Phillips J. Libros

In the five boroughs of New York City, there are turf wars and rival gangs, but at the top are five families that run things, cooperating with their rivals whenever it means they will all make more money. Through the darkest tunnel comes the light, but for Caesar King, there is nothing but more darkness on the other side. After the failed attempt on his life, he is afraid that the Pact of the Five Families is no more. He can trust nobody. Whoever murdered Barry is now aiming for Caesar’s crown, and the only way to flush them out and figure out who’s responsible is to go to war…with everybody.

She is the water to his fire and the calm to his storm. Never in his 26 years of life did Tron think he would find his equal, but Kleigh is exactly that. Her beauty speaks to his eyes, while her mind whispers to his soul. He can't imagine anybody else wearing the crown as queen after he kills the king of Harlem and takes over the throne. Kleigh never wanted Tron to fall in love with her, or vice versa. She isn't who he thinks she is, but how can she tell him that the kingpin he is gunning for, Kevin "Klax" Turner, is her big brother? When push comes to shove and her secret comes to light, Kleigh is forced to pick a side. That choice is what ignites the fire to a war of savages...a fire that can only be put out by blood.

In this fourth installment of the Five Families of New York, C. N. Phillips explores just how far a person will go to keep things together when their life is crumbling. With death nipping at his neck like cold in the winter, Lorenzo “Zo” Alverez is faced with the inevitable fate of stepping into his late father’s shoes. With enemies coming at him from all sides, Zo doesn’t know who he can trust. But when the light at the end of the tunnel comes in the form of family, he discovers secrets about his father that he never knew. These secrets threaten to pull him away from the other powerful families in New York and people that would risk their lives for his. When the time comes to decide where his loyalty will lie, he is unaware that the price for that choice is the heads of the people he loves the most.

Sometimes death births new life, and that is fact for sisters Rhonnie and Ahli Montgomery. After having to fake their own deaths in order to survive, the young women have taken on the job of security detail for none other than Sadie Thomas, the fierce but fair-minded leader of The Last Kings cartel. Sadie will need the sisters’ expert combat training and superior wits now more than ever, when the formula for an extraordinary new drug comes into her possession and she stands to make millions, and even save lives, by changing the drug game forever. Vita E Morte is a dream for buyers and kingpins alike, giving a pricey high that lasts for two days straight, with no crash at the other end and virtually no chance of overdose. But is the tiny white pill too good to be true? As Rhonnie and Ahli start to learn stories of the drug, the legend of its origin, and just what happens to users after their gentle landing, the sisters find themselves pulled into a nightmare, racing against the clock to keep Sadie, and themselves, safe . . . and alive. But when all their hopes come to rest on the mysterious Trap Street, a place only spoken of in hood myth, not even these three warrior women are prepared for what awaits.