This is indeed a love story you won't forget. One for the books literally:). Hear my thoughts on reading this for a second time, years later. Take a listen.

Can you find true love in the hood? Follow three best friends as they try to find love in the city of brotherly love, better known as Philly. Louchanna aka Lucky an unassuming, innocent college girl meets a young boss by the name of Carlos.

Their instant love affair turns out to be anything but perfect or fairytale. Lucky finds out that being a boss’s wifey comes with its many luxuries as well as its equal share of downsides.
Whoever says you have to let the past stay in the past? That’s not the case for Keema who’s suddenly faced with a tough decision. What’s a girl to do when her past wants a place in her future? Her first love Jah is back to claim the heart he once left shattered. Can people really change? Or does the old saying ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks,’ stand true?
Ty, Lucky’s cousin strives on being the poster child of the independent woman in Corporate America. While her career and ambitions are on track her love life is the total opposite. After an unforgettable one night stand Ty can’t seem to get Nice out of her system no matter who she’s with. Deep down she feels that he could be the one to show her what real love is, despite the odds stacked against their budding love.
Buckle up and come along for this roller coaster ride of drama. Strap up and be prepared to ride along with these girls as they experience love and life. Many things will change in their lives but one thing that will never is the bond and sisterhood they share. Is there really such a thing as finding love in the hood? Find the answer to that question in this drama packed book filled with sex, betrayal, drugs, murder, and hood love.

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Author Antoinette Sherell joins us (about halfway through the episode) to discuss one of the most hated (formally most hated:)) characters in her catalog. & of course my take on Relic now vs past. Take a listen.

Cold. Calculated. An enigmatic boss in his own right. Relic is that and then some. His son and brothers are his heart, and money is his world—anything else is expendable. Especially women. With the cards he’s been dealt stacking up against him, he doesn’t have room for distractions.
Unfortunately, the same woman whose life he altered, unbeknownst to her, taunts his thoughts. Kennedy is a blazing fire he shouldn’t touch because there are too many skeletons in his closet, and Relic knows that once they come tumbling out, they’ll both end up burned. Even so, he can’t resist reeling Kennedy into his world while he has the chance.
We made it through the twenty-third hour unscathed… Welcome back to The Fold.

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Nicole Jackson is going to bring that good hood s**t every single time, and The Black Girl Book Club Podcast is always down for it.

Let's talk about Babi and Face.Babi is holding her incarcerated man, Too Low, down. She loves him dearly, but is now questioning their future, as she realizes that he’s never going to change. Then just as she begins to reexamine her relationship, she ends up laying hands on an associate, damaging a certain somebody’s car in the process. Now, Face, the car owner, wants Babi to pay up, and we’re not talking monetarily.What will Babi do when she faces temptation? Will she fold when a rich man wants her? Or will she remain loyal to her first and only love?Exclusive content from The Borrowed Love crew is also at the end of this novel only in paperback.

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