls and broke her heart.

**Sequel to The Jackson Sisters** Now all Successful in life Asia, Christina, Aubrey, Don, and TJ all are having difficulties coping with their personal lives. After getting caught having sex, Aubrey and Asia struggles to rejoin Christina's life along with Euphoria, Aubrey and Chris's daughter. Asia is desperate to be a great aunt and to be with her niece and get back on Christina's good graces. She also struggles to have a decent conversation with TJ without arguing with him, and trying to prove to him she loved him and still does, and prove she wants to work things out. TJ struggles with letting Asia back into his life after she broke his heart by sleeping with Aubrey, while at the time she accused him of being deceitful. But with his sick mother and half sister on his back about giving Asia another chance, he can't hide or fight his feelings for Asia that are still there and maintain his focus on his career as a rookie in the NBA. Christina struggles to be faithful to Don, after forgiving Asia and Aubrey, as she fights her urges to know why Aubrey did what he did and to be in his possession. She finds herself in denial with her feeling for Aubrey, as she juggles being engaged to Don, being a good mother, and a good big sister to Madison; the twins younger half sister who resurfaces in this book. Aubrey struggles trying to win Christina back, and dreaming about having a big happy family with her and their daughter. Madison struggles with fitting into her whole drama filled father side, while trying to grow a bond with Asia and Christina and fit into their lives as if she never was gone. She struggles to fit in with her sisters and her father side, after leaving her mother to meet them, but they're all wrapped up in their own personal problems to actually try to make her feel relevant while they do allow her to stay with them.

Shannon, Mekhi, Corey, and Kenza, four seniors in high school who all struggle with being with who they want to be with. Shannon, Corey, and Kenza have all been best friends since their freshmen year of high school. While Mekhi was just around when he chose to be, considering he's Corey's cousin, and Corey's mother took him in his freshmen year as well. Shannon and Kenza couldn't stand Mekhi for their first two years of knowing him. But with Mekhi flirting with Shannon for those two years, Shannon started liking him during their junior year, and they had sex in their senior year. She wanted to be with Mekhi, but with Corey being in love with her since freshmen year, and Mekhi and Shannon hiding their feeling for each other from Corey, Mekhi pushed Shannon away. Kenza always knew Corey was in love with Shannon, but her feelings for him didn't change. She thought having sex with him whenever he wanted would make him want her instead of Shannon, but it didn't, which resulted in Kenza being a bad friend to Shannon. Then Mekhi and Kenza started messing around, while Mekhi and Shannon were having some problems. Which resulted in Mekhi learning that Kenza is more than what meets the eye, and he started falling for her while still having feelings for Shannon. Now both girls want Mekhi and fight each other repeatedly physically and verbally, almost permanently ruining their friendship. Mekhi struggles to figure out which girl he actually wants, while fighting his cousin Corey over him sleeping with both girls, the one he wants and the one he uses as a replacement.

If you are black, or mixed, or just plainly want to hear the struggles then this is the book for you. First hand of the struggles of a black 18 year old, hope you can relate.

"One day l decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your body is your temple, it's your home and you must decorate it." -Gabourey Sidibe Ebony is a big carmel skin girl. She wasn't ugly she was beyond beautiful let's just say she thought she had a pretty face with a ugly body. She been called fat mostly all her life. Until she meets the thug she never thought would care for her.