"A prelude story . . .
In the heart of 1980s Pittsburgh, as the crack cocaine epidemic ravages the streets, Michael 'Shine' Ferrell is a rising player in the city's cutthroat underworld. Hungry for more power, he sets his sights on expanding his empire—only to clash with a ruthless rival who controls the city's darkest corners. But it's not just the streets that threaten to swallow him whole. A betrayal at home shakes the foundation of the little he holds dear, forcing Shine to navigate deadly alliances and personal ruin as the epidemic spreads like wildfire.
Contains mature themes."
"Long awaited . . .
Two sets of siblings. One father. Now meet.
A father's dream to completely recompense for his wrongs and love all his children together is granted to him. Will it be drama, or will it be all love? Maybe it'll be both.
Reader's note: Before reading/listening to We Are One, readers should have read the Soulmates series and the Enigma series books because We Are One is a union and reunion of both series.
Contains mature themes."
"Sarai 'Slick' Lewis is the princess of the family with the most to learn.
Slick is known to be the loose cannon: explosive and unpredictable which is why she needs help to get out of a bind all the time. Malachi is all too happy to help her the best way he knows how—brains and tenacity. But it's not enough to stop what's been boiling over since her mother left.
The truth is that only she can save herself, but love can help.
Contains mature themes."
"He was his daddy's son.
Eli 'Maestro' Lewis has prepared himself to run the kingdom of Smoke Enterprises. The plan was to allow his father time to rest and live out his golden years with his new love, but someone wanted his father back in the game, and his father, Smoke, was all too happy to show Pittsburgh how he earned his name. They said where there's Smoke, there's fire, and now the city was up in flames. Eli had major problems with that. For one, his pops shouldn't have been running around the city like he was Shaft, risking his life and all he worked hard for, and two, he was more than capable of handling all this trouble on his own. If only his pops would let him.
Being the prince wasn't always easy, and neither was finding love during a war. But he'd deal with all that. Like he always did. That's how he earned his name.
Contains mature themes."
"Raymond 'Mr. Big Stuff' McCullough didn't just get his name from being one of Pittsburgh's biggest most powerful names. He also had a certain quality about him that either scared a woman away or dared her to try him at least one time. That's usually all they could handle—leaving Raymond lonely most of the time.
Tracey Copeland had been looking for something or someone to break up the monotony of her life and when that didn't happen, she begins to feel like she was losing at the game of life. In one of her most impulsive moves to date, she changes her life for what seems like the worse. But fate intervenes and brings her into the path of a man so big, he shakes her life up, and all she can do is hope to land on her feet. Fearful of the consequences, she has to decide what to do next: run once again or stick to her guns and see what hand life deals her. Tracey did say she was looking for a challenge, and Mr. Big Stuff was exactly that.
Contains mature themes."
"Mystery, crime, and grit surrounded his family, often bringing power-hungry enemies right to his doorstep. Never one to back down from any opposition, he often stood victorious. But this new threat is something different and not at all one he is prepared for until an old love comes to save him.
Elijah Lewis aka 'Smoke' has to decide what to do with the gift of knowledge he's received. Does he deliver more pain to the people responsible for trying to take him out, or does he take well-meaning advice and get out of this line of work? For people like him, there were only so many places he could go and the top two were: to jail or to hell.
Contains mature themes."
"'There's a lot my children still don't understand about the gifts given to the women in my family, but there was a time I didn't comprehend it either. The consequences of my ignorance and my insolence, still haunt me.'
They didn't know her story before, because she hadn't told them.
She didn't reveal how being so deeply tethered to a man who didn't take care of that precious connection, had wrecked her body and soul, making it nearly impossible to breathe some days. She didn't want them to know the ugly parts of her existence; had only hoped to give her girls the good in her, and on that, most days she'd failed.
But so much goodness surrounded her now, by way of self-healing and a good man, Solomon. His love, despite her attempts to keep him at bay, helped to pull her out of the darkness, into the light, and with it, the truth gets unearthed.
The good, the bad, and the ugly lay bare and vulnerable . . . and so does she.
Contains mature themes."
"Zoe comes from a line of clairvoyant, empathic women. Each one, including Zoe, is deeply connected to the world around them. Zoe's gifts are much more intense and hard to go unnoticed by those who get close to her so she often hides what she knows to avoid being seen as unstable. She's always known who the love of her life was going to be, she just hadn't met him yet. He could live halfway across the world for all she knew. But if she saw him . . . or if she met him . . . she would know she was meeting her soul mate. The man for her. Her man to love . . . Rashaad.
Rashaad only wants two things: to play his music and explore the world, and women, while he does it. So far, he's been managing that very well, until he is pulled to the less than bustling, more like unassuming, city of Pittsburgh. He figures he can just get in and get out and move on, but getting in, is more about love, and getting out, would be about leaving it. He doesn't know how to make that decision when it involves Zoe, his someone new. His once in a lifetime.
Contains mature themes."
"soul mate
noun
noun a person ideally suited to another as a close friend or romantic partner
Podcast host Zola is smart, sexy, and opinionated. When wealthy app developer Khalil calls into her show to correct her, she won't let him off the hook without a fight. The more they talk, the bigger the sparks. Could it be love?
Contains mature themes."
"soul mate (noun): a person ideally suited to another as a close friend or romantic partner.
He kinda looked like Ross, he even smiled like him. My mind didn't want him. It shouldn't have. Not after Ross.
But he smelled good and he talked to me in a way that felt good, deep down in my soul.
He wasn't Ross.
Zena Lewis believed in fairy tales as a little girl. She carried those fantasies of a knight in shining armor loving her until eternity, until her ugly separation and divorce from her ex. These days, a man would have to be lucky to get her to smile back at him, let alone give up her number.
Until Rafael Dupré. Rafael was different.
Contains mature themes."
