“One day I’ll be gone, but the characters I’ve created; their legacy and stories will be here in black and white reminding people that the things you imagine… the things you dream and create will live on. That’s why I write. I’ll always exist even when I don’t”
— Aleita Kay the Author
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For the Love of Harlem
She was the girl he was never supposed to have, but couldn't walk away from. He was the man who she needed to fix everything that was broken in her. Unforeseen circumstances put them into each other's space and the downward spiral was beautiful.
What Harlem Carter and Mya Brown have is vastly different than anything either one of them has ever experienced. His lifestyle doesn't mesh with hers but they still find a way to co-exist. To love. But when heartbreak and betrayal are at the forefront of their relationship, unforgivable acts threaten to tear their relationship apart for good.
For the Love of Harlem is fast paced, gritty, and heartbreaking. Experience the highs and lows of two lovers who exist worlds apart. Author Aleita Kay pens a gripping and page turning drama as she takes you on a ride through the streets of New York. Welcome to Harlem.
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Roses in Winter: A Short
How long does it take someone to fall in love? A year? Five years? What about three days?
Rose Washington is the epitome of the perfect woman. She’s smart, she’s beautiful, and extremely successful. However, even after possessing every attribute a man could want¬– she’s lonely as hell. After yet another failed relationship, Rose decides she needs time away from work and the hustle and bustle that is her demanding life. With the need for seclusion, she finds herself on a flight to Colorado where she plans to spend the next three days basking in self-care –– alone. A mix up with her reservation leaves Rose in a cabin with the perfect stranger.
The attraction between Rose and her impromptu guest heats up like the fire burning in the fireplace and it isn’t long before Rose finds herself falling–– and hard. Could she really be in love in just three days? Failed relationship after failed relationship makes Rose hesitant, but the man she’s falling for is more than ready to catch her.
This short, but steamy read, shows us that there is no time limit on love. The heart wants what it wants. Grab a blanket and cuddle up. Winter isn’t over yet.
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The Hustler's Photograph
Blue James is a product of his environment. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan to a strung-out mother and an absent father; Blue was pushed into the arms of the streets at a young age. At seventeen and on the cusp of manhood, Blue is knee deep in the streets and has never experienced anything remotely close to love until he meets the girl with the camera; Cyn.
Cynica West escapes her reality by hiding behind the lens of her camera. It was the only thing her father left her before taking off to be with his new family; leaving Cyn and her mother to struggle. Every day she sits on the steps catching life as it happens. On a hot summer afternoon, Cyn takes her usual position on the second step from the top and focuses her lens looking for her next subject to shoot. Then the most beautiful thing captures her eye; Him. Without her camera he looked just another corner boy, but behind her lens she could see all the pain and hurt of the boy who was struggling to become a man.
Summers in Detroit are known for violence and chaos. However, this particular summer, young love is destined to shape the future of the girl from the stoop and the boy from the street corner. They say pictures are worth a thousand words, this one photograph, The Hustler’s Photograph, was worth a million.
COMING SOON: STILETTOS & SLIPPERS
Santana Mitchells has only wanted one thing ever since she was a little girl; to be a Prima Ballerina in a world renowned dance company. However, the day her parents were killed in an accident, was the day she decided that ballet was a thing of the past. Eleven years later, now Santana is left with the responsibility of caring for her little brother Sauni and her ailing grandmother. Life isn’t glamorous on the Southside of Chicago , but the reality is, the checks she receives from her job as a hospice care worker along with her grandmothers social security checks are what keep the lights on and food on the table. When tragedy strikes yet again and Santana’s grandmother passes away, Santana is left shouldering the burden and bills all by herself. It isn’t until the opportunity to dance with a prominent ballet company surfaces, that Santana considers picking up her slippers again. With no way to pay for her bills and ballet school, Santana turns to her Stripper best friend Monet who suggests that she work with her in one of Chicago’s most profitable strip clubs. Ballet Slippers by day and six inch stilettos at night, Santana dances her way towards her dreams of becoming a Prima.
Fresno Baptiste was just a regular hustler from New York until one phone call changed the entire course of his life. A conversation with his estranged father, had him packing up the life he knew in New York to move to Chicago to sit on the throne as the heir to one of the biggest crime syndicates to ever come out of Haiti. His father had just handed over the keys to the Wa San Cartel— The Blood Kings—, but there’s a catch. In order for Fresno to assume his place at the top, her must marry the daughter of a rival cartel from Colombia to establish peace and end a war that has been going on for over a decade. After consideration, he willingly accepts the hand of Analisa Sanchez, daughter of Cartel leader Lorenzo Sanchez who runs La Familia De Oro—The Golden Family . All seems well until secrets from Analisa’s past come back to threaten the life of the Blood King’s new leader.
As the Wa San Cartel and La Familia De Oro seal the deal to bring their families together as one united powerhouse—a celebratory night at the Chicago Ballet starts a downward spiral in Fresno’s life that he isn’t sure he can stop—or wants to stop. As he watches the brown skin beauty with the satin slippers glide across the stage, she unknowingly takes his heart prisoner , but where there is beauty; chaos is never far behind. All is fair in a game of love and war.
