Rio Duncan is one of the youngest children of the Duncan clan. With no solid position in the family business like his other siblings, he has been feeling out of place and decides to disappear. Rio leaves his Duncan identity behind and goes on a search for friends and family who can relate to him. His destination is Baltimore, and he is sure to find what he is looking for in the city with a community like no other. There, he also finds unexpected trouble. Corey Grant is making a name for himself in Baltimore with an inherited drug empire and a complicated relationship with his right-hand man. With plenty on his plate, Corey has almost no time for the romance he wants with Dre, and he feels like they are growing apart. That brings about a jealousy and insecurity that he doesn't know how to control.Diana Black is Corey's girlfriend-for-hire, and she has a taste for bad boys. She is loyal to Corey's cause, but how long will that last?Rio's personality and flair instantly gains him entrance into Corey's circle. Rio says he's looking for friends, but Corey is sure that other motives are on the table. When Rio has a change of heart about his newfound crew, he needs an escape plan. There is one problem: his family doesn't know where he is. Did he inherit any of the ruthless traits he observed in his father and brothers? Can the most colorful Duncan son get out of Baltimore and back home safe and sound now that he's on his own?

Trouble in Rio (A Family Business Novel)

Literature & Fiction

Weber, Carl

Pope, M.T.

United States

Thorndike Press Large Print

What happens when four high school friends use a man’s manhood and self-image as leverage for revenge? Well, meet Brandon, Washington, Carlen, and Gary - all gay high school juniors at Jefferson High School in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The four boys stick together through the good and the bad. But when they become fed up with being misunderstood and mistreated, they decide that payback is in order. One day they do the unthinkable - they mask up and kidnap a fellow student and tormentor and “stick him up”. They record the stick up and threaten exposure if he ever speaks about it. After this successful stick up, they become greedy and decide to throw in getting some free booty and loot. In their last stick up involving a local high school drug dealer, the boys hit a few snags and things come to a nasty head. Did they do one stick up too many or will they find a way out and ride off into the sunset? Stick-Up Boys is about taking revenge into your own hands and the consequences that come with it.

Stick Up Boys

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In Us Against The World, Author Kyeon TreVon, delivers the tale of Clyde and Bernard, two guys who thought their plan of getting over was foil proof. Their ?get in and get out? motto made the whole scheme come together effortlessly. But when a wrench is thrown into the mix of their plan, Clyde and Bernard find themselves in a sticky situation that leaves the whole city of Baltimore gunning for their heads. Ride along with these two bad boys as they take on the whole city of Baltimore. When it all ends and the smoke clear, who will be left standing?In the next tale, Acquired Taste, Author Yancey-Uriah, delivers a spellbinding tale starring Adish, an up-and-coming rapper/singer. When Adish's dream to become the best becomes a reality he is pushed head first into the lime light. But stardom comes with a price and the line between friends and enemies become tangled. Remember things aren't always as they seem and trust is just an illusion. Adish has an Acquired Taste, but for what?In the third tale,The Cost of Infidelity, Author Markus Cortez, introduces us to Antojuan (Ant-twan), a guy who loves fast cash. When he is approached by a friend to be a catalyst in a bait and switch plan he hesitantly agrees with dollars signs on the brain. With wheels set in motion and the trap set, Antojuan's ready to move. Things go as planned until true motives and agendas get exposed and then the real truth comes barreling out. The Cost of Infidelity is pretty steep and in this tale there will be winners and losers.In the last story, Touch and Go, Author M.T. Pope, gives us a peek into the life of Ervin, an advertising associate, with a lust of the third leg. Ervin tries to be discreet about this lust but his eyes always lands in laps instead of faces. On an outing he gets caught ?sight-seeing? and he narrowly escapes with his life intact. In a chance meeting with his last visual victim, he is excited yet cautious about his next touch and go experience. His lust of the third leg pushes him into more danger than he could ever ask for. Touching and going just might be too hard to do this time when he encounters a man that will change his life. Will he change his ways or end up in the hospital with a status of Touch and Go.

M.T. Pope Presents Boys Will Be Boys

Trevon, Kyeon

Cortez, Markus

Uriah, Yancey

Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Urban Renaissance)

Hampton, Brenda

Hill, Terry E.

McKinney, Tina Brooks

Dramas & Plays

Urban Renaissance

To most people, 35-year-old Shawn Black is a mild-mannered and fun-loving family man. Filled with music recitals, football games, and family outings, his life seems to be picture-perfect. What observers don't know is that Shawn is living a life on both sides of the fence. He's harboring dangerous childhood secrets that could ultimately rip his family apart. Shawn makes the mistake of befriending James, a gold-digging bisexual with a secret agenda. Pushing Shawn head first into a life of sex, secrets, and lies, James will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Take a story where everyone has secrets, and then mix that together with explosive sex and a dash of the painful truth, and the outcome can only be disaster. Heads will roll as Shawn's faithfulness, love, sexuality, and family structure are tested to the very shocking end. Be warned: this is not your average down-low book.

Both Sides of The Fence

Ten years after their home was almost torn apart by infidelity, Mona and Shawn Black are just getting back to normal . . . or so it seems. Both Shawn and Mona are still keeping secrets from each other and their immediate family. Back to his old tricks, James Parks exits prison older but not wiser, and his bitter rage seeks revenge. He again manipulates the lives of the Black family with knowledge of secrets that they hold locked away. He uses any and everyone in his path to get his payback; that is, until he stumbles onto someone who offers him something he vowed to do away with forever: love. Will Mona and Shawn learn that it is best not to keep secrets and just let the chips fall where they may? Will James bury the hatchet to try his hand at love once again? Is there still hope for these wayward souls, or will they be swallowed up by their lies and secrets once again? Secrets, lies, deception, murder, lust, and revenge rule the pages of this sophisticated drama. Let's see what happens when the gates of their lives swing wide open once again.

Both Sides of the Fence 2:

The marriage of Mona and Shawn Black was dominated by infidelity and lies. Now the drama that nearly tore them apart seems to have passed on to the next generation. Their children, Alex and Ashley, are in their second year at UCLA, and life is not simple for either one of them. Now that he knows Shawn Black is not his biological father, Alex is busy searching for the identity of his birth father. Unbeknownst to him, his sister Ashley seems to have inherited a destructive trait from this mystery man--using people's secrets to get what she's unwilling to work hard for. After the death of his lover, Wallace returns to California. He's on a mission to reconcile with the family that threw him out when he was eighteen, as well as to uncover information about his deceased partner. Who was the real James Parks, and why did he come to such an untimely demise? Wallace discovers shocking secrets that reveal a connection with James that he never knew he had. College professors Grace and David Andrews are a married couple keeping secrets from each other. This is no run-of-the-mill marital infidelity, though. David doesn't know that his someone-on-the-side shares a painful link to Grace's past. If the truth is revealed, it could send everyone down a path to certain devastation. One man has had a hand in the fate of every one of these characters. His actions have resulted in the dismemberment of three families. Now that the loose ends have begun to unravel, will any of them be able to pull their lives back together?

Both Sides of the Fence 3

Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married man who thinks he's left his homosexual experiences in his past. What he didn't count on was the high-ranking officer who forces a sexual relationship with him. After breaking off a relationship with her abusive girlfriend, Lauren Burns has finally made her dreams come true by becoming a member of the U.S. Army. Anji Foster is looking at her entrance into the military as a way out of her small town and a place to meet lots of men. What will happen when these two very different women cross paths? Sky Love is engaged to be married to a handsome and wealthy man, but she's not ready to let go of her woman on the side. Lela is willing to keep their secret because if it gets out, she's not sure how her fellow soldiers will react. When Four Star General Orpheus Beauregard Roulette III finally acts upon the homosexual urges he's been suppressing for years, he gets more than he bargained for. Now he finds himself caught between the crosshairs of his scorned wife and the young man who's blackmailing him. The Don't Ask, Don't Tell law may have been repealed, but what if there are some members of the U.S. armed forces who still have reasons to keep their sexuality a secret? Urban Books authors M.T. Pope, Tina Brooks McKinney, Brenda Hampton, and Terry E. Hill explore this subject with their own trademark dramatic style.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Urban Books)

Brooks McKinney, Tina

Kraig Holmes is a hard-working independent contractor living in Baltimore. He's an average guy--with one exception. A painful secret haunts him daily. Kraig had a one-time sexual experience with a man he knew little about. It propelled him into a lifestyle of promiscuity and an insatiable appetite for dangerous sex. When the guy disappeared into thin air, Kraig was left hurt and devastated.  Now Kraig has developed a taste for the married men who pursue him while he's working on their homes. When his sexual escapades spiral out of control and out into the open, he quickly tries to get things under wraps. Then the unexpected happens--a chance encounter with his one night stand from college. Kraig is hurt when he discovers the man doesn't even remember him. Kraig vows to set up the man who turned him out and disappeared. What Kraig doesn't know is that his "victim" isn't the lay-down-and-take-it type. He has a few cards up his sleeve that will deliver damaging blows to Kraig's life. When it's all said and done, the truth with be revealed, and there will be consequences. M.T. Pope delivers another hot, scandalous tale full of lust, infidelity, and over-the-top drama.

A Clean Up Man (Urban Books)

They say a good man is hard to find. Kardell Spencer and Lewis Turner know this all too well. Neither is lucky in love. Kardell Spencer is a hard-working, successful advertising company owner who has a no nonsense approach to work and professionalism. Lewis Turner is Kardell's flamboyant, over-the-top employee. They are polar opposites. Lewis speaks how he feels. Sometimes the things he says are so shocking that they leave people around him gasping for air. Mateo Lopez is a rich, handsome restaurateur and a new client for Kardell Spencer's company. When he takes a liking to Kardell, Kardell plays hard to get. Never one to miss an opportunity, Lewis quickly moves in and makes a play for Mateo's attention. It all comes to a head when Kardell and Lewis each find out about the other's intent for Mateo. Mateo takes control of the situation and proposes a contest to see who will be the best man for him. But Mateo has an ulterior motive that puts both men's lives in jeopardy. In May the Best Man Win, two men may find out that winning is not always winning.

May the Best Man Win

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