𝐙𝐨𝐡𝐫𝐚'𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐙𝐨𝐡𝐫𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐬. 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 (𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧), 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐲? 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭

"𝘽𝙤𝙨𝙨, 𝙬𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢." 𝙁𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤, 𝙢𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮. "𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚." 𝙄 𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚. "𝙔𝙚𝙨, 𝙗𝙤𝙨𝙨." 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩, 𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙛𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨. "𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚?" 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛, 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙪𝙣𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙.

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟏. 𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.. 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬, 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐥'𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲.. 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝟓 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐠𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧. 𝐀 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐉𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐢 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝟏𝟐/𝟐𝟖/𝟐𝟎 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝟑/𝟐𝟐/𝟐𝟏 ~𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞~

ꜱᴇQᴜᴇʟ ᴛᴏ "5 ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ʟᴀᴛᴇʀ"... ʏᴏᴜʀ ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇ ᴄᴏᴜᴘʟᴇ ᴏᴄᴇᴀɴᴀ ᴀɴᴅ ᴋʜᴀʟɪʟ ᴀʀᴇ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ɢᴇᴛ ʀᴇᴀᴅʏ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴇᴇ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʟɪꜰᴇ ʜᴀꜱ ɪɴ ꜱᴛᴏʀᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴜᴘʟᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟʏ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅꜱ. ꜱᴛᴀʀᴛᴇᴅ: 3/22/21 ᴇɴᴅᴇᴅ: 08/02/21

𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒕𝒐 "5 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓".. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑲'𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒊, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅? 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕. 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅: 08/01/21

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭... 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝟎𝟔/𝟏𝟐/𝟐𝟏

𝐍𝐨𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐲 "𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞" 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥. "𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭" 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 "𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭" 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬?? 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐱 𝐉𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐜. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝟒/𝟐𝟖/𝟐𝟏

𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨, 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙥𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙙? 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚. 𝘿𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙭 𝘼𝙧𝙞 𝙁𝙖𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙘 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙: 4/14/21 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙: 11/24/21

After years of hiding in the shadows, Saija meets Demetrius and decides to change her life. Follow their story that is filled with lies, gangs, and chivalrous love. TW// self harm. Yes, I know the original chapters of this book need so much work, as I am rewriting it in the drafts, but the story is still there! Just a heads up.

Cassidy Peters is finishing up her junior year at Howard University along with her 3 best friends Zaniyah, Gabby and Karah. Cassidy has everything she could ever want except for one thing. A relationship. All of her friends date the brothers that are apart of a famous family crime syndicate. Jamari, Daniel, Josiah and Nikai Williams are known for their good looks as well as being the heads of their family business. Nikai with a sour past with relationships did a good job with fighting the urge to find love and settle down like his brothers. That is until he comes across Cassidy. What happens when Cassidy and Nikai meet each other for the first time as well as learning they have more in common than just her friends and his siblings dating? Get ready for laughs, love, and a whole bunch of craziness. #1 in Trey Songz on 2/19/22 #1 in Urban Romance on 2/20/21 #1 in GlowPrincess on 2/27/21 #1 in DeltaSigmaTheta 3/4/21 #1 in HowardU 3/4/21 #TheRealm🌎