Thin Ice

About the Author

KR Bankston is an escalating serial novelist, following in the famous footsteps of her literary idol, VC Andrews. She hails from Tallahassee, FL and now resides in Jonesboro, GA. Having written various works of fiction including short stories and reflective poetry for most of her adult life, Bankston entered the world of commercial publishing in 2008 with her first novel, A Deadly Encounter.

KR currently has 22 books in publication, with more soon to come. KR is the Owner/CEO of Kirabaco Publishing. When not writing, KR Bankston is an avid Dallas Cowboys, Atlanta Falcons football fan, and Miami Heat basketball fan. KR is currently in the process of writing a new novel and introducing another new series.

About the Book

Welcome to the city of Atlanta, home of Hip Hop Moguls JD, Luda, TI, Outkast and more, where Magic has its own city and redemption from sin can be found at any number of Mega Ministries the city heralds. It’s also home to Ian “Ice” Bailey a man as dangerous as he is sexy.

Our story begins on the East side, where we meet Ice and our supporting cast. Kaitlyn “KiKi” Ross and Jaleesa “Tweety” Mitchell; two ladies who can hold their own in the game, making moves and plays as well as any of their male counterparts. Things are fine until Tweety crosses the line, unwittingly dragging KiKi along, and invade Ice’s territory. That’s when everything becomes complicated.

Throw in a romantic triangle or three and the fun really starts. Ice has a thing for KiKi, but she has a thing for Tariq. Tariq Taylor is the short order cook she sells smack to and thinks he’s a junkie. Tariq is into KiKi, but Landon, the guy who works for the arena league that KiKi meets at the club, is determined she’s going to be with him. Confused yet? No? Well there’s Tweety’s man Evan, Landon’s friend, who isn’t what he presents himself to be and who also happens to have hidden lust for KiKi.

Ice is not a man accustomed to hearing no, or being outwitted in his business. His reaction to both is force, sometimes deadly. Begin the ride with us and meet all the players in our serial drama, starting with the beginning, BEWARE: Thin Ice.

**Author’s Note: Thin Ice is a presented in numbered episodes as a written serial/soap opera. It is drama series dealing with daily events in the lives of the same group of characters over a set period of years.

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Trust In Us

About the Author

AlTonya Washington has been a romance novelist for 10 years. Her novel His Texas Touch was selected for Romantic Times Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Award 2012. She lives in North Carolina and works as an Academic Reference Librarian.

As T. Onyx, AlTonya will release her next erotica title Ruler of Perfection II: Ravenous this summer. Her latest Harlequin Kimani title is Provocative Territory and she will release a follow-up title in June Provocative Passion.

AlTonya rounds out the year with A Lover’s Debt. The title marks book 16 in her Ramsey Tesano Series.

About the Book

From one night…to forever? With a successful boutique in Charlotte and plans to open another exclusive one in Aspen, Alythia Duffy feels as if she's finally arrived. Then a wild week in the Caribbean at her best friend's bachelorette celebration threatens to ruin everything, though Alythia doesn't regret her passionate idyll with a sensual stranger.

 

Self-made developer Gage Vincent learned long ago not to believe the words of a beautiful woman. He thought Alythia was different. Yet, how can he trust her after he finds out that she is bidding for space in his hot new skyscraper? Will Alythia be able to prove to him that she is the special woman meant to share his life?

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Silver Bullets

(Author Suzetta Perkins)

 

About the Book

In this sizzling, exciting novel, four women show that age is just a number by seeking out new forms of pleasure, love, and romance. Whether it be getting a tattoo, using whips and chains, or preparing dinner in nothing but stilettos, four divas—all best friends and over fifty years old—decide that they need to spice up their love lives. And they’re willing to go to any length to achieve that. So Emma, Queenie, Yolanda, and Connie set out to get the pleasure they crave. For Emma, that means rekindling her sex life with her doting husband, whom she decides to take care of for once.

Yolanda, who is still turning heads and could have anyone she wants, finally meets a man who suits her tastes—but can she suit his? Queenie, who is fifty-eight and divorced, entertains her on-again, off-again male friend one night when he’s lucky enough to get his hands on some Viagra. And Connie, who has never been married, is in love with a man who won’t put a ring on her finger. Will she be able to convince him to marry her, or, more importantly, does she even want that herself? As things start heating up, the ladies’ lives get sexier…and more complicated. Soon, the four divas soon face more drama than they bargained for…

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The Replacement Wife

 

About the Author

Tiffany L. Warren is an author, playwright, songwriter, mother and wife. Her debut novel, What a Sista Should Do, was released in June of 2005. Her second book, Farther than I Meant to Go, Longer than I Meant to Stay was a national bestseller. She is also the author of The Bishop's Daughter and In The Midst of It All. In 2006, Tiffany and her husband, Brent, founded Warren Productions and released gospel musicals, What a Sista Should Do and The Replacement Wife. Tiffany is the visionary behind the Faith and Fiction Retreat. Tiffany resides in northern Texas with her husband, Brent, and their five children.

 

About the Book

Atlanta’s most eligible widower isn’t looking to remarry—but for one woman, that’s a mere detail. . . Five years after his beloved wife’s death, wealthy Quentin Chambers still hasn’t returned to the church or his music ministry. Even his home is now devoid of music, and without his attention, Quentin’s five children are getting out of control—until his mother steps in and hires him a live-in nanny. Montana is pretty, compassionate, church-going, and even has a beautiful singing voice.

 

The children take to her right away, and soon enough Quentin finds his heart opening to faith—and love—once more. But not everyone loves Montana. . . A “friend” of Quentin’s first wife, Chloe has been scheming to become the next Mrs. Chambers since the funeral. Chloe is convinced she’s just one seduction away from a marriage proposal. Now she’ll do whatever it takes to get rid of Montana—including blackmail, theft—and digging up a troublemaking man from Montana’s past. But Chloe forgets she’s got secrets of her own, and the tables may turn with a twist she never sees coming. . .

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Good Orderly Direction

About the Author

Ayin Adams, PhD, Msc.D, is a native New Yorker. She is also an international metaphysician, spiritual director, and intuitive therapist. Adams is a holistic teacher of self-development and consciousness. Adams utilizes her gift of words to heal, educate, and entertain.

Adams is the author of more than seven books. Adams has been published by “Women in the Moon” publishing, Bum Rush, The Page, In The Family, and Quiet Mountain Essays. Adams is the winner of numerous awards and grants, including the 1998 Pat Parker Poetry Award, the 1999 Audre Lorde Memorial Prose Prize, the 2001 President’s Award for Literary Excellence, and the Zora Neal Hurston/Richard Wright Award. Adams documents our passage in time using her writings and tonality of voice to help one break out of the current constraints and fragmentation of daily and habitual life. She assists and facilitates individuals to co-create their future, especially as many of the established structures of society may be falling apart. Adams lives with the intention of suiting up, showing up, and following through. Adams embraces the firm belief that everything is in Divine Order. Ayin Adams organizes and leads spiritual retreats geared towards the transformational transcendence of mind, body, and soul.

 

 

About the Book

Good Orderly Direction is a daily reflection book for the entire year. This book is full of positive daily affirmations and directions for reducing stress and creating inner peace. It is a powerful guide to the reader. It offers practical tools for attaining a more compassionate, responsible and fulfilling life and inspires the reader to take charge of his/her problems, relationships, sadness, and life's painful tests and situations.

The themes run from the universal to the personal: the power to see oneself and to change, the rewards of embracing a higher good, and the directions to develop and enhance nurturing relationships. There is a space for the reader to reflect on each reading for the day and write down thoughts and ideas. Good Orderly Direction offers the reader the hope for change through acceptance, spiritual practices, and moving through inertia and negativity by making right choices. It opens spiritual doors to seeing beyond appearances; Ayin Adams opens the door to Grace.

Good Orderly Direction reflects the author’s enthusiasm and contagious energy; Adams words communicate new ways of understanding and to help the reader navigate life's ever changing waters and sometimes turbulent situations.

Good Orderly Direction inspires wholeness and fulfillment and is about living in the consciousness of now, knowing, loving and healing the Divine self, both physically and spiritually. This book is about the necessity of stillness, listening, observing, and patience, in order to find personal inner freedom and a healthy balance between being and doing. This book opens the path to a new level of consciousness, an inner glow of well-being, and a more harmonious life.

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Book information:
ISBN 978-0-9840204-8-5
Publisher: Pacific Raven Press Publishing
Pgs. 396

The Last King

About the Author

A. Yamina Collins is the author of the quirky short story collection The Blueberry Miller Files. She has written for publications such as New York Resident magazine, Our Town and the Manhattan Spirit. A graduate of New York University, she lives in Manhattan. The Last King is her first novel.

 

 

About the Book

Twenty-eight year Emmy Hughes has never quite fit in---she's six feet tall, dark-skinned, and sometimes daydreams of being Galadriel from Lord of the Rings. But when she is badly injured in a car accident that kills her mother, Emmy does not dream of fantastical worlds anymore, but just wishes her shattered life will return to normal.

Unfortunately, normalcy is the last thing in store for her once she meets Lake George's newest arrival, Dr. Gilead Knightly. Granted immortality from a line of people whose Great Ancestor marched into the Garden of Eden and ate from the Tree of Life, Gilead has been alive for centuries and has met everyone from Nubian kings to Napoleon.

But Gilead and his eccentric family are also hunted beings, because God considers the Edenites' acquisition of immortality to be theft. And for thousands of years He has dealt with their transgression by sending each of them a "Glitch" ---an unsuspecting human meant to retrieve this stolen "property" and kill them off.

When Emmy discovers that she is Gilead's Glitch, she is not only thrown into a world of immortals who eat bone marrow, panthers who read minds, and a family whose blood is made of pulsing gold, but she finds herself the target of Gilead's vengeance: he must get rid of her before she gets rid of him.

Easier said than done. Because Glitches are not only an Edenite's greatest threat---they're also their greatest love.

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Book information:
number #1 on Amazon under the free Kindle categories of Africa-American romance, historical fantasy and AA literature.
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Sweet Nectar

About the Author

Allison Pattion: I am a self-published author. My published work My Soul Spoke Out, caters to the realities of the whole person. I am releasing a new book of seductive poetry in January 2014, Sweet Nectar, As an educator of seven years I am also expanding into children's book to inspire exploratory thinking for kids. I am currently working on six urban fiction novels. Writing is my communicator to the world.

 

 

About the Book

Like a bee suckling the honey from its hive

I thirst for the sweet nectar your body exudes.

Overwhelmed by the taste, I am insane with erotic thoughts of overdosing on your sugary treats.


Your inner core envelopes my being

I pant at visions of our sexual explorations.

Allow my lips to roam the entirety of your beauty.

Drizzle my tongue with your candy coated love.



Can’t you see I am addicted to the passion of you?

One tantalizing lick is not enough to satisfy my desires.

Stroking fingertips bring forth

luscious honey gushing from your inner most secrets.



I am in need of a fix, a high only you can supply.

Bodies molded together to fit as two puzzle pieces.

I am your muse; you are my clammed pearl.

Together we are the essence of arousal.



Antagonize my senses with your flirtatious sexuality.

Tease me with your contours, provoke me with soft kisses.

Overindulge in my honey-like aroma.

Savor the aftertaste of our fiery intimacy.



Your sweet nectar of love infatuates and captivates.

My will is suffocated on your delectable flavors.

The Gentle Extortion

About the Book

After surviving a lightning strike Kelli discovers unusual side effects, such as being impervious to cold temperatures and causing fires and explosions when she becomes frightened or upset. At first the incidents occur accidentally, but when she realizes that she is causing the incendiary incidents, she recruits Gwen to help her learn how to control them. Gwen also helps (and encourages) Kelly in the criminal enterprise of extortion.

 

 

The main character (Kelli) is dangerously depressed (almost suicidal), is sometimes belligerent, has a good sense of humor, has a bad temper and she cares about people and her community. Her friend Gwen is a widow, has no compunctions about helping her friend break the law, is smart and appreciates Kelli’s ability to make her laugh.

 

It is primarily a story about friendship and how sometimes you can count on friends to keep your secrets and sometimes help you do outrageous and even unlawful things. It also gives a message about the importance of participating in the welfare of your community.

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The Creation of a Manifesto: Black & Blue

About the Author

Cheryl Dorsey was raised in South Central Los Angeles. After attending Catholic school at an early age, she embarked on a career in law enforcement, beginning with the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Investigations, and Narcotic Enforcement, shortly after graduating high school.

She later joined the LAPD in 1980, a time when the department was under a consent decree to hire more women and minorities. Cheryl spent twenty years on the LAPD working patrol, narcotics, and vice assignments for all four bureaus of operation: South, Central, West, and Valley. She is most proud of having spent her entire twenty years working field-related assignments, which included the infamous gang unit known as the Community Resources against Street Hoodlums, or CRASH.

During her tenure, Sergeant Dorsey received numerous commendations and accolades from her command staff and the public she served. Cheryl enjoys spending time with her four sons, being a grandmother, and appreciating the world around her.

About the Book

Let me first state, without any equivocation, I DO NOT condone the senseless murders. However, I do UNDERSTAND. It is my hope that this book will help to make sense out of the nonsense that was instrumental in the creation of a manifesto and the wrong thinking of one individual who challenged the LAPD machine. I pray for the families affected by the violence that God will grant you a peace that will surpass all understanding.

I, too, was betrayed and beaten down by the LAPD system. I was wrongly charged with giving false and misleading statements and ordered to an arbitrary and capricious Board of Rights (BOR). The BOR members are LAPD command staff officers and have a vested interest in adjudicating personnel complaints in a manner which protects the department and the City of LA, by any means necessary. These biased BOR decisions have resulted in numerous civil suits by officers, BOR termination reversals, and officer reinstatements. LAPD’s problems and internal struggles, which precipitated the creation of the Christopher Commission in 1991, are the same issues facing the department in 2013; they’re cultural and systemic.

The department crafts an image of any officer who complains in such a way that makes that officer appear distasteful, and therefore anything that they say or do is rejected. However, I am an honorably retired police sergeant who's willing to expose the department's two-tiered system of discipline and the manner in which the LAPD condones acts of sexism, racism, and reverse racism.

I could have created a manifesto—I chose a different path.

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Love Letters:To Whom They May Concern

About the Author

Ramona Jones was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. She graduated in 2007 from the University of Florida with a degree in Marketing and moved shortly thereafter to Atlanta, Georgia to began her career. She is the mother of 2 boys and currently lives in Marietta, Georgia, where she works as an IT Project Manager for Cisco Systems. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta, an avid hiker and traveling foodie.

About the Book

Love Letters: To Whom They May Concern is the first compilation of Jones' poetry. It is the testimony of the gifts and callings we try to outrun, which instead overtake us so that we might give birth to something greater than ourselves.

From the thought provoking "Prevalence of Irrelevance" and "Loaded" to the romantic "Poetry's Ocean" and "Strange-Hers," these 40 soul searching poems are timeless, commanding, enchanting and transparent. Arranged as love letters to the most important things in her life, they reflect the journey Jones has embarked on as a woman, lover, mother and poet. Here is the personification of humanity's pursuit of love --genuine and uplifting -- from a poetic force to be reckoned with.