Urban Crime Fiction

One drunken night with my father's maid should have been the end of it. Now she's carrying my baby and putting my future as the new mob boss on the line. The day I bury my father and become the new Don is the day I learn I'll be a father. While unplanned, I must mark Macy as my own. To protect my unborn child, I demand a sham marriage. Instead of keeping them safe, it puts a target on both their backs. Proving she is a fighter and earning my respect, Mama scorches the earth to rescue our kidnapped baby. In the process, I fall for the feisty woman who will stop at nothing to save her family....

Gabriel Radu isn’t your average detective... Residing in the quaint but quirky town of Denmark, Tennessee, the semi-immortal Gabriel is called upon from time to time to assist local law enforcement in solving unusual crimes that often end in murder. And by unusual, the crimes always involve something he's quite familiar with: magic. When Sheriff Billy McCain comes calling for help in solving the brutal slayings of a pair of homeless men whose corpses have been marked by a dark snake and scythe symbol, Gabriel accepts the challenge to help solve the case and bring the killer or killers to ...

Don't blink A gripping thrill ride begins when Oklahoma private investigator Buck McDivit witnesses a murder and finds himself possessing an ancient artifact with mystical powers. The investigation leads him to the Spiro Mounds Archeological Museum, where he meets the gorgeous Chief Archeologist Thorn Little Deer and discovers someone recently stole the artifact he now possesses—the priceless Black Cup of Oklahoma. A deadly ex-Army Ranger with the nickname Blade may be responsible for both the theft and the murder. As Buck sets out to catch the thief, he joins a cryptid expedition to the ...

After losing his best friend in the all out drug war, BOOBY LOCO pulls out all of the stops in order to finish off NIGHTMARE. $80,000 dollars is delivered to BUCHO and his band of assassins: a collective of men that live for money and murder. With these killers on his ass Nightmare’s days are numbered, or are they? Will he manage to escape The Grim Reaper and live to see another day? Or will he end up with a tag on his toe? Someone has hit BLACK JESUS’ shipment of cocaine and placed the blame on Booby. Now he’s left with a decision: order a hit on the young man he’s grown to love as...

Some say vampires came to America through New Orleans. Many believe they are still there. When French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas is hired by the Greater Archdiocese of New Orleans to investigate a possible satanic ceremony that may have occurred at the Old Ursuline Convent, he soon learns that more is involved than Satan, The platform where the ceremony allegedly occurred is possibly a satanic altar placed in the convent by a secret society for the specific purpose of devil worship. The Order of the Blood, an offshoot of Freemasonry, has a centuries-old secret guarded by ...

Before he met them, he was conservative, quiet, a loner. He did one-offs. He’d been an undercover cop for all of his career. Exposed in the media, he’d lost that job. So now he works for himself, and after many years of being alone, he met . . . them, his trio. Plus him now. They’re a quad . . . today and forever. Once he’s completely fallen, what’s left? Uncertainty. Missing being a cop. General lack of purpose. Regaining his feet. Helping and caring for others. Being afraid for them. Learning a lot of new tricks. Saving them. Lack of drive sometimes . . . except when it comes to...

"A thrilling adventure that will stick with you long after the final page has been read." –NY Department of Education After the shocking murder of his father, Patrick Moses is forced back into duty in the crime-plagued Levee District. The mysterious, blonde-haired mute, a man Moses believes to be responsible for four murders, continues to elude the police. Tracking him is an endless task, but Moses and his new partner, Sam Walker, are asked to step up their investigation of the "Prostitute Murders" after the head of a courtesan is found impaled on the tip of a sword in front of the ...

The police task force is led by ex-military commander Dean Knocks and his team Jarod, Chester, Veronica and Lester are taking down the worse criminals across the US, but one always seems to evade them. An, assassin Dean named the Iris killer because of the Iris flower left at every death scene. In the meantime a young businessman, but a, crook on the low named Artist Madison is getting away with some major crimes while a, young detective named Venus Slaw is solving cases and making a name for herself. In between times Fiona “The Iris Killer” leads a regular life running her PI and ...

From federal prison, Melvin Anderson aka Parlay returns home from the feds eager to rise again. He a stripper, Yola Sweets, who can plug him in with some movers and shakers who own the strip club where she works, but at what price? When a heated and bitter power struggle ensues between LONG MONEY MITCH and RAY RAY, the partners of the famous gentlemen's club, which was purchased with illicit money, Yola and Parlay must choose a side and hope that their choice doesn't lead to their deaths . Love Is Lost . . . Betrayal Is Heavy . . . Blood Is Shed . . . Disloyalty Is Rampant! Battle for ...

A stolen Desert Eagle, a weapon designed to protect warriors defending their nations, the official sidearm of the Israeli military, continues its fall from grace in LA misadventures.

PAYBACC cliques up with, CHINGO, a young street veteran whose gangsta matches his own. Together, they form a crew of wig splitters who are sure to give BOOBY LOCO and his hittas more than they can handle. But loyalties come into question when Chingo realizes the profit that can be made should the war come to a conclusion and differences are set aside. Will Paybacc look at things his little homie's way? Or will he see him as weak and hand down his execution? After running afoul at BLACK JESUS, Booby is cut off from his drug supply and left to secure a new deal that will ensure that the ...

O.G PAYBACC has been leaving death and destruction in his wake ever since he touched down in the streets in his quest to avenge his homeboy. He’s one step closer to getting the trigger man, but a revelation from his past sets him down a different war path. And once he travels down it, he can’t turn back until an old score is settled. After his brother is unjustly murdered by crooked detectives, CREEPER seeks street justice. With the aid of GANGSTA and BLACK JESUS, he formulates a plan that will help them kill two birds with one stone. If everything goes as planned the war will have ...

Detective James Wolf earned the nickname Lone Wolf from his inability to work with a partner. He's a hard cop who doesn't mind bending the rules to the breaking point to make a case, which is why Internal Affairs is digging in his backyard, looking for buried bones. People are starting to wonder which side of the law the Lone Wolf really hunts for. With his career hanging by a thread, he needs a major show of good faith to stay employed and out of prison. That's when he gets the call....

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Since being taken from his home by his mother in the middle of the night, fighting for survival is all Antonias Lambrianu has ever known. He soon learns that money is power and sets his sights on what he sees as a better future. When his past finally catches up with him, it unexpectedly opens up new opportunities, but new threats come hand in hand with them. Antonias is determined that he will emerge triumphant, but there’s jeopardy everywhere and the stakes are high. Everyone, it seems, is playing dangerous games...Antonias most of all.

PESO solidified his position as the kingpin of the south side following a violent seizure of power. Unlike all those that came before him—including his dad—Peso wasn't willing to allow anyone to get in his way of ruling the streets. Conflict might erupt when RAUL meets a woman who can either become a benefit to his hustle or a detriment. He ends up making a move in the game on his own, despite Peso being against it with legit concerns. Once Peso receives the first shipment of cocaine from his Colombian connect, it changes the game in a major way. He and his crew have to move the product...

JuneBug is free at last, and he is a changed man. Although he suffered a lot during the time he’d spent as a member of the ill-famed RockBottom Family, he has a new vision in mind as a parolee. Instead of picking up where he’d left off, he and his homeboy, Blue, get their CDLs and, together, transport precious cargo for someone Bug only knew by reputation via notorious circles. All’s going according to plan until Bug refuses to deliver a load to a specific place, which sets off a cacophony of events that could lead to a return to prison or a fast road to the cemetery. It’s a race ...

The war rages and blood rains as DAVID fights for the family beside him and the ones he's trying to keep safe. The blind fury that fuels his rage is contagious, and it has infected everyone involved with this game of survival of the fittest. Killer's will do what they do best when their backs are against the wall, but sometimes, in the name of calculation, mistakes are made that have dire consequences. In this jungle only the top dog survives to enjoy the spoils of war. Which means either you're the Apex Predator, or you're simply the meat in between its teeth. This family is about to find ...

When Keyshia and Clyde meet, they are instantly drawn to each other. Forced to pay back a large sum of cash to one nasty Harlem kingpin or risk the lethal consequences, Keyshia and Clyde use their tight game and their loyalty to pull off the impossible. And when Clyde is falsely accused of a bank hit, Keyshia vows to stick by her man - no matter the cost.

After the fallout between Bird and Tre, The Commission looks as if it might be falling apart. The brotherhood has been broken beyond repair and it seems as though everyone is scrambling to chose sides. It's hard to trust anyone, but like always life goes on and so does business........ The heat is on for Tre and his team after the Tasker Street massacre. Everyone is looking for a place to hide out at except for Tre. He doesn't change up his lifestyle one bit even though he knows he's a wanted man. He and Diana continue to have their every night get high parties at their beach house. That is...