Crown: 5430 books

Queen Aaron is back in the eyes, minds and hearts of readers as Cynthia White picks up where her first novel left off. Queen is eight months pregnant and living a life of her own in scenic Hawaii, far away from her dramatic past in St. Louis. When Isiah, the king of The Black Mafia, shows up at her front...

Let's take a journey into the world of Vera Wright-Turner, who leads you to wonder if she will play or be played. Will she learn that love is all she needs or will the love she has be too much for her to stand? Only knowing the life of gold diggin', hustling men and rejecting love, Vera has suddenly...

Mona Foster is a young ambitious teenager determined to escape a life of poverty and shame. Being the first person in her family to gain a high school diploma, she has set the tone for greatness. But her prominent future becomes so nebulous that she turns to the streets for guidance and support. She...

All kinds of war are tearing up the streets of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Brothers Black and E-Double are tired of working the drug game under Ice and his Port Au Prince Posse. They tap some of their childhood friends in order to form the Eastwick Hustlers to try to branch out on their own. They had no idea...

Sunshine & Rain is the story of two young divas who come from different parts of the streets of Washington, D.C. With their families torn apart from the vicious life of the streets, Sunshine & Rain find each other living with the same foster mother, Cathy, who has a secret life of her own. With Rain's...

Celeste Styles is a woman torn. On one hand, she has found happiness with the love of her life, Raheem ''Rah-Lo'' Henderson. He is unhappily married with children, and Celeste is his well-kept secret. He loves Celeste without question, proving his affection for her by financing her dream: a beauty salon...

Tommie Simms was supposed to be the community hope, the young man from the neighborhood who made good. He attended a state university, married a respectable woman, and landed a position at a white-collar insurance firm. Watching over Chicago from the thirty-third floor of his company’s downtown...

Amina is a bad girl born in the Bronx and raised in downtown Cincinnati. For a 17-year-old, Amina has a decent life. But after meeting her father and 23-year-old brother for the first time, things take a turn for the worse. Amina ends up alone, trying to fend for herself and save her boyfriend, Kayne,...

In the hood, a snitch is the worst thing a person could possibly be. Rolling over on your best friend who has been with you through thick and thin, hungry and full, freedom and state bids - that's ''the cruelest lie told in silence.'' In this tale that plucks the innermost chords of emotion, jealousy...

Fresh off lock down, DeAndre is back on the inner-city streets of Chi-Town ready to reclaim the glory that he left behind and get paid in a major way. What he thought was going to be an easy transition back into the life of a hustler quickly revealed otherwise. In the midst of coming up in the game and...

The Dirty-Dirty is runnin' the game. Fresh out of prison and down for whatever, Anshon is on the grind and ready to roll. Thirsty for street glitz, glamour and ghetto richness, Anshon never thinks twice about the universal street anthem, ''Mo' money, Mo' problems.'' Living life in the fast lane and never...

Raised by the violent and unforgiving streets from the time he was a small child, 19-year-old ''Killah'' Keyon Wilkerson is among New Orleans' most fearsome criminals. But like any other hardened criminal, Keyon has a weak spot: women. After the sexy, sultry Reyna swindles her way into his life and then...

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and if that woman is Nikki Bell, than that means everyone better jump outta the way. After giving up dancing at The Pink Palace and settling down with her family, Nikki believed she could have a normal life. She was wrong, and now her past is back to haunt her....

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