Author Interview Q: What themes will readers be exploring within your novel, The Revenge? A: Love, Pain and Consequences.Q: Using three words only, how would you describe your writing style? A: Thoughtful, Passionate and Real.Q: Can you tell us a little about your characters in your book? A: Tyrell was more in love with the... Continue Reading →
Revenge – A Strong Woman broken by the Man She Loved Arises from Pain to Avenge Herself Written by J. Brinkley Novels like Gone Girl and Wild portray women who are real, haunted and mostly human. Women can be nurturing, loving and a total giver although they get little to nothing and even abuses in... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Baltimore college student, Brooklyn Taylor finds herself falling in love with a student who loves the streets more than anything else. Brooklyn begs Tyrell to change his lifestyle, but the more she pleads, the more distant he becomes. When Brooklyn discovers she is pregnant she is elated, but it quickly... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Honor Among Thieves is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that gives the reader an in-depth look at inner-city life. The plot revolves around the Alexander family, a vicious crime syndicate, and a detective hell-bent on bringing them to justice. The Alexander family has been a main focal point of local law enforcement, but after the brutal... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Meet the young and beautiful Laydii Mitchell from Memphis TN. An 18-year-old high school senior on her way to college, and seems to think she is on top of the world. She’s dating the up and coming hustler, John Jackson; who is loved by the ladies, and hated by most guys. The two seem... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: In this explosive addition to the New York Times bestselling series, Ashley Antoinette brings you pain, pleasure, love, hate, as YaYa struggles to hold it all together before life blows up in her face, in The Prada Plan 5. Disaya finally has it all. The man she fought for is hers at last. Her... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: In Luxe Two: A LaLa Land Addiction by New York Times bestselling author Ashley Antoinette, there is only one thing more powerful than anything...the love of the high... Bleu is addicted...addicted to the luxe life and it has led her down a road of self-destruction. She knows what it feels like to be turned... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: All sixteen year old Yvette Simmons wanted was to disappear. Problem is: she has too many demons for that. Yvette’s life changed forever after a street fight over a boy ended in a second degree murder charge. Forced to start all over again, she’s sentenced to live in a group home far from anything... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: A street thriller of kidnapping, murder, trickery, and love that will have you at the edge of your seat. After 7 years of prison, multi-millionaire drug mogul Kane Garrett is back on the streets. But instead of diving back into the drug game, he's teaching a college class, infusing business principles with his signature... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Plain Jane is a fictitious character that transitions from humblings beginnings into a Multi Millionaire. Along the journey she meets a special person; whom she thinks is truly for her, but is he or is he just an opportunist? Jane realizes that the top can, not only be lonely, but troublesome. Plain Jane allows... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Kendra Daniels had all she’s ever desired; a great job in Houston and an even better relationship. But after losing out on a promotion to her rival, turned friend; and being transferred back to her hometown of Richmond, both her career and her love life are in doubt. Frustrated with work and growing increasingly... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Coming from a ruff section of Brooklyn, New York, a young man climbs the ladder to success and falls in love. His happiness, however, can’t last forever, and an important friendship puts his future in jeopardy. Josh Robinson was drifting through life. When he thinks about the man he wants to be in the... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Cross-out... 17-year-old Jaime “Kimo” Flores is weeks away from graduation at Chavez High in Bell Gardens. Jaime has his foot in three worlds: he’s a talented art student; he’s a promising future cop in a Police Explorer program; and, as “Kimo,” he’s the informal leader of a crew of graffiti writers. A drive-by shooting... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Once a writer, always a writer . . . What would you do if you came back as a ghost? You could finally write that novel . . . Meet Arnold Showalter, ghost. At night, Arnold haunts the magnificent underground Mystic Caverns of Appalachia. But during the day, Arnold becomes The Ghost Writer,... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Jori Wallace is a child therapist who is both outgoing and confident. Jori is married to Shaun who she discovers early on in the story is cheating on her. Shaun wants to work on the marriage, but Jori becomes distracted by her interest in a childhood friend Dave. A man who finds her... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Meet Harlem, a true beauty with the brains and body to match. Always viewed as the golden child, she vowed to never disappoint her father. The doting daughter gave up her dream of attending culinary school to attend college and major in Pre-Law –per her father’s request. A successful completion of the bar... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: How much of yourself are you really willing to give up to keep a happy home? After catching her husband with a mouth full of someone else's vagina, Janelle has to decide if she can forgive and forget. That thing called LOVE can turn your entire world upside down and knock you on... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Keandria quickly learns that good things never last long. After deciding to give Ethan a second chance she quickly realizes that Ethan is up to his same old tricks and is smashing another chick named Amber. Keandria eventually begins to wonder will Ethan ever really change. After being falsely accused of rape and... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: What’s done in the dark will always be brought to the light. Some secrets can never be kept hidden. Hazel and Jamal have been together for six years and are just now getting married. Just after the wedding Hazel soon starts regretting saying the words I Do. Hazel eventually begins to realize that... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: In an attempt to deal with the physiological trauma of being molested as a young girl, 28-year-old China agrees to be hypnotized by her therapist to speed up her rehabilitation. During her session, China recollects family secrets of deceit, rape and murder. In order to figure out why her life is upside down,... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Sometimes things won’t work out no matter how hard you try. Brittanya and De’Quan have been looking for love in all the wrong places. Once their paths cross, they assume that the love Gods have finally decided to shine a little light on them. Both have been raised in dysfunctional environments. So when... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: What's done in the dark always comes to the light. There is more to Braelyn Diamond Baldwin than meets the naked eye. A savvy business woman by day and a Thugaliscious TrapQueen by night. Braelyn feels the need to win at everything she does. She is at the top of her game right... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Stony Jackson is a man easy on the eyes and a total charmer, he’s well accustomed to having his choice of women with a simple flash of his million-dollar smile. Even after settling down with the one tryst that could make his toes curl, he is not completely fulfilled. It’s not until Stony... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Ethan thought that Kayla was down for him until he finds himself locked up and serving 30 days in the county jail. After serving his thirty day sentence, Ethan is released and revenge is on his mind. Kayla has moved on and has decided to work things out with her baby daddy A.J.... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Some people chase love, some people chase money, while others chase both. Love and money can bring out the best and worst in people. Keandria is a single mother who is working as an escort to make ends meet. She has just left her abusive baby daddy and is doing her best to... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice that you have. Chayne knows this all too well. Being pregnant is supposed to be a happy time, but being pregnant and alone is an entirely different story. Add to the mix the uncertainty of who fathered her child... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Is it possible to love two men simultaneously? This is the foremost question on Chayne’s mind as she is forced to confront the drama associated with being entangled in the ultimate love triangle. Chayne is gorgeous, intelligent, classy yet sassy and is admired by many. Nevertheless, she remains closed to the possibility of... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Reign is a young up and coming mogul, a salon owner who is busy trying to build an empire. She’s faced tragedy at an early age but always felt she wasn’t told the entire truth about what happened. But still, she bounced back and stayed on top. Reign met her soul mate Chase... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: ROME and RAIN had the ordinary hood life with struggles. Their mother was raising them with sugar and spice and everything nice. But the sudden death of their mother sent them on the run from social services. No way did either sister want to be a product of the foster care system. With... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Crazy is as crazy does! And there's a whole lot of craziness going on in Ride It Til The Wheels Fall Off 2. You would think that Brad would have learned not to mix love and psycho. Yet again, he can't seem to connect the fact that sexing multiple women at one time will end... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: All good things must come to an end. Eventually. Faith has finally found the one that she wants to spend the rest of her life with. Brad is everything she thinks that she wants in a husband. Brad loves Faith, but he also loves to have a string of women in several cities. When... Continue Reading →
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