Honey Jones

"When a set-up goes wrong and Six finds herself sleeping with the enemy, who will she choose: the man she loves, or the man she's supposed to hate?"--P. [4] of cover.

He set out to be the good son, but the streets had a different plan. Born to one of the city's most notorious crime families, Shai Clark has always managed to be a good kid. A college hoops star, Shai shunned the world that his father had created and focused on his dreams of going pro. Tommy, Shai's trigger-happy older brother, is next in line for the throne and rules under his father through brute force. But Poppa has bigger plans for Shai. The situation...

"Leah has been trying for years to get rid of her competition, and all her crazy scheming has finally paid off-- or so she thinks. Now that YaYa is out of the picture, she's ready to step into her shoes and have the life she has always dreamed of. The scars that she earned in the fire almost seem worth it if they mean she'll finally be able to have all the money, the family, and most importantly, to have Indie's love to herself. There's only one problem....

Three tales of risky love in urban communities include "Flirting with Disaster," in which a journalism student finds danger in a seemingly clean-cut man.

Eric Jerome Dickey, author of fourteen New York Times bestselling novels, imagines the formative college years of one of his most popular heroines, Nia Simone Bijou. This Penguin Special includes a preview of Decadence, coming April 2013.
From her first days at Virginia’s Hampton University, impressionable, creative Nia falls smitten with Chris Eidos Alleyne, an athlete and a scholar.
“Love is sweet nothings...

Pain is a survival mechanism of fundamental importance. It plays a crucial role in our lives and eventually molds us into whoever it is that we become. At least it did for Zuri.

After her world is brutally destroyed, she feels she has nothing left to hold on to but the fading dream of escaping the ghetto. Young, beautiful & naïve, she is drawn into the world of sex & money, working at a hole in the wall strip club in South Philly. One bad

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When Miami gangster Dante flies out to New Jersey to tie up some "loose ends," the job is quickly sidetracked by a stop in upstate New York-Syracuse to be precise. While there, he reconnects with his blood Mother and other relatives. Like her son, Dante's mother is an underworld figure of her own as the leader of the ruthless Blackwell family, who are currently embroiled in a bloody war for total control of every last bit of NY & NJ drug territory....

It took Naeem Cassidy ten years to get over his wife's death and move on. Then, he found out she was still alive. Now, he has to choose between the life he had with Destiny and the life he's built with Dijon. There is one major problem though-Destiny's father. Because of his lies and secrets, someone has to die … and Naeem refuses to grieve for his wife again. Will his choice cause the end of his relationship with Dijon and create a war with the...

Shannon Holmes, king of urban lit and #1 Essence bestselling author, brings you another story from the mean streets of the South Bronx.

Kenny "Ken-Ken" Greene left his days as a hustler behind him when his wife was killed during a scam gone bad, leaving him with a baby daughter. Now he's a cab driver, doing what he can to put food on the table and give his daughter, Destiny, everything she needs. In spite of his past or because of

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Camille, Jade, and Shy are best friends who have always had each others' backs until their drug-dealing boyfriends get caught up in a shooting that sends one boyfriend to jail. Jealousy, greed, revenge, and betrayal test the bonds of their friendship.