Street & urban fiction Books

LIL SMOKE, the younger brother of the late, great Miami legend, SAVAGE, is on the rise and out to make his own name in the streets of the notorious Dade County. When his name gets too hot, Lil Smoke incurs the wrath of a dangerous shot caller.As the beef...

The city of San Francisco is a jungle like none other. The rules of survival that govern most cities don't apply here. There's only One Rule: KILL OR BE KILLED! The T.I.O. clique has lived by the mantra: Anybody Can Get It. Led by LIL DOOKA, this circle...

Has FOREIGN'S world finally crashed and burned? After numerous close calls, this could be the one that ends her life. But Foreign is determined to protect her unborn baby. Will both of them perish at the hands of the man who should love and protect...

LIL TONY and KILO are two goons from different hoods with one thing in common-chasing paper. In pursuit of the bag, they are confronted with serious situations that compromise both of their freedom. The consequences for their violent, street ambitions...

Queens are not made, they're born, and it runs in the bloodline. DIANE BLAYLOCK, AKA D-BLOCK, inherited the throne when YOUNG CASTRO stepped out of the spotlight. She is already known to rule the streets with an iron fist, and most know not to cross her...

KNIGHT and KAZZY are robbing everything moving, including drug dealers and killers. Soon after pulling off a major lick, the two most infamous JACK BOYZ N DA BRONX find themselves beefing with a dangerous crew of of hustlers from the notorious Soundview...

Infatuated with the legend of Farah Cotton, told through handwritten books by the late Mooney, Cutie Tudy is determined to find out if Farah really exists. Her search leads her to The Fold during a violent and volatile time. Now on the compound, she is...

The Teflon Queen is back! But this time she's out of the game. Angela settles down with, Nick a nice gentleman that has no clue about her past. Things in, Angela's life couldn't be better until she gets a visit from, her protégé, Ashley informing her...

"The Game..." makes for strange bedfellows. Local gangster Dante (Jack Boy) knows more than anybody how dangerous and ruthless the streets can be. But against his better instincts allows himself to fall for a local female gangster named Alinna...

In these bittersweet, compelling stories, Virginia Pye’s characters in Shelf Life of Happiness long for that most-elusive of states: happiness. A young skateboarder reaches across an awesome gap to reconnect with his disapproving father; an elderly...

In the wake of protest and revolution, Mario lands in London with a bag full of South American jewellery and trinkets. Will he make ends meet on the markets of Camden and Portobello? Will he find love and romance among the bartering locals? How will...

A unique and unforgettable work of modern fiction. George Bothamley is a writer of genuine originality - with a style of prose that can only be compared to the likes of Charles Bukowski and Fernando PessoaCafe Days gives us a window into the life of...

The Golden Crown: A Story of Black New Orleans. Henderson Brooks, the youngest of three New Orleans brothers, is a riverfront foreman with a wife and three children. He is also chief of the Downtown Warriors, a Mardi Gras Indian tribe that parades every...

Joshua Tyrone Sanderson is a passably old, homeless black alcoholic in Indianapolis. A loner by choice, minute by minute and day by day he survives on the near downtown streets as valorously as any Agamemnon or Odysseus brandishing raw valor in battle in...

In the quiet, affluent neighborhood of Atherton, California, Charles Gill Jr., a sixteen-year-old teenager lived a comfortable life with his father until his attraction to a beautiful girl from the wrong side of the tracks led to an act of disobedience,...

Decades after migrating north to Cleveland, Ohio, from rural Louisiana, Tobias Winslow has made an uneasy peace with the past, including his own mistakes that led to a prison stint, and has found a way to thrive in the inner city. News of a murdered son,...

Meet Mya Miller and Antonio Gabino. Mya, an undergraduate student, is away at college in Carbondale, Illinois. Antonio, her boyfriend, is a manager for a company in Plainfield, Indiana. They are trying to keep their connection strong from a distance. But...

The help of his Ancestors returning from the grave may not be enough to help Hyram Spark. . . Hyram Spark had made the ultimate sacrifice by trading his soul, for his drug addicted, NBA destined brother Solomon. This trade was not for the love of family...

Finding the right person to spend the rest of your life with can be hard. But what do you do when you find the right person at the wrong time? Do you let the love of your life slip away and stay loyal to the person you are building a life with? Or is...

An Unfinished Life tells the story of a son's addiction and the effect it has on his family. It picks up where Book 1 ends.

Take a journey and experience each day in the life of Jermaine Logik Singletary as he navigates through the mean streets of Charlotte, NC aka Queen CIty, where it seem like death is around every corner. With the death of his bestfriend Banks and his...

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It all starts with a hum, a thrum, a bum bah dum dum. Every year, the ultimate moth rave takes place in the mountains of West Virginia, unbeknownst to most people. To the community of mothpeople who do know about this moth pit, it's the best kept...

T. Janakiraman is one of the most accomplished writers in modern Tamil literature. His fiction continues to unravel fresh meanings for contemporary readers. His sensitive writing explores the complexities of the human mind and human emotions, and the...

The separation in partnership between MURDER and friend HERB has them going in two different directions. While Murder is brought further in with his brother and Major Appleton, Herb makes stronger ties with the Russian Mafia through Vladimir.A terrible...

After taking over the drug trade on the streets of Dallas, SHORT DOGG attracts the attention of the notorious Mexican Cartels. Now they want him to be their street general. Can Short Dogg turn the MOB from a street gang to a cartel?More money leads to...

Paige's privileged life ends abruptly, when her well to do parents cut her off financially after she drops out of school and refuses to move back home. Unwilling to get a job or struggle for cash, Paige decides finding a man to sponsor her lavish...

Have you ever loved someone so much you would do practically anything for them, including giving up your family? This is the situation KRYSTAL, a young white girl, finds herself in when she falls in love with the streets and everything her parents had...

When it comes to the drug game, FREAK ZEENIE puts the small town in Alabama, known as "The Dot", on the map. Freak starts out small-time but his hustle is transcendent and soon he has a strong crew and they're taking no shorts.With the game comes ups and...

CUPID is the proud owner of Pandora's Poison, the number one adult film company in the world. For some, sex isn't better than love. But for Cupid, sex is the one thing that makes him feel alive. Not to mention, he's damn good at it, as many women will...

After surviving a well executed attempt on his life only to to be charged with a murder he swears he did not commit, DAKARON's gangster is put to the ultimate test when he arrives at the Baltimore City Jail. Can he survive in this notorious concrete...

Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye returns as Mark Stenrud to bring the psychedelic era vividly life in Lost and Found in the 60s. Alienated from a toxic mother, and in constant conflict at his conservative high school because of his radical...

When SADIYA BENTLEY is found brutally murdered, everyone close to her comes under suspicion. Is the murderer a friend, a family member or a extremely bitter foe? DETECTIVE BANKS is dogged in his pursuit of the killer, but his tenacity pales in comparison...

When two cousins, FLIP and J-BO, known drug dealers and prominent members of the notorious gang, Young Boss, retaliates for the loss of a quarter million dollars, an innocent young woman witnesses the murder of a young teen and his pregnant girlfriend...

First and foremost, I must pay homage to Marimba Ani who I gained insight from concerning the title of her book titled, "Yorugu" which means Pale Fox. One must do their own investigation into the Dogon African religion to understand "The Pale Fox." Many...

Nick Michelson thought he'd seen it all as a teenage ghost whisperer, but nothing could have prepared him for this. As a rising evil stirs in the shadows of Gallowspine Mountains, Nick finds himself at the center of a prophecy that will decide the fate...

In Stackin Paper 2, Genesis is out for blood and redemption. He s on a mission to get retribution on the person responsible for murdering his best friend and to make it back to the love he left behind, Talisa. But as he closes in on his enemy the Feds...

Everybody knows that if you break the law and get caught, you go to prison. But what happens when the very same people that are supposed to enforce and uphold the law, are criminals themselves?Three strangers, Eshe, Milla, and Sun-Solé, meet under...

Junctions is Daniel Mandishona’s second collection of short stories, following White Gods Black Demons (Weaver Press, 2009). Again, he quarries the richness and variety of Zimbabwean lives to deliver characters and narratives spanning the social...

Loyalty is everything, especially when you grew up in the streets, grinding through a rough childhood with nothing but family as an anchor. Andre Spade, a.k.a Blank, is known as one of the Kings of Oakland; a seemingly legit businessman who has ties that...

The Twin Mistake is a novel about the ongoing investigation of one detective trying to bust a notorious gang leader in the Monterey area after that gang leader's twin brother is arrested in his place. This contemporary urban fiction story also follows a...

Relationships are tiny flowers on the fabric of time. Arunabh in the novella "A palm with vanishing lines", stays sandwiched between infinite probabilities life would ever be studded with & life's cruel monotony. What's his takeaway from the chaos? ...

All the Aliens in the Neighborhood is a collection of stories centering around men and women in a middle-class Brooklyn neighborhood who take one extra look at themselves and their neighbors and are shaken by how blithely they had been coasting along...

Saffron Dreams is a tale of love, tragedy, and redemption from the award-winning author of Beyond the Cayenne Wall...You don't know you're a misfit until you are marked as an outcast.From the darkest hour of American history emerges a mesmerizing...

Fanta Groselha da autoria de Makena Onjerika é um retrato sombrio dos sem-abrigo e da vida dos meninos de rua em Nairobi. O conto centra-se em Meri, cuja história é contada por um coro de narradoras sem rosto e sem nome que são também suas consortes...

"A Gritty Tale of Hustle and Survival in New York City's Underbelly..." After her father's unexpected death, Justice Carter is left to take care of her younger brother Jamal in the dangerous streets of New York City. Desperate for financial stability,...

We Warned You is about Becky (16) and her two best friends, Sharon and Stephanie. Living in the Bronx, Becky thought it would be the best year since she was a senior at Stevenson High School.Becky thought she was having the time of her life since she met...

Hello all, I go by or should I say write under the name "Flex" I would not consider myself a Poet or maybe not even a Writer, I'm a person who just likes to express life the way I've experienced and viewed. I speak deep from within. Some of the pieces...