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Uptempo, A Novel
By Nakia D. Johnson
A sexy look into the ups and downs of male/female dynamics and a sordid look at infidelity, lies, and the secrets that can make or break modern-day relationships.

It's Friday night and Bryon Jordan, an overworked African-American professional, is out of his element but looking hot.  He’s lounging at the bar of Sutra, a club thumping with bass-heavy music, dripping with beautiful women, and whose name alone implies sex appeal.  After throwing back one too many drinks, Bryon finds himself in the arms of a beautiful young stranger who unearths a side of him he’s long since laid to rest.  The night is wild, passionate, and liberating but Bryon’s personal hell begins the next morning.

 

Suffering the weight of his troubles, Bryon must struggle to save his reputation, his career, and his relationship with Kendall, the woman he intends to marry, all while facing

                                          crooked cops, public humiliation, possible jail time, and ruin.
The Blue Brotherhood
By Yokairy Y. Tavarez

COMING SOON!!!

A crime-drama about two love-torn individuals that unfolds amidst corruption in the New York City Police Department.

Evalyne Vitelli is an up-and-coming New York ADA. Benjamin Pacey is the well-decorated New York City Police Detective who has fled to Albany, NY to escape her memory. Unbeknownst to them, a botched silencing job opens the door to the exposure of a drug-ring and countless murders hidden in the heart of New York’s law enforcement hierarchy. When she is framed for a murder she didn’t commit, Evalyne and Pacey’s lives collide after three years apart in an explosive and charged tale that uncovers exactly what the NYPD is willing to do to maintain its famed "Blue Wall of Silence".


  

Jazzy
By Nakia D. Johnson

A contemporary novel that journeys the "wonder years" of an African-American woman dealing with growing pains, loss, friendship, and family ties.

At 15, death knocks on Jazzy Lorman's door, altering her life and family structure.  At 18, she makes a secret decision that jeopardizes the bonds of friendship and family.  Years later, she's 25 with a six-figure income and a condo on Manhattan's Westside, but the secret is out and threatening to tear her life apart--again.
A Likely Story
By Yokairy Y. Tavarez

A powerful drama about a young Hispanic-American woman dealing with life, love and loss in present-day New York City.

Jolie Terras is a college student grappling with the obstacles she's presented with while growing up in the Bronx. Orphaned, determined, and balancing the thin line between survival and submission, her story provides a glimpse into the average life of a young woman with the self-belief and inspiration it takes to claw her way out and become more than just another face in the city.


 
At Night She Stood
By Yokairy Y. Tavarez

 A gripping tale following the passion of one woman's fight to save the life of a little girl from the same person who murdered her own child.

 Alana Ventura flees her drunken husband one night, beginning a new life on her own in Yonkers, NY. With the arrival of unexpected love and subtly masked inspiration, Alana's life takes new meaning, until her daughter is brutally abducted and murdered. Plunged into depression and saved by an angel, Alana regains the strength to go on without her only child. When the one thing keeping her alive is taken from her, and the discovery of the perpetrator's identity is made, Alana fights against the clock to save the only thing she has left, and punish the man that took everything else away.  
Glory Lasts Forever
By Yokairy Y. Tavarez

An inspirational story about the will to overcome all obstacles, defy all naysayers and pursue the dream of glory.

 

In her senior year of high school, Taylor Irazarry shocks everyone by trading in her prom dress for a helmet and trying out for the varsity football team. Despite the ridicule, alienation and physical torture day in and day out, she sticks to it, making the team and breaking all the rules in the process. Going against her father's will, Taylor proves what she's made of by carrying her team to victory, on and off the field. When a clerical discrepancy removes her from the team weeks before their final championship game, the teammates that have become her brothers in arms risk it all to get her back, and give her one last chance at the glory she'd been dreaming of all her life.

 
 The Lost Highway
By Yokairy Y. Tavarez

A suspenseful thriller that follows one woman’s harrowing ordeal to escape the clutches of a killer over and over again.

Emmaline Lera witnesses the brutal murder of her best friend and barely escapes the grip of his assailant on a frigid December night. She’s found by the police, barely alive and still running from the faceless killer. Detective Josh Beach assumes watch over Emmaline throughout the night and over the course of the next three years, what starts as a timid friendship blossoms into a love affair neither could have imagines. When Emmaline, who has suffered countless years of abandonment, betrayal and suffering, finally finds her life unfolding towards a happy ending, the same faceless killer that has haunted her dreams returns, this time to finish the job he started three years earlier.

 
Wanderlust: Where Seasons Meet & Magic Begins
By Nakia D. Johnson & Yokairy Y. Tavarez

A children's modern-day fairy tale, complete with magical lands that inspire the imagination, wonderful worlds that arouse the senses, and a valuable life-lesson that teaches children to take pride in their differences while first realizing their similarities.

Anise and Samara live miles apart but meet by fate and discover that their shared knowledge gives them passage into a legendary land of enchantment and mystical creatures. They set out on a voyage that takes them out of our world and into one they've been dreaming of,  hoping and wishing for all their lives.
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