Meet the Pierce family. Desmond Pierce, a hardworking man from the South, is determined to give his and wife and daughters a good life in Compton, California. Pearla Pierce is a sexy and seductive mother who plays wifey and devoted mother only when her husband is home. Then there’s Carmen, a promiscuous seventeen-year-old on a self-destructive path and jealous of her younger sister. Cashmere, a thirteen-year-old, struggles to hold her family together out of love for her father.
When tragedy hits home, Carmen and Cashmere find themselves orphans living with their hateful aunt and having to resort to stripping and selling drugs to survive. Carmen drags Cashmere into a world of drugs, violence, and sex when she allows a ruthless pimp named Black to turn her out. Against her will, Cashmere is also forced to work for Black by prostituting herself for high-class ballers.
Carmen’s jealousy toward her younger sister continues when she sees Black falling in love with Cashmere. Carmen’s need to destroy her sister sets off a chain of events that lands Cashmere in jail. Cashmere is left alone and broken, but with the hope that some way, somehow, she can be fixed.
Harlem is a beautiful, smart, and funny seventeen-year-old. She lives in the projects with her drug-addicted parents. They are so far gone that Harlem must fend for herself and at times do a little hustling of her own to feed their habit.
As if things can’t get worse, Harlem’s world is turned upside down when her mother dies from a drug overdose and her father pulls the ultimate betrayal by prostituting her. Harlem is pushed into an adult world and into the hands of a crime and drug lord named Chief, who gives Harlem every luxury she has ever dreamed of, and more pain and suffering than she can stand.
Things unfold when an old crush named Savior and the crime lord Stuckey show up. A war over turf is waged between Stuckey and Chief. Harlem finds herself in the middle, leaving her to once again depend on the strength she has inside to find a way out.
Harlem on Lock is a story of love, revenge, and redemption.
Follow the highs and lows of Cha, Goldie, and Red, who come together for fun, laughs, and sometimes treachery in Long Beach, California. For these three ladies, survival was always about getting over by using lies, deceit, and sex. But when a plan goes dangerously wrong, Cha and Goldie take a step back out of the life.
Cha desperately wants to rid herself of the demons of her past so she can at least feel normal enough to raise her son, Omari. Goldie ain't feeling the hood life anymore. She's tired of going from man to man and knows her parents are rolling over in their graves at the life she chose for herself. Red craves the streets, and she'll cross anyone, friends included, to get what she wants. She steps deeper in the game, making her dirtier than she already is-so dirty that she will betray both Cha and Goldie, leading to horrifying consequences.
Dirty to the Grave goes harder than Karen Williams has ever gone, with an explosive ending that will shock you and make you wonder: Are your friends really your friends? They say life is hard from the cradle to the grave, and once you think people can't get any dirtier, they do!
There has been a flurry of thought leadership over the last few years. More and more business owners are striving to get noticed and writing a non-fiction book has become the tool of choice.
Coaches, consultants, trainers, therapists, speakers and other experts are becoming wise to the benefits that a book can give them and their business.
But things have changed hugely in the last ten years. It's not enough to just write a book anymore.
Too many authors are jumping on the bandwagon but are not achieving the results they expected. They struggle to sell their book, reach the right audience, and grow their business from it.
As we move into a new decade, if you want to write and publish a book that sells you and your business, it's time to do things a different way.
It's time for you to become an AUTHORITY.
Bestselling author and Book Mentor, Karen Williams wrote her first book in 2009, and she starts this book by focusing on what's changed in the last ten years. She explores publishing trends, why getting a publishing deal isn't the only way and how this can be detrimental to your success. She considers the fact that despite the growth in technology, it has become increasingly difficult to get heard.
With experience of writing and publishing six of her own books and having helped dozens of clients with theirs, she has developed her 10 Authority Principles. From planning your book to choosing the right team, and writing tips to marketing must-knows, she'll show you the best way to approach your book, so that it becomes more than an expensive business card.
Becoming An Authority will give you the tools to maximise your book's impact and success, ensuring that you stand out and show up in the best possible way, and attract more business from writing and publishing it.
There's a saying that if you're from my part of town, you're from around the way.Following in the footsteps of its successful predecessors, Around the Way Girls 7 showcases three popular Urban Books authors and their versions of some very tough, street-smart girls. Nina and Mouse are a couple just trying to survive the hater nation. Only problem is Nina's a little paranoid when it comes to other women, and Mouse is usually guilty as charged. Fed up with Mouse's cheating, Nina begins to creep a little herself, but will her revenge blow up in her face?Diamond hates her messed-up life, her sorry-behind county recipient daddy, and his broke, crack-smoking girlfriend. Most of all, Diamond hates her mother, who didn't love her enough to stick around. But there are two sides to every story, and Diamond is about to hear the other side to hers. Homegirls Whakelah, LaShawn, and Misha have big dreams to make it out of Webster Projects. There was a time their bond seemed unbreakable, but now that Misha has found love and a ticket to the big time, her friends want to go along for the ride. How far are they willing to go to chase that paper?
