Power, drugs, betrayal. Azuri and Shai are bound by an irresistible attraction but challenging circumstances that forces them to make a choice: rise together or let everything burn.

Cyntasia is a sophomore in college with her whole life planned out. Then she meets East, and he turns her world upside down. Cover by @SaucyasssSiah 💕

She's a man-eater with a badge and a body count of broken hearts. As a DEA agent, Jonika's mastered the art of seduction, manipulation, and emotional detachment - using her beauty like a weapon and keeping her feelings locked behind armor no one gets past. But when her mission leads her straight into the arms of a dangerously magnetic man, the game changes. He's charming, calculated, and unknowingly the exact criminal she's been sent to take down. By the time she pieces together who he truly is, he's already slipped past her defenses - touching something real beneath the surface she swore no one would ever reach. Now, with a federal sting operation closing in, Jonika stands on a razor's edge: turn him in and complete the mission... or betray everything she's sworn to protect for the only man who ever made her feel something.

SEQUEL TO THE ART OF MANIPULATION Jonika thought the bullet ended everything-his empire, his hold on her heart, and the man she loved but was forced to betray. She tried to rebuild, to bury the grief under the illusion of a normal life. But grief doesn't stay buried. It claws. It festers. And some ghosts don't stay dead. When fate drags Jonika back into the shadows she thought she'd escaped, she finds herself hunted by the very man she once destroyed. His face is the same, his eyes colder, his love and fury tangled into something she can't escape. Now she doesn't know if he has returned to reclaim her heart... or claim her life.

She's the industry princess with everything to prove. He's the superstar with nothing to lose. In the heart of Miami's glittering chaos, a forbidden collaboration will blur every line between business and pleasure, legacy and ruin. One studio. One summer. One mistake that could cost them everything.

A lot of people don't get as many opportunities at success & even friendship as Dave and Bernice did. David Brewster aka Dave East and Bernice Burgos were just 2 Harlem kids from the east side trying to make it. They were best friends..at one point at least. After a couple moves out of NY then back their friendship ended, but now as adults could they respark it? A reunited friendship will change them for the better. Watch these Black Roses bloom... ⚠️Book 2: Gold Petals⚠️ All events in this book are fictional. Some instances such as events and characters may be based off of real life but nothing is 100% factual.

PER•SIS•TENT : continuing firmly or obstinately in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition Continuing to exist or endure over a prolonged period _______________________________________________ They always say "getting it is easy, it's keeping it that's hard too do" You were persistent in the chase Now... Can you keep that same energy?