Growing up in Compton, raised by a single mother and no father, Desti'ne became familiar with struggling at a very young age. As a teen, she and her closest friends grew to understand that MONEY is absolutely necessary for survival. By any and all means, Money is a must. But more than they realize, money is the line between LOYALTY and BETRAYAL. Racing through life and jumping over every obstacle in her path due to her ability to use her "STREETS...

This collection of poems examines race, marriage, family, abortion, and social changes since 1954 when Godzilla, the horror movie, and the Supreme Court ruling on integration, Brown v. Bd. of Ed, Topeka, Ks., occurred. The sixties, 70s, 80s, each get poetic treatment, as Godzilla sequels came out. Free verse, haiku, tercets, soliloquies, dramatic monologues, found and prose poems put racism, oppression, sexism, homelessness, body dismorphia, immigration,...

Readers are thirsty for stories that bring the city of Los Angeles to life. This anthology features a diverse range of voices and genres. Like the City of Angels in which these stories were born, nothing is off-limits. Literary or contemporary, noir or ghost story, fabulism or science fiction, each story in this volume will forever change the way you look at this iconic metropolis.Made in L.A. Writers is a collaborative of Los Angeles-based authors...

Family secrets. Disappearing informants. Can this PI prove her worth… or will she get caught in the crossfire?Jorja Knight is desperate for a fresh start. Reinventing herself after a brutal workplace shooting, she's determined to make her life as a private investigator count. But her first major case searching for a wealthy Holocaust survivor's long-lost nephew goes south when she finds out the man was recently shot dead, and his drug addicted son...

Magdalena is recovering from polio and her mother’s death while living in her grandparents’ meager flat in Little Italy, San Francisco. Mother would have said… a “Black Angel” had come to save them when the family moves into an elegant home in a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles. Her father has bitterly accepted an offer from a crime Family to pay his medical bills. Magdalena’s teenage years are spent trying to please her morose father and...

The fourth volume of the Samuel Buckland Chronicles, we catch up with Sam ten years after the events of Doom of Light. He must contend with the reappearance of God and the discovery that all may not be as simple as he's thought all this time. He finds himself on the opposite side of the field of friends, family, and himself as he fights to remove Lucifer from the throne of Heaven.

The final novel in the Samuel Buckland chronicles finds Sam thrown from Heaven by Lucifer's power, separated from his daughter, Sara, and the Archangels who had fought alongside him. Now he searches for a way to dethrone Lucifer and stop the Devil's plan to take control of the world. However, at the same time, something is happening to the Archangels. Uriel, Gabriel, and Satan find that an unknown force is attacking their very essence, threatening...

Forced to ally with his greatest enemy to stop the fallen Metatron’s plan, Sam must coordinate a massive undertaking: prevent the theft of mankind’s faith and the destruction of Heaven. At the same time, his daughter, Sara, comes to terms with the truth of the universe and struggles to find her place in a world of magic and demons. The two travel through the realms of Gods and men to find aid in their effort to thwart the former Archangel...but...

“I suppose everyone expects a flop from us… But wouldn’t it be a lot more fun if we did something else?” The Biggest Gossip, Straight Out of 1947 Hollywood! A Diva Destined for Disaster… With a face made for the cinema and the acting chops to back it up, Lois Ashford should be one of Hollywood’s most powerful players. But for the last decade, her notorious reputation for being “difficult” has kept her dreams of true stardom at...

An ancient war. A long-told prophecy. A cursed inheritance. If you were destined to die, how would you choose to live? Between the shadows of the human world, a war as old as time is being fought. Ageless pantheons scheme to obtain or keep control, provoked by the weight of human belief which has altered the realm of the divine.An ancient prophecy speaks of a human woman who will alter the course of this divine war, a descendant of a Great House mired...