Nefarious The Cartel Publications Presents

If the past dictates the future, this family is in trouble... Born into modern day slavery within a hidden mansion in Texas, Zoe Xavier gave birth to three children before the age of sixteen. To keep the peace she does her best to please the man who holds the power, while taking care to avoid his jealous, manipulative, barren, wife. Under tyranny daily, her world is further disrupted after a wicked request from an outsider threatens her children. Zoe knows she must flee from Xavier Estates but where do you go when you ve never been free? Forced to make a difficult decision after witnessing her daughter being brutally assaulted, she makes a bold move that lands her on the worst block in Baltimore City. Now she meets another powerful man and must adapt Kennard Black, a drug dealer on the come up. Using the past to enhance the future before long, Zoe learns what it feels like to dominate those far weaker. With time she unknowingly develops evil characteristics hidden within her personality that reveal to all those around that she s a monster. Nefarious delivers on everything its title promises...an evil, immoral, criminal and wicked drama.

T. Styles', Cold as Ice - Pepper Thomas is a straight A student living in a rough part of Southeast Washington DC, who manages to stay away from drugs, violence and crime. That is, until next-door neighbor and drug dealer Ice's home is robbed. With newfound evidence that can be held for ransom, can Pepper be as Cold as Ice?

The Pretty Kings are back! After offing Mitch, the Plug, the Kennedy family must deal with the consequence and it has a name…the billionaire Abd Al-Qadir. Using bombs, gunfire and murder at his disposal, Al-Qadir is threatening to bring down the Kennedy Kings if Mitch doesn’t surface in ten days. After losing Noah and Camp while battling the Russians, the Kennedy’s can’t bear another casualty and so they retreat into hiding for protection and come up with a plan. And that’s where the trouble begins... Inside a self-imposed prison, within the compound, Race discovers the steamy affair between Ramirez and Scarlett, which sends her on a mission of revenge. Secrets come to surface and blood flows as they breakdown from the inside. Before long it becomes evident that the real danger is amongst themselves as they face the question…can their family survive?

More taboo anyone? Well here comes mother! After being freed from a lifetime of mental, psychological and sexual abuse under the mansion at Aristocrat Hills, Nine Prophet realizes being free comes at a cost. When someone needs help, she lends a hand. When someone needs rescue, she throws on her cape. All against her husband Leaf Prophet s wishes placing their romance in severe jeopardy. Tension continues to rise when Nine brings additional Prophets into the mansion, who bring with them their own dark secrets and motives. As if this isn't enough, Nine convinces herself to allow Kelly Prophet, her jealous mother, back into the home along with Isabel, her demented and psychopathic cousin, who were both recently released from a mental institution. Although Leaf pleads with her to be weary of Kelly's evil ways, in search of motherly love, Nine ignores his warning and before long all hell breaks loose.

When two sisters who earn careers as criminals but heads after one wants to leave the game to be with her girlfriend, these siblings find themselves in a dangerous situation. All Tasha wants is to build her family with Nikki, the love of her life. There’s only one problem, Tasha’s jealous sister Crystal will do all she can to keep her sibling in the game, even if it means their lives.

Meet the most ratchet roommates! For almost a year, four women rent a luxury apartment in Washington D.C. with no cattiness or trouble. That all changes when Barby, a lifetime troublemaker, suspects that her roommate Tabitha is trying to steal her man. When Kaden and Paris, her other roommates, refuse to believe her she lies, steals and solicits her monstrous cousins to plan a murder. Within days their peaceful home becomes a mad house and a multiple homicide occurs. Lose yourself in their demented world. Oh, and you’ll be blown away by the end.

"Shyt List" and "Raunchy" fans will love this...When Rasha was left to strangers as an infant, she didn’t know there was anything to fear in the world. After all, she had been shielded from pain, with the exception of the wrath she experienced from her jealous foster mother. Before long, this torment was enough to force her into silence, vowing never to speak again. But what do you do when you can’t speak, and your agony has just begun? Forced to leave home after home, she ends up in the worst place to ever shape a young girl’s mind. Looked upon as prey, she becomes a game for a dangerous clique. Unable to see the good due to being blinded by the bad, she learns hate, savagery and above all revenge.

New Strippers! More Problems! After Poe gifts Skeezers to Levine out of guilt she quickly learns that running a business and sliding down a pole are polar opposites. When she becomes financially in over her head, and at risk of losing the club, she turns to the one man everybody with financial trouble does, dope man, Jameson “Killer” Floyd. Unable to repay her debt she makes him partner and he quickly muscles his way into the operation. Stripper Cupid Sampson is in love. She’ll do anything for her man, even if he doesn’t belong to her. Sneaky from the gate, she makes serial moves to become his number one but it backfires in a major way. Catalina “Sprinkles” Santana is the new headliner at Skeezers. Together with her best friend Cupid, she reels in the big bucks. Besides, being Killer’s girlfriend has its perks since he is part owner. If only she could lessen his sexual appetite for other women she would be happily ever after. When Sprinkles confides in Cupid about a big secret, one that threatens her life and relationship, the drama in the club hits the fan as the two go at each other’s throats for blood. Skeezers 2 brings everything its predecessor offered and more!