In The Karma & Kin Universe, love gets complicated, loyalty gets tested, and the past always knows where to find you.
Beginning with He Should’ve Stayed Gone: She Didn’t Raise a Victim these interconnected stories follow lovers, relatives, and friends whose choices ripple through each other’s lives.
As familiar faces step into their own spotlight, buried secrets surface, old wounds reopen, and second chances come with something to prove.
From Baltimore roots to tangled family ties, expect mess, romance, betrayal, humor, and the hard work of healing with characters you’ll root for, cuss out, and come back form.
Explore the books, meet the characters and discover how one story leads to the next.
Simply put: Everybody’s connected. Nobody’s choices are just for them.
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She thought it was love. It turned into strategy.
Justine's Rodeo is a slow-burn, high-stakes revenge story rooted in soft power, feminine rage, and the art of the silent takeover. What began as heartbreak turns into a masterclass of vengeance, executed in heels and handled with care.
This isn't a love story.
This is a power story, for every woman who's ever been left holding the blueprint and the bomb.
Four years ago, Sammie Hamilton swung a cast-iron pan, put her ruthless kingpin husband in a coma, and vanished into the night with her daughter, Lydia.
They survived.
They rebuilt.
She thought they were safe.
She was wrong.
Lydia is no longer a terrified runaway. She has transformed her childhood trauma into a lucrative empire built on the absolute submission of powerful men. But when word hits the streets that Nasir "Poker" Hamilton has woken from his coma and is hunting them down, the fortress they built threatens to crumble.
In a deadly game of chess where trauma is currency and loyalty is a liability, the board is set for war.
But who will make the final move?
What's done in the dark comes to light.
What's left in the past, will bite you in the ass.
In book 1 Poker came to reclaim what was his. In book 2? Karma came to take it all back in blood.
Poker has been runnin' around unchecked for years. But his biggest mistake... or... regret comes back. The town ain't big enough for both of em.