For Chance Bates, life doesn’t come with too many certainties. He learned this while growing up in the foster care system, being shifted from one home to the next. What he does know is that only the strong survive, and he is determined to make something of himself and marry the girl of his … [Read more...]
SLIPPING by Y. Blak Moore
Growing up in a Chicago ghetto, seventeen-year-old Donal “Don-Don” Haskill has nothing but time on his hands – time he rarely spends in school, choosing instead to smoke weed and hang out with friends. As a child he witnessed his father’s suicide, and today Don-Don’s relationship with his … [Read more...]
CHASIN’ IT by Tony Lindsay
The life and loves of Terri Parrish are filled with obsession, glamour, hot sex and very dangerous men. Once a Las Vegas headliner, she now lives on the streets of Chicago, an ex-convict and junkie looking for any way to make a few dollars and score another hit. The trouble is, Terri still desires … [Read more...]
SINS OF THE FATHER by Felicia Madlock
Devoted, Caring, and Dedicated. Those are the words that Sammie Jr. used to describe his father, Samuel “Street” Jamieson. His untimely death forces Sammie to move from the tranquility of suburban living to the noise and chaos of urban dwelling in the hard streets of Chicago. Sammie lost … [Read more...]
RIDING RHYTHM by Jihad
Fresh off his Essense bestselling novel Babygirl, Jihad, the self-proclaimed King of Street Fiction, returns with Riding Rhythm, the story of a woman ready to die for the love of a man she has never laid eyes on. Rhythm Azure, a young freedom-fighting law student at Howard University, takes … [Read more...]
TRIPLE TAKE by Y. Blak Moore
After serving ten years for armed robbery, Jonathan “JC” Cole is about to get out of the joint, and he has one thing on his mind: revenge against the three men – former childhood friends, now powerful crime lords – who betrayed him to save their own skins. Richard “Richkid” Kidman is a … [Read more...]
SOUTH SIDE DREAMS by B.K. Ray
Meet the Evans family, three generations living together in a desolate neighborhood in Chicago’s crime-ridden South Side. Life has not turned out the way Dorothy Evans, the head of the clan, dreamed it would. Now she returns home from her dead-end job every night and seeks comfort in a bottle of … [Read more...]
TRICK BABY by Iceberg Slim
Author Robert Beck, better known by his ghetto pseudonym. "Iceberg Slim," tells the story of a blue-eyed, light-haired, white-skinned Negro called "White Folks," the most incredible con man the ghetto ever spawned! Beck knew him well, knew where he was coming from. Folks was tormented by the hateful … [Read more...]
