THE TAKE DOWN by Mark Anthony
While investigating one of hip-hop’s most successful music labels, Gun Clap records, undercover FBI agent Jessica Jackson is willing to do anything to help keep her identity a secret. She helps the Feds hit a grand slam during their investigation when they learn that Angela Calvino, the daughter of New York Mafia boss Paulie Calvino, [...]
QUEEN BEE by Mark Anthony
Destiny and Brazil are good friends as well as protégés of Essence, the 28-year-old controlling, ghetto fabulous owner of the Queen Bee strip club. Due to their ambition, they unintentionally make the mistake of outshining their mentor. Essence views her protégés as a threat to her power and her status, and things only get worse [...]
REASONABLE DOUBT by Mark Anthony
Katrina Easely has stood by the side of her ruthless boyfriend, Snipes, for so long that she can barely see her way out of his sticky web. She’s dropped out of college in the middle of her freshman year, and has even become estranged from her family and close friends because of him.
But when Snipes [...]
DOGISM by Mark Anthony
Lance Thomas is a sexy, young black male who has it all: A high-paying, blue-collar career, a home in Queens, New York, two cars, a son, and a beautiful wife. However, after getting married at a very young age, he realizes that he is afflicted with Dogism, a distorted sexuality that causes men to stray [...]
PAPER CHASERS by Mark Anthony
Paper Chasers is the Essence best seller set in Queens, New York during the summer of 1991. The crack epidemic was wreaking havoc on just about every major city in America, and New York was the epicenter of it all.
Fourth Crew, a close-knit group of young hustlers hailing from middle-class homes and a middle-class neighborhood, [...]
HARLEM HEAT by 50 Cent and Mark Anthony
Roxy Reynolds learned all the rules of the street nearly two decades ago as a low-level member of what was once New York City’s most powerful drug organization. She was also a mom at fourteen years old, and did what she had to do to raise her daughter, Chyna. Now Chyna’s all grown up, a [...]