📢📢📢If you're under the age of 18, this book ain't for you! 📢📢📢 A woman is on the rise of becoming a successful woman, and a native of a poor Midwestern city. Donald DeGrate Junior is a successful musician and producer from Virginia. They each go through their own trials and tribulations. Childhood trauma... Adulthood trauma... Disorders... Egos... Stigmas... Rumors... LIES... Betrayal... The industry... Different careers, but still manage to cross paths. If you want to know more, read more... The book gets better as you go because I didn't think I'd get past writing chapter eight at the time. 🤷🏽‍♀️ This book is my first draft, and my first serious book, so please excuse ANY errors. WARNING: IF YOU'RE SOMEONE WHO IS EASILY OFFENDED, THIS AIN'T FOR YOU! Many things in book may offend people. If it does offend, then go somewhere else. SIMPLE! 🤷🏽‍♀️ I'm not here to stroke NOBODY'S EGO or write what YOU want me to WRITE. MY story, MY way... PERIOD, POINT-BLANK! There also may be some language used that some people may be offended by. You either like it or don't... Like 50 Cent and The Game said, "HATE it or LOVE!" NOTE: DeVante/Donald is not crazy in this story! This is PURE FICTION! I DON'T believe the false fabrications of the group or DeVanté. This book is for entertainment purposes only. This is a 90's & 2000's story. DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT CLAIM ANY RIGHTS TO THE MUSIC, PHOTOS, OR MOVIES/SHOWS MENTIONED OR SHOWN IN THIS BOOK. DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER IS NOT INTENDED TO HARM REAL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THIS STORY. ALL WRITING RIGHTS ARE RESERVED TO THE WRITER. NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO USE THIS IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM. Start date: August 6, 2020 End date: October 27, 2021

THIS IS BOOK 2! The first book is Come & Talk to Me: A DeVanté Swing Fanfiction, so READ IT FIRST to understand THIS book and each character better. The Dynamic Duo is still at it. Tia has finally spoken DeVanté is there to listen, honey! DeVanté is now a SUCCESSFUL music producer and writer who's HIGHLY in demand. Tia is thriving in her career field. Working in the industry is VERY challenging, especially hard on your relationships if you let it. IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR READERS: This is not erotica! However, if you're under the age of 18 and/or are uncomfortable with the idea of sex, then I don't recommend you read this book. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! WARNING: IF YOU'RE SOMEONE WHO IS EASILY OFFENDED, THIS AIN'T FOR YOU! Many things in book may offend people. If it does offend, then go somewhere else. SIMPLE! 🤷🏽♀️ I'm not here to stroke NOBODY'S EGO or write what YOU want me to WRITE. MY story, MY way... PERIOD, POINT-BLANK! There also may be some language used that some people may be offended by. You either like it or don't... Like 50 Cent and The Game said, "HATE it or LOVE!" NOTE: DeVante/Donald is not crazy in this story! This is PURE FICTION! I DON'T believe the false fabrications of the group or DeVanté. This book is for entertainment purposes only. This is a 90's & 2000's story. DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT CLAIM ANY RIGHTS TO THE MUSIC, PHOTOS, OR MOVIES/SHOWS MENTIONED OR SHOWN IN THIS BOOK. DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER IS NOT INTENDED TO HARM REAL PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THIS STORY. ALL WRITING RIGHTS ARE RESERVED TO THE WRITER. NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO USE THIS IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM.

Two people with depressing lives fall for each other almost instantly. During the summer they create a safe space with one another. Being that their fighting their own personal demons, things aren't likely to go so smoothly, but they'll try for each other.

You got a jawline like a model You stay fresh from head to toe Got your own money, never borrow On your grind, I like your hustle But you're no good for me Cuz them pretty boys not pretty On the inside of they souls And even though I know you're bad for me I can't let go You're no good for me No, you're no good for me But I can't stay away No matter what they say I keep comin' back for that bad boy Even though I know you treat me bad, boy I can't stay away No matter what they say Even though you still treat me bad My dumbass keep on comin' back, no

Aaliyah and DeVante Fanfic

❛ YOU AND I COULD BE ONE AFTER ALL, OUR LOVE COULD BE SO STRONG, YOU AND I WOULD NEVER STOP. ❜ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, two music lovers cross paths between one another - not knowing the outcome of their kind of love. proudest achievements: #1 in jodeci. #1 in tupacshakur. #1 in nineties. #1 in devanteswing #1 in aaliyah. #1 in deathrowrecords. ©-𝐃𝐉𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐉𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐘, 2023. all rights reserved.

❛ AND I WILL REMINISCE ON OUR LOVE ALL THROUGH THE YEARS, FROM NOW UNTIL FORVER. AND EVER, MY DARLING, FOREVER. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE THE ONLY ONE. ❜ in which, the biggest star of the decade enters the last two years of the nineties decade, that she's taken by storm, unaware of what it has to prepare for her. all rights reserved, 2024. -DJDONJEREMY.

ha·zel//ˈhāzəl//a reddish-brown or greenish-brown color, especially of someone's eyes. © jodecipowers

[if you haven't read Hazel don't click on this story until you have] This is a continuation of the love story of Nyla-Janae Jones and DeVante Swing four years later after departing from each other in the summer of 1990.

"It seems to me, that love could be labeled poison and we'd drink it anyways... " // D E V A N TE S W I N G NOVEL //