Jacinda Whitaker-Drake has left her old life behind in Atlanta, Georgia and started a new one over eight hundred miles away in Manhattan, New York. Taking a break from practicing law, she is on her way to becoming a social worker. Her beautiful daughter is growing up fast and learning at one of the best early learning education centers in the state of New York and everything is looking up for their future without their beloved husband and father. That is, until someone from the past the past she is running from finally catches up with her in the most unexpected way. Now, Jacinda has to keep her past from messing up her new life, including the new relationship that she is involved in that’s not as perfect as she thinks. Will the past that’s been haunting her for years reveal its skeletons or can Jacinda win the war once and for all? Find out if lovin’ a gangsta ever got easier for Jacinda because every love story don’t have a happy ending.

Jacinda Whitaker is a highly respected defense attorney who wants nothing more than to keep her good name and reputation. However when she isn't defending people accused of sexual, drug-related, and violent crimes and murder, she is moonlighting as an escort for a very distinguished service to satiate her addiction to sex. All is going well until a young woman also employed by the prestigious service gets into very deep waters and needs the legal representation of the city's best defense attorney, Jacinda Whitaker. The beautiful but ruthless woman soon discovers Jacinda's secret life and blackmails her into representing her, threatening her life and career if she is found guilty of the charges brought against her. Enter Mikah Cera, the young woman's street boss. Jacinda needs his help. Sexy but dangerous and rough around the edges, Jacinda can't help to be attracted to the brotha. But the way that their lives and careers are set up, the savage beauty isn't the only one that can ruin her life and career. In a battle of streets versus smarts, common sense versus book sense, who is bound to win? And will Jacinda choose love and Mikah over clout and her career because at the end of the day LOVIN A GANGSTA AIN'T EASY!

Your favorite attorney, Jacinda Whitaker, is back and she has a new husband, a new baby, and a new life. She has moved on from Peach Flavored and everything that came with it, including meeting the very tempting Mikah Cera. Her promise to her significant other to keep the past in the past has been easy as pie until someone from her past wants their piece of the pie as well. For the past couple of years, Mikah Cera has tirelessly spent money, energy, and resources on finding the 'one that got away'; or that he let get away rather. And he hasn't been able to live with that ever since she walked out of his life, literally. So when he finds her, and learns of her relationship status, he refuses to let her get away from him again despite of. In a world where you're in charge and you always get what you want, you stop at nothing and will do anything and everything to make sure you keep it; even if it comes down to murder. When a gangsta loves, he loves hard, and it can become A DEADLY LOVE!

Born and raised in the most dangerous housing projects in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlyone Harris never had privilege or opportunities handed to him; he had to take them. The product of a mother on welfare struggling to take care of him and his younger sister and a drug addicted and physically abusive father, he never had a chance of making it out of the hood. Carlyone wanted to make a way out of no way but the street life proved to be more loyal than the legit life. Now married to the street life, he would never cheat on the unspoken codes of honor, one being that the plug’s daughter is always off limits. Introducing Shereen Hernandez, a sexy ass Cuban/Haitian/Dominican chick with connects in the hood, through her best-friend, whose father happens to be the biggest cocaine distributor out of Cuba. Carlyone sees him as quick come up and knows the rules but being the outlaw that he is, the man in him that wants to be a street king never follows them. Now, the streets aren’t so loyal to him once Shereen’s savage father gets word of Carlyone and his daughter. Will the up and coming street king find love with Shereen and a way out of the hood or will the hood be the last place to see him alive?

Fresh out of law school, headed into the fast track of her career. Courtney yearns for thrill. Amidst pure expectations; she’s hesitant to act on those cravings. Until an unexpected attraction, sets her body and soul ablaze. Relinquishing old ways tears at Raphael’s soul constantly. Desperately seeking clarity, the sign he’s awaited presents itself; after an abrupt; yet passionate encounter. As they transcend into immense desire and pleasure. Their bond is threatened by reckless mistakes and consequences. Will corruption and naïve realities be the demise of their relationship? Or will a gangsta’s lovin’ conquer all obstacles?

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