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Misty Reign

Misty Reign
  • At age forty-five, Dr. Neil Taylor is an eligible bachelor, living a seemingly satisfied existence as a deacon of his church and director of Kingdom Builder’s Academy. But despite outward appearances, Neil harbors secret pains that have caused him to erect a well-constructed wall of defense around his heart.

    Everything changes, however, when Shaylynn Ford, a beautiful young mother, strolls through the doors of his office. There’s a marked difference in their ages, but the years that separate them are the least of Neil’s worries.

    Shaylynn is his God-given soul mate. Neil is certain of it. But even with all the prayers in the world, how can he get her to love him when she’s already wearing a wedding ring?

  • Indulge yourself in a world of drama, sex, lies, and betrayal as Brandie invites you into the lives of Luvly, Money, Chocolate, and Taeko—four friends who take each other to a higher level.

    Money and Luvly are playing a dangerous game. He’s a pro football player, and she’s a drug dealer’s girlfriend. Their steamy and often volatile love affair intertwines girl fights, outside lovers, and bedsheets, and it could add up to a deadly equation.

    Male supermodel Chocolate is every woman’s fantasy of the perfect man. He’s intelligent, very sexy, and he’s looking for a woman to satisfy his wildest sexual desires, even if it means sacrificing his morals and his self-respect.

    Taeko is developing an infamous reputation, and not for his skills as an NBA superstar. He’s become notorious for his sexual appetite and violent temper, which are making him a loser in the game of life.

    Don’t Hate the Player is a nonstop, drama-driven story of friends, lovers, secrets, and ecstasy that will leave you wanting more.

  • When her brother is killed, Trouble, who has everything she could ever want because of her brother and his “complex occupation,” embarks on a mission of revenge that involves seducing the enemy and then killing him.

  • What’s a girl to do when she’s going broke?

    Sarai Emery lost her job as a radio disc jockey when a heated breakup with her wealthy drug dealer boyfriend was accidentally broadcast live. With the sudden loss of income, she goes from living it up to giving it up for cash when she meets a stranger who promises her a steady income working for a high-society escort service. With thoughts of dodging the repo-man, past due bills, an impending eviction, and a bill from the nursing home that cares for her Alzheimer’s-afflicted father fresh on her mind, Sarai feels she has no choice but to plunge into a world where the line that separates sex and money is blurred beyond recognition. When she meets the man of her dreams, will she come clean about how she’s been paying her bills, or will her low-down, dirty secrets rise to the top on their own?

  • Once again, Carl Weber brings together two literary divas to give readers what they’ve been asking for: empowering stories about big, beautiful women.

    "A Lover’s Embrace?" by Skyy

    Rayne creates beautiful works of art, but her personal life is a blank canvas, void of love and passion. With a life-changing showcase on the horizon, Rayne is completely content being alone. She has kept clear of distractions since her last breakup, five years earlier. Things are working in her favor, until an erotic dream shakes her to her core. As if things weren’t becoming complicated enough, a new coworker seems to have stepped directly out of her dream, offering her the opportunity to experience pleasure with no strings attached. Rayne must decide whether to take a chance, or pass up the opportunity that her body is craving. Will this be a masterpiece in the making, or a catastrophe waiting to happen?

    "You Only Live Once" by Treasure Hernandez

    Given the nickname Pooh Bear by her besties, Dakota Marie Smith is just as lovable, thick, cuddly, and soft spoken as a teddy bear. She’s known by family and friends as the good girl, a wallflower who can do no wrong; but she’s tired of being the bore in the bunch, so she flies to Las Vegas with plans of leaving her old self behind. Will Dakota be able to throw caution to the wind and explore the stranger within? Considering that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, she might be able to do just that—and then some.

  • The first rule when trying to survive prison is to find people who are going to watch your back. Sometimes alliances like this are made in the weirdest situations. For Mo, Royal, Emil, and Ascada, the last place they wanted to be was in prison together, but as fate would have it, they all became inmates of the Walsh Facility for Women. As different as they all are, they do have one thing in common—Spencer. Spencer is known on the streets as a hustler with nothing to lose. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself, and that includes the children that he’s fathered with three of the women who are locked up.

    But when Spencer gets arrested by the feds, all sorts of drama jumps off, putting the girls in a situation that they can’t get out of alone. The last thing any of the girls wanted to do was “bury the hatchet” and be friends, but they will have to in order to get out of this mess alive.

  • Tiffany is trapped in a life she never wanted for herself. The man she fell in love with turned out to be a lazy, good-for-nothing womanizer. Night after night Tiffany comes home to Blake’s physical, mental, and verbal abuse. She’s tried leaving it in the past, but somehow he always finds her. Each time, she comes back and convinces herself things will get better. Then one day Blake beats her for the last time. Tiffany decides death is the only way out—and she’s not the one being buried. Her life takes a drastic turn as she attempts to live the life she’s always wanted.

    Lucky and Quick are childhood friends trying to make a name for themselves. They have been working corners, proving their loyalty to the streets and waiting for their big break. When they finally get the chance to prove themselves, they quickly climb up the ladder and find themselves working for the top dogs. Everything happens so fast that they end up on opposite sides of the fence and become enemies.

    Quick and Tiffany meet under unfortunate circumstances, but they instantly connect and fall in love. Tiffany is pulled into Quick’s street world full of lies and revenge. Lucky and Quick are constantly going against each other, and the friendship seems to be lost forever. When the opportunity comes along for both of them to be on the top spot, will they be able to rekindle the friendship?

  • Sex, love, drugs, and music are just a few of the Carter boys’ daily dealings. Drama follows them everywhere, especially being the largest, most dangerous organization the city of Atlanta has ever seen. The women who want to be with them and the men who want to be just like them can easily get lost in the shuffle when the target is constantly moving to a new Carter’s back.

    So, what happens when a slick-mouth girl from Brooklyn decides to go off to college in the unofficial capital of the South? She is quickly introduced to the Atlanta lifestyle, where “Bruh” is part of every other sentence; dreaded ‘fros are a must; hot lemon pepper wings are law; west side accents are always thicker; nobody says ATL unless they’re from out of town; HBCU life is unlike any other; and most importantly, it’s all about family. In particular, it’s all about the Carter family. Without the Carters, there is no Atlanta.

  • Tired of being used, abused, and treated as an afterthought, Alexis decides to put aside her beliefs of how a lady should behave and live life according to her pleasures. Becoming the “man” in all three of her relationships, she uses men the way she has been used.

  • Nearly every two minutes in America someone is sexually assaulted. Olivia Collins, an urban author residing in the heart of the hood, knows this better than anyone. Working hard to repress her own issues, Olivia encounters Noah, an underprivileged foster kid who views himself as a number, a statistic. As the awkward duo gets to know one another, secrets about Noah begin to unfold while unraveling Olivia’s resolve and forcing her to deal with her own demons. No one understands her sudden and unexplainable connection to or concern for the young boy, but their relationship runs deeper than anyone around her could ever understand given her undisclosed past. Olivia’s certain that she and Noah share a bond solidified by a common pain making them nearly one in the same, for she too is a statistic in her own way.

  • Knox Baker has been missing for weeks. When his cell phone is discovered in Farah Cotton’s possession, his family wants to know how she obtained it. Always deceitful, Farah quickly devises a clever lie to buy time. The problem is that there is one living person who knows the truth—Eleanor McClendon.

    Della Baker, Knox’s mother, senses that Farah is lying. To help discern her son’s whereabouts, she calls upon two deadly family members from Mississippi. They waste no time converging on Platinum Lofts with one mission in mind—to find their lost family member no matter who they must kill in the process.

    Farah goes on a wild chase to find Eleanor before anyone else does. If she fails, it could mean the end of her relationship with Slade and possibly her life.

    Easily distracted, Farah’s lust for murder and mayhem is heightened when she unexpectedly meets people just like her. She’s immediately sucked into their world when her thirst for blood is validated by newfound friends. Will Farah Cotton survive, or will her lies be the end of her?

  • Lisette is a professional, and she gets paid well for her services. Wives pay her to ruin their marriages. Some are looking to get out of abusive situations, and others are looking to get even and get half. Then there are Lisette’s favorite clients, the wives who don’t want a divorce, but instead want control—something Lisette knows all about.

    These clients pay large sums of money to have their cake and eat it too. That’s exactly what Kyra Rogers wants. Lisette turns her down, but Kyra doesn’t want to take no for an answer. Life for this home wrecker will never be the same.

  • Bestselling author Samona de la Cruz has found herself on the wrong side of love. Even though she knows that loving Elliot Louis-Jacques is wrong, she has no desire to be right. There’s just one problem—Elliot is in a long-term relationship with Demitri Alexander.

    As an openly bisexual man, Elliot has no problem with having his cake and eating it, too. When he tells Mona and Demitri that he wants both of them at the same time, all hell breaks loose.

    And then, just when you think you have it all figured out, Elliot’s ex steps into the picture and throws a monkey wrench that Mona never saw coming.

    Sparks fly, attitudes clash, secrets are revealed, and sensuality knows no bounds in Nikki-Michelle’s new novel, Bi-Sensual.

  • Melody, Asia, and Sasha are successful women working in the careers they’ve always wanted. They excel in life, they excel in their chosen professions, but in their relationships, they fail miserably. From scandalous affairs and drug-induced sexcapades to secret pregnancies and death in a love triangle, these cousins have the personal drama on lock. But when backstabbing and betrayal infiltrate their relationships with one another, the once-tight trio quickly finds that blood is nowhere near as thick as water.

    Come take a roller-coaster ride with these women and experience their drama, their deceit, and a little bit of their naughtiness as they each try to handle lust and lies of the most wicked kind.

  • When twenty-seven-year-old Jakiyah Smith left New York after a failed relationship, she had no plans of returning, but the death of her sister has forced her to come back. Now Jakiyah must help to care for her sister’s child, but she soon finds herself surrounded by drama. German, the man she thought she would be with forever, is still with the woman he left her for. To make matters worse, Jakiyah’s mother is the side-piece’s newest friend.

    As Jakiyah struggles to come to terms with what has happened to her sister, she must also figure out whom she can trust. She learns that not all smiling faces are friendly, and now she’s second-guessing the people she would have laid her life down for. Jakiyah’s life has quickly spiraled out of control, and she regrets her decision to move back home.

    He Used to Love Me is filled with sex, love, and pain. Sometimes family and friends can be your worst enemy.

  • Life can be cruel. Sometimes it’s hard to play with the cards you’ve been dealt. Growing up in the ghetto can be hell; good or bad, everybody has a story. Toni is young and sexy, but her life story is limited with her mother’s drug addiction and her older brother, Sheek, doing life in prison. She struggles day by day, stripping and sometimes doing more in underground clubs to support herself and her family.

    Toni eventually befriends a rich pretty boy from Long Island, whose life was sheltered from poverty since the day he was born. But when he meets Toni, their lives change as they teach each other how to live and grow, and school each other about the opposite worlds they live in and come from. But conflict erupts in the ghetto. Toni’s abusive gangster boyfriend, Tec, fuels a deadly drug war with Chills, a well-known kingpin harboring most of Coney Island territory. Greed, rage, and envy is instilled in Tec, and the body count rises. A drug war ensues as animosity and rage erect between the two thugs, making life in Coney Island a living hell for some and Ghetto Heaven for others.

  • Have you ever sat and talked with God and asked him what have you done to be treated so badly? Nicole Evans has spent the last year and a half of her life having this same conversation with God. Over and over. Quite honestly, Nicole has been talking so loudly in fact she isn’t hearing God whisper back to her, “Just wait, I have a love planned for you that will surpass everything you thought you wanted.”

    After the demise of her relationship with long-time boyfriend DonTravious, Nicole thought God had truly blessed her the day Kendrick Taylor walked into her life, her prayers for a lasting love had been answered. Life with him was bliss until he walked out of her life without a second thought, leaving her more broken and alone than she’d ever felt. Nicole resigned herself to the fact she was going to be alone. She was tired of looking for love and only being left out in the cold. She was content to mourn the love she’d lost … or rather never had with a now happily married Kendrick.

    Jeremiah gave his all to the woman he loved, rising R&B star Mia King. He took her out of a negative living environment taking on the responsibilities of a man when he was barely into adulthood. Jeremiah even took on the responsibility of raising another man’s child without a second thought. He was a man in love and as long as he had Mia and their son Jacobi, he felt like he had everything. Jeremiah was ready to conquer the world. In fact he felt he was almost at the top of the mountain when his world came crumbling down. With one fateful trip to Texas, Jeremiah soon found out that everything he thought he knew about Mia was a lie. A year and a half later, Jeremiah is richer than ever but his heart is cold. Straight savage when it came to any thoughts of love. The only purpose women served for him were to meet his physical needs.

    That is until one night of conducting business leads him straight into the arms of a woman he thinks is certifiably crazy. Though in the game of love, a little bit of crazy may be just what you need to make your world feel sane.

  • Giselle Doran is a daddy’s girl—a sexy eighteen-year-old siren who’s all about the Benjamins. Her father is a king in the drug distribution game, and she views him as the perfect man—the type of man she wants to marry. When she meets Shawn, she thinks she’s found the one, but when she becomes his wife and things start to spiral out of control, she learns that being hood royalty doesn’t come without a price.

    Mimi Gordon is not attracted to drug dealers—or men at all—until Tony comes along. He provides her with a lavish lifestyle, and once she’s had a taste, Mimi is hooked. When Tony leaves her high and dry, it’s no problem. She just moves on to James. He’s recently released from prison, with big plans to become a drug kingpin, and Mimi is ready to go along for the ride. Mimi’s blissful life unravels, however, when James acquires a new plan of action that takes over, turning her life upside down.

    Giselle and Mimi cross paths in the most unusual way. Eventually, both women will be forced to make life-changing decisions when they find out their men aren’t who they thought they were. Follow these women through their struggle to survive against men who destroy everything thing they care about.

  • Terrell wasn’t raised in the corrupt streets of Detroit. After being abused and left for dead by his violent, psychotic father, he was raised by his aunt and uncle in a loving home in the suburbs. But he never lost touch with his mother, whose selfish scheming sparked the fire that led to that fateful night when Terrell became disabled. Now that he’s an adult, his tainted bloodline has other plans for the wheelchair-bound teenager.

    Throwing away his silver spoon, Li’l T easily favors an oversized .40-cal he keeps tucked on his lap. With Simone, his wicked-minded mother, cosigning his every criminal move, Terrell hopes he can rise to be half the man he believes his deceased father was, even though Kamal was the one to put him in the iron-wheeled casket. A product of the system, Terrell is haunted by his past, but he’s determined not to let anything stop his shine.

  • The Carter Boys are a rap group on the rise, and their name rings loud in Atlanta. With their pretty-boy looks and take-no-prisoners demeanor, all the men want to be like them, and women will fight to be with them. They’re back again in this third installment of the wild and crazy, oh-so-addictive Carter Boys series.

    Shiloh, Anthony, Jaheim, Talin, Elijah, and Trent have so many things going on outside of the family that there is little time to keep a watchful eye on the princess of the Carter family—baby sister Olivia. All that changes when the secret life she’s been hiding comes to the forefront, causing a couple of her siblings to feel some type of way. Whether they’re for her or against her, the Carter men try to deal with what Olivia has going on, all while trying to handle their own drama.

    Surprise proposals, unexpected pregnancies, sexual tension, more lies, some truths, meeting the in-laws, and a big family dinner that starts and ends with so much chaos that a few brothers literally come to blows are just a few of the things jumping off with this crazy cast of characters. Let the creative mind of Desirée take you on another trip to Atlanta, where the Carter family and all their drama is sure to keep you thoroughly entertained.

  • After a complicated love triangle found Ne’Vaeh involved with her best friend’s man, she thought she had found happiness. Unfortunately, heartbreak continues for her, and now she is struggling to deal with feelings of love lost.

    Charlene says she is pregnant by Aaron, the man they both loved, and Ne’Vaeh is devastated. Charlene refuses to set the record straight. She doesn’t want Aaron, but she’s determined to keep him away from her backstabbing former friend.

    Old feelings resurface, and Ne’Vaeh finds herself falling in love again; however, Charlene’s jealousy is about to consume her. How dare Ne’Vaeh find happiness when she’s trying to make her life miserable? Charlene concocts a plot to put a damper on everyone’s plans.

    All is fair in love and war, so they say. Find out what happens when everything comes to a head. Does love really conquer all?

  • Sex, love, drugs, and music are just a few of the Carter boys’ daily dealings. Drama follows them everywhere, especially being the largest, most dangerous organization Atlanta has ever seen. The women who want to be with them and the men who want to be just like them can easily get lost in the shuffle when the target is constantly moving to a new Carter’s back.

    Stepping outside of his relationship with his current woman seems impossible to Trent, but that all changes when the girl who had a childhood crush on him comes back into the picture looking totally different than he remembered. How does the smooth, smart, and prettiest of the Carter boys deal with this, especially now that he finally has Jade in his life?

    Still not quite understanding his quiet and dark demeanor, Noelle can’t help the attraction she feels for her mysterious neighbor, Shiloh Carter. Could it be the romantic and affectionate side he shows her when no one else is around? Or is the mystery surrounding this man really a major turn-on for her? Everything between the two neighbors is great until she gets a front row seat to a side of Shiloh that she never saw coming. Will Noelle stick around, or will she pack her things and move far away from Atlanta when she realizes that Shiloh is more dangerous than she thought?

  • Antonio Roberts and Paige Tillary are from vastly different backgrounds, so when they meet and fall in love, it won’t be easy.

    Antonio, born of an affair between a beautiful actress and a notorious crime boss, lost his mother to drugs and was forced to navigate foster care and survive on the streets of the Bronx. He is ignored by his father, the infamous head of a powerful crime syndicate, and his half-brothers are living the life Antonio used to dream about. Antonio has turned his struggles into a career in the NBA, but when a devastating injury sidelines his basketball career and he finds out he has been duped out of millions by his best friend, Antonio is forced to turn to the father who never claimed him.

    Paige came from money. Private schools, trips around the world, and extravagant shopping sprees were all part of her upbringing. Her father is a well-respected politician who is not happy when his daughter falls in love with a man who represents everything the senator despises. But Paige’s father harbors many secrets of his own, including one that will soon rock his family to the core.

    In spite of their own marital issues, Paige’s parents try to exert pressure on her to leave Antonio. She lets love guide her, and despite her parents’ threats to disinherit her, she marries Antonio anyway. When secrets, lies, and ties to a dangerous criminal underworld cause their opposing worlds to collide, the young couple is torn between their love for one another and their competing family loyalties.

    Family secrets, power, money, fame, and love are the ties that bind in this emotionally charged street tale.

  • With so many lies and secrets, will Ne’Vaeh ever have her happily ever after, or will she decide it’s time to leave everything and everyone behind in search of a new start?

    Charlene and Ne’Vaeh have been rivals ever since they were students at Howard University, both vying for the love of the same man. When the dust finally settled, Ne’Vaeh was brokenhearted, and Charlene was pregnant by Aaron—or so she said.

    In spite of Charlene’s attempts to make her life miserable, Ne’Vaeh managed to move on and rekindle a relationship with Jamie, her first love. Unfortunately, that was not the end of her problems.

    The tension continues to build as Jamie struggles to tell Ne’Vaeh the truth about him and Charlene and their night in Miami. He has just gotten Ne’Vaeh back after four long years. How can he reveal his truth without losing her?

    Ne’Vaeh knows something isn’t right when Jamie starts acting weird. She already has her guard up with Jamie, afraid that he will hurt her again. As usual, Charlene’s attempts to keep everyone on edge are not making Ne’Vaeh’s life any easier.

  • The girls are at it again and have taken revenge to the next level.

    Dana has gone through an ultimate test of will and faith, but she refuses to sit still and live her life being dependent on others. Will she become the woman that she used to be, or will she fall back in the grasp of money and greed? Stephanie is in a world of her own and wants to transition away from Dana and Brittany. Will she finally slip the tight hold that Dana seemingly has over her? Jeryca’s future keeps her visiting her past and remembering how Farrah was there for her, which sets her teeth on edge. She is going to make everyone involved pay dearly—even the ones currently in her circle—but with new enemies coming for her and Orlando, will revenge truly be hers, or will the wrath of her new foe bring her demise?

  • Symone Davenport is a twenty-two-year-old college senior who has set herself up for a very secure future, but all her achievements feel more like a duty than a labor of love. Her true love is singing R&B. She doesn’t believe her plus-size figure could ever be diva material, so she settles for fading into the background in her father’s church choir. It takes the help of Jaylen Richards, the handsome new choir director to not only unlock her talent and try to bring her into the spotlight, but to unlock her heart.

    Janice was never very thin, but the fifty pounds she packed on after her sister’s sudden death two years ago sent her way beyond the size 14 she used to be. With a gorgeous face, personality, and brains she isn’t lacking friends, but her insecurities about her weight gain get in the way of things reaching the next level with men. Flirting over the phone and via e-mail with Tony is easy, since he’s hundreds of miles away, but when business brings him to Janice’s Chicago office, she goes out of her way to avoid meeting him face-to-face. She assumes he’ll take one look at her and not even remember their conversations. She couldn’t be further from the truth, and soon their romance blossoms. In his arms nothing, especially size, matters; however, when lies are uncovered and things come undone, layers of Tony are exposed. Will it reveal a golden pear or a rotten apple? Did he play on her insecurities for his own selfish gain, and is he just more dead weight she will eventually have to lose?

  • Ne’Vaeh Washington attends Howard University, where her burning desire to be with Aaron Whitehaven, her best friend’s boyfriend, prevents her from living her life to the fullest. Unbeknownst to her, Aaron feels the same way.

    While Ne’Vaeh’s best friend, Charlene Campbell, is out of town attending a funeral, Aaron confesses that he has been in love with Ne’Vaeh for nearly three years. He has kept it a secret until now because he believed that she was still in love with Jamie Green, her first love, who left her brokenhearted.

    Charlene’s relationship with Aaron has always been rocky. Her reputation for sleeping with just about anyone with a pulse preceded her, and now Aaron has stopped paying her any attention. A trip to Miami turns into a reunion with her old friend Jamie Green, a college football player about to go pro. The problem is that no matter what happens between him and Charlene, Jamie hasn’t forgotten about Ne’Vaeh.