Every Love Story Is Beautiful, But Ours Is Hood

Every Love Story Is Beautiful, But Ours Is Hood
Author: Jessica N. Watkins
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9781543278897

From birth, the Savage brothers were taught by their father, Deuce, that life is like a sandwich; any way you flip it, the bread comes first. They were taught to get money, not fall in love, so they left a wreckage of broken hearts on their road to getting money. Yet, now, as mature men, they realize that you're not rich until you have something that money can't buy. And money certainly cannot buy the women that have stolen these brothers' hard and stubborn hearts. Taye "City" Savage and Akira White's love story started in the projects. Ten years ago, they met when Akira was only a young girl and City was a grown man getting his hustle started. City and Akira's bond was strong, and their fate was inevitable, so they thought. However, before their bound could be sealed, life happened. They were torn apart by unimaginable circumstances, and they never saw one another again until a decade later. Yet, by that time, both City and Akira were involved, but they weren't so loyal to Nova and Davion that they could ignore the passion in their hearts that they still harbored for one another. The only thing that ever mattered to Keandre "Money" Savage was the hustle. He had never fallen in love, not even with his girlfriend of five years, Zoe Moore. Money and Zoe had the typical hood love that involved lots of fussing, fighting, and other women. Yet, Zoe was the only one in the relationship that was in love. Money only kept her by his side because she was the last woman standing. Along the way, he had ruined Zoe with every woman that he cheated on her with, and every lie he told. Now, Money is finally ready to shed his immature ways and settle down. Yet, Zoe finds herself in a desperate state of mind when she realizes that she is not the woman that Money has chosen to settle down with. Shamar Savages' only love has been his love for art. When his brothers financed his baby, Savage Ink, his only focus was his tattoo shop. Yet, he soon realizes that despite not even wanting it, he was falling for his friend and frequent dip, Taraji Green. However, Taraji had the same mindset as Shamar. Her only focus was becoming the baddest hair stylist in Chicago; not love. The last thing she wanted was a committed relationship with anyone, not even one of the infamous Savage brothers. Sometimes, the last thing a person wants to do is fall in love, but love sucks them in any way. That is exactly what happens with these Savage brothers and the women that adore them. As life always has it, love ain't that easy to obtain, especially when loving a man that was raised by the streets and whose first love is the hustle. In yet another urban tale by Jessica N. Watkins, death, sex, and chaos leads to unforeseen tragedy and unexpected love.

Every Love Story Is Beautiful, But Ours Is Hood 2

Every Love Story Is Beautiful, But Ours Is Hood 2
Author: Jessica N. Watkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-07-17
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9781548994464

As mature men, the Savage brothers now realize that a man is not truly rich until he has something that money can't buy, and what money can't by is the women that have won their stubborn, once concrete, hearts. However, nothing in life comes easy and that includes love... especially with so many threatening, dangerous, and deadly obstacles in their path to protect their family and their women. As soon as City and Akira had a taste of their happily ever after, it was snuffed away by her very own father. How will City avoid the charges that her father is threatening his entire family with in order to be with his woman? He doesn't even have time to figure it out because he has to focus on clearing the Savage family million-dollar debt to the Columbians. Money finally matured enough to realize that staying with Zoe because of loyalty, was only hurting them both. Yet, now that their relationship is finally over, their drama isn't. Zoe desperately tries any and everything to get her man back. She can't stand the thought of him being with Bliss, but little does she know, Bliss wants nothing to do with him. Shamar was ready to stake his claim of the beautiful, Taraji. However, her obsessed, ex, Reggie, has kidnapped her. Shamar has gone from finding love to trying to find out if his woman is dead or alive. Suddenly, a pretty, established young lady falls into Shon's lap right in the midst of him cleaning the streets of those that were disloyal to the Savage organization. He has never fallen for a woman, and when he finds out that she isn't who she has portrayed herself to be, he probably never will. In part 2 of Every Love Story Is Beautiful, But Ours Is Hood, these brothers are forced to turn their savage ways all the way up, as they fight to protect their brand and family. Will their relationships survive the constant threats of the streets? Hell, will their family even survive?

Finding My Way Back to Love

Finding My Way Back to Love
Author: Diamond Johnson
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1648540023

They were Miami’s favorite couple. Mustafa and Kennedy Strong. Their names rang bells in the streets of Miami. Before Mustafa and Kennedy were a married couple, they were once two six-year-old kids who were the best of friends. But from day one, they knew that they loved each other. Years later, they now have three beautiful children, but Mustafa’s occupation is dangerous and Kennedy want’s nothing more than for her husband to leave the streets alone. After Mustafa’s parents, the streets raised him next, so that’s all he knows. Will Mustafa’s stubbornness cause him to lose his family? Should he have listened to his wife? No doubt that the Strong family will take a major loss, but is it fixable is the question. This book will make you cry, laugh, smile, angry, and cry all over again. We just hope that with everything that Kennedy and Mustafa endures, that they will be able to find their way back to love.

I Jus' Wanna Leave This Nigga

I Jus' Wanna Leave This Nigga
Author: Mesha Mesh
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2015-10-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781518718762

Lyric was raised in a home where the woman caters to her man's every beck call, with no questions asked. She was brought up to believe that no matter what you stick by him, even if it means that he cheats, or beats you to a bloody pulp. Lyric falls in love with a man who she thought was her Prince Charming. Ty helped her get through one of the most traumatic events in her life and she feels that she owes him. At the time when he met her she was on the verge of going crazy, lost all hope, and had given up on life. He stepped in when she had no one else in the world and helped build her up, only to tear her back down. He fulfilled all of her heart's desires with every materialistic thing she could think of. From romantic dinners, to shopping sprees, to the big fancy home that she always knew she would have. All was good in their relationship up until the night they got married. On that night, she was faced with an ugly truth about her husband that she didn't see coming. Lyric realized then that God answered her prayers and she got everything that she wanted except the one thing that mattered the most... A loving husband! Ty is the guy every woman wants to have. He's handsome, successful, and most of all, a ladies man. What the women don't know about him though, is that Ty is a womanizer, a woman beater, and a spoiled brat. He feels that everything should go his way and if it doesn't he has no problem taking things out on his gorgeous wife with his fists. Blessing, her best friend's brother, has loved Lyric since they were kids, and he wants nothing more than to have her as his. His thuggish demeanor and handsome looks draw women to him, but he only wants Lyric. Will Lyric leave before it's too late? Will Blessing be the man she always wanted? or Will Ty seek help to save his marriage and keep his wife?

A Little Life

A Little Life
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804172706

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Capone and Capri

Capone and Capri
Author: Jessica N. Watkins
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03-25
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9781530750849

In the Secrets of a Side Bitch series, Capone was Omari's right-hand man, but a boss, nonetheless. In Capone and Capri, his bad boy swag is tested when death falls at his doorstep, along with the possibilities of love. He had been juggling pussy all of his life; never a one woman man and had no interest in finding "the one." But a real man doesn't hesitate when he finds the right woman, even if he wasn't even looking for her, and Capone did not hesitate the moment that he laid his eyes on Capri, a coal-colored beauty, who owned a voluptuous body; the best curve being her smile. Yet, when DBD, Death Before Dishonor, an infamous drug organization in Chicago, which he beheads, has madness brought to its doorstep, love is placed on the back burner. As Capone avenges the death of one of the most important members of DBD, his focus has to turn to revenge, but he finds peace in the arms of his "Black Beauty." However, as sweet and kind as Capri is, the black beauty is battling demons of her own. As she is being pursued by Capone, while still being involved with another man and dealing with family drama, her plate is full. From the National Bestselling author of the Secrets of a Side Bitch series, Jessica Watkins is back with yet another explosive and suspenseful story that is guaranteed to leave you wanting more! In Capone and Capri, follow these two love birds' romance of lust, love, drama and turmoil. If Capri leaves her man, is being with Capone what she really wants? Or is she ready to finally live life as a single woman? And will Capone think that Capri is worth setting aside his playa ways for once he finds out that he has been sleeping with the enemy?

When the Side N*gga Catch Feelings

When the Side N*gga Catch Feelings
Author: Jessica N. Watkins
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-01-10
Genre: Adultery
ISBN: 9781983730740

Two women are unfaithful for two totally different reasons.

Love Sick

Love Sick
Author: Jessica N. Watkins
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781439224588

"At some point in her life, almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man..." Latrice, Victoria, and Lyric are lost in Chicago's love diversions. Victoria seems to have a handle on her recent break up with her long-term beau, Taij. Rather than crying into her pillow every night, she's in the arms of one new piece after the next; turning her rage into sexual expression that earns her constant potential with the luxury of no-strings attached. Victoria's new control of her heart terribly clashes with Vince's undeniable interest in being more than her next booty call. However, Victoria's refusal to commit does not keep Vince from trying desperately to blow up the wall that she has rebuilt around her heart. As Victoria runs from Vince's attempts to woo her, Latrice has done the unthinkable: fell in love with the booty-call. After the unfortunate conclusion of her affairs with Damion and Tunde, Amiel was the perfect replacement; except for the pregnant wife and kid. Now she's ready for him to man up; to prove that he truly loves her by giving her the commitment and relationship that she needs, or move on. As Latrice dreams of commitment and marriage to the unavailable Amiel, Lyric and Bradley are preparing for the real deal. As Bradley and Lyric begin their happily ever after in the Beverly community of Illinois, Bradley is under the impression that he has chosen the perfect wife-to-be. Lyric struggles with this label as she figures out a way to quietly end the on-going love affair between her and Veronica; an affair that she has successfully perpetrated to her fiance as a simple platonic friendship. This madness entitled Love Sick is only the beginning of this erotic tale. A sea of characters add their own two cents of drama and donate to the shocking and heartrending end of this cycle of affairs, obsession, and despair. With insertions of tantalizing eroticism, Love Sick is your ideal entertaining, emotive, and erotic daily retreat.

Unchosen

Unchosen
Author: Katharyn Blair
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062657666

Katharyn Blair crafts a fiercely feminist fantasy with a horrifying curse, swoon-worthy sea captains, and the power of one girl to choose her own fate in this contemporary standalone adventure that's perfect for fans of The Fifth Wave and Seafire, and for anyone who has ever felt unchosen. For Charlotte Holloway, the world ended twice. The first was when her childhood crush, Dean, fell in love—with her older sister. The second was when the Crimson, a curse spread through eye contact, turned the majority of humanity into flesh-eating monsters. Neither end of the world changed Charlotte. She’s still in the shadows of her siblings. Her popular older sister, Harlow, now commands forces of survivors. And her talented younger sister, Vanessa, is the Chosen One—who, legend has it, can end the curse. When their settlement is raided by those seeking the Chosen One, Charlotte makes a reckless decision to save Vanessa: she takes her place as prisoner. The word spreads across the seven seas—the Chosen One has been found. But when Dean’s life is threatened and a resistance looms on the horizon, the lie keeping Charlotte alive begins to unravel. She’ll have to break free, forge new bonds, and choose her own destiny if she has any hope of saving her sisters, her love, and maybe even the world. Because sometimes the end is just a new beginning.