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Queen of hip hop fiction Nikki Turner follows her gritty, emotionally charged novel The Glamorous Life with this new tale from the hood featuring a beautiful down-on-her-luck sister who can out-hustle the best of them as she rises from the ghetto to glory.After Mercy’s beloved dad is murdered in cold blood on her seventh birthday, her mother gives her up to foster care. But despite an unsavory upbringing, Mercy vows to make something of herself–at all costs.Working as a concierge at a hotel notorious for its shady clientele, Mercy meets and falls hard for a notorious dealer who keeps her living large in Gucci clothes and off-the-hook apartments. Then she lands a real lucrative deal: running drugs up Interstate 95 from Miami to New York.But Mercy doesn’t want to live the gangsta life forever. She’s got bigger dreams. She turns legit and makes her mark, yet despite a new, cleaned-up career, she can’t get the streets completely out of her blood. A sexy hustler named C-Note steals her heart. And as their relationship heats up, Mercy discovers that their pasts are hopelessly–and tragically–entwined.

Bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with an explosive new novel about a woman at an emotional crossroads and the men left in her wake.Isis Tatum knows firsthand the way love can mess up a person. After all, she saw her mother drive a truck through the home of her father's mistress before killing her dad. And ever since Isis was a teenager, her love life has been a series of disasters: Her first sweetheart was executed by the state of Virginia, and her next lover was sent to jail for murder. Now Isis is a successful jewelry designer, but she remains a failure with men. When she meets Logic, a Las Vegas high roller who treats her like a princess, Isis reckons she's finally struck gold- literally. Logic sees to it that her custom pieces of jewelry are seen on the hottest rap stars and pro athletes. But when this Mr. Right ends up in jail too, Isis starts to believe that she's cursed, that she's a true Black Widow. Always one to roll with the punches, she embraces her life and walks bravely down all its twisted paths, taking her business to unprecedented heights while letting the men who dare to get involved with her take their chances.

Bank-robbing sisters Simone, Bunny, Tallhya, and Ginger deal with their individual problems while trying to stay ahead of the law and win the deed on their grandmother's house

Nineteen-year-old Jewels is one of the Midwest‘s most wanted. The daughter of one of the baddest prostitutes to ever work the streets of St. Louis and a high end call girl herself, she attracts nothing but the elite. She has caught the eye of twenty-two-year-old Rome, a dope boy who quickly makes a name for himself in the Loo. One uneventful night, their worlds collide when Jewels is caught with a violent and deranged client, while Rome is laying low at the same hotel because of a drug beef. After that evening, life for Jewels and Rome will never be the same. Together, they climb to the top, but Jewels is the one responsible for getting them there. Sex, money, and murder are the outcome as the world of prostitution collides with the drug game. Bodies begin to drop, and the streets are littered with corpses as an all-out war is launched. The Midwest heats up and things become even more complicated when Jewels is put in the line of fire and becomes the target.

In these two action-packed, sexy stories from Urban lit superstars Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner, two different women find themselves on the run and under the gun. Gigi, trying to find the 4 million dollars she doesn't have, steals a stash of diamonds from an ex. Peaches, wanted for a murder she did not commit, but hides - and survives - in plain sight. Will both women make it out on top?

Follows the explosive encounters between four savvy woman hustlers and four fast-rising stars in the Brooklyn drug trade who must choose between their private demands and the best interests of their crews.

The undisputed queen of hip-hop fiction, #1 Essence bestselling author Nikki Turner unwraps a talented new collection of writers with raw urban stories to jingle your bells this season.Christmas in the Hood presents fresh talent alongside shining stars such as K. Elliott and Seth “Soul Man” Ferranti–all writing gritty tales that reveal what the holidays bring for the naughty and the nice who live by the code of the street. In “Secret Santa,” after her children’s Christmas presents are stolen, a woman has to decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to give them the holiday they deserve; in “Me and Grandma,” a senior sleighs more crack than candy canes to bring Christmas cheer to her needy grandkids; and in “Holiday Hell,” Noelle must raise $23,000 to repay a loan shark or her sister will become a ghost of Christmas past. True to the streets and true to the season, these stories will raise the holiday spirit in the heart of even the most ghetto-hardened gangsta.“The ghetto’s voice without constraint.”–Upscale, on Tales from da Hood

Charisma Bland was born and raised in the heart of Baltimore, where she learns that a moment’s pleasure can sometimes lead to a life of pain. Against her better judgment, she has a one-night stand that changes her life forever. Turning over the family business to her cousin, she leaves behind her past. Charisma moves to Miami, where she meets Mr. Manny Manifesto, aka Mr. Baseball.Manny is coming off his best season ever, bringing with him a freshly inked 250-million-dollar-plus contract. After a chance meeting, Charisma sees an opportunity to start anew, and she and Manny attempt to build a relationship. The sex might be good, but will their omissions and the deeds of their past come back to haunt them?

A Million Dollars' Worth of Fat by Mona Love: Keisha Long is cute, funny, and always the life of the party, but she is also 320 pounds and lonely. She's tried dating apps, blind dates, and everything else she can think of, but nothing has gotten her further than the friend zone and more "I like you like a sister" speeches than she can count on all her fingers and toes. Things change for Keisha when she buys a winning lottery ticket worth $60 million. Suddenly, she has more suitors than she can keep up with. Darius, Wilson, Tony, Keith, and Malek all come knocking on her door, but are any of them interested in the real her, and not just her newfound wealth? Complications by Katt: Secret Johnson has been slim all her life, but since she had her second child, she has gained almost seventy pounds. She's tried every diet under the sun, but the more she tries, the more weight she seems to gain. Now it's affecting her sex drive, and she can see it's affecting her marriage. Her husband, David, always seems to be complaining. Determined to change things, Secret finds a doctor who is willing to perform weight loss surgery at a reduced price. It's a deal that seems too good to be true. Unfortunately, she soon finds out that it is, and between the complications and her failing marriage, she is now even more desperate to find a way to reclaim the woman she used to be

Charles and Mary Bivens have been married for more than twenty years, but after one miscarriage and two children, they are starting to question their union. Their eldest child is out of the house, their youngest is entering his senior year in high school, and the onset of the empty nest is starting to sink in for the both of them. Mary, feeling the tension, has decided to start getting massages to find release. Recognizing that her husband may have a need for the same, she suggests that he try it too. Charles, also feeling stressed from work and home life, has been getting his relief in a very different place. He has been utilizing strip clubs and hoes, but he knows that it won’t help his marriage at all, so now he takes his wife’s advice and goes to get a massage instead. Enter Mahogany, a curvaceous, ebony brown-skinned, thick-in-the-right places masseuse. She has such strong sex appeal that men and women find themselves attracted to her. Ebony has history with both Charles and Mary. It was a fleeting and fast relationship with each of them individually, but they had put that behind them. Now that she has reentered their lives, she wants to become the side chick to both of them. Will Mahogany’s presence enhance or destroy this union?