"I need you" Corrine Parker was troubled. After her father was sent to prison for killing his mistress in a fit of rage and her mother diagnosed with stage four liver cancer, Seventeen year old Corrine is sent to live with her twenty five year old stripper sister named Isis who lives the fast life. Deemed a prude by everyone around her Corrine is in for a wake up call when it comes to dealing with her sister and her choice of men. After Isis agrees to house a hood rich hit man, Corrine's living situations grows a bit complicated after her sister and her open Pandora's box. Kareem Davis was only thirteen when he witnessed his father being killed by a drug related drive by and there was nothing he or anybody could do about it. As soon as he turned of age he decided that he'd enjoy nothing more than taking out the people who took his father from him. After a less than ordinary night at an strip club he and his boys regularly attend he finds himself in a storm of trouble when he attempts to kill the owner of the place after discovering he had something to do with his fathers death only to fail. Word in the hood travels fast and now he's forced to hide out while playing a cat and mouse game with his worst nightmare and dodging his feelings.

Book 1 of the Harlem series |

Emily is a thick girl but goes to a school where thin is what's in so they think she's fat, and they let it be known. Everybody except her best friend January, January's a thin girl but unlike the other thin girls knows the difference between thick and fat. Emily thinks that January is lying because she's her best friend. One day a new boy named Terrence starts school and every girl wants him but he wants the thick girl. He prefers thick girls like Emily but she thinks it's too good to be true. Is he? Book 1

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.

Gianna doesn't know what to do with her life after high school. In the mist of finding out what she really wants she applies to a mysterious 'volunteering' program in Chicago. Little does she know that her life will completely change the minute she arrives. Maybe the only good thing to come out of the situation is her relationship with the up and coming Chicago rapper, Lil Bibby, but even that might not be such a good idea.

They say a girl's first love is her father, but Morgan being raised by her older brother... he was hers. So when her brother ended up with life in jail she begin to fear love and would rather avoid and deny it all together. Morgan's mindset became: what's the point of falling in love if they could possibly end up taken away from you? With her fear of love comes complications.

"14th and Schaefer avenue is listed as the Number #1 dangerous city and most filled gang area in the United States. But what happens when you find out that a majority of your family members are the one's in these gangs? Well, my name is Joshua. Only being the age of 18, I know all about the good, the bad, the ugly, and the UGLIER." -Josh.

Twenty three year old, Zoey Zuko, a boy from Bronx New York. Everyone around the block calls him Zoe for short. Like any teenager his age in the rough streets of NYC, he has his hustles. He's a full time drug dealer. Zoe didn't choose this life; it was something he inherited from his deceased father. Zoey's blunt demeanor distances people away including his family. He has no one and honestly he doesn't care until one day, he meets his match; Zonnique.

This was all you, none of it me You put your hands on, on my body and told me You told me you were ready For the big one, for the big jump I'd be your last love everlasting you and me That was what you told me. - Tavia doesn't want anything more than to leave the town she's known all her life and as the end of her senior year approaches, the world around her is falling apart. A relationship with someone who she never thought she'd end up with and the drama and controversies that come along with all of that including the murder of her enemy's brother that has everyone in the town a suspect. Will she leave the town happy and prepare for her promising future or will everything fall apart for good?