This is the sequel to the book Black Beauty. It continues with the lives of the hair stylist in the Black Beauty hair salon.

Born Latoya James, when starting high school, Cookie believes this is her time to stand out from underneath her sister s shadow. Always declared the odd one, she makes it her mission to be noticed by anyone who will pay attention. Reality starts to settle in when she realizes life isn t always peaches and cream.

Now that Emme Vaughn is finally eighteen, she’s ready to strut her devil-whooping diva boots into Saint Dymphna’s Psychiatric Hospital and spring her mama out. Only problem is a lady named Jane Doe beat her to it…two years ago.

This book is an extract from my life. Having lost my mother all of a sudden in 2008, I had succumbed to the darker, lonelier and painful side to reality. This book describes not only my emotions, but the raw truth that many of us feel but are scared to express. It portrays my life, and all the struggles I go through.

Seven very different singles – four women and three men – rent a New Jersey beach house for the summer.
During their two month stay, romances bloom friendships are tested and when a tragedy strikes one of the housemates, they all learn the answer to the age-old question: Can men and women ever be just friends?

When Kahlen Thomas has a difficult time dealing with the lost of her best and only friend, she has hopes that the new boy at school, Kennley Morgan, will be the perfect distraction from her pain. She slowly realizes that Kennley doesn’t as much distract her from her problems as much as he adds to them because of his own interesting past.

A steamy summer… Twentysomethings Chantal Hatchet, her sister Sinclair, and their good friend Yolanda Jones are working on building their careers. Their love lives, though, are another matter…until the night of rising singer Carlos Brown’s concert on his native Long Island.

Part three of The Ultimate Series brings back the classic characters that started it all. After finding her husband in a compromising position with her best friend s sister, Charmaine Wright is forced to move on. To her friends, she is known as very levelheaded, but that all changes when, one by one, Dahlia, Jazzaray, and Nitrah discover that their friend they cared about the most turns out to be their worst enemy.

The coming-of-age story of a 14-year old boy Clifton Henderson, aka Slip, living in Chicago. His daily struggles with surviving the street gangs, puppy love, and family life matures him to unexpected wisdom and the desire to inspire others. Clifton also discovers and learns to deal with the natural occurrences of becoming a young man, and his visions of premonition.

Jayd needs time to recoup from her dramatic school year, but time is the one thing she doesn’t have. She’s said yes to becoming a debutante, and now she has to deal with her girl Mickey’s jealousy–on top of babysitting, hair braiding, cheer camp, and a summer writing class.