Books
I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to share my literary creations with you. It’s an honor to be a part of your reading journey, and I hope that my stories can bring a touch of magic and wonder into your life.
Book One:
Queen of Hearts
This is a love story. It’s not your typical love story. It’s about finding your tribe and learning loyalty against all odds. The characters all have their secrets and scars they need to heal, but many are on the run from their past actions. As the truth came out it made me wonder, “Why would you do that…Oh no, not me!”
It’s sad, funny, and rude but in a good way.
Life and loss have made these kids literally insane, but evolutionary to observe!
Literally, there is a dark past behind everyone, and this book uncovers the dirt of every character one step at a time. The more people that they meet, the more you find another version of themselves exposed.
Be it an overly active past sexual life, secrets of abuse, fear of being underestimated by society, or abandonment issues…This book humorously entertains by telling an unbelievable story that heals its characters one lesson at a time. The dialog is too funny, but I may be biased. I feel that once you realize you’re intruding on their private thoughts you will begin to feel like you’re being watched by some of the highly sensitive characters…lol. I enjoy writing this series and letting the lions’ thoughts cross paths with readers.
At first, I didn’t like Mandisa…she seemed too weak, afraid, and a bit ignorant. But by the end of Queen of Hearts, I could see she was changing into someone worthy of her namesake, being nicknamed Queen by her mother.
Hakim worried me the entire novel with his strange thoughts and often arrogant ranting about things that were truthful but seemed only to be stroking his ego.
Cyrus was often overcompensating to prove himself worthy of anything he did. It’s like he doesn’t realize how magical he truly is or how blessed his friends are to know him at all.
Lionel…wow! That boy is out there in the streets doing too much for his tender age of 15. He has a funny personality, but his petty mouth keeps putting him in places and fighting grown men on the norm. He’s the baby so he takes so much personally. There’s a “me versus the world” vibe with Lionel, but you begin to see that he really wants to be understood for his lack of control.
These four friends connect to build a bond of protection around one another due to their horrible family situations and past. But they soon realize that their secrets must come out or the Pact they establish won’t hold water.
Book Two:
King of Clubs
A deal has been struck to spare Mandisa from her father’s fate, and Hakim appears to have a strategy. He’s operating in secrecy, and his family is worried about the consequences. It’s too late to go back now that Dr. King has discovered Mandisa and Mami’s hiding place. But, now that Mandisa is caught in a romantic triangle with two of her best friends, what will be the final result?
As all of the anxieties come to the surface, egos will fly. What should be a night of celebration for all the lions will instead be a night of peril.
As additional family secrets are revealed, we see the ramifications of Mandisa’s unhealed scars. Hakim and his family will have a tough time capturing the lioness and saving his friend from the town’s most serious threat. Deception and mind tricks must be exposed before time runs out. But what will Mandisa do when the treachery becomes too much for her to bear?
When the lions scream in rage, everyone is enveloped in Mandisa’s nightmare, and Hakim’s biggest dread comes to reality right before his eyes. Karma is a bitch, and her name is Mandisa King.
Tell me who you’re loyal to? Is it love, family, friends, or your own desires?
King of Clubs picks up where Queen of Hearts ends, taking you on a trip in the Lions’ world. There is exposure to the negatives of growing up in a small town surrounded by lust and greed. For the Dunn family and Cyrus, it’s just another ordinary day seeing sex trafficking/prostitution and men taking advantage. Though the severity of the origins seems to keep coming full circle, they have ignored the threat for years.
When racism and prejudice come to town to break their Pact with Mandisa, our boys must make a choice based on fear or intelligence when facing her father. Hakim seems to have all the answers and is making all the moves in silence which leave the others nervous and afraid for tomorrow. He’s too calm, and Cyrus doesn’t like it.
The insecurity is building as Hakim and Cyrus go head-to-head proving their worthiness to be king. Lionel is having a ball watching his brothers’ anxiety build as the beat drops. Mandisa has been keeping quiet for too long, and now it may be too late to get their sweet angelic Queen to calm down. When it gets too much to take and Cyrus’s life is on the line, Mandisa exposes the side of herself that forces Hakim to prove his loyalty to his best friend.
There is healing happening as these characters begin to seriously look in the mirror. It’s strange how something so small for some can be earth-shaking to others. You will find something odd about the voices in some of the character’s heads that begin to speak to the reader, but it’s like the character is oblivious of your conversations with them. Mind-bending…fourth wall-breaking, and disturbing. The psychological wounds run deep…but the men seem worse than our heroine! WTF!?
Let’s not forget the major twists of fate that lead Hakim’s worst nightmare, Big Brother Kaliah, right into Mandisa’s life. Whoa…insane!
The dialog is gold! The cast is bold. The story isn’t too old yet had to be told! It speaks using voices that needed representation. I found it so real that it can heal. It’s a work of fiction but not your mother’s romance novel. This stuff is crazy. That’s all I can say…