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NYPD Detectives Kirk and Dawkins were pursuing Chet French, aka Big Frenchie, a small-time armed robber who did some time for aggravated assault. He stepped up to the big time when he robbed Mama''s Country Kitchen, one of The Family''s gambling houses, killing the houseman and four civilians in the process. When Mike Black and Bobby Ray take a personal interest and start asking questions, the bodies begin to pile up. When the unthinkable happens, the entire Family was pushed to the brink of a war they didn''t want to fight. The only way to avoid blood in the street is for Kirk and Dawkins to find the people responsible before Black and Rain Robinson do.

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Following the murder of his friend and business associate, Quentin Hunter, Mike Black decides that he might ask a few questions. Why would Daniel Beason kill Quentin, and why would Beason have murdered his business partner, Elias Colton? If Black is hitting the streets, you can be sure that Bobby Ray is hitting the streets with him. It doesn''t take them long to find that weapons, drugs, and The Troka Clan, an Albanian mafia organisation engaged in international human and organ trafficking, are involved. However, this isn''t the extent of the involvement with The Family. After finding her cousin, flight attendant Sapphire Langston, safe, Rain Robinson looks to get back to business. But before that can happen, Sapphire gets a call informing her that men are holding her mother hostage. They demand the return of a thumb drive that Rain found on her last flight. Rain discovers that The Troka Clan is behind the kidnapping and that the drive contains information about the clan''s transaction

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Life ain''t never been fair in the treacherous street game. When you play it, you can''t forget there never was and never will be any true honor amongst thieves. It''s do or die. To make major moves and hustle out in the streets, you have zero choices if you want to win. The blueprint is simple: RISE, GRIND, SHINE, and, of course, stay the hell out the way! Between the struggle of avoiding the opposition, law enforcement, and sometimes your own people turning on you, life gets real, and the consequences are even realer.

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Here she is, eight years later, and all she wants is that sisterly bond she lost. At the age of twenty-six, Autumn has already lost one sister, and the other sister is self-destructing quickly. But out of all the bad she is surrounded with, she gains her ray of sunshine in raising her only nephew-until she meets the man who could derail it all. Dylan Holmes is an average playboy billionaire who refuses to settle down until he is given an ultimatum. Not seeing himself in a long-term relationship, he does the only thing that seems fit for him to do. Buying a bride gives him more than he bargains for once he gets with Autumn. Will these two put their differences aside and give in to each other?

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Best friends Elontra Montgomery and Shemika Frazier have been keeping a low profile and getting paid, robbing the occasional jewelry store for years. That changes when their childhood friend and hacker, Demeris ''Dee Dee'' Dennison, is released from prison. With her ability to shut down cameras and alarm systems, the trio quickly steps up to robbing banks. However, with their newfound focus on bigger targets comes the inevitable involvement of the police. After a few near misses, they decide to lay low for a while - but it''s not that easy. The ladies are recruited and forced to do one more job that has the potential to cost them their freedom, if not their lives.

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Operated by the same family for more than a century, Midnight Blues may be fun for the locals and the tourists, but as of late, the club hasn''t been fun for its owner, Big Shirley Duncan, or her son Tyrese, descendants of the original proprietors. The pair finds themselves in the middle of a turf war between local politicians, developers, and a ruthless underworld boss, Jean LeBlanc, who is looking to make a name for himself. Afraid for the first time in her life that her family may lose control of The Blues, Big Shirley sends Tyrese to New York to see her brother-in-law, LC Duncan. In turn, LC enlists his nephew, bounty hunter Curtis Duncan, and his highly trained niece Lauryn Duncan, to help add some muscle and security to their family''s struggling business.

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