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For Unique, life is good until her dope-dealing boyfriend, Took, is arrested and winds up in jail. Now she's broke as a joke, trying to put every petty hustle into play to chase hard times away from the door. With an empty refrigerator, a stack of bills piling up, a tenth-grade education, a big butt and a smile, it doesn't take long for her to learn to pull the wool over the eyes of any fool who's blinded by her good looks.

There's a sayin' that if you come from my part of town, that you're from around the way. Around the Way Girls 4 is a look at the life of some street-smart women who think they have the world in the palm of their hands but are about to find out that things aren't always what they seem.

Lust The passionate, overmastering, uncontrolled intense desire for sexual gratification. But it is also an intense lust for power. In her quest to find out about her families business, with the blessing of her father and her uncle, Mike Black, Barbara Ray has taken over Conversations. She had tasted power … and she liked it. Wanda told her that the lure of power was seductive and she was right. Now that her eyes are open and with RJ concentrating his attention on building his legitimate businesses, Barbara sees a path to the throne. She could see herself as boss of The Family. It ...

Travis Burns, aka. Mr. Blue, Jackie Washington, aka Mr. White, and Ronnie Grier aka Mr. Green, live by rules. The first and foremost of these rules is M.O.B. The rules have serviced them well in what they do to earn a living. They are a robbing crew, who operate under the protection of Mike Black’s criminal organization. They rob banks, grocery stores, jewelry stores, and anything else that they can hit quickly and come away with a large return on their investment of time. They are well organized, prepared, and over all else, disciplined. All college graduates and all victims of corporate...

Mike Black and his wife, Shy, are trying, again, to put that life behind them, raise their children, and spend the rest of their lives loving one another in peace. That peace is shattered when Elias Colton, a prominent member of the Black Business Association and close associate of New York City gangster Mike Black, is murdered. The detectives assigned to the case believe that they have a suspect, and the motive is sex, money, or both.

Following the murder of his friend and business associate, Quentin Hunter, Mike Black decides that he might ask a few questions. Why would Daniel Beason kill Quentin, and why would Beason have murdered his business partner, Elias Colton? If Black is hitting the streets, you can be sure that Bobby Ray is hitting the streets with him. It doesn’t take them long to find that weapons, drugs, and The Troka Clan, an Albanian mafia organization engaged in international human and organ trafficking, are involved. However, this isn't the extent of the involvement with The Family.

Even though her title is underboss, Rain Robinson is The Boss of The Family now. The Reign of Rain Robinson began with The Model and The Madam and continued in Retaliation. Now there’s Punishment! The execution of Evander and his partner, Big Frank, as well as the murder of Sterling has brought the war to RJ and Marvin. This couldn’t have happened at a more inopportune time as RJ is set to reopen The Late Night, the after-hours spot that was once run by his father and Mike Black. Marvin is taking over The Four Kings and is making a very aggressive push into the construction business. As...

Three men who have a way with the ladies struggle to keep their heads when each finds that love is more important than sex.

Some might say that Khalil Patterson is living his best life. Kendrick Nance and Jack Dandridge are both dead, and he is now the boss. But he still has what’s left of Kojo's operation, which is being run by Shanice Hardaway, to worry about. Now that he is running things, it’s time to turn his attention and firepower to shutting her down and taking over her market.

It’s War! After learning that her real enemy was David ‘DP’ Petty, Rain Robinson focused all of her attention on finding and ending him and Sterling, DP’s longtime friend and drug dealing business partner. But DP is dealing with problems of his own. DP’s girlfriend, Venus is in love with R.J. and can’t wait to be with him again. As for Carter Garrison, finding and killing Damián Custodio is still at the top of his list. The Reign of Rain Robinson continues in Retaliation, and now it’s time to stop messing around and take the fight to them.

The war with the Troka Clan, an Albanian mafia organization, is over. Still, Shy is convinced that the gang’s American partner, Daniel Beason, is responsible for the murder of her friend, Reeva Duckworth. Despite her promise to hang up her guns, and her husband’s pleas for her not to get involved because the Albanians are dangerous, Shy is determined to find Beason and ensure he gets what he deserves. Knowing that the boss’s wife can’t be in the streets unprotected, Shy enlists the help of her lifelong BFF, Ryder, the acting captain of Carter Garrison’s crew.

Even though her title was underboss, Rain Robinson is The Boss of The Family now. The Reign of Rain Robinson concludes in Dead On It. The war is over, Barnes and Mobley are dead, and Hawkins is on the run. All that remains are the remnants of their once formidable crews. Rain is on a mission to shut them all down. ‘Kill everybody and burn the bitch to the ground’ so she can turn her attention to her real enemy, Rona King. She had orchestrated the entire war from behind the scenes, pulling the strings of her greedy, stupid but well-financed pawns that she sent out to fight her proxy war ...

Greed An uncontrolled, intense and selfish desire for increase in the acquisition of material gain. It could be for social value, status, power and especially wealth. Valencia DeVerão was on top of the world. Her do whatever it takes to make it attitude had served her well. A self-made millionaire at the age of twenty-two, is now the head of one of the top technology companies in the city. But it came with a cost. She was being blackmailed, she was a suspect in a murder, and somebody was trying to kill her. The answer to all of her problems was simple; bring Mike Black to the table. Which,...

Everybody wants to get their hands on Money. And why not? For Marvin Simmons, aka Money Marv, everything was going his way. In addition to being his captain, Jackie Washington’s right hand, Marvin was a successful legitimate businessman with interests in restaurants, health spas, gyms, and the management of welterweight prospect, Alex “The Bronx Bomber” Benton. At the behest of his uncle, Mike Black, Marvin positioned to make a move to take over The Spring Hill Media Group for The Family. That association will bring him into close contact with the lovely Savannah Russell; a contact ...

Even though her title is underboss, Rain Robinson is The Boss of The Family now and to this point, The Reign of Rain Robinson has been a tale of unrelenting war. The betrayal of Jadonna Marian and DP’s attempt to take over, forced Rain to Retaliate and the actions of Barnes and Mobley brought on RJ and Marvin’s punishment. Now, the assassinations of Chet Bright, Jerry Demet, Gene Hazelton and Irving Spencer have gotten Mike Black involved. While Black and Rain hit the streets to hunt down their enemies and end them permanently, things are not all dark in The Family. Nick is getting ...

Even though her title was underboss, Rain Robinson was The Boss of The Family now. The Reign of Rain Robinson begins with The Model And The Madam. Waiting and watching never was Carmen Taylor’s thing. After Jada West killed the hit man that murdered two of her informants at the City Diner, Carmen rushed into something that may not only cost Carmen her life, but unbeknownst to her, would have far-reaching consequences in The Family. After becoming aware of a potential threat inside the organization, Jada uses all the resources at her disposal to deal with the situation.

On the heels of a second attempt to assassinate her, Barbara Ray has to make a choice—seek peace, or prepare to go to war against her enemies. With her businesses both growing and diversifying, the former “Pampered Princess” was becoming a force to be reckoned with in The Family. Knowing that a war with Glover, and what remained of Spikes people, would be bad for business, Barbara chooses the path of peace; but she will soon realize that all things are not as they appear to be, and she will need the support of her family. Meanwhile, the boss of The Family, Rain Robinson, has problems ...

Wrath A strong vengeful anger and intense indignation, bent on retributory punishment for an offense in a violent way. They survived! The explosion took them off their feet, but they survived, and now, “Somebody has to pay for this, Michael,” Shy told Black. He believed that finding out why Ezequiel Simmonds framed Shy for the murder was the key to it all. Despite the assurances he’d received from the Ferreira Brothers, Black remained unconvinced. Shy had worked hard to change her life and go legitimate, and it seemed like it was all slipping away. She was under investigation for a ...

RJ is back! After spending a year focusing on his legitimate business in the music industry, RJ had returned to the city and found that a lot had changed. Where it was once a foregone conclusion that one day RJ would succeed Rain Robinson as boss of The Family, now, from where he was standing, Marvin and even Barbara had a clearer path to the throne than he did. “I gotta be honest with you, you missed your opportunity,” was what his new captain, Sherman Williams, bluntly told him. It left him feeling like he had dealt himself out of the conversation. Now it was time for RJ to rebuild. ...

After an unsuccessful attempt, by some of their own people, to kill Black, Bobby and Rain, they brace themselves for another civil war. But Black thinks that this time is different. There are too many things that either don’t make sense or cannot be easily explained. Now Black and Rain are in the streets and they will kill any and everybody they think might be involved, and they won’t stop until they get answers. Not willing to sit around and wait, Wanda and Shy hit the streets too. Wanda didn’t necessarily want the whole city dead. “Unless that’s what it takes.” Wanda just had ...