Who knew so many secrets could come out in just one dinner? Adoree feels played after finding out that Syn’s significant other is not who she thought it was. Will Adoree be able to look past this misunderstanding and continue to be his friend, or will she drop their friendship altogether? Back at Jerrod’s college, he is going through something very unnatural. He calls on the two people that he hates the most to handle his problem, and promises them both the one thing he knows they both want. Will Jerrod’s plan comes together perfectly, or will the plan fail, and he loses everything? Currency is still trying to deal with Zaviana and her issues while trying to maintain his friendship with Adoree and keep his feelings at bay, but it becomes insanely hard for him. Zaviana goes to the extreme once she realizes that she is losing Currency. Will Zaviana’s plan work, or will it be the last straw for Currency? In this final installment of You Ain’t Gotta Be Perfect, everybody seems to be plotting and planning, but who’s plan is going to get them what they want? Will any plan be executed properly?

One to do things by the book, Adoree Watkins has always followed the rules. Adoree wants to be a marine biologist and has every detail of her life planned. Her NFL bound boyfriend, Jerrod, has been in her life since the ninth grade. Jerrod loves Adoree, but when he starts to step out their relationship, does she find out? Does Jerrod do something drastic to keep Adoree in his life? Adoree bumps into a tatted-up stranger, who she knows she needs to stay far away from, but the more she tries to stay away, the more she is drawn to him. Will she allow this sexy man to draw her in even with her boyfriend Jerrod in the picture? Fresh from the concrete jungle, Synovus Lee Jr, is the king of the streets. Hitting the streets and making sure his girlfriend, Zaviana McCoy is well taken care of, is the only thing he knows. Synovus loves photography when he isn’t in the streets. He only knows how to hustle to make money. When he finds out his hobby could make him decent money without the consequence of being arrested, he starts to think about leaving the game. Will Zaviana be accepting, especially when she knows the cash flow might not be the same? Synovus will do anything for Zaviana. That is until Adoree steps into his life. Anyone with eyes can see that Adoree and Synovus are definitely from different sides of the track, but will that stop them from getting to know each other? Will they fall in love, or will gravity keep them in their current relationships?

Five years later, Currency is more in love with Ree than ever. After five years, your body does things that you can’t control, and Ree is currently feeling the aftereffects of pushing out Syn’s son. Working around the type of women that Currency works around does not do anything to help Ree’s insecurities, so she goes out and does the one thing that Syn forbids. Will Syn forgive her, or will Ree’s defiance make Currency commit a divorceable crime? Ree is having a great time raising KG until Zaviana decided that she wants to be a mother. Zaviana and an accomplice, close to the Lees, hatch a plan to get KG from her parents. That plan could leave them both either dead or in jail. Zaviana goes through great lengths to get her daughter back, but will it be enough? Jerrod is living the dream, playing for the NBA, taking care of his two girlfriends and two beautiful children, but he still can’t seem to wrap his mind around his first love being with another man. Jerrod is willing to let everything go if given the opportunity to be with his first love again. But when the opportunity arises, will he take it, or will he realize that his soulmate has been right under his roof the whole time?

The drama continues in WHITE LINES 2: BORN by Essence bestselling author Tracy Brown. Life with Born seems good, but all his love can't save Jada from a crack addiction. Completely strung out, Jada will stop at nothing to get the white lines she endlessly craves—even if it means selling her body for drugs and cash. But how far can Jada fall before she truly hits bottom?

Solanie: Taken. Stolen. Kidnapped. I never thought this could happen to me. I never thought I would ever be in this position—in a place where I must fight for my survival as I struggle to come to terms with my new reality, a world full of darkness and terror. A world where Deon believes I belong to him. His cruelty, his depravity, and his insanity scare me, but no matter what he does to me, I refuse to be broken. I am a survivor, and I will survive this. Knight: If I hadn’t known before, I know it now. Solanie belongs to me. I will get her back, and she will be my wife. Whoever took her from me will die a long, agonizing death. The only thing on my mind is murder. Bloody, torturous murder. I will paint the city of Houston red if need be until I find who had the unmitigated gall to try me. If I hadn’t known before, I know it now. I love that girl.

We Ain't Got No Drink, Pa can either be read as full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts. This is PART 2 OF 3. 'We ain't got no drink, Pa.' I trembled as I spoke. Then somewhere inside me I found the anger, the courage to answer him back. 'We don't have no grog cos you drank it all!' I knew he was going for me tonight, so I reckoned I might as well go down fighting after all. Growing up in the slums of 1920s and 30s Bermondsey, Hilda Kemp's childhood was one of chaos and fear. Every day was battleground, a fight to survive and a fight to be safe. For Hilda knew what it was to grow up in desperate poverty: to have to scratch around for a penny to buy bread; to feel the seeping cold of a foggy docklands night with only a thin blanket to cover her; to share her filthy mattress with her brothers and sisters, fighting for space while huddling to keep warm. She knew what it was to feel hunger - not the impatient growl of a tummy that has missed a meal; proper hunger, the type that aches in your soul as much as your belly. The eldest of five children, Hilda was the daughter of a hard drinker and hard hitter as well. A casual dockworker by day, a bare-knuckle fighter by night and a lousy drunk to boot, her pa honed his fists down the Old Kent Road and Blackfriars, and it was Hilda or her ma who bore the brunt of them at home. This is the powerful and moving memoir of Hilda's childhood growing up in dark, filthy, crime-ridden Bermondsey; a place where you knew your neighbours, where you kept your eyes down and your ears shut as defence against the gangs at war in the streets. It's a time when days were spent running wild down the docklands, jumping onto barges and stealing coal, racing through the dank back-streets of east London like water rats, dodging the milk cart or the rag-and-bone man. And out of this bleak landscape emerges a brave, resilient young girl whose life is a testament to the power of love and good humour. Moving, dazzling and sombre by turns, once opened this brilliant, seductive book will not let you rest.