Charming a Jamaican Kingpin's Heart


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Messiah Clarke is facing some of the biggest challenges of his life. He has great money and power, but he can’t stop his beloved wife, Paisley, from dying from stage 3 breast cancer. They’ve been married for 17 years and Messiah has made a conscious decision to walk away from his drug empire in Jamaica and move to the United States in hopes of getting her treatment. Alfie Clarke, Messiah’s little cousin, is due to inherit the family’s empire when Messiah steps down. Alfie is young, reckless, and has a lot to learn. Messiah wants to leave his best friend and right-hand man, Kensie Saint James, in charge while he figures out his wife’s situation, but his uncle is pressuring him to let Alfie take his rightful place as head of their Rasta clan. However, Messiah isn’t convinced that it’s the best course of action. Charming “Charm” Backster has found herself in one hell of a predicament at the age of 22. Her choices are to go to jail for the next 20 years for drug trafficking and money laundering, or be a nanny for her father's good friend, Messiah, and gather intel on him and his organization. She doesn’t have anything to lose being that the feds took everything that her family owned. To make matters worse, her uncle is the FBI agent that’s pressing her to do it. But when she finally meets Messiah, will her emotions get in the way of the job she's been sent to complete?




Charming A Jamaican Kingpin's Heart 2


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The Clarkes are on their way to the states and Charm can’t wait to get back to Atlanta. She intends to move forward with her plans to make as much money as she can before hitting it out of the country to start a new life. She is falling in love with Messiah but feels guilty for doing so because of Paisley’s condition. And the way Messiah went after Alfie made it clear to Charm how he felt about her, which only makes her life even more complicated. Tensions are high after Messiah went crazy on Alfie for trying to rape Charm. His lust for her is much greater than he anticipated and with the news of his wife dying, Messiah feels that Charm may be the one to take her place. Although he doesn’t fully trust her, there’s something pulling him towards Charm, and he doesn’t want to give her up. Kensie is constantly in his ear about being faithful to his wife, and he’s trying to do right by Paisley before she dies. Messiah loves Paisley with all of his heart, but the lust he’s feeling for Charm is starting to overcome him. Will he be able to resist Charm and not sleep with her? Or will the desire he feels for her become too strong to bear?




Charming A Jamaican Kingpin's Heart 3


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Now that Paisley is dead, the realization of everything that has happened in the past has come to light. Messiah is able to move forward with his life and take up with the woman who’s captured his heart. Charm is already by his side and ready to fill the shoes that his wife’s death left empty. They’re on their way to Atlanta to start a new life together, but everyone is not on board with the new relationship. Charm is in her element and ready to show Messiah what she’s capable of being in the game. However, he’s not being too receptive to her ideas and may have a different plan of action for her that doesn’t involve being his distro. Will the introduction of past loves cause problems between the new couple? Or will a clash of ideas and jealousy get the best of their relationship and tear the lovers apart? It’s not as easy as it seems for Charm to be Charming A Jamaican Kingpin’s Heart.




Cuffed by a Kingpin


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Is it amazing that someone who was once just a stranger, can suddenly mean the world to you?Caliana Marley is a beautiful Jamaican princess who has never wanted for anything for her father took care of that.Compton Banks is the sexiest most rudest man you will ever encounter that has just been crowned, King of Cali.When their worlds collide, they are forced to agree to live together in holy matrimony. After a fatal incident that left Cali alone with a target on her back, she has to secure her family business and survival by any means necessary. Not knowing that the man that is necessary will mean more to her than she intended. After taking over the family business, Compton is determined to make sure his empire thrives with greatness. Nothing or anyone could take his focus away from his money and his business. That is until Cali barges into his world and his heart. Both individuals never intended on falling in love but things happen.Was it just an agreement or will Love become a factor. Loyalty is tested, trust is broken and hearts are shattered. Will these two learn to coexist for the sack of their agreement? Or will they break ties and put their lives and their empires at risk? Find out in the hood fairytale of Compton and Cali




Slum Beautiful


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Slum beautiful is a remarkable, straight forward, poetic and eye stretching memoir of KyDeja Morgan’s (Slum Beautiful) struggling life. In her first 28 years of life she was molested, practiced blasphemous acts, robbed, sold drugs, used drugs, prostituted, and arrested and almost prosecuted for the murders of both her mother and brother. Like her other siblings, Slum was raised in a dysfunctional family that practiced open sex, used drugs, gambled and treated their home as a hangout for other addicts. Through her avowed journey in life, it would take Slum 28 years and 11 months, along with becoming homeless to find the beauty in her slum (mind, body, soul and surroundings.) she was able to connect, dig out and remove some of the most scattered and unraveling moments of her life thanks to the acts of soliloquy, prison and an unlikely fallen angel along the way. However, before Slum could share her newly found beauty she has to beat a slew of charges, including breaking and entering, robbery, murder-and come fourth with secrets that inadvertently prolonged her vicious life cycle. Slum Beautiful- in retrospect not only visits the most dangerous place on earth in our heart’s memory, but gives a mind-boggling, touch of retrograde amnesia exploring the inducement of dysfunction in Slum’s family that includes, molestation, sibling rivalry, systematic dependency, drug dependency, self hate, cultural hate, racism, and women and child abuse. Slum Beautiful explores how cycles of injustice begin, and how they can continue to plague without culminating. Penned with a poetic pen, conscience mind, and honest heart, Slum beautiful is the Pangaea of life before the evolution of such disheartening events, and then some. It is an internal reflection of yours and mine. Find your beauty, before the wrong hands do. Without further do, Kenny Attaway presents Slum Beautiful: the soliloquy of the kandy lady.




Discerner of Hearts


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The nine vividly rendered stories of place and character in this new book are set in Jamaica, both rural and urban, some present-day, others looking back several decades. Senior's gift for fine characterization, for recreating the music of everyday speech, pervades these tales, which explore notions of home and exile as well as the intricate realm of the human spirit - its fallible nature, its indomitable strength against the sometimes downward pull of fate. Her finely etched characters include: Cissy and the Blackartman; Uncle, who returns from England with the heart taken out of him and an angry case against the Queen; Miss Evadney, of "the pressure and the arthritis", who fights to protect her precious chocho vine until matters are taken from her hands by her new Rasta neighbours; Eric, a mild-mannered businessman, and Sybil Pearson, in whom Eric glimpses hope - until their affair creates scandal, and changes events irrevocably; Sadie, a young girl caught between the refined world of Mother Dear and the more nourishing, troublesome one of their servant Desrine and her daughter Manuela.




Clara's Heart


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Originally published to international acclaim and the basis for the beloved film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Joseph Olshan’s prize-winning novel charts the profound, rare friendship between a wise Jamaican woman named Clara and David, a twelve-year-old boy adrift in the wake of his parents’ broken marriage. As the two grow closer, she brings him into her special world of patois and Jamaican beauty parlors and shadowy alliances, and he comes to realize that in her native country Clara has left behind a mystery, which he grows determined to unveil. Heralded as a classic, Clara’s Heart is at once a moving and comical tribute to unconventional love.




A Brief History of Seven Killings


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A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of social and political turmoil.




Clara's Heart


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A novel about the unwanted children of the divorced rich, centers on the deep bond that develops between David and Clara, his family's Jamaican housekeeper, forcing him to straddle between two vastly different cultures




Forever a Kingpin's Wife


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A new marriage is always a blessing. But when you're a Jamaican drug lord with a wife who use to be a hit woman and top notch drug dealer, let's just say things can get a little difficult. Kingston and Shade Thomas just settled into their new marriage, welcomed a new baby, and thought life just might become normal for a change. WRONG ANSWER! Actions of their past deeds are coming back around the corner and vengeance is on everyone's plate. Kingston's daughter's denial about her parents' divorce has her up in arms. And her mother, Cynthia's, diabolical way of manipulating her daughter is causing problems with her new step-mother, Shade. Can both sides of this new blended family withstand all of the madness that will come their way? Will Shade be able to tolerate the demands that Kingston has put on her? Or will their marriage crack before the ink dries on the marriage license? Only time will tell...if tragedy doesn't strike first!