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Jayce Ellis' sexy, contemporary High Rise series features the bustle of DC and the hustle of love. After a week filled with nonstop work, André Ellison heads to the club to blow off some steam. One night off is the perfect distraction from the project that’s about to make his career - or tank it completely. A few drinks in and he leaves with a smoking-hot stranger for some scorching, burn-the-sheets-up sex.

Growing up in one of the most notorious neighborhoods in Brooklyn isn’t easy, but for a long time it seemed as if Prince Poet Washington might defy those odds. Sixteen years ago, his father abandoned the family, so Poet has always felt a sense of responsibility. At 20 years old, he is the man of the house, keeping a watchful eye on his two younger sisters and helping his hardworking mother with the bills. It’s not easy, but as a loyal son and brother, Poet feels it’s his obligation to take care of his family.

When Alecia “Joy” Middleson meets Minke, a young hustler from Brooklyn, he quickly becomes her world. He feels the same way about her - she is his better half. By the age of 18, Alecia is married and has two children by Minke. Their life is like a fairy tale, until Minke discovers that he’s been deceived by his wife and leaves her and her children with only the clothes on their backs.

Charity has $50, a vehicle, the instinct to survive, and a pile of student loans about to be due. What she doesn't have is a real address, security, or the ability to dance like she is supposed to at her new job. When she meets Sebastian, she falls for him. Literally, onto him because she can't walk in the heels. Marine Sergeant Sebastian Wade has been left at the altar. He does what any jilted groom would do, rallies his friends and hits a strip club. He has everything, a good job, a house, two rooms full of gifts, but no bride. Until he laughs at a stripper doing the robot on stage.

After tragedy strikes her home, Heavenly Jacobs must rely on her beauty and street smarts to survive on her own. Her choice to ride for the wrong man ultimately lands her in prison, where she decides to re-strategize her game plan for when she is released. Eartha Davis was exposed to much more than she should have been from a very young age. Between her mother, a bonafide gangster with a sexual preference for women, and the influence of the streets, it was just about impossible for Eartha not to embrace all that was going on around her.

Kraig Holmes is a hard-working independent contractor living in Baltimore. He’s an average guy - with one exception. A painful secret haunts him daily. Kraig had a one-time sexual experience with a man he knew little about. It propelled him into a lifestyle of promiscuity and an insatiable appetite for dangerous sex. When the guy disappeared into thin air, Kraig was left hurt and devastated.

When a military soldier dies, everyone feels the pain. When a street soldier dies, only those close to him mourn. But both soldiers have something in common: they fought for what they believed in. Home from their final tour, a team from the 82nd Airborne Division out of Ft. Bragg, NC faces harsh realities: a broken relationship, the death of a child, and even the murder of one of their own.

In the hood, a snitch is the worst thing a person can possibly be. Rolling over on your best friend, who has been with you through thick and thin, hungry and full, freedom and state bids - that’s “the cruelest lie told in silence”. While Jovan experiences the fruits of the hustle during his partner’s first stint, Bilal humbly does his time like a true soldier, taking a manslaughter charge for his one true friend. When these two are finally reunited on the streets, a chain of events lands them both behind bars facing multiple charges.

It’s been four years since the tragic suicide of Yadira Cruz. Thirty-eight year-old correctional officer Sean Daniels’ life was finally on the right track. He was married to the beautiful Milan; he had a successful law enforcement career, a supportive family and great friends. But when Sean’s ex-lover, Brandi Wallace, suddenly re-enters his life, he sees everything that he worked so hard to build flashing before his eyes.

Keep your friends at a distance because it’s not always your enemies you need to be keeping close. The block is a microscope, and you’re always under it.

Fall in love with these four stories of Christmas in Crescent Falls.

In the eighties and nineties, Wesley Evans, better known as Ruby, was Brooklyn’s wealthiest, longest reigning kingpin. Accomplishing all it took to make history, including rubbing elbows with celebrities and expanding his businesses out of state, he avoided all the bounties put on his head and the NYPD’s handcuffs. Ruby set the bar in Brooklyn, and when he finally became a legit family man, he left behind rules. Ten years later, Brooklyn’s kingpins have followed in Ruby’s footsteps. Life is good; Brooklyn’s people are good—and then Felix Brown, a.k.a. Straw, comes to power.

He came into my life like the storm I'd never expected, forcing his way into my life with all the cocky arrogance that a man who built his way up from the bottom could possibly have. Like a god in human form, he seduced me with ease, and though I tried to play hard to get, he knew from the beginning that he would be getting me. There are a million and one reasons why I shouldn't love him. A million and one reasons why I shouldn't want him. Gucci is intoxicatingly toxic, a devil in designer shoes. He's the last man on Earth that I should ever want. But I want him anyways.

1999, and Sincere has finished his tour in the United States Army. He’s come back home just in time to find his little brother, Maurice, taking his place in the streets. Maurice is hanging out with Drip-Drip and Voltron. The trio commits a home invasion on a stash house belonging to Zulu and executes the occupants inside. Unbeknownst to them, they’ve left behind a survivor who’s seen one of their faces.

Bedlam details the frustrating life of Earl Sedgwick, owner and operator of a mental institute. Earl grew up in the business and subsequently took it over despite his avowed hatred of how the business robbed him of his childhood. He runs on empty until he's triggered by a visit from his more successful friends, realizing his life has been placed in its own padded room since he took on the family business. The career that is providing everything he has and keeping him alive is ultimately killing him at the same time.

Da die "normalen" Zaubersprüche um Will aus seiner Unsichtbarkeit zu befreien, nicht funktionieren, benutzt Theo den Stab und findet zunehmend Gefallen daran. Safiya warnt vor den Folgen. Sie erinnert Theo an Hatschepsuts Auftrag, den Stab sicher zu verwahren, sie sollte ihn nicht für Spaß-Einlagen benutzen.

Theo, Henry, Safiya und Will können kaum begreifen, dass sich Nigella als Anhängerin der Schlangen entpuppt und Großmutter Throckmorton angegriffen hat. Nigella hat aber ihre Gründe. Sie erzählt ihnen von ihrer Wut auf Theos Familie, besonders auf Lady T., die ihren Vater, als der mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt kam, fallengelassen hat.

Großmutter Throckmorton will das Benehmen ihrer Enkel unter ihrer Aufsicht nicht dulden und legt alle Hoffnung in die pädagogischen Fähigkeiten ihrer Nichte Nigella. Theo wird in ein langes Rüschenkleid mit Schleifen gesteckt. Bei dem Versuch, die Keilschrift im Tagebuch zu entziffern, wird Tinte auf dem Frühstückstisch verschüttet.

Theo, Henry, Safiya und Will rätseln, was Aapep jetzt vorhat. Theo glaubt, dass er, wie eine Batterie, seine Energie aufladen muss und dafür magische Artefakte benötigt. Deshalb lässt Aapep die Artefakte aus den Museen stehlen. Das seiner Magie beraubte Unsichtbarkeitsseil bestätigt ihre Vermutung.

Theo versucht weiter, das Rätsel des Pyramidions zu lösen, während Nigella unterrichtet. In der Pause heben Will, Henry und Safiya das Pyramidion an und Theo prüft die Inschrift darunter. Diese ergibt für Theo keinen Sinn und sie holt ein Buch. In der Zwischenzeit bricht die äußere Hülle auseinander und versetzt die drei in einen unruhigen Schlaf.