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Chilufiya Safaa - Stay The Night - Available Now! - 5 out of 5 books - Adana Terrell is the last unmarried Terrell sister. She doesn't believe that she is destined to meet that someone who was made just for her. Outwardly, she is a beautiful, successful attorney who has it going on. Inwardly, she is fine with that...or so she thinks. Kamau Mazrui is part of the prestigious Mazrui family, one of the wealthiest, most well-known families in Kenya. Kamau is still mourning the death of his wife and is at a lost as to how to get his life back on track other than work, but even that is not as fulfilling as it has been in the past. On a sisters get together weekend in Kenya, Adana enlists the help of Kamau Mazrui on a case she is working on. When a storm hits Kenya, Adana and Kamau must spend the night under the same roof where they ultimately succumb to their passion. The experience changes both of them, but will secrecy and misunderstandings cause the couple to miss out on th...

Dutch - Dynasty II - Available Now! - 3 out of 5 books - Dynasty II by Dutch picks up right where the last book left off, with Vee shot and left for dead. Will Guy find out that someone close to him is the snake in the grass that attempted to take his life? Ty is angry at Guy for not retaliating on the person responsible for killing his brother. To let that person just walk away is unfathomable to him. Ty is determined to take action against the culprit responsible, whether Guy likes it or not. Ty's mother Debra has been keeping a huge secret. When Ty finds out what that secret is, he is going to have to make a huge decision: To kill or not to kill the one he loves. Dynasty II by Dutch is full of drama, sex and murder. It was a bit confusing at times when the author would go from past to present. There were also too many characters that had me pausing to remember who was who and what was what. Along with some minor editing issues, Dynasty II was just an okay...

Theo Semper - Church Affairs - Available Now! - 5 out of 5 books - God puts people in your life for certain reasons. Shivon, Stephanie, and Jynene were all struggling with their own issues and tried to find a way to deal with it on their own. But that was not in God's plan for them. Not sure if it was by faith or pure dumb luck that these three women became the best of friends. They would help each other get through their past. For Pastor Robert Grant, his past was too hard to overcome. Because of this, it was not even certain if he would continue to help lead the flock at St. Luke's. When Robert meets Jynene, sparks fly instantly and neither one of them is looking for love right now...but that soon changes. When Jynene falls in love with Robert, she knows that she has finally found her "knight in shining armor" and nothing will stop her from being happy... except the fact that her ex-boyfriend and baby daddy Darryl is released from prison. She will have to ...

Raymond Francis -  Ripped Dollars -  Available Now! -  4 out of 5 books -  Imagine two uneducated, unemployed teenagers living alone with no adult supervision. There is no one to make them go to school nor get a job. Their main focus is getting money to pay the rent, buy some food and of course cop some weed (marijuana). Meet Tone and Amir, best friends who share an apartment together in West Philadelphia (Philly). What makes this duo dangerous is that they are as bold as they are reckless. Tone’s mother was addicted to drugs, so he was raised by his grandmother who seems to have passed away before giving him the fruits of life. At age seventeen, he’s cocky and looking for his next come up. Amir had a choice: leave Philly and move to Atlanta with his mother for a better life or stay. But Amir had no idea what opportunities availed him outside his own backyard. His mother continued to lease the apartment in Philly that Tone and Amir now live in. As...

INSIDE OUT  With Meesha Mink (Niobia Bryant) Author of 'Real Wifeys: On The Grind' Meesha Mink is the national bestselling and award-winning author of 20 previous novels. She lives in New Jersey and South Carolina.  Urban Reviews: Tell our readers about Real Wifeys: On The Grind. Meesha Mink:   Real Wifeys: On The Grind is the first book in a short series centered three different wifeys from three different "hoods" who each struggle with a major issue or conflict in their life.  In this one, the lead character Goldie's struggle is with her love of money, her desire for power and her need for respect (more importantly self-respect).  The book is divided into those three sections as Goldie comes of age and faces first love, heartbreak, tragedy, loss and danger. Urban Reviews:  How did the concept for this book come about? Meesha Mink:    It’s very, VERY, loosely based on the Real Housewives franchise. I wanted to do a interconnected series ab...

Anna J, Anya Nicole, and Angel Mechelle -  Divas, Diamonds & Dollars -  Available Now! -  4 out of 5 books -  Divas, Diamonds & Dollars are comprised of three short stories that take you on a journey of quick schemes, drugs, money, lust, and greed. These three authors offer up a big bite in these short stories, and leave you wanting more.  Here are the two stories that stuck out the most. In " Me and My Girlfriend," Kima and T-Bone are l ike a modern day Bonnie and Clyde...scheming, plotting and conquering their next victims together. Kima and T-Bone are two femmes who are involved in what amounts to a tumultuous relationship of distrust. Things turn ugly when T-Bone realizes that Kima still has a craving for men, and it begins to go down from there. With there backs against the walls, Kima and T-Bone are placed in a compromised situation that could send their world crashing down. Will they be able to do this last heist, or wi...

Pat Tucker - Daddy By Default - Available Now! - 5 out of 5 books - While getting some upsetting news after suffering another miscarriage, Parker and Roxanne are on their way home when they get pulled over and Parker is arrested! During this ordeal, they find out that he's getting arrested for being delinquent on child support payments. Parker is 100% certain that he has not fathered a child and wonders who could do something like this to him. While all of this is happening to Parker and Roxanne, their friends Serena and James are going through a nasty divorce. During this time, James gets some heartbreaking news. Will they be able to clear up all of the drama, or will it get worse? LaChez Baker is a single mother of three boys. She wants to live like she's a baller, but on someone else's dime. While getting her hustle on, she finds out that getting too greedy will get you caught up, and she meets her match. She finds out the hard way that her schemes will catch u...