Chapter Three: All About Ali.. Ali aka “Toni” My name is Alice Octavia Phillis Cooper. Named after three literary greats: Alice Walker,...

Chapter Two This has to be Mecca. In the six months that I’d been in Gangland, it was impossible to get through a day without hearing...

Westside of Gangland Monroe Street Circa. 2024 “And sometimes we run towards the very thing we want to escape.” Chapter One “So, when you...

Welcome to Gangland. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But if you leave, it will cost you. Gangland: A city, about the...

Chapter 1: Mars Rain tapped lightly on the window of DuPont Tower, creating the perfect scene for what already felt like a dramatic day,...

Blood & Water Outlaw “Luke Murray, you’re out.” It’s about damn time. Standing up, I ran my hand over the front of my suit jacket to dust...

Chapter Five Aliyah Also, that night… “So, how was your last day slumming it up with us regulars before you start dating the sexiest man...

Chapter Four Killian Later that night… The warehouse Maxwell told us to meet him at was a beast of concrete and steel, nestled within the...

Chapter Three Aliyah “Mr. Turner, I swear, you’re the toughest man I’ve ever met,” I chuckled, adjusting the I.V. drip as he batted my...

Chapter Two Killian A rhythmic pulse vibrated through the dimly lit club, thrumming through the air, and sinking into my bones as I sat...

Chapter One Aliyah The air was thick with tension as I stared down at the unconscious body on the operating table. Mr. Turner, a...

Janelle “Thank yourself for coming to the mat for this session of yoga, and open your eyes. Namaste.” “Namaste,” I repeated, slowly...

Outlaw Damn. It felt good as hell to be me these days. I was on top of the world. Imagine that shit. A young, wild nigga like me ain’t...

Sidney “Can you talk to him, Sidney. Please?” Smiling, I snorted out a chuckle. “Did you say please? Not Isaiah begging! This must be...

Teema “Damn, lil’ mama, you got a fat ass. Can I get your number?” Smiling, I tooted my ass even higher in the air, blossoming under the...

Carmella 100% nerd. 100% uptight, with a stick up her ass. 100% my best friend and 1000% my sister. That was the formula God used when he...

One Month Prior “Carmella, I hope you’re not calling me trying to sell that nasty-ass weight loss tea. I already told you, even though I...

Twenty-five years. You read that right. Twenty-five motherfuckin’ years. That’s how many years I’d been married to Janelle, and I could...