When Kaya Perry graduates college, the last place she wants to go back is Layton, the town that she left behind. She left that place with bad memories and no friends, so there is no way she's looking to go back. So it's really a bummer when the job that she wants is right there in that little town. It's also a bummer when her high school crush is still there as well. Maybe it's possible to find happiness in a place where she never found any. Now completed on Radish Fiction!

She hears all the locker room talk. She helps when the guys drink too much before a game. She tapes them up when they're injured. And in return, they watch her back. While most students spend their time partying, Lily spends her free time working. But her job as the assistant athletic trainer for the PSU football team comes with the benefit of being friends with every player on the team. Except the entirely too cocky, reckless, and charming golden boy of the team: Vincent Bradshaw. When they aren't spouting insults at one another, Vincent and Lily are doing everything in their power to avoid each other. That is, until Vincent gets injured.

(SAMPLE) Now available everywhere in ebook & paperback (and on Kindle Unlimited in the US & Canada). Kendall works the night shift at the campus library. It's the perfect job: she gets to spend hours reading her romance novels without interruption... until the night that Vincent, king of campus and star of the basketball team, comes to the front desk and asks her for reading recommendations. (75k words. No cheating, no love triangles, happy ending. Adult content. 18+ recommended.)

After serving a three year bid, Truth "Tru" Shakur is finally free and ready to get back in the game. But everything has changed since he left the game three years ago. Kandi "K" Simmons has always been there for Truth, and it isn't only because he's her childhood best friend, but because she's been in love with him since forever and a day. The real question is can Truth make it back to his rightful position at the top and come to finally realize that the woman of his dreams had been at his side all along? This ain't no regular hood love story, this is about finding love in the hood and seeing if you can keep it.

Trials and hardships are nothing new to Tiana, she's taken them on her entire life. Living in survival mode has taught her that life is what you make it, so with a leap of faith she jumps into the unknown. Without notion or reason she searches for something more than existence and finds the answers to all of her problems. This is the tale and testament of a young girl's journey.

Kelz was everything to Azure. Her first boyfriend, first lover, you name it. However after four years of young love, Azure wakes up to a text that shatters her world. Kelz was done with her, without so much as an explanation. Azure spends weeks searching for answers, but fate has a funny way of changing her heart's tune when she meets Nico Graham during spring break in Miami. Growing up a shy girl, spending most of her days painting away -Azure knows she is no match for the popular man, who has women falling over him wherever he goes. Nico Graham's world consists of two things: Boxing and Women. At the young age of 21, Nico is the undefeated knockout king in the boxing ring, taking on his career headstrong while battling school and the 'friends' he keeps. He wasn't the relationship type, that he knew. However his theory is challenged when he runs into the Golden Brown painter, Azure in Miami. Her shy demeanor and pretty face drawls him in, and he'll do anything to win her love. In a tale of pure fate, Azure and Nico find themselves falling in love in their crazy worlds. When temptation comes knocking at their house of love, will they stand strong or fall?

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My works #14 //. Set in Los Angeles of the early 2000's, Adonte Jackson - an average junior high schooler is figuring out his own path in life while pursuing the passion of boxing and balancing school with everyday events. Being on the cretin record however becomes a major setback considering it determines a big chunk of his grade. His crush, Isla Tate a young, beautiful senior falls in the need of some help too and it may come a time where they cross paths to assist each other. This failing grade though becomes not the only thing on his already full plate. Find out what's going on in the streets of California in Beyond The Doubts. DiaTheLit™ ©2016 all copyrights reserved

"I'm not here to change your mind" --- Growing up, Kolina 'Kodie' Woods didn't have it necessarily easy, especially after her father's short battle with drugs. With drugs winning him over, and a mother ultimately falling victim to the same, in addition to the love of her life dealing with various issues, Kodie finds herself sunken, completely removed from most fun things in life. It takes a good friend of hers to invite her out to an album release party, where she finds herself saving someone who becomes annoyingly gracious of her, leading her to the likes of Rane. Dealing with personal issues all his own, Rane 'Rocky' Mayers surrounds himself with both music and women to thrive. When his best friends life is saved from yet another overdose by a familiar face, he finds a himself biting off more than he can chew, when their 'situation' grows beyond what either of them wanted. Short story Mature 11-1-18 1-18-19

"I call this one pain. And this lil one right here under his wing is suffering." "No offense, but...who the hell would wanna be reminded of pain and Suffering? If I was going to get something etched into my skin forever, I'd want something that would bring me joy." His grin bemused her. As if he expected her to contradict his moral logic. "True that, shorty. And I agree, no doubt. But who's to say my birds don't bring me joy?" Dumbfounded, Jett lifted her eyes from the silhouetted birds up to meet his tender gaze, stumped on how to answer his question. She shrugged with one arm, "Do they?" * * * Jett Jaletta has enough of her own problems. Unreliable family members that depend on her for everything, too many bills with not enough income. And a federal probation sentence that's held her hostage for the past three years. The last thing she needs is the drama that comes along with a handsome face, drama that could jeopardize everything she's working for - a liberating dance career. But Roman Carter isn't liable for the damage caused by his blessed good genes. As a matter of fact, his alluring appearance and its effect on the opposite sex is the furthest on his list of priorities. The recent murder of his only brother has left him unfocused, indignant, and irrevocably heartbroken. Well, he is focused on one thing...retribution. BlackBiirds is the intertwining story of two characters-who's deepest pains and struggles happen to be caused by the other person. Ironically, surrounding situations, dangerous rivals, and even their own family members cause these two to become tangled in ways they can't escape from. * * * BLACKBiiRDS is the rewritten, reworked 2.0 version of its former draft: Souled Out.