Urban Crime

Toya, Moya & Joya were three beautiful triplets who have a lot going for themselves until a deadly tragedy changes their lives and force them to grow up fast. Who will choose the straight and narrow path? Who will take to the streets and get gully with it? What consequences will they face, collectively, for their individual decisions? One of the sisters becomes the most vicious female the city has ever produced. Will her enemies direct their vengeance strictly at her or will they consider all of the sisters fair game? What lies between a woman's legs is often more lethal than a gun, and ...

The untimely death of St. Louis kingpin King David has left a vacuum in the underworld. He leaves behind his vast empire to his surviving heirs, David Jr. and Davita. Born barely one year apart, they were raised in very different worlds. Will the family ties that bind keep the families together, or will sex, greed, drugs, and their mothers' divisive ways tear it all to hell, bringing St. Louis down with them? David Jr. and Davita have decisions to make!

After being betrayed by his first love while in prison, Face grows a callous on his heart and embarks on a slew of meaningless flings. He vows to never give his heart to another until he crosses paths with a feisty beauty who’s a little too friendly with the sweetness between her thighs. By the time Face comes to this realization, he’s in too deep. Face’s newfound love is made aware of his tender calculated Kold Killing nature and manipulates it to her advantage. Love and attachment have nothing to do with each other, but to Face they’re one and the same. Will there be consequences ...

Snatch and Demon are small-time hustlers with kingpin dreams. Snatch’s dad was big-time before the Rico Act got him a life sentence, and now Snatch wants to follow in his pop's footsteps minus the prison sentence. With his partner, DEMON, ten toes down with him, Snatch is primed to reach his hood dreams, but a major beef threatens to disrupt his goals. Just as things seem headed downward, Snatch gets plugged in with a major supplier, but could this be a gift and a curse? On the road to riches Snatch and Demon recruit their homegirl, Action, whose prowess for whipping dope is unmatched. ...

Barely out of his 20s, Chester Hines knows the score. He's just another bug crawling through the streets of Detroit, waiting to be squashed under the heel of a system meant to keep a brother down. But with his old lady on his back, his only options are on the wrong side of the law. He didn't need a fortune-teller to tell him that sooner or later he'd end up in a system more brutal than the one that forced him there.

There can be only one: one man with two loyal friends and secrets from the past that will ultimately shake up the entire hood in Chicago; one man on a mission to destroy anyone who doesn't abide by his rules, including tricky bitches who drop to their knees behind closed doors yet stand tall against him when the time comes to collect the almighty dollar; one man with enough swagger in his walk and confidence in his talk and the skills and mindset to build an empire.

Nationally best-selling author Mary Monroe createsan unforgettable cast of characters in The Upper Room. Mama Ruby stole her best friend's baby girl, ran off to Florida, and raised her as her own. Maureen is the center of Mama Ruby's world, and she will do anything to protect her and their life together. Now Maureen wants to know what the rest of the world is like. She is determined to find out, but escaping Mama Ruby won't be easy.

A large part of Goines' 39 years of life was spent being a successful pimp, a heif, an operator of corn liquor houses, an armed robber, and a small-time dope dealer. He lived the life of the streets, and out of that experience he created Prince, the anti-hero of Black Gangster. It's the story of the shocking underworld of Black organized crime and the fledgling Black "godfather" who goes from teenager ganglord to powerful Detroit mobster. Like the gangsters of the 1920s, he begins with bootlegging and branches out into every known crime.

Big Ken, the leader of the Bloody Money Bag clique, gives his all to elevate his whole team to the top. His status in the streets and his power to maintain that immense status is unparalleled Big Ken until, a drug exchange gone bad places him under the feds microscope. Big Ken’s stress of facing fed time turns him into a demon that he never knew was a part of himself. While Big Ken is doing everything possible to try to fight to keep his freedom, Angel, his wife, is toes down. With Big Ken under the microscope, he’s forced to stay out of the limelight, but business must keep going. Big ...

A Harlem Kingpin meets a Struggling, Single mother. Hood Love is in the air. Life in Harlem has never been easy for Kayla “Kiki” Hayes. Getting pregnant right as she was graduating high school didn't make things any easier. Life wouldn't be so bad if she had a loving man to come home to after working her minimum-wage job. Her baby daddy is a lot of things. But loving ain't one of them. For years, she’s felt neglected and unloved. She wants to be free. More than anything she wants to be the caring, loving mother that she never had. Just when she thinks she can't take anymore, a ...

Nikki Ashford had it all. Not only was she drop-dead gorgeous with a figure to match, but she was smart – a top student at one of the most elite high schools in town. Moreover, Nikki was used to getting her way. As an only child, she was spoiled rotten by parents who had worked their way out of the hood in order to give her everything she ever wanted. The only problem was that Nikki wanted everything: clothes, money, jewelry... But at the top of the list was Quilon – who, shockingly, didn’t want Nikki. Unfamiliar with being denied what she wanted (and certainly not accustomed to being...

Prison buddies Billy Good and Jackie Walker made time pulling small jobs here and there. Not a bad living if you liked scraping by. The thing to worry about was the next fix. Nothing else mattered. When Billy and Jackie fell in with Kenyatta, a ghetto lord ready to take back the streets, they thought they'd hit the big time. Dealing with drug pushers and crooked cops in the name of justice sure felt good, but in a world where "kindness was the sweetest con of all", every bullet fired echoed with the sound of payback.

Another day, another hijacked body. And just 13 hours to solve a murder…Detective Vincent Graves has made a habit of dying. Waking up in someone else’s body isn’t pleasant, especially when it's inside a coffin with tons of dirt pressing down on it. Once he’s out, he learns his soul has 13 hours to find the borrowed body’s killer. With the help of a brilliant FBI agent, Vincent’s quest for clues leads to a looming supernatural presence. And escaping the dark threat may be impossible with his ever-ticking clock… Can Vincent close the case in time?

A Harlem kingpin meets a struggling, single mother. Hood love is in the air. Drako Williams is an up-and-coming Harlem Kingpin. He plans on doing things differently than those that came before him. He used to be the head of the 116th Street crew. But he shut down all their operations. He's gone legit. And he's putting all his time and money into the nightclub scene. His spot, Shakerz, is the hottest in town. But he won't be able to get away from his past quite that easily. There’s too many skeletons in his closet. Too many fingerprints and traces of DNA left in places where they shouldn't...

Born into the laps of luxury, as the son of kingpin parents, Mackintosh ‘Young Mack’ Miller was destined to be crowned the next king of Houston’s underworld . . . until the unexpected happens and Young Mack is forced to come into his own at a very young age. Is he ready for the smoke? Sworn to the streets, Young Mack has to do what he does to survive while murder, treachery, and betrayal lurks around every corner of the game. Trials and tribulations riddle his life, but will Young Mack and his brooding team of Products of the Streets prevail or will the street’s grimy code of ...

While most young people are just getting their footing in life, 24-year-old Bryshon "Boogie" Tolliver is already being groomed to be a boss by his father, Barry Tolliver. At first, he's not so sure he wants to take his father's place in the family business. He has dreams of being the most prominent chef in New York. However, things change when Barry is murdered in cold blood and everything he built is left at Boogie's feet. Gone are those chef dreams, replaced with a new resolve to prove himself worthy of upholding his father's legacy.

Emery Thompson hates Calvin Chamberlain. From the way he acts like he’s better than everyone to the way he moves through the world thinking his podcast is the cream of the crop, every little thing about the man gets to him. Even that dashing, oh-so-confident smile. He’d rather be caught dead than be around the man any longer than necessary—or admit that last part out loud.

Before leaving prison, having served 12 years, Harper Kane makes a promise - to find out what happened to an inmate’s missing teenage daughter. But first, she must secure a well-paid job and a place of her own to take back custody of her son. What she falls into is a frightening discovery of human trafficking. Forced to make an inconceivable decision, Harper will use everything she has learned inside to protect her family, even if that means resorting to murder.

Gideon's planning a heist, to steal the only thing that matters from the worst man in the world. To get past his security, he's going to need a crew who can do the impossible...but luckily, he has the right people in mind. The Damned, the Ghost, the Wild Card...and his ex-girlfriend, Annie Anybody. A woman who can be anyone, with the power to make technology fall in love with her. If things go well, they'll all get what they want. And if they're lucky, they might not even die trying.

Tyler “Peso” Carter known as Presidential Peso to the music industry is really living out his dreams. He got his foot in the door and took off fast. Peso is already being mentioned in conversations with the greatest rappers of all times. With things going great in his career, in his love life and his personal life, Peso decides to leave the streets alone. But will the streets let go of him? Hitta on the other hand has no plans to slow down at all. Even though he gave Peso his blessings to leave the game alone, Hitta is not yet done bleeding the streets. Hitta reconnects with the plug ...