Kirjahaku

HONESTY PHILLIPS missed her opportunity to kill ANGEL, not once, not twice, but three times. In Honesty's mind, she must kill Angel in order to even the score between them. Then and only then can she live her life in peace. NAJEE BASHIR loves Angel but he doesn't trust her. Especially now that he's taken the war to CARLOS TRINIDAD's front door. Killing is what Najee knows and his instincts are what he must rely on to survive in the nation's capital. But what Najee doesn't know is that a murder he committed back in Newark could come back to haunt him before he can fix things between him and Angel. Meanwhile, Angel has suffered a heartbreaking loss and the most powerful man in D.C. possibly wants her dead. The cops are on her trail and the man that she loves believes that she is his enemy. Kareemah 'Angel' El-Amin is on a race against time. She has to save her daughter, clear her name with Carlos and put an end to the blood feud between her lover and her daughter's father. But she may already be too late...

NAJEE BASHIR is back in Newark on a killing spree to avenge the murders of his family and friends. His road to total annihilation of the Muhammad Farid Shahid organization has bumps along the way, but Najee will not be deterred. He's determined to make the entire state of New Jersey feel his pain. Could that type of mindset prove to be foolhardy? Meanwhile, ANGEL is due to be released from jail. With her blood boiling, she is out to find HONESTY PHILLIPS and make her pay in the worst way for her transactions. But Honesty might be hard to find. And even if she is found, will it be too late to stop her from killing Angel's daughter, ANIYAH? In the middle of the mayhem, CARLOS TRINIDAD, Najee's and Aniyah's powerful father, feels impelled to come to his children's rescue. But this time the family might be up against an evil more deadly than their own. Will Najee's wrath be fierce enough to bring him through the storms? Will Angel's blood curling determination be strong enough to stop fate? Only time will tell.

ZINFANDEL CARTER wants to avenge the brutal murder of her mother, PATRICIA, but she's not a killer. She's a criminal defense attorney who happens to love one of the men responsible for her mother's death. Zin understands that she has to use street smarts and guile to bring about justice for her mom. Her every move must be calculated to win and to her, failure is not an option.​​​​​​​QURAN BASHIR is the son of AMEEN BASHIR and a heartless killer. His brother, JIHAD, is his sidekick. Together, they hunt and kill rats of the human kind. Killing has taken his soul, but Zin's love reminds him of his humanity.MICHAEL CARTER is a master strategist who's incarcerated, and he orders hits from his jail cell. He loves the game too much to leave it, but a new wrinkle in his case may free him. He would love nothing more than to get home to his daughter, Zin.SEAN BRANCH is back on the streets and he's leaving dead bodies everywhere he goes, until one murder that he commits makes him the hunted one. BRION CLARK knows that his brother, CRUD, was a piece of shit, but he was his piece of shit. He vows to kill all those who had a hand in his brother's death, even if it's the legendary killer named Sean Branch.GREG GAMBLE is the United States attorney for the District of Columbia and he knows everybody's secrets. But he also has a few of his own that are threatening to bury him in the mud. In the sequel to If You Cross Me Once, everyone is about to learn what some already knows. If someone crosses you once, they'll cross you twice.

Greg Gamble believes that he is the J. Edger Hoover of his day. He has amassed a treasure trove of secrets on all the people in power in D.C. He will stop at nothing to use those secrets to get what he needs and wants. What Greg Gamble wants is to keep Michael Carter behind bars and put Sean Branch, David Battle, Quran Bashir, and his brother Jihad in cells next to him while destroying Zinfandel Carter in the process. Zinfandel 'Zin' Carter loves two men, and that's her father, Michael Carter and her man, Quran Bashir. After learning that both men played a part in her mother's death, Zin sets events in motion that will bring both men to their knees. Quran Bashir is more than a hired killer. He's a brother to Jihad, a son of Ameen Bashir, and the closest friend to the notorious killer named Sean Branch. His love for Zin Carter fuels him to change his life, but the streets won't let him chill. Quran wants to be with Zin and leave the street life alone, but will that ever happen... Only time will tell.Sean Branch continues to settle old scores and right all the wrongs perpetrated against him in the past. He's ruthless, vicious, unforgiving, and cunning. He loves Bolivia Santos, his daughter, Shontay, and Quran more than himself and will do anything he can to protect them. Sean is under pressure to tell Quran everything he knows but shouldn't be told because if certain secrets become known, everybody's lives will change forever...

Zinfandel Carter has discovered that she's about to become a mother. She's pregnant by the man that she once wanted dead. But certain people have now let the truth be told and Zin knows that Quran had nothing to do with her mother's death. She knows that her mother's prediction was wrong and that Patricia Mitchell-Carter's killers weren't Dontay Samuels and Quran, but in fact, the killer was her own father. Michael Carter is destined for freedom and all that awaits him in the free world. Quran Bashir wants to settle down with Zin and be a father to his child, but his ties to Sean, Mike, Jihad and David Battle come with consequences that are about to change his life forever. Susan Rosenthal has the connections to secure her protection from the scandal that's about to endure U.S. Attorney Greg Gamble. But that doesn't stop her ambition. Susan wants the top office in the building and will sacrifice any and every one to get it. Greg Gamble knows that his days as the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia are numbered. In his acceptance of that, he vows to put his own people in a position of power and to ruin all of his enemies, including Susan. Meanwhile, Sean Branch is still hunting people that he wants to kill, but understands that he's being hunted as well. Who will be the first to get who remains to be seen. A correctional officer named Tomasina has entered the field of play with ulterior motives of her own. Read If You Cross Me Once 4 to find out how things unfold...

Sean Branch's daughter has been murdered. Her tragic death has robbed him of the last vestiges of humanity he had left. What happens to his family after his daughter's murder tears his heart into four pieces. Now for Sean, what was once a vendetta to settle old scores has morphed into a race against time to find his daughter's killers and make them pay. Sean's fervent love for killing and his thirst for revenge has made no one around him safe.Quran Bashir is on a self-imposed vacation from the murder game. But several different homicide investigations loom and the long arm of the law is closing in on him fast. He doesn't know what awaits him in the future and little does he know that his past is about to confront him yet again.Zin Carter's law practice is thriving and she's now one of the most sought-after criminal defense attorney's in Washington, D.C. But Zin has a conundrum. She's torn between her loyalty to her mother's memory and the two men in her life that she loves. Will the baby she's carrying tip the scales in Quran's favor? Michael Carter's evidentiary hearing is the biggest fight he's had to fight since his murder trial. His past has also resurfaced and questions are being asked by powerful people. His answers to those questions will determine if he lives or dies once he's freed.