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Can a good girl find love in a thug? For Lei Fifer, that’s the hundred-thousand-dollar question. When Lei, an introverted homebody, invites her girls over for a spa day, she isn’t expecting their conversation to shift to men in prison. As an advocate for rehabilitated people receiving the love, companionship, and support those who haven’t committed crimes receive, Lei doesn’t hesitate to put her money where her mouth is and bet that she can find a good friend or great love with someone through the pen pal program her father created.

Smith Harrison lives a life that most men only dream of. After his recent trade to the Abbeville Badgers in a fifteen-million-dollar contract over five years, he’s tasked with getting acquainted with his new team as well as his new city. Tired of gold diggers and women with hidden agendas he joins an exclusive club for discreet fun with no strings attached. Little did Smith know, he would meet an elusive beauty that he can’t resist.

Determined to win the one she thinks is for her, Paige finds herself making one foolish decision after another. These decisions become detrimental to her and the life she’s worked so hard to maintain. Will she be able to pull herself out of Kyra’s web, or become too entangled and unable to break free?

Never one to play by any rules, Yoshi Lomax is determined to make good at an internship with one of Manhattan’s most prestigious law firms. She’s being mentored by the brilliant twin brother legal lights who are her parents’ friends. And with her unexpected knack for helping the city’s wealthy, powerful clients finagle their way out of major trouble, even she is surprised at how bright her future shines. Until Yoshi discovers the firm uses any means necessary to get their clients off—including kidnapping, life-destroying scandal, and murder.

Nyesha has been through hell, both physically and mentally. After being abandoned by her first love, Yohan, she turns to the streets for comfort. She gets into the drug game as a way to provide for her children, oblivious that the streets are cruel and have no room for a trap girl. Kymani isn’t your typical dope boy. He’s a smooth talker with a dark past and deadly intentions. Anyone who crosses him or the people he loves will definitely be dealt with. His weakness for a bad female will have him drawing for this chick. Take a ride as this couple fights to keep their love alive.

After doing a five-year bid, all ex-drug dealer Breeze wants is a normal life with the love of his life and his children. Determined to stay on a straight and narrow path, he follows all the rules of his probation and even works a full-time job as a janitor. But when the pressure becomes too much to handle, he reverts back to what he knows best. Best-selling author Chunichi brings listeners another engaging tale of life on the streets. The Streets Keep Calling will make you ask yourself, "How far would I be willing to go for survival?"

Cam and Royal are on the ins and outs. Royal is fed up with Koran and Camren’s games. Is he willing to throw in the towel? Will Camren figure out who she wants before it's too late? Jamie and Ashaun were getting on the right track until they were startled with news that put pressure on their marriage. Ashaun is tired of being married, and Jamie wants nothing more than to run into Kejuan’s arms. But Kejuan is already in a relationship. Would he be willing to leave his girlfriend to rekindle what he and Jamie once had?

Two Essence best-selling Urban Books authors have teamed up to bring the Motor City drama in this latest installment of the popular Girls from Da Hood series. In this audiobook are All the Way In by Treasure Hernandez and Escaping a Thug's Love by Ms. Michel Moore.

Inaya has it all, or so she thought. She has the man, house, car, and kids. But being with Phantom ends up being a nightmare instead of a fairy tale. With death at his back and women at his feet, the drama never ends. Inaya can’t understand why her man is in love with the streets and continues to put their relationship at risk.

Zyan Bentley and Tina Hartman were the perfect couple in everyone’s mind, except Zyan’s. Frustrated with Tina’s responsible attitude toward money and their future, Zyan finds solace in the spoiled, but emotionally empty rich girl, Takira Porter. Delusional of his true feelings for her, she promises to free him from his girlfriend’s tyranny in exchange for his faithfulness. Egged on by his equally irresponsible best friend, Romeo Armstrong, he leaves Tina and their modest apartment for the comforts of Takira’s upper end condo.

Markita “Kita” Jones is a young woman with the world at her fingertips. A high school student with beauty and brains to match, she’s well on her way to Howard University. However, on her 18th birthday, she watches her dreams die during a drive-by shooting that claims the life of her brother. Overnight, Kita transforms from a naïve schoolgirl into a savvy street hustler on a mission to find her brother’s killer. With the help of her best friends, Kenya and Alexis, Kita quickly begins making more money and more enemies than she ever could’ve imagined.

This is the end.

Friendships and family bonds are on the line as Londen Graham and Noah Gabriel both claim their freedom and choose different sides of the law to abide by. As Londen yearns to be a family man with his fiancée Lei, the wild lifestyle of his best friend Noah and his father’s pleas for help have him on the brink of returning to the streets. Will Noah’s friendship, combined with explosive secrets and street wars, pull Londen back to the life he swore to Lei he’d retired from, or will the love he expressed in Memphis be enough to keep him on the straight and narrow?

Feeling slighted by the only man to ever show her genuine love, Kenya picks up the pieces of her life and moves on a single mother with a thriving business. After finally finding the strength to open her herself up to dating again, she meets the man that just might be patient enough to handle her fragile heart.

Urban Bliss is a rising star with a captivating voice, and Slick Reed is a powerful record label executive. Their worlds come together when Aria receives an anonymous letter threatening to expose her deepest secret from a past she ran from long ago. Desperate to protect her career, she reluctantly agrees to enter a fake relationship with Slick Reed. Although it started out fake, they discover unexpected passion and question if they can find true love among the secrets.