Marcus Richardson wants to escape the snares of the inner city. Growing up with a strong work ethic, he proves to be an industrious young man. He reconnects with Kim Han, a young Korean American college woman whose father runs Sunbeam Market, the neighborhood corner store. Marcus builds a friendship of trust and fresh perspective with Kim, which threatens to be something more, save for other challenges that occur in Marcus' life: his best friend and a neighborhood thug. Marcus must manage his best friend Tyrell Jones' emotions because Tyrell feels that he lives his life in Marcus' shadow....

Male Angst Volume I.: FML, I Always Get "Those" Chicks is the antithesis to 50 Shades of Grey. Reggie Jenkins is on to something but he just isn't getting it right. He is quasi-urban: too black for the mainstream, but not black enough for the underground. The passing away of people, opportunities, and relationships in Reggie's life have left a hole that he attempts to fill with sex, drugs, and false ego. Reggie has 'Male Angst'. In this novel, Reggie recounts two disastrous short term relationships: the first to a weed head Vietnamese mother of two who owns a nail salon and has an obsessed...