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Deceitful Hearts
2016
First Published
4.73
Average Rating
291
Number of Pages

Phoenix had been taught from birth that showing love would get her killed. Brought up around the city’s most notorious murder squad, Phoenix becomes just as ruthless as them. She thought she had it all figured out, putting in just as much work as them until she let the softer part of her fall in love. Oliver nicknamed Ollie by his crew was a young street soldier from around the way. Skilled and very eager to put in work. He had a job to do and he planned on doing it. The only thing in his way was the beauty that had been deemed off limits to him and everyone else around them. Being the only female of the crew, Phoenix, was protected from any and everything, including the other members of the squad. Even with constant obstacles thrown their way they take the chance on being together, and in a weird way it works. With so much in common their love moves faster than they expected until it hits head on with secrets from the past and present. Phoenix is lost in an unknown world when her crew is taken to jail and she finds out that the love of her life has been lying to her all along. With nothing and no one, she sets out on her own. Prepared for the worst but hoping for the best, Phoenix lucks up when she meets Jamison. Handsome and patient, Jamison proves to be just what she needs. Though he’s become the rock in her storm, his motives are also questioned when he reveals the one thing to her that no one knows about. Deceitful Hearts is a story of a girl that loves purely but is blindsided time and time again by all of the deceiving objectives surrounding her. Find out just how strong one person can be when every heart around them has a motive.

Avg Rating
4.73
Number of Ratings
101
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Author

A'zayler
A'zayler
Author · 54 books

Dynamic writer, A’zayler, is the unprecedented connoisseur of romance. Master storyteller and award-winning author for Random House Publishing, A’zayler has been featured in Sheen and Sophisticates Black Hair Magazine. From her pen drips unforgettable content that allows women to awaken their most mystique desires. A free spirited romantic, with a wild heart, A’zayler releases sentiments of herself in each mind-altering publication. A lover of her culture, A’zayler uses her platform to depict the power derived from black love. With a passion for inspiring her audience, she intertwines relatable scenarios with celestial accounts of fantasy. A’zayler’s overall dynamic is powered by her heart and the unadulterated love that flows from it. Each of her novels are penned to render expectancy into the spirits of every soul that encounters her work. Five years and forty plus books later, A’zayler is an overflowing visionary with high hopes for the future.

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