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Nineke's premier collection of novellas inspired by Lifetime movies, early UB40, Billy Joel, and the i-95; includes Steel Resolve, Chasing A Boy Up A Hill, and This Is Growing Up.
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A seventeen year-old drug dealer named Steel is the most dangerous person in his school. He gives credit by the ounce and collects debt with his fists. Steel commands total loyalty and respect from his crew; and that goes double for his girlfriend, Lisa. But old wounds are torn open when his ex-girlfriend exposes her as a cheater. Steel's need for control and intense violence soon isolate him from his closest friends. When unlikely allies unite to stop the tough guy no one can predict the impact their vengeance will have on everyone else in Steel's life.
CHASING A BOY UP A HILL
Jenny is a smart, responsible teenager. She minds her own business and gets good grades. During the summer before her senior year of high school she meets Bobby, and by Christmas they're a thing, which is pretty great - except for the matter of Bobby's after school job. At first Jenny doesn't mind him doing odd jobs for the intimidating 'Big A'. Even after the misdemeanors and felonies she's willing to stand by her man. But wait a second...where'd he go?
Brenda has an emotional break when she learns that her boyfriend, Kevin, has gotten her next-door neighbor, Michelle, pregnant. Kevin's parents encourage the teens to wed, and Brenda leaves town. For three years Kevin and Michelle battle it out inside their loveless marriage, until one explosive night forces them to reevaluate why they're together. They're only fooling themselves as Brenda's unexpected return brings them both undone. Is she back for Kevin? Will Michelle give up the guy she stole from her former best friend?
A smokin' hot-pink commentary on control, war, peace, sex and love, inside of a seemingly modern society. D'stherae, an insatiably curious nomad, lives in Maszrana - the most idealized city in the region. When she first meets Wheat, she's immediately taken with the long and lean man in uniform. But what starts out as quick flirtations, which D'stherae expects to become a one-night-stand, dramatically turns into days trapped in a foreign land. And, she soon discovers that the attractive stranger she's bedded is an ambitious and determined militant, on a mission to conquer more than just her body.
MONEY TASTES LIKE... The day after her boyfriend dumps her, twenty-four year old Caitlyn Gregory is fired from her job at a popular New York City career placement firm. Unemployed, single, and sitting on thousands of dollars in student loan debt, she's determined not to move back to her parents' home in Massachusetts. She's living in one of the most expensive cities in the world and has no idea what she wants to do with her life.
HEARTS IN PARADISE
Amanda and Jadyne Prinz are heiresses to one of the most influential fortunes on the international market place. Eldest Amanda struggles with her desire for a normal life amidst her duties as the modern face of her family's business empire, while youngest Jadyne acts out overseas in repeated attempts to gain her father's approval.
