This novel portrays the life of Yarni, a sweet and innocent girl from a well-to-do family. By chance she meets Richmond Virginia's notorious drug kingpin, Des. Immediately they develop an astronomical love, which separates her from her family and friends. But when Des is sentenced to life in prison, Yarni will learn being A Hustler's Wife isn't ea...more

The beloved #1 Essence bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters yet. When Carmen, Jewell, and Regina cross paths in the 1980s as Columbia freshmen, they planned to keep on walking. Jewell, who is a Hollywood child star looking for her role in life; Regi...more

Born, raised and abandoned in Harlem, Silver Jones starts out with the odds against her. With a drug-addicted prostitute for a mother and no father in the picture, Silver takes a vow to overcome her trying circumstances and strives to become a doctor. Along the way, she experiences love, betrayal, and the incarceration of her soul mate along wi...more

“Nikki Turner has truly brought the female hustlers to light. Fellas betta watch out, because the Girls in the Game are taking over!”–LaJill Hunt, author of Drama Queen and No More DramaA collection of explosive stories handpicked by the undisputed “queen of hip-hop fiction,” Girls in the Game presents an all-women crew of urban-lit divas...more

Some things change – and then again, some things don’t. You can never take the hood out of the homegirl. In this sequel to T.N. Baker’s Sheisty, we find Epiphany, Keisha and Shana still trickin’ for dough, still running off at the mouth and still being Sheisty. However, as they will soon see, what goes around will come around, and you ca...more

Funny, Passionate, and straight from the soul, Vera Wright-Turner thinks she has it all under control until she meets and greets herself. Born on the Flip Side of the hustler’s game, she is the child of a fifteen year old drug addict who places her in a trash dump, with a note that read, Please forgive me . . . my mother‘s only fifteen . . . We...more

Robbing men, getting money and living lavishly is all they know. For Unique a.k.a. Nique, Kiara, Kay Kay and Zoë, tomorrow isn't promised, love doesn't exist and men ain't shit. Stealing cars is their hustle and their way of doing it is Simply Unique. But jealousy, greed, love and envy are lurking in the shadows. For only the strong will survi...more