"In this first person account of bipolar disorder, Michael Lukas tells the story of discovering his illness as he finds himself transformed from high school valedictorian to correctional facility inmate over the course of a summer.... Through Lukas' intimate account of struggle and eventual acceptance of his illness, The veil offers insight for all who struggle with extreme emotional states and their consequences, and for all who love them."--P. [4] of cover.
TEXT GOOD2GO to 31996 To receive new release updates via text message. Young Resean 'Boss' Holmes is known and loved throughout the city of Atlanta. But his home life is vastly different. He and his Stepfather despise each other. Forcing his Mother to make a difficult choice, choosing her lover over her own son. She sends Boss to Miami to live with his real father. Or so she says. Resean's arrival in Miami unlocks many shocking family secrets, which not only anger him. But place Boss in a very tough predicament. Especially financially. However Boss is nothing if not resourceful. He plants himself within the Miami drug scene. Pushing an original product called 'Blue Devil.' Which is a combination of coke, and another drug which is an offshoot of molly. As expected, the new recipe is a hit with his customers... and the money comes rolling in. But it also makes Boss 'hot' on the streets. News of his success gets back to a local druglord who immediately sends numerous hit squads to gather intel. Then find and eliminate Magic City's newest 'player.' Boss considers going into hiding until he realizes his newfound wealth has gained him a few loyal followers of his own. He then instead, chooses to go to all-out war with his unknown but powerful enemy. A foe whose very identity, may be the deadliest 'family secret' of them all!
It was once said that the hood was a deadly battlefield where only the strongest survive. Leilani Vasquez has had her fair share of fights being born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her childhood was suffused with drugs and abuse as she was treated as a burden by the very woman who brought her into the world. Love eludes their home once Leilani’s innocence is torn away from her by her mother’s moral less boyfriend. Showing no mercy, Leilani is forced to grow up fast when she becomes pregnant with her stepfather’s child, along with a drug habit that she cannot kick. Events transpire between the odd family, changing Leilani’s life forever. Twelve years later, she’s a professional hit woman that uses her connections to become one of the leaders of the top drug organizations, The Supremes. Supported by her close friends, Leilani is making a better life for herself. Things go south when reality throws her life into shambles, turning her world upside down. Will Leilani be able to survive this battle, or will she become just another character in a fucked up hood tale?
Poisoned Pawn Harlem brothers, Kip and Kid Kane, are like night and day. While Kip is with his stick-up crew hitting ballers and shot-callers, the wheelchair-bound Kid is busy winning chess tournaments and being a genius. Kip's ex, Eshon, and her girls, Jessica and Brandy, put in work for Kip's crew as the E and J Brandy bitches. Eshon wants Kip, but Kip is always focused on the next heist--the next big come-up. When given an assignment by the quirky Egyptian kingpin, Maserati Meek, Kip jumps at the chance to level up to bigger scores. While doing Maserati Meek's Dirty Work, Kip and his crew find that doing business with crazy pays handsomely. But at what cost? Insanity leads to widespread warfare, and the last man standing will have to take down the warlord.
Not that I would ever tell him to his face-especially after the time and effort I spent getting on him in high school-but I was very proud of James. I followed his career since he was drafted; he worked hard at his game. He never had that kind of can't-miss talent, and was a little trigger-happy with the ball, but the fact that he made it and the rest of us didn't is simply amazing; he wasn't the likeliest candidate. Likely or not, he made it out of Flatbush, and I know quite a few people who couldn't say the same. Rob Bishop and his four best friends wanted to get out of the 'hood and make better lives for themselves. Basketball was the answer. But when the team's best player has his college hoop dreams derailed by circumstance, he takes matters into his own hands and jumps to the NBA, almost severing all ties with "the boys". Tragedy reunites them ten years later. Although their childhood friendships have evolved with age and time apart, the fab five learn that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Its been ten years since Michelle Timeworth, known by the nickname Misfit, traveled to Hans Island as a member of the Barracudas, a CIA assault team. Although shes now a deadly fighter, that wasnt always the case. As a small child growing up in Brooklyn, Michelle witnesses the murder of her parents and older brother. This event puts her on a troubled path and leads her into a criminal lifestyle as a young teen, landing her in juvenile detention in between being shuffled from family to family as she tries to build an existence for herself. Her life takes a different course when a navy recruiter takes her in and raises her, keeping her out of trouble and preparing her for a brighter future. Twenty years before her CIA career begins, she serves as a Navy SEAL and unknowingly works for a criminal organization known as the Alumnus. But she has no idea that as an adult, shell have the opportunity to have her vengeance on those who killed her beloved family. Full of action and adventure, this screenplay explores the past of a member of a CIA assault team, revealing the trauma that shaped her into the heroine she is.
Be seduced by the world of the GhostWalkers as #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan raises the stakes in the ultimate game of love and death… Games should be fun, but for two expert teams across the country, they’re murder—because the winning team is the one that gets the most kills. The participants in this violent challenge are rumored to be GhostWalkers. And Kaden Montague isn’t happy about it. Kaden is a GhostWalker and he’s determined to clear the GhostWalker name of the rumors. And he’s going to need the help of psychic Tansy Meadows to do it. But as soon as he sees her, he knows his mission will be more complicated than he imagined—and the “murder game” may not be at all what it seems.
Two brothers . . . Two different sides of the law . . . One hustle. Derek Fuller and Scar Johnson were separated as young boys in the Baltimore foster care system. When they finally reunited, it didn't matter to them that they were operating on different sides of the law. Derek was a cop, and Scar a notorious drug dealer, but family came first, and these two formed a partnership that was bound to make both of them very rich men—until Scar realized he couldn't keep his hands off Derek's wife. Tiphani Fuller may have been unsatisfied by her husband, but she never expected to fall for her brother-in-law. Now she's in over her head, doing things that make her no better than the criminals she sees in her courtroom. She's using her new position as a circuit court judge to feed information to Scar and his Dirty Money Crew so they can go on a crime spree with no fear of prosecution. Throw in a cast of characters including an ex-convict who'll do anything for love, a detective who's hell-bent on revenge, and a mayor who breaks more laws than the criminals on the streets, and you have a story that could only come from the mind of Treasure Hernandez. In The Baltimore Chronicles Saga, there is no difference between the bad guys and the good guys. Everyone has an agenda, and every page is full of lust, lies, revenge, and murder.
