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Audiobooks Narrated by Katherine Dollison
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Alex Rossi, a recently engaged wedding photographer, finds herself mystified after a freak accident compromises her life. While recovering, disturbing visions of a 1920s dancer haunt her and the mystery starts to bleed into her present life.
As a reoccurring vision of the dancer holding a lifeless body invades Alex’s dreams, she worries that she is losing her mind. When the past and the present merge, tensions escalate. Alex questions everything. In a twist of fate, secrets are revealed that alter the course of her life and the lives of many others.
A tale of truth, justice and eternal love.
Written by New York Times best selling author JaQuavis Coleman, this heart-wrenching thriller follows the life of a young inner-city kid through one night in the streets of Flint, Michigan. In the middle of a water crisis, Money, a popular young boy throughout his neighborhood, has gotten himself into a deadly game of cat and mouse as he struggles to survive through the night when the city's most notorious crime lord orders a hit on him. This story follows Money as he is on the run for his life desperately trying to find help in a lawless town. This intense game of survival leads into an unpredictable ending that will leave you breathless.
Amaryllis Price is back and wreaking havoc on the lives of those around her. After witnessing Randall Loomis leave with a new wife and family, she starts a new chapter. She decides to move to Las Vegas to live with her sister, attorney at law Michelle Denise Price.
Michelle is engaged to minister James Bradley, and it doesn't take long for Amaryllis to become envious. She wishes to destroy Michelle's fairy-tale relationship and take James away for herself.
Amaryllis concocts an evil recipe for destruction; but this devilish diva is about to get a dose of her own medicine.
Identical twins Kenya and London return in the highly addictive Essence bestselling Say U Promise series, and now things have gone from bad to worse for the tragically troubled sisters. They are caught in the middle of a deadly drug war that was started by one of them, and the streets run red as lives are drastically changed forever. With an illegitimate baby on the way and a price on her head, one twin fights to avoid the dangers of the game she despises, while facing the vindictive wrath of her sister for what is deemed to be the ultimate betrayal. This time around, no one is safe when it comes to revenge-not even an innocent child.
Crystal Sells is a biker chick, not one of those honeys who hang on the back of a motorcycle with their arms around some random man. The self-proclaimed "baddest bitch on two wheels" likes to ride alone on what she calls her "steel."
Crystal hustles knock-off designer purses and bootleg DVDs to make ends meet, until she meets Ray Jackson of the Phantom Cruz, a local motorcycle gang, and begins living the life of a wifey. When their sweet life goes sour, Crystal is forced from their home and finds herself working at a gentleman's club.
Never one to let a bad situation keep her down, she comes up with a grand idea to market the dancers at the club. Before she knows it, she has turned one of her best friends, Lala, into an exotic dancing superstar; but the way Lala repays her catches Crystal off guard, and Crystal finds herself seeking revenge with the intent to end someone's life.
Biker Chick gives new definition to a "ride-or-die chick."
Have you ever wondered how truthful your mate really is?
Chanel Martinez, a five-foot-nine bombshell with a devastating secret will trick the average playa on the spot. Between credit card scams, wild nights on the town, and her over-the-top lifestyle, no ordinary man can handle a real relationship with her.
In comes Samuel, a Jamaican baller destined to sweep Chanel off her feet. Their short-term romance turns into a love affair that Chanel all of a sudden cannot resist. Unfortunately for her, Samuel has something to hide of his own. Imagine-two lovers, two mysterious secrets, and the law ... all wrapped up into one novel.
Makes you stop and think: Be careful who you share your bed with.
In this gritty page-turner, a young woman on the run finds herself immersed in still more life-threatening danger when she seeks refuge with a perilous man.
A life filled with fast money and violence lands twenty-three-year-old Candice Holmes in a witness protection program. When she finds out that no one is capable of saving her from the wrath of the ruthless family she is scheduled to testify against, she finds herself on the run.
With nowhere to hide, Candice ends up fleeing to New York City where she is introduced to Daddy-who owns a house where little girls are doing big things. Candice soon realizes that the street life she left behind is nothing compared to what goes on at Daddy's House. Between doing what it takes to survive and hiding her identity, Candice conquers one pitfall after another. Soon, all things come to an end when she goes toe-to-toe with the vicious woman who has the ability to put her six feet under, or sell her to the highest bidder.
Following up on the gritty street drama, it's on and poppin, Deondra Dee Dee Davis is now out of jail on bail and set to find her brother's killer. Don Ruiz, now in control of Don Valdez's territory, discovers from the little black book that Jay and Bee, her brothers, owe a lot of product and money, and calls upon a hired killer named Pecaso to seek them out.
Dee Dee must find a way to stay strong and keep her inner circle moving forward because if she slips one time, Detectives Gary and Perkins will be right there to hand deliver her in cuffs to Ms. Cole, the shrewd "I'm gonna see that you go to jail" district attorney handling her murder case. But there's someone other than the law, Pecaso, and the mob deep Robinson boys trying to get her out of the way. Will she find out who it is? Will old love find new love? Will the past still cause trouble for something that could be beautiful once again? The Baddest Chick is a for sure knockout novel that guarantees a super fast pace, with all the grit, grime, suspense, and action on every page.
A girl's sixteenth birthday is supposed to be sweet, but for Summer Flynt, it was the day that her life changed forever. Young, fly, and beautiful, Summer is under the wing of her older sister, Trish. But when Trish steals something that doesn't belong to her and gets involved in a lifestyle she can't handle, she pays with her life. Summer soon finds out that she's expected to pay back her sister's old debt. With the entire neighborhood gunning for her, she's a sheep amongst wolves and only sixteen on the block.
Ride shotgun with Summer as she's forced to hit the streets, grow up fast, and learn hard lessons about survival, loyalty, and love. With $50,000 on her head, who can she trust?
Whether it's being told you have to purchase two seats on an airplane or getting dirty looks when you're with a handsome man, being a big girl in a superficial world can come with more issues than any woman should have to deal with. Add to that some over-the-top family and marriage issues, and you have the perfect recipe for some Big Girls Drama.
When Vivian married Sheldon, she thought she would be spending life with her best friend, but now she is facing a dreadful problem: a sexless marriage. Whenever she tries to reach for him in the night, Sheldon attacks her. Is he no longer attracted to her? Is he having an affair? Vivian is sinking into depression, and she becomes determined to figure out what secret her husband is hiding.
Monica's husband, Devin, has been very clear about why he's not interested in her anymore. She tries to make things work with him, but when he calls out another woman's name one night, it's the final straw. Monica summons her inner strength and goes from dutiful wife to a sista out for revenge.
Kelly has also found out that her husband is having an affair-with a man. Now he wants to move the man in and introduce him to neighbors as Kelly's cousin. She's not going for it, and things soon go from bad to worse when she learns some even more devastating information about her husband.
Sonya is single, so she doesn't have the marital woes that her friends do, but raising a teenage daughter alone comes with its own set of problems. When she discovers that her daughter is pregnant, she's heartbroken, but when she finds out who the father might be, pandemonium ensues.
Four friends-Lena, who is engaged to a basketball superstar; Denise, who is hoping that she will be the first in her family to graduate college; Freedom, who lives up to her name; and Carmen, who needs to work on her self-esteem-lean on each other during their days at Freedom University.
What happens when a fifteen-year-old secret between three best friends is exposed?
Celeste Harper seems to be happily married and living life to its fullest. That's what she wants everyone to believe, but her failure to conceive a baby and the critical information she is withholding from her husband may demolish her house of cards.
Ginger Brown meets a guy online and invites him to stay in her home. It isn't long before she finds herself having to ask for permission to go to church. Dirty dishes left in the sink, canned goods not neatly stacked, and missing curfew by just one minute earns Ginger a beat down on a regular basis. How long will the makeup hide the bruises?
Portia Dunn is single and fancy free, but she has a dangerous taste for married men. She enjoys collecting money for her rent and bills. When a wife takes notice of mishandled funds and takes over the checkbook, Portia's free ride is over. Now faced with having to support her own shopping addiction, Portia puts a plan in motion to make it too easy for the wife to learn of her husband's adulterous affair.
These three women have shared an unbreakable bond since high school. They've also vowed to never make mention of what occurred in a dark, dingy basement during their junior year. When a heated fellowship between them develops into an all-out brawl with name calling, the very subject they've sworn to keep buried suddenly emerges. The damsels turn on each other, and war is declared.
