In the history of New York City’s underworld, there have been a host of criminal figures whose exploits have gone on to inspire. Their stories are told on street corners and in back alleys. One of them is Jonas Rafferty, known among friends and enemies alike as Wrath.Jonas, the only boy in a family of four children, came into the world under less than favorable conditions, and he has always been a fighter. From the neighborhood bullies to the stepfather who uses him and his sibling...

Bernadette "Bernie" Hunt prides herself on never settling. In school, she was always at the top of her class, and after graduating from Spellman with honors she landed a job at one of Atlanta's top marketing firms. She lives by her father's motto: the best of everything, or nothing at all.Bernie excels in life, but love is another story. Being gorgeous, smart and from a well-to-do family, she has no shortage of high society suitors vying for her attention, but when...

Ghetto girls birth ’em. Hood rats love ’em. Society fears ’em. Police target ’em. And the penitentiary welcomes’em. From the coochie to the casket, this troublemaking band of misfits wreaks havoc on the community. They areloyal to no one but themselves and not even death can scare them. They are untamed, untrained, and worst of all,unchained. They run through the city with reckless abandon and perform unspeakable acts of random terror oninnocent, law-abiding cit...

Before there was the family, there was just the business. From the minds of New York Times bestselling authors Carl Weber and Eric Pete comes the game-changing prequel to their blockbuster Family Business saga. Travel back to a small Southern town where, before there was Duncan Motors, there were the Duncan brothers: Louis, aka Sweet Lou, a lover of ladies and life . . . and a man you did not want to cross; Lawrence, aka Larry, a screw-up as attracted to trouble as it was to him; and Laver...

Gaza was born and raised in McGregor Gully, one of Jamaica's grittiest housing projects in the slums of East Kingston. Growing up in poverty, he was exposed to robbery and murder at a tender age. In order to stay alive, he quickly adapted to a life of crime. Now he is one of the coldest killers and richest kingpins to ever walk the streets of Kingston. Whoever comes into contact with him and his crew either loves them, fears them, or wants to see them dead. The entrance of Catherine into h...

Just give it up, they said.Just one night, he said.What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, they said.Then why did elementary school teacher Tiana Cook suddenly find herself seeing her weekend fling everywhere she went in her hometown of Atlanta?Just for one night, he promised.Just one more time, he pleaded.Then why was it that record producer Justus Gates still tasted Tiana’s sweet taste on his lips and saw her love faces behind his closed eyel...

He promised he would never leave her.Then why did he break her heart eight years ago?She said that he was her one and only.Then why did she tear their love apart eight years ago?Flight attendant Makenna Akins has received a text from the man she loves every year for eight years, but they haven’t spoken a word to one another. Distraught over a harrowing decision that she made at a critical time in her life, Makenna has become a fraction of her former self. Wh...

One final fling was the gift her fiancé had given her.One wild weekend in Vegas was what her friends planned.A hidden identity and four hot nights were what she gave a stranger in Vegas.Then how did social media influencer London Pharr become a runaway bride?He was a player who didn't do relationships.She was a temporary escape for the weekend.Then why did MLB player Carter Lockwood find himself crashing the wedding of a woman he could not fo...

In Brick & Storm's Hood Misfits series, the motto is ENGA: Every nigga got an agenda, and in this tale, things are no different. Everyone has a secret. There were two things of which Auto, leader of the elusive Eraserheads, was certain: Code, his partner and best friend, had betrayed him, and Caltrone Orlando, the biggest crime lord in North America, had marked him and his team for death. Crossing Caltrone Orlando had come with a steep price. Auto had suffered fatal losses to his team and ...

"Love isn't about how much you say I love you, but how much you can prove it." Finding love in the club wasn't working for Soraya after she dumped her ex for going to jail, so she tries to find love online. Thousands of women have found love with a simple click of the mouse, and she wants to test it out for herself. Just when Soraya thinks that spending hours online looking for a man is a complete waste of time, she finds YoungGucci90's profile. Looking at his hazel eyes in his pictures, s...

What happens when the lives of four individuals—all in pursuit of love, happiness, and success—collide and threaten to destroy everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve? Only the Truth knows.Markus, a rising executive and self-proclaimed “playboy” trades in his business meetings by day for roaming the clubs at night. But is he in search of the woman of his dreams or simply someone to keep his nightmares at bay?Brandon has big dreams of taking the music industry by storm ...

From New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison comes the seductive, no-holds-barred novel of a dazzling power couple who play their scandalous love-hate affair one game too far . . . Between their skyrocketing careers and insatiable passion for each other, Xena Trinity and Memphis Brown seem to be the perfect potential power couple. Sure, they break up constantly-their love and sexual chemistry is unbalanced, yet undeniable. Since their ultimate goal is to marry and start a family...