Emotions are high after Danielle made a devastating decision to protect the love of her life. She was more than willing to stand up for the man who has had her heart since the moment she saw him, even if standing behind him meant spending years in jail. In everyone else's eyes, she's a fool, but to Danielle, she made the right decision and would do it all over again in a heartbeat. Guess one could say she was a fool in love. Dallas never wanted Danielle to get sucked up into his crazy lifestyle. With so many regrets weighing on him, the main one being how he couldn't protect Danielle when she needed it the most, Dallas does the unthinkable. Their relationship was rocky from the start, and now with the separation between the two, they will see there's always room for more to come between them. What happens when the man who was once your superhero turns out to be the villain? On top of her personal life drama, Danielle and her brother, Reggie, find out a devastating secret about their father that leaves them speechless. As more drama surrounds them, enemies are coming out of nowhere, relationships are ending, and unexpected relationships are growing. In this Epic part two, everyone learns something new about their life. The past can either mold you or make you fold, and in the end, only the strong will survive. Will love be enough to fight for, or will they leave love exactly where they found it, on the mean streets of the Westside of Chicago?
The couples are back, and it seems that everyone has a bone to pick with them. One person in particular has been plotting on them for a long time now, hoping to get one of the Kings back for a heinous crime committed by their fathers. With enemies popping up on every corner, and jealous lovers refusing to be ignored, will any of them even be able to make it out alive? What do you do when people refuse to show you the respect you deserve, simply because they feel you can never live up to the legacy your father left behind? Will the Kings be able to keep the original King brothers undefeated title alive? Or will the legacy their fathers worked so hard to create crash and burn? Who knows, but one thing is for sure, these offspring wont go down without a fight.
"Son of a Dopeboy, follows the lives of three (3) kids who come from different walks of life, but all have one thing in common - Growing up without a Father. 'Kokaine,' is cursed at birth after his Father names him after the drug that's made him a fortune. 'Rey'elle Da Diva,' is a Daddy's girl, until her father is suddenly killed. Rey'elle’s mom is a "SELF-MADE," career driven woman who spoils Rey'elle and her older sister Tasani with all the worldly things their hearts desire. However, gifts can only go so far, will the loss of Rey'elle's Father be the death of her? The story picks up with 'Pablo', a half Black, half Spanish boy who never knew his father. Pablo looks to his uncles, Juan and Miguel for guidance. In return they teach him the ins and outs of their 'Business.' But will Pablo's thirst for success ultimately be his downfall? Turn the page and enter a world filled with drugs, money and power! See if 'Kokaine' can live up to his Father's legacy, without falling victim to the Dope Game himself!"--Amazon.com.
After handling an ancient beef and the likes of an obsessed female, Loco and Danielle enjoyed their time with his family and was back in Columbus Ohio to tie up loose ends and relocate to Augusta, Georgia. But, of course, that didn’t prevent the storms that came their way. Dealing with lies, envy, and infidelity eventually led to fights, kidnappings, and the ultimate; death. The moment tragedy hit so close to home, as usual, the couples pulled together to get through the loss of a loved one. And, like any other time that they’ve all been faced with chaos, Loco and Danielle, Daniel and Aliyah, and Dupree and Rabbit all had one another’s backs. Danyea and his boys were there through it all as well, although Danyea had his own drama. The mother of his daughter had returned with plans to have another baby with him, and she wasn't giving up easily. Meanwhile, Danyea was hit with some news that no one was prepared for...
Continue to ride the wave with Sanaa, Slim, Robby, and Michelle as the drama continues in A Dopeboy Stole My Heart Part 2! Sanaa, who was recently heartbroken by her ex-boyfriend Slim, has been through the mud. Not only had she been cheated on since she had moved to Denver, Colorado, but she recently found out that her step cousin's baby was really his. Trying to move on and find the love with Robby that she couldn't get from Slim was a challenge because the universe kept throwing curveballs. Will Robby and Sanaa make it, or will everything meant to tear them apart succeed? Robby, starting as a two-bit hustler and now making his way to kingpin, had happily accepted his throne. He was doing well for himself, had a beautiful girl by his side, and was slowly making his way to the top. The problem was, at the top, haters stayed lurking. Can Robby escape the jealousy and greed that comes with the top position, or will he be taken out for good? Although Slim and Calista become a thing and are living well, Slim still feels like something is missing. Never getting a hold on his mental health disorder, and still refusing to take his meds, Slim slowly spirals out of control. He will stop at nothing to get Sanaa back and make her his girl forever. After cheating on Robby, Michelle gets dumped and goes buck wild. Her choices landed her in rehab, where she recovered and is now clean. She meets Future, who she falls head over heels for and who loves and adores her. Will her past catch up to her and give her a deadly ending? Ride the wave while we go through this fast-paced, epic finale. With the shootings, kidnappings, murders, and lots of drama, this hot new saga is guaranteed to keep you turning pages!
After burying the father of her child, Miani has to face her next obstacle of divorcing her crazed husband, Ralph. Severing ties with Obasi once she oversteps their friendship, her decision to leave placed her back in a place she vowed never to return to. What she once bargained for was nothing close to what came. Bearing through her hindrances, Obasi is never too far. Only this time, terms have changed, but have they changed enough for the two to realize they want more than to just be friends? Dice, having to fill new shoes in the game, has to swallow taking the backseat now. With brothers hovering over, she has more than enough time to think about what she possibly entangled with Hosea. His interest never wore out with Dice. She willingly left her spot wide open for the next to occupy, leaving her conflicted. When Dice and Miani have no choice but to face these men head-on, a chain of events wraps them in deeper than before. Experiencing one another in new environments may be what they all need, but will it stop the past from breaking up what’s been consolidated?
One would think with the many skeletons Charles has tucked away in his closet, how could he ever do Tiyanna the way that he does? While Tiyanna may have her eyes on a new prize, she might have waited until it’s too late to escape the erratic behavior of her husband. With death on the table, we all hope that Rohan is able to save Tiyanna’s life and show her what it feels like to have some love you without inflicting pain or causing emotional damage. Will love win? That is one thing that many of us are wondering as we sit back, watching something so toxic take place and unfold. Will Tiyanna be able to escape Charles’s wrath and explore love with Rohan, or will Loving a Dope Boy Through It All cost her everything?
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
Since she was a teenager, Biyou has had a thing for bad boys, despite her sheltered and privileged upbringing. After a few failed relationships, she finds solace in the arms of the ultimate bad boy - Kinkaid Washington, one of Atlanta's biggest dope dealers. To Biyou, Kinkaid is more than just a drug dealer, though. He's loving, attentive, and supportive of her dreams. One thing she doesn't know is that he's also a cheater. Eventually she finds out and her perfect image of Kinkaid quickly diminishes. Kinkaid runs the streets of Atlanta with his day ones Harim, and Jaseem. What started out as petty corner hustling turned into a lucrative drug empire. With money, power, and respect comes a plethora of beautiful women too. Unable to control his urges, Kinkaid dabbles a bit. One night of drinking and partying leads up to him sleeping with an ex; an ex that Biyou soon finds out about. Learning of Kinkaid's infidelities, Biyou catches feelings for someone she least expects. Jaseem had always been viewed as the clown of the crew because of the hasty decisions he's made over time. Because of his impulsive ways, having children had never been in his plans. Unfortunately, life has other things planned for him and he has a baby on the way. Refusing to be a deadbeat father, Jaseem prepares for the arrival of his child by purchasing a home and having it decorated through Biyou's interior design company, LUXE, which, ultimately creates a chemistry that neither of them saw coming. To those on the outside looking in, Inaya Lewis has the perfect life. She’s written songs for some of the dopest artists in the game, and she’s married to a handsome businessman with the riches of a mogul and the swagger of a dope boy. However, no one knows how good Inaya is at pretending. She wants to be the one singing the hits she writes, and her heart melts at the sight of babies. Yet and still she’s reminded that her husband wants them to wait before starting a family. All the things Inaya want most, get the same response from her husband Hiram. No. Wait. Inaya loves her husband with everything in her, but as more time passes, she’s no longer willing to stall her dreams to make him happy. Jaxyn Wright has only been in two relationships in her entire life, both with women. She’s found men cute, but she’s never been sexually attracted to them. A nasty break up with her ex leaves her homeless, and she moves in with a friend. Jaxyn is going through a lot that she doesn’t understand, and one of those things just happens to be that out of the blue, she develops a strong desire for a man. She’s never been with a man, never wanted to be with a man, and now she suddenly “needs” a man like she needs the air she breathes. No matter how hard it is, Jaxyn has to walk away because if she gives in to her desires, lives will be ruined, and nothing will ever be the same
"Mika Blake works in law enforcement, and is married to one of the most distinguished detectives on the police force. Everything looks good on the outside-- but Rasheem is controlling and two-timing, so Mika buries herself into her career. She soon crosses paths with Jakeel, an ex-con fresh out of prison. The jovial jailbird piques her interest, and Mika soon forgets that there are certain lines you just don't cross. Now she's playing with two men on opposite sides of the law. Can Mika walk away, or will she make a move that could lead to murder and mayhem in her once quiet life?"--Provided by publisher.
