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War may be bad for business, but sometimes, it’s necessary to move your business into the future. In this tale of love and loyalty, jealousy, betrayal, and hate, Imani Mosley finds herself at the center of it all. In addition to restructuring her family’s legitimate luxury charter business, Imani is rebuilding their weapons- and drug-trafficking business.   Her brother, Hareem, who jealously thinks that he should be in charge, believes the way to expand is to eliminate his enemy, a mysterious woman known only as Diamond. Despite Imani’s warnings that his actions might start a war, Hareem sets out to prove that he’s right. In an attempt to draw Diamond out, he goes hard at her dealers.   Imani’s world gets complicated when Brock Whitehall returns after serving a ten-year sentence for transporting assault weapons. Before he went to prison, her father had always seen Brock as his heir apparent. Now he’s back, looking for the money he was promised. He has plans to move on once he gets the money, until he sees Imani. Now he wants it all.

Selling weed and then running her own robbing crew that targeted drug dealers was how Tori Phillips gained her entry into the Atlanta drug market. Their motto was, "Why buy drugs when you can steal them?"   While Tori and her crew are celebrating in South Beach after their biggest hit ever, the ambitious and power-hungry Tori meets a Colombian importer looking for a new distributor for the Atlanta market. During a trip to Cali, Colombia, he promises to take her program to the next level. All she has to do is eliminate his old distributor in that market. Once the brutal deed is done and Tori has the power, she decides not to stop at just the old distributor. Why not ruthlessly eliminate all of her competition and have it all?

For the past ten years, Alexis Fox had been living a double life. She is a successful real estate agent and investor by day and a drug queenpin known as Diamond by night. But everything changes after the murder of her right-hand man, Hedrick, causing her two worlds to collide. As a result, she was forced to assume a more hands-on role in her illicit side business, and for the first time, the drug life was beginning to creep into her real life.   Consequently, her already contentious working relationship with Cynthia, the manager at her real estate office, becomes antagonistic, forcing her to wonder if there was more to it than just jealousy.   When several of Diamond's people turn up dead, things become more complicated for her when her police contact tells her that her own alter ego, Alexis, is a person of interest in one of their deaths. It causes her to question which life was real—or if it was all her life now.

Dog Team is a tale of friendship and foes, brought to you by the hottest new voice in the urban crime genre. Best friends Elontra Montgomery and Shemika Frazier have been keeping a low profile and getting paid, robbing the occasional jewelry store for years. That changes when their childhood friend and hacker, Demeris “Dee Dee” Dennison, is released from prison. With her ability to shut down cameras and alarm systems, the trio quickly steps up to robbing banks. However, with their newfound focus on bigger targets comes the inevitable involvement of the police. After a few near misses, they decide to lay low for a while—but it’s not that easy. The ladies are recruited and forced to do one more job that has the potential to cost them their freedom, if not their lives.

Still grieving the death of their father fifteen years later, the Marx siblings show the true depths of love and loyalty, protecting his legacy at all costs. Nikki and J.R. Marx were just children when their father, Eddie Marx, was murdered. At the time, they were too young to comprehend what was happening. Marx and his partner, Pete Barlowe, had built a formidable organization from an ounce of powder and, over the years, turned it into a very profitable drug, gambling, and prostitution operation. At the funeral, Barlowe promised Pete's wife, Naomi, that he would take care of her and the children as if they were his own. That was fifteen years ago, and since then, Nikki and J.R. have grown up in the game, working as Barlowe's enforcers. Now, Nikki and J.R. Marx are ready to claim their birthright and take over what their father started, and maybe have a chance to avenge his murder.

Deneisha Lewis has graduated from petty theft to the big leagues-life as a Stick-up Girl.When Deneisha Lewis was released from the Cobb County Adult Detention Center after doing a year for shoplifting, she knew that she had to do something other than boosting if she was going to make real money, so she became a Stick-up Girl. The kind that sticks a gun in somebody's face and takes what she wants.After a string of murders in Atlanta, Deneisha travels south to Jacksonville to lay low. There, she meets Dallas, who robs drug dealers. He tells her that he doesn't come out of the house for less than ten thousand dollars and teaches her how to stick-up his way. He has one rule: come through the door blasting and don't leave any witnesses or muthafuckas that wanna come after us. Their fateful connection will lead Deneisha on a wild ride that she never could have expected.