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When Alecia “Joy” Middleson meets Minke, a young hustler from Brooklyn, he quickly becomes her world. He feels the same way about her - she is his better half. By the age of 18, Alecia is married and has two children by Minke. Their life is like a fairy tale, until Minke discovers that he’s been deceived by his wife and leaves her and her children with only the clothes on their backs.

Fall in love with these four stories of Christmas in Crescent Falls.

Theos Gedanken kreisen ständig darum, wie sie Will ihre Gefühle für ihn erklären könnte und sie wirkt etwas abwesend. Henrietta hat ihre eigene Theorie für Theos verändertes Verhalten. Sie glaubt, dass es damit zu tun hat, dass beide Eltern diesmal allein zur nächsten Ausgrabung reisen.

Theo, Will, Henry und Safiya sind durch den Raub/die Rettung des Horusauges zur Zielscheibe für die Schlangen geworden. Besonders Theo wird von ihnen beobachtet. Will versteckt das Auge. Im Spielsalon sollte es gut aufgehoben sein, aber die Anwesenheit des Auges lässt die Automaten verrückt spielen. Will bringt das Auge schließlich doch ins Museum.

Bei dem Versuch, Henry aus der Falle von Yaret zu befreien, geraten plötzlich Will und Safiya zwischen die immer enger werdenden Wände um das Pyramidion - ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit! Im Sockel entdecken sie Vertiefungen, in die Götterstatuen passen, nur welche? Theo muss ihre Pause vom Zaubern beenden und mit vereinter Kraft und einem Zeitzauber können Will und Safiya gerettet werden.

Die Kinder entkommen der Schlange durch ein Kellerloch. Theo kann vorher noch ein Buch mit Zaubersprüchen gegen Flüche an sich bringen. Für die Aktion gibt es allerdings Strafarbeiten. Theo und Henry werden auf ihr Zimmer geschickt und sollen Clive helfen, Uschebtis zu verpacken, die als Leihgabe ans Britische Museum gehen sollen.

Liberty Mae Banks was her birth name, yet Zion called her Mrs. Forever.... It took years and fistfuls of tears for Liberty to convince herself that Zion Malik Mitchell had been a figment of her imagination. She’d suppressed every memory to lessen the burn—and because it’s the proper thing to do once you’ve become another man’s wife.

Zany and vivacious Nissi Richards always had her sights set on one goal—her career. As the youngest doctor at Optimal Dentistry, Nissi is the epitome of Black Girl Magic and a #GoalCrusher. Dating, however, was a different topic, or rather more of a non-existent headline. Despite her best friend's botched matchmaking attempts and her meddlesome sisters who insist she hook a man, love and marriage were never on Nissi's to-do list—at least not that she'd admit.

In less than twenty-four hours—before Alexia Leighton is scheduled to return to Miami from spring break in Jamaica—a group of friends betray her in a grisly assault that stops a heartbeat away from murder. The seventeen-year-old prays for the mercy of death. She survives. While on the road to recovery, Alexia's attackers become victims of mysterious acts of violence, leaving authorities confounded and racing against time to prevent another deadly attack. Concern looms, as the perpetrator has proven to be two steps ahead of them at every turn.

Turned Up is the third installment of the Hot Shot series. Hot Shot is back home in California. Operation Clean Up is his mission, but not his primary concern. He has been tasked with bringing down the Inglewood 13s gang, since they’ve been targeted by the FBI. This suits Hot Shot just fine, because the Inglewood 13s are also responsible for the murders of his parents and his brother. This mission gives Hot Shot the opportunity to do his job and get the revenge he seeks.

From a murderous Bonnie and Clyde stirring up a hornet’s nest to a drug war and the rise of heroin overdoses, Detectives Michael Acosta and Chris Emerson are tasked with investigating the rash of robberies and brutal murders happening in the borough. Queens is bubbling with heated violence, as rival kingpins vie for power in Erick S. Gray’s intense addition to the bestselling Kingpins Series.

Penny Paige is an aspiring novelist and current ne'er-do-well entertainment writer-slash-waitress. She knows she doesn’t have this whole thing called life together. But she’s got plans. Big plans. And they hinge on winning the coveted Malcolm Dagner Writer Fellowship for up-and-coming thriller authors. If she could just get enough time and money to write her sure-to-be New York Times Bestselling Novel, she can quit her crappy job and transform from a diamond in the rough to a sophisticated author.

In a little-noted eulogy delivered after Lincoln's assassination, Frederick Douglass called the president "emphatically the black man's president," the "first to show any respect for their rights as men." Douglass pointed not just to Lincoln's official acts and utterances, like the Emancipation Proclamation or the Second Inaugural Address, but also to the president's own personal experiences with Black people.

Ivy never knew that a vampire she just met from the club would make her feel that good. She didn’t even think a hookup with him would bring so much joy, heartbreak, so many secrets and dangerous foes. It made for one bittersweet cocktail of being "new to the life".   

From the day he was born, Martavious “Tank” Young had to fight for what was his. No parents, no family, mentally and physically abused throughout his childhood. The challenges he endured only made him stronger and soon, the man who grew up with nothing had it all. Now, Tank is the man running the streets and the city, both legal and illegal. His money is long, his patience is short, and his reach is far.

Charity has $50, a vehicle, the instinct to survive, and a pile of student loans about to be due. What she doesn't have is a real address, security, or the ability to dance like she is supposed to at her new job. When she meets Sebastian, she falls for him. Literally, onto him because she can't walk in the heels. Marine Sergeant Sebastian Wade has been left at the altar. He does what any jilted groom would do, rallies his friends and hits a strip club. He has everything, a good job, a house, two rooms full of gifts, but no bride. Until he laughs at a stripper doing the robot on stage.

After tragedy strikes her home, Heavenly Jacobs must rely on her beauty and street smarts to survive on her own. Her choice to ride for the wrong man ultimately lands her in prison, where she decides to re-strategize her game plan for when she is released. Eartha Davis was exposed to much more than she should have been from a very young age. Between her mother, a bonafide gangster with a sexual preference for women, and the influence of the streets, it was just about impossible for Eartha not to embrace all that was going on around her.

Kraig Holmes is a hard-working independent contractor living in Baltimore. He’s an average guy - with one exception. A painful secret haunts him daily. Kraig had a one-time sexual experience with a man he knew little about. It propelled him into a lifestyle of promiscuity and an insatiable appetite for dangerous sex. When the guy disappeared into thin air, Kraig was left hurt and devastated.

Owning the Stone-Chance Protection Agency has its perks. It’s a profitable company that allows Ramsey and Keilah Stone to enjoy the finer things in life; however, it has also added an element of danger to their otherwise normal lifestyle.

When a military soldier dies, everyone feels the pain. When a street soldier dies, only those close to him mourn. But both soldiers have something in common: they fought for what they believed in. Home from their final tour, a team from the 82nd Airborne Division out of Ft. Bragg, NC faces harsh realities: a broken relationship, the death of a child, and even the murder of one of their own.