Showing results by author "Octavia Grant"

A wise man once said, "Don't go back to something God has already delivered you from." Had Architect Lionel Nikimbe heeded those words, he would not be tangled in ex-wife Nova's web. After 10 years of a marriage from hell, Lionel finally frees himself of the headache known as Nova Nikimbe. When he is reacquainted with his high school sweetheart, Zenobia Charles, he believes that he finally has a chance to be happy. That is until Nova finds a way to get her man back.

Because of a few strategically placed white lies, she’s gotten away with cheating on her husband, getting pregnant by her daughter's boyfriend, and taking advantage of her daughter's passed out best friend. All those things, and Patrice Mahoney still ends up on top. When her ex-boyfriend, Tremaine Davis, and his grandson, her biological son, Cayden, end up murdered, all fingers point to her. Like a true diva, she is unbothered by the accusations. What Patrice failed to realize is some secrets are meant to be exposed.

The world's most conniving mother is back, and has more tricks up her sleeves. Patrice Cain once had it all. Being the First Lady to the powerful Judge Mahoney, she was a part of the elite crowd. Her family was well put together, wealthy, and on top of the world. But having it all wasn't enough. She had to have the one thing that would hurt her old friends, the one thing that should have been off limits, her daughter's boyfriend, Taj. After Melrose goes crazy from her betrayal and murders her boyfriend, Patrice is stripped of all the luxuries she was once accustomed to.

Patrice's daughter wants to invite her boyfriend and his family over for dinner. To Patrice's surprise, her dinner guests are none other than the two people that made a fool out of her so many years ago. All she can think of is revenge. When an idea pops into her head, involving her soon to be son-in-law, she tries hard to dismiss it. After living a boring life for so long, the thrill is too much to pass up. Will Patrice forget about the past, or will she commit the ultimate act of betrayal against her daughter, just to get her old friends back?

It's tax time again! "Babe, I can flip it" is a statement that Shabrika constantly hears from Micah, her boyfriend of six years, and she is tired of it. As hardworking as she is, she can't understand why he can't just get a job and make his own money. Micah will learn that when a woman's fed up, there is nothing you can do about it. Find out what happens in this short story, Tax Rich, based on a true story.

Have you ever had a friend that was more envious of you, than proud of you? Why not just cut that friend off? Well, because that would be too easy, and easy is not fun. As the old cliché goes, "If I can't have you, no one will." This couldn't be more true as Kelli attempts to rid her best friend Symone of everything she loves, just to settle an old debt that Symone is not even aware exists.

No man has ever been able to resist Samiya Savage. The chocolate bombshell has everything: a big wallet, big butt, and sex appeal. What she doesn't have is a man to call her own. That's until she met Rich, in her favorite restaurant. She knew that Cupid had finally caught her when she met him. No man had ever captured her heart, and held her attention in the way that he had. When you find a man like Richard "Richie Rich" Fleming, who's young, black, and successful, you never let him go.