Reading for Leisure: Urban

For four friends, exciting, fast-paced Atlanta offers everything their stifling rural hometowns couldn't. But career success is easy compared to the city's dating scene of users, losers, and gold diggers. So they decide online dating might just be the answer - as long as they take precautions, work their perfect odds-beating plan, and have each other's backs. But soon enough, thanks to secret agendas, lies, and truths they can't even admit to themselves, all four friends' lives are in danger of being upended. And the results could rack up a price no one can pay.

Renowned hip-hop artist, political activist and bestselling author Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel.

Re-homed in a group house far from home, Yvette thinks she may now finally be able to move on from her criminal past - no-one here knows her, and she doesn't intend to let them get to know her. Then she meets Brooklyn, who she can't help but let into her heart. Yvette worries she's not good enough for Brooklyn because of her past, but soon finds out that he has plenty of secrets of his own

Nevada Duncan is the heir to the Duncan and Zuniga crime family fortunes, but before he can take the mantle of power, he has to be educated about the family business. So, with the encouragement of his father and grandfather, he enrolls in his father's alma mater, Chi's Finishing School. Chi's is the world's most elite school for the children of underworld figures. On Nevada's first day of school, he hooks up with a group of misfit freshmen from around the world who quickly become his new best friends. However, Nevada is unaware of the deadly adventure that awaits him with a sinister new enemy lurking in the shadows.

Faith and Trust are a couple that seem to have everything right at their fingertips, but losing faith and trust in one another may just be the cause of their ultimate downfall.

LC Duncan has just been arrested on federal RICO charges stemming from a child pornography and human trafficking ring he's been accused of secretly running. He's done his share of dirt over the years, but kiddie porn's not his style - or so he says. Determined to clear their father's name Vegas, Junior, and Rio set out to find out the truth. Meanwhile, the beautiful Paris Duncan is haunted by recurring nightmares of her true love, Niles Monroe, thought dead. Could LC's arrest have something to do with Niles' reappearance in her life? Or is it her son, Jordan, that Niles is really interested in?

Kapri James wasn't born into the struggle of the game, but she craves it. Despite pleas from her mother, the upper-middle-class teen is addicted to 'slumming' and living the fast life. Everything about the black-hearted mentality of Detroit draws her in with ease. Drug dealing, car jackings, home invasions, snatch and grabs, and mayhem in general have to be on a man's resume to catch her eye. Hardcore criminal Nolan White, known citywide as a shooter, fits that description to a tee, and Kapri has to have him. She is a hood Bonnie to his gangster Clyde, and the streets often run red when the couple is involved. Theirs is a union inked in cold blood.

Inaya's life is a total wreck, but she is trying her best to keep her head above water for her four-year-old daughter, Kadia. When she bumps into her new neighbour, Phantom, she can't get him off her mind. Phantom thinks all women are in one category, the one marked 'no good,' and he's not afraid to express that to any woman who crosses his path. Slowly, his heart begins to soften a little. Fate brings Lox's first love, Sahnai, back into his life. He never stopped loving her, even after she disappeared from his life for reasons unknown to him. Sahnai is accustomed to using her looks to get what she wants from men. When she sees Lox after all these years, she is happy to see the only man she has ever loved, but she's having a hard time letting him in her life again.