This riveting, honest, and important collection of poems offers an inside view of what life is like behind the prison walls of the Arkansas Penitentiary. Geared towards young men who may be contemplating a life of crime, author Stevie Cannon speaks about the choices they have in life, and all of the ramifications of imprisonment, for both themselves and for their families. Through these poems, Stevie Cannon puts himself in the shoes of men that will never experience freedom again, some of whom have made the ultimate mistake in committing the crime of murder. About the Author: Stevie Cannon grew up in a rough neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee, and now lives in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He has written four other books and is working on his next. His work is motivated by his commitment to help young men to do the right thing and stay out of prison. Publisher's Website: http: //sbpra.com/StevieCannon

Can't get your shit together? A simple guide is all we need to move life onto a better path. Written for the person I was a few years ago when I felt like everything was shitty and nothing would ever get better. Perhaps you can relate. Every big change starts with simple ideas. Here are some that worked for me.

Saleem, Trey, Bruce and Shymire are four teenagers that are fed up with living a penniless lifestyle. Together they decide their only way to escape poverty and get lots of money is to enter the lucrative drug trade in the city of Pittsburgh. In their quest to take over the entire city, the four knew they will have to set examples out of people to let the streets know they're not to be played with even if it meant starting a war with the most ruthless drug lord in the city. Will this be a mistake that could cost them their lives and also the lives of their family members as well?

One would think that with all Rodney Wiggins has endured, the constant heartbreak would finally come to an end. Even with him now on a straight path and finding love, hurtful things continue to happen to him. What is a man supposed to do when he finds out that the little boy he’s been raising for the past ten years doesn’t even belong to him? With Deqavious now knowing that he’s actually the biological father of Rodney Jr, how can this situation end? Then, there’s Troy, who’s foolishly in love with a man that’s going to run her to the ground if she lets him. She’ll soon find out that Abdulla isn’t the sexy, charming, rapper that she thought he was all this time. In fact, she’ll see a side of him that she never even knew existed. In the end, she’ll want what she can no longer have because she knows that he used to be her protector, and that protector is Rodney. Will Rodney be willing to throw everything away that he and Eva are trying to build and attempt to rekindle things with Troy?

Isaiah “Black” and Zachariah “Ghost” Anderson are brothers and complete opposites. The only thing these brothers have in common is their love for each other, loyalty for the streets, and the fact that they tolerate disrespect from no one. With different yet equally absent fathers, Black and Ghost have polar opposite views on life, fatherhood, and love. Black, already a father of two, wants to settle down. With baby mama drama coming from two women, he’s hoping when he meets Chloe Fisher that the third time will be the charm. When Chloe first meets Black, he’s looking for a caregiver for his grandmother, and Chloe is admittedly smitten by him – but that changes when he breaks four of her five rules on their first date. One night of lust, that’s what they both agreed to, but will it be that easy to pull away? Ghost has no desire for marriage, love, or children. After he’s cheated on by the only woman he allowed himself to trust, Ghost promises to get even. Unfortunately, Carli Fisher gets caught up in his scheme of revenge. And even more unfortunately, Carli turns out to be the woman Ghost never knew he needed. Will he be able to secure and enjoy love for the first time in his life, or will Carli be yet another woman that causes him pain?

Charlie Jones Life was good for Charlie. For the past five years, she had been in love with the man of her dreams. A man who had given her the world. Because of that love, Charlie had a free ride to college, nice cars, an expensive home, and she owned her own business. In her eyes, life was as good as it could possibly be. She had the love of her life, and success. Now if she could just survive the next four years while he finished a bid for yet another parole violation. As hard as it made life, and as lonely as she was, Charlie loved her man, and was going to get through it. Calvin “Hawk” Cason Hawk was in the streets, but he wasn’t like your typical hustler. Hawk was about his money and loved his woman. So much so that everything he gave Charlie was hers. He never wanted her to feel like the things that he did were because he was buying Charlie’s affection or because he wanted to control her. Charlie owned the title to everything Hawk purchased for her, so with or without him, her life would always be financially stable. Hawk knew that Charlie loved him and not the things that he did, so he had no problem helping to secure her future. The perfect union, right? Sometimes things aren’t always what they seem. Hawk paid his way out of a five-year bid after only doing one year, and was coming home. The problem being, who is he coming home to? His secret life has caught up with him, and it’s time to make a decision. A decision that will possibly rock Charlie to the core. Yazmine Carter Yaz is your typical hood certified chick. She refused to work for anything, but feels like she’s owed everything. That attitude created a love hate relationship between Yaz and Charlie. Yaz claims Charlie as her best friend but secretly hates everything about her. With friends like that, who needs enemies? Yaz doesn’t understand how Charlie is always winning, while she has to struggle for every dime. Even when it comes to Charlie’s relationship with Hawk. Yaz feels like it should have been her. When Yaz finds out that the one person that she really wants has eyes for Charlie instead, Yaz is fed up. She makes some decisions that could cancel years of friendship, and after a one night stand with a man who Yaz doesn’t know but quickly finds out is a powerful ally, Yaz decides that sometimes you have to just go for yours. Will that one decision cost her not only her friendship with Charlie but also her life? Delvin “Fray” Simmons Fray is all about his money. Fray puts nothing before it, which is why he has a reputation of being a savage. It’s nothing for him to take the life of those who are disloyal or try to get in his way. Being the top solider on Hawk’s team, it just made sense that he would be the one to take charge when Hawk got sentenced to a five year bid. Fray was the type to just do what was necessary, and made no apologies for it. For that reason, while Hawk placed him in charge, Fray decided to make sure that when Hawk came home, Fray could walk and still be in charge. Not only did he build Hawk’s business, but he began building his own. Fray understood that money changed everything, and there was no way that he was going to go from running it all to being second in command when Hawk returned. It wasn’t a respect thing, it was simply code of the streets. Things eventually get even more complicated when Hawk asks Fray for a favor that would put him right in the middle of a tug of war between Charlie and Hawk. Not only was Fray preparing to be Hawk’s biggest competitor in the streets, he would now find himself being Hawk’s biggest competitor for Charlie’s heart.

In Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker’s steamiest novel yet, we meet the four deliciously dramatic, designer-clad divas from prime time’s new hit reality show, The Millionaire Wives Club. Evan: Married to a pro-football star who isn’t in love with her anymore, Evan is digging her freshly manicured nails in ever deeper as she fights to keep the husband who loves someone else. Milan: Half Dominican, half black, and beautifully exotic-looking, Milan is watching her has-been husband’s fortune fade fast–while her romantic attachment to Evan’s husband is heating up. Jaise: Divorced from a former boxing star who’s now married to a white woman, Jaise is trying to raise her sixteen-year-old son on her own. Will her huge alimony checks keep her from falling in love? Chaunci: Editor of the hottest black women’s magazine, Chaunci is now engaged to the high-powered man who helped finance her magazine when she was just a struggling single mom. But when a onetime passionate flame reignites, Chaunci may not be able to resist its charms. When these starlets’ private lives run as wild as their emotions, their relationships with one another inevitably turn into high-profile catfights. Through it all, the cameras never stop rolling on TV’s guiltiest pleasure, where power–and diamonds–are always a girl’s best friend.