Sometimes, what you don’t know CAN hurt you.

Hip-hop dancer, Joy Phillips, is still reeling from the after-effects of a failed engagement when she meets handsome, successful, Systems Analyst, Paine Michaels—a man on a mission to find his future wife. They are instantly drawn to one another. Nevertheless, Joy is a little hesitant about succumbing to her feelings, and giving love another try. Paine, however, is thoroughly convinced that the beautiful, reluctant dancer is destined to be his future bride, and wastes no time in initiating his plan to capture her cautious heart and make her his. But when Joy is hand-picked to tour as a backup dancer for hip-hop recording artist, and known womanizer, Avery Houston, one seemingly innocent night on the town with the star spawns an unspeakable secret—a secret that could very well destroy a love that has barely had a chance to grow. Will Joy and Paine’s fragile new love prove to be strong enough to withstand the crushing blows of the ultimate betrayal, or will it buckle beneath the weight of her terrible secret?

He could have any woman he wanted. He wanted her.

Rap star Anthony Talbert was the hottest rapper in the country and with his fame came an endless array of beautiful women ready and willing to satisfy his every sexual fantasy. That was until he met the beautiful Randi Jacobs. Unlike the other women in his past; she rejected his offer of one night of unforgettable passion with a rap star and she turned out to be the one that was unforgettable. Now he can’t get the one woman he couldn’t get into his bed, out of his head and turns her whole world upside down to make her his.

She helped him go from being an unknown to being the number one rapper in the country; but will she stand by him when he’s accused of rape?

Toni Wallace was always down for her man, supporting him when he had nothing; sacrificing her dreams so he could accomplish his and even staying with him through his infidelities, but when he’s accused of the horrific rape of one of his fans; she is faced with the biggest decision of her life. Should she stand by her man or should she leave him twisting in the wind?

Twenty-seven year old Sidney Foster knew that finding her soul mate wouldn’t happen overnight, but as she nears thirty and her best friend marries for the second time, she wonders if she’ll ever get her chance to journey down the aisle. In her search to find her ever-elusive true love, she finds her Mr. Right in the unlikeliest of men, her best friend’s ex-husband. Now she has to decide if the possibility of a love of a lifetime is worth loosing a lifetime of friendship over.

When it comes to love, who and what are you willing to sacrifice for it?

Which is worse: to love your mother fiercely only to lose her? Or to never have a mother at all? Obie and Princess never debated this; being equally motherless forever binds them. Obie’s a former street child and junkie’s son; Princess was raised in splendor on Park Avenue. When she’s three Obie is her babysitter; at thirteen Obie’s her best friend and confidant. At eighteen “Cess” dreams of being an R&B diva and Obie, whose “Rags-to-Riches” transformation into a music video superstar/director captured America’s attention, knows just how to make that dream come true. Inevitably Obie and Princess fall head-over-heels in love along the path to stardom. Social-class differences, color complexes, an attack by an ex-boyfriend and severe depression strain their budding relationship, but when Obie’s abandonment issues crash head first into Cess’s need for emotional detachment, the fireworks really begin. Then the question becomes: Can a motherless child ever truly open his or her heart enough to love someone else?
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When you’ve been sexually assaulted at seven, gotten your first taste of girls at eight, witnessed your parent’s brutal murder/suicide at eleven, was beaten and left for dead at twelve, and engaged in more grown folk sex than Wilt Chamberlain by fourteen… At fifteen? Killing for money just doesn’t seem that damned wrong.

DRAYTON CLARKE, TOOLS OF THE TRADE, is a hard hitting, gutter reality of a young boy’s struggle to survive the roughest city in the bowels of Urban America aptly coined, Hell Town, The Forgotten Hood.

After twelve year old Drayton’s battered, unconscious body is discovered, he’s befriended by Alton Thurston III; distinguished gentleman and untouchable man of means. Alton sees to the prodigy’s stellar education and vast tactical training. Years later, he inducts his fifteen year old protege into the army of Architects; covert agents who kill to exact proper design. His specialty—eradicating pedophiles. Spanning the globe, Drayton exacts his craft to the benefit of other underrepresented youth.

Wiser and more mature from his travels, he returns to rebuild Hell Town, and reinvents his old crew with positivity and purpose. Having come to terms with life and its many twists and turns, he later resumes his Architect endeavors, culminating at the age of thirty.

DRAYTON CLARKE, TOOLS OF THE TRADE, is the tale of a boy who grows into a man by experience first, then an age that follows. A road map to the development of a stone, cold killer who could decipher the code of the cosmos faster than you could blink, re-write the karma sutra on a whole ‘nother level, and warn you of your eminent death in seven different languages before he was old enough to drink, drive, or vote.

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One hot and trendy gay nightclub, two bickering angels and three unlikely pairs add up to steamy nights between the sheets and emotional days of healing and revelation outside of them when the ultimate architect throws His hat in the ring to fix up three wounded souls with their mates.

Zack and the Dark Shaft: Zara’s Bois 1

Spoiled, aimless party-girl Zara Benjamin has never had to work a day in her life. At twenty-eight she’s just discovered something she wants as much as her best friend since college, the unattainable Quincy Powers. But when an elevator door opens minus the car, all these hopes and dreams are forever dashed…or are they?

Successful financial whiz Quincy Powers made his fortune on Wall Street before his thirtieth birthday and left the rat race behind before the stress of trading could claim his sanity. Instead of the game keeping him awake, however, he now has the horrible sound of his best friend’s screams to haunt his nights.

When he discovers Zara’s nightclub business plan after the accident, he realizes too late he might have given his friend a raw deal in denying her requests and spends the ensuing ten months after her death bringing her dream to fruition.
Until two angels intervene and send Zara on a mission in the body of her twin brother, Zack Benjamin…

Zack and the Dark Shaft: Zara’s Bois 1 by Gracie C. McKeever, Available from Siren Publishing, Inc. October 2007!

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At 33, Storm sets out in search of a whirling rainbow, the place Sam has told him he’ll find his destiny. An amethyst-eyed dog joins with him and the two travel the railroad tracks westward, changing lives along the way.

They come into contact with a hooker, a sexually abused child, a homeless VietNam vet and a gay couple. Lives are changed dramatically before this pair continue their journey.

The electrifying ending finds Storm reaching that he seeks—and your world will be forever changed as you discover his identity!!! Read it for yourself and see if the comparisons to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Pilgrim’s Progress are indeed accurate. You won’t be left disappointed!!!