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On Her Knees
She dated a monster. He married another woman. Fed up, she left. Now Chicago will burn.
In Chicago's underworld, loyalty is currency and betrayal is a death sentence.
Tony Carter built an empire on blood money—controlling the city’s drug trade with ruthless precision while hiding behind the facade of a legitimate real estate developer. He has everything… Power. Wealth., Connections to a dangerous cartel. Everything except control over the one woman who controls his heart. The only person in the world with the capability to destroy him!
Lashan knows too much. She's seen behind the curtain of his empire, and now she's running, desperate to escape a man who broke the rules when he married another woman. A woman completely unaware of the world she just stepped into. It is a world that Lashan is now ready to leave behind as she discovers something about herself that will surprise her. Something that was there all along.
Rashad, Tony's most trusted enforcer, is ordered to find her. Bring her back. Or eliminate the problem permanently. But the order is hard to fulfil. Killing women is not his thing. And killing this woman is something he just doesn’t see himself doing. The lines between duty and betrayal begin to blur.
As tensions escalate and the cartel demands expansion, everyone will be forced to their lives or their freedom. Their loyalty or their conscience. Their survival or their soul. Because in Tony Carter's world, no one leaves without permission.
Read along in this page-turning, hard hitting drama, set in a big city where power and money reign and love is a winner-takes-all game!
*Trigger Warning. Reader be advised
In Chicago's underworld, loyalty is currency and betrayal is a death sentence.
Tony Carter built an empire on blood money—controlling the city’s drug trade with ruthless precision while hiding behind the facade of a legitimate real estate developer. He has everything… Power. Wealth., Connections to a dangerous cartel. Everything except control over the one woman who controls his heart. The only person in the world with the capability to destroy him!
Lashan knows too much. She's seen behind the curtain of his empire, and now she's running, desperate to escape a man who broke the rules when he married another woman. A woman completely unaware of the world she just stepped into. It is a world that Lashan is now ready to leave behind as she discovers something about herself that will surprise her. Something that was there all along.
Rashad, Tony's most trusted enforcer, is ordered to find her. Bring her back. Or eliminate the problem permanently. But the order is hard to fulfil. Killing women is not his thing. And killing this woman is something he just doesn’t see himself doing. The lines between duty and betrayal begin to blur.
As tensions escalate and the cartel demands expansion, everyone will be forced to their lives or their freedom. Their loyalty or their conscience. Their survival or their soul. Because in Tony Carter's world, no one leaves without permission.
Read along in this page-turning, hard hitting drama, set in a big city where power and money reign and love is a winner-takes-all game!
*Trigger Warning. Reader be advised
243 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 28, 2025
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Smokey Moment
125 books78 followersIt all started one day in March of 2018. I was bored. There was nothing to watch on television. And the moment of silence prompted a memory. A flashback to a time I wrote movies in a notebook. Small scenes jotted down for no particular reason. Something compelled me to make a move. I jumped up and ran to my computer, anxious to tell a story of which I could see clearly. The scenes of my cleverly crafted idea so wildly vivid. A face. A name. And twisted plots that would rival any movie.
I began typing. The keystrokes were fervent. Soon one sentence gave way to twenty. One hundred words grew to seventeen thousand. And before I knew it, I had a short story. Proof that anything is possible. So, you might ask if I always wanted to be a writer? Was it somewhere in the back of my mind? No! It wasn’t. But I knew I was creative. And I knew I could tell a story. The rest is history. Now I can say I wrote a book that became a best seller. Downloaded for many book lovers to read and enjoy. And the journey is still fresh. There is so much more to write. I am just getting started!
I began typing. The keystrokes were fervent. Soon one sentence gave way to twenty. One hundred words grew to seventeen thousand. And before I knew it, I had a short story. Proof that anything is possible. So, you might ask if I always wanted to be a writer? Was it somewhere in the back of my mind? No! It wasn’t. But I knew I was creative. And I knew I could tell a story. The rest is history. Now I can say I wrote a book that became a best seller. Downloaded for many book lovers to read and enjoy. And the journey is still fresh. There is so much more to write. I am just getting started!
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November 23, 2025
War over ❤️ Love😍😍😍
It's about to get really ugly real quick. Tony thinks he owns you because he done had sex with you and you suppose to let him do whatever he wants to you (verbal, physical, mental abuse why you sit back and let him walk all over you). LaShan got tired and decided to leave after she found out about him loving or let him tell it at the time "like her" instead of saying what it really was he wants power over Shalene for connection and whatever other reasons. And she fell for the bs due to being lonely (ain't no way we she got 2 sons). #GOTTOBEMORECAREFUL 🔥🔥🔥 GREAT READ 🔥 🔥🔥 LETS 👀 WHAT REALLY HAPPENS IN BOOK 2!!!!!
It's about to get really ugly real quick. Tony thinks he owns you because he done had sex with you and you suppose to let him do whatever he wants to you (verbal, physical, mental abuse why you sit back and let him walk all over you). LaShan got tired and decided to leave after she found out about him loving or let him tell it at the time "like her" instead of saying what it really was he wants power over Shalene for connection and whatever other reasons. And she fell for the bs due to being lonely (ain't no way we she got 2 sons). #GOTTOBEMORECAREFUL 🔥🔥🔥 GREAT READ 🔥 🔥🔥 LETS 👀 WHAT REALLY HAPPENS IN BOOK 2!!!!!
November 18, 2025
a very good read
I liked this book plenty of times it had me saying don’t do it don’t do it I thought someone would show up to try to shut things down .Just get the book I am on to the second book ready to see what Tony does next .
I liked this book plenty of times it had me saying don’t do it don’t do it I thought someone would show up to try to shut things down .Just get the book I am on to the second book ready to see what Tony does next .
November 14, 2025
The first book was so good . I was like OMG!
January 13, 2026
Really good book, Shalene is a dummie. Can't stand Tony.
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