When she begins dating a notorious drug dealer, she assumes all of her problems are over. She couldn’t be further from the truth. She finds out that beauty is only skin deep, and all of the money, spinning rims, and glitter, can come at a violent price.

Edit Again Publications
Available March 7, 2010 in Kindle Edition

St. Martin’s Griffin
Available January 22, 2011 in Kindle Edition

Penknife Press
Available January 24, 2011 in Paperback

Just Like Compton: Finally a real hood novel (Volume 1)
by Kevon l Gulley

CreateSpace
Available November 7, 2010 in Paperback

Please visit: publishedauthors.net/roni to read an excerpt from the book.

Sunday night Xavier Gambol went to the movies.
Monday morning he came home … Dead!
Justice must be served for Xavier’s death.
The good news for the family is that a young minister and
former street thug is Xavier’s favorite uncle.
In order to find a killer,
a minister reincarnates the inner thug
he buried when called to the altar.
This Altared Ego brings drama to the streets …
as only a true ThUG can.

Determined to prove that she is still wifey material, Kira jumps back onto the club scene in search of another sugar-daddy. When she meets Fatu, a Nigerian nightclub owner, her situation is instantly upgraded when he asks to marry her.

As Kira begins to make plans for her wedding, her cousin Nikki has plans of her own. Tired of always living in Kira’s shadow, Nikki is furious that once again Kira is walking away with the boss. Especially when she had eyes on Fatu first! Nikki is prepared to breakup Kira’s engagement by any means necessary but Kira has bigger problems. Fatu isn’t the legitimate businessman Kira thought he was. She’s uncovered confidential information about Fatu that he is willing to kill for in order to keep secret.

Fatu, the notorious crime boss has finally met his match and she’s a woman by the name of Kira!

Dafina
Available November 1, 2010 in Paperback

In South Memphis, four women live in high-stakes, high-risk territory.

Ta’Shara has no interest in following her sister into the street game, but when she falls in love with the brother of a rival, her own sister orders a severe punishment.

LeShelle didn’t get where she is by being nice. When a drug mule tries to take her spot next to her man, Python, she pulls the hustle of a lifetime.

Yolanda is ambitious but not too smart. A lucky break lands her in Python’s bed and makes her an enemy of LeShelle.

Melanie is a police detective, but she helps Python skirt the law to line her pockets. When she starts catching feelings, everything goes to hell, and her shiny badge can’t help her now.

Dafina
Available November 1, 2010 in Paperback

Desember Day is beautiful, confident, and smart. She has more game in the streets than a basketball player does on the court, and her boyfriend, Fame, loves every single inch of her. But unlike her mother, who has been in one bad relationship after another, Desember is not going to wait on a knight in shining armor to save her, and even her love for Fame can’t stand in the way of Desember selling anything and everything — legal or illegal — that can turn a profit, so that she never has to depend on a man. The only thing Desember feels she’s lacking is a father to call her own. And her mother refuses to tell Desember who he is.

When Fame finds himself at the wrong end of a gun, fighting for his life, Desember wants nothing more than to stand by her man, but Fame warns her from his hospital bed that she isn’t safe. Desember wonders if she was the real target. Her mother, concerned for Desember’s safety, arranges for her daughter to travel to Richmond, Virginia, to live with Desember’s father and his wife.And when her father’s identity is finally revealed, Desember learns that she is a Natural Born Hustler.

But are her troubles really over? Or is the worst yet to come?

One World/Ballantine
Available October 5, 2010 in Paperback