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A South Side Love Story
2021
First Published
4.55
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401
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PLEASE The first two installments of this series is not my usual chaotic, Urban fiction. Yet, they are necessary to develop and understand the drama to come. This series is a saga, so please be patient and trust me. This is also a re-release of the Love, Sex, Lies series, published nearly ten years ago. So, these characters are close to my heart. They deserved a makeover.**For some, love doesn't happen overnight. For many, their journey to love comes after loss, trauma, betrayal, and a lot of lessons learned. THIS is Lyric, Vic, and Tricey's journey to everlasting love.* Tricey, Vic, and Lyric are three friends from the Southside of Chicago fighting in the tumultuous war between finding the one amongst the chaotic sea of Mr. Wrongs.After breaking up with her baby’s father, Memphis, Vic is in the arms of one new beau after the next; turning her heartbreak into a life filled with bald-headed h\e shenanigans. Vic's new approach to love terribly clashes with Asa’s uncontrollable need for being more than her next sneaky link. However, Vic’s refusal to commit doesn’t keep Asa’salpha male, street swag from trying desperately to blow up the wall that she has built around her terribly damaged heart.As Vic runs from Asa’s attempts to woo her, Tricey has done the fallen in love with her friend-with-benefits. After the heart-rendering endings of her past relationships, Akbar was the ideal replacement. Everything was perfect about him... except for his pregnant wife. After fighting against it, she falls in love and realizes that she needs to walk away from the man that she can’t imagine living without. Then enters “Blood”: the dope boy ready to sweep her off ofher feet. But can she find the courage to walk away from the explosive chemistry between she and Akbar in order to enjoy the life that Blood wants to give her?While Tricey is stuck between a dope boy and her married love, Lyric and Salem are approaching their wedding date. As they prepare to spend the rest of their lives together, Salem is under the impression that he has chosen the perfect wife-to-be. Lyric struggles with this cloak of perfection as she figures out a way to quietly end the affair she’s had on the side since the day she met her soon-to-be-husband.This is only the beginning of this Urban Romance, which is filled with love that hurts, betrayals, and feels tragically unsustainable. Packed with a sea of characters that add their own two cents of drama and contribute to the shocking and heartrending end, this love story is of three homegirls, not only falling in love with the one, but also falling in love with themselves.

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Jessica N. Watkins
Jessica N. Watkins
Author · 56 books

Author of Urban Chick Lit, Erotica, and Contemporary Urban Fiction... Jessica N. Watkins was born April 1st in Chicago, Illinois. She obtained a Bachelors of Arts with Focus in Psychology from DePaul University and Masters of Applied Professional Studies with focus in Business Administration from the like institution. Working in Hospital Administration for the majority of her career, Watkins has also been an author of fiction literature since the young age of nine. Eventually she used writing as an outlet during her freshmen year of high school as a single parent: “In the third grade I entered a short story contest with a fiction tale of an apple tree that refused to grow despite the efforts of the darling main character. My writing evolved from apple trees to my seventh and eighth grade classmates paying me to read novels I had written about kids our age living the lives our parents wouldn’t dare let us”. At the age of twenty-eight, Watkins’ chronicles have matured into steamy, humorous, and realistic tales of women's literature. She hopes that The Epitome of Femistry series will successfully emulate ideal femininity while tackling stereotypes, familiar heartache, and relatable distress in a humorous, sophisticated, and erotic fashion. Jessica N. Watkins is available for talks, workshops or book signings. Email her for more information at Jessica@femistrypress.net. Additional information can be found at www.jessica-n-watkins.com. Follow Jessica on Twitter - @authorjwatkins. Follow Jessica on Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/authorjwatkins

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