"This was suppose to be easy, nobody was suppose to get hurt". Twenty year old Ivory Santana was what most people would call friendly and caring. She'd be the person you'd least expect to have a father running one of the biggest drug trafficking industry's in America. Ivory has went through great measures keeping that part of her life private while attending college at NYU, that is until she's taken. Twenty two year old Jade and his older brother Ohaji are 2 completely different types of people that you wouldn't expect to even associate with each other if they weren't related. With dreams of one day being as legendary as their father once was. The two brothers were given the task of kidnapping their boss, big Al's enemy's daughter until he agrees to compromise. Sounds simple enough right? WRONG. What happens when Ivory teams up with the brothers and this turns into a cat and mouse game between bonds and blood?

"Hold me down" verb - the act of having someone's back, or watching out for a person(s) safety "I love you Dre." "Baby girl, You know what your getting yourself into?" "Yes... But I'm not afraid anymore. Not as long as I got you and you got me." "Through thick and thin?" "Through thick and thin." Andre Charles, known as Dre is street smart and book smart. He had everything handed to him because of his wealthy parents lifestyle... That is until a dramatic event left Dre on his own. With no other choice, Dre chose the fast life. Now, Dre is a huge upcoming King Pin and nothing will stop him. That is until, Camielle Santiago re enters Dre's life at the worst possible time. She has convinced herself into "Holding Dre down" But what exactly does that mean? There will be betrayal, lies and even... death. Everyone will be tested, to extents they never thought existed.

"The finale piece to my story in Schaefer, a true Gangland." - Josh.

Meet 16 year old Yasmine, or as they call her, Yas. She’s a Caucasian girl with shoulder length black hair with Violet tips at the end. Like a majority of teenagers at her age, all she’s worried about is partying, smoking, drinking, and hanging out with the crowd that she’s drawn in at school. But once they take it a step too far, she winds up getting into a serious accident that leaves her in a coma. In her coma, she wakes up somewhere else that’s cloudy, blissful, and beautiful. She realizes that it’s heaven and see’s a crowd of people standing over her. These people, were the people who passed away on earth. All of these people were murdered on earth, but never received any justice. [Caylee Anthony, Natalee Halloway, The Black Dalhia, etc.] but one person that stands out that she sees that has been swarming around the news, is Trayvon Martin. After meeting these people, she asks questions and realizes everything that all of the prosecutors and police have missed for years. But what happens when she wakes out of her coma? After waking out of her coma, she realizes that the place called “Heaven" that everyone has been stressing about was actually real! But what does she tell the people in the outside world? After stressing to many people about what people in this other world has told her, everyone around her starts to think that getting into that accident made her a little “psycho", “crazy", and “mental". To visit these people in heaven, the only way she can do it is by potentially killing herself just so that she can see and talk to them. But with this, also comes the cost of people thinking that she’s suicidal or crazy, pushing her mother to take drastic measures to help control her daughters suicidal behavior. Being the only person who knows that these people in Heaven are actually communicating with her, will she be able to convince other people in the outside world on whats going on?

ONLY CHAPTERS 1-5 ARE AVAILABLE! Seventeen-year-old Diamond Carter has a lot on her plate with a crack headed mother, having to raise her brother, and also going to school. But all that changes when she meets a local thug. Can this thug make everything right in Diamond's life? Read this hood love story to find out. © 2012 Ebony Goddess

(Book Two) After all Sadé and Jacob have been through, we can all admit that their lives have gotten pretty hectic - but if you think all that was bad, you aren't ready for what's coming for them. You thought their criminal lives were over? Ha, think again.

(Book One) Sade Johnson is a Criminal. Point Blank. And the fact that her own father is a Police Officer doesn't stop her from robbing liquor stores, buying illegal drugs, or even murdering someone. But when her father gets sick of her behavior, he tells her to either clean up her act or else she'll be sent to a Juvenile Boot Camp. And of course, Sade plans on changing her behavior and becoming a better person, but all her plans go down the drain when she meets Jacob Perez, another teenager who is TWICE the criminal she is. Her father says Jacob's a horrible influence on her and that she should stay away from him because he's nothing but trouble, but that doesn't stop her. But as time goes on, she finds herself falling for Jacob. But what will happen when she finds out what Jacob's real intentions are? Maybe Sade should've listened to her father, Jacob is nothing but trouble. But I guess she'll just have to learn the hard way. © Copyright 2012 iBeezWithMB