4 Books Published by The Vega Group on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Best friends Echo and Telia are really experiencing some "interesting" times.

Echo received a call on her twenty-first birthday that changed her life forever. Fourteen years later, she gets to add a pink slip to her birthday confetti. She wishes the calendar would skip over this particular day because her mental state won’t tolerate one more tragedy. And then the phone rings with news that signals another ungranted birthday wish. Dr. Daniel Ellington’s touch provided the electricity that pumped Telia’s heart. However, an accident spared the lives of their children but left his hanging in the balance. Now, Dan’s mother has descended on Telia, determined on securing control of his inheritance and heirs using every weapon in her arsenal. Fighting to keep her man, children, as well as her sanity may take everything Telia has, including her life.

As Echo and Telia are thrown into the chaotic fray that is their lives, they soon realize that happy endings are only promised in fairy tales

- 2017 Book Excellence Award Suspense Finalist - When your home is in a place so volatile that the devil himself would give it a wide berth, the only direction you’re trying to move … is out.Seraphina Glen had come up from an average street hustler to a married woman with a prestigious address and two teenage twin stepchildren.  She walked away from her old life burning bridges and stomping on the ashes.However, Seraphina’s escape was temporary.  Now she finds herself back in her old apartment dragging her husband’s failure in a bag with her broken dreams.  The twins are struggling with the significant life downgrade. Her husband’s depression smothers any lingering happy thoughts that managed to grow like weeds through concrete.As Seraphina reacquaints herself with the rules of survival, she takes steps that shake the foundation of the family she tried to construct.When Seraphina’s circle becomes a target, what punishment is she willing to dole out and what will she be forced to endure when she finds herself caught up in the midst of fire?

Dee dropped out of high school the moment her mother’s battle with cancer took a downward spiral. She became the unlikely breadwinner in a house that had too much pain and not enough money. That also meant dealing with a transient father who struggled with addiction. Dee had more than paid her dues; she had been overcharged by life from the very beginning. When Auntie M brought Dee to live in Atlanta, things were supposed to be better than life in the Chicago projects. In Atlanta, Dee had new clothes, a full fridge, and her own bedroom. She could finally have a future dictated by opportunity and not circumstance. However, she soon realized that even this opportunity came with its own price. Something was off about the overdose of Pastor Clifton, her aunt’s best friend and secret love. And no one is asking the question how did the community’s leader and political activist end up slumped over his desk—dead? Auntie M finally emerges from her fog of grief ready to get justice, and Dee is more than willing to help. But in a church full of gossips, no one is saying a word. In Dee’s world, people who had that kind of power were at least honest about their crimes. But here, in a world of saints it was difficult to distinguish the players and, more importantly, the mastermind who was manipulating everyone from behind the curtain.

Truth is relative. And Shelia’s been playing loose with it for years. She’s been lying to her husband about his attempts to get her pregnant. She’s been lying to her best friend about what really happened in Paris. She’s been avoiding her next door neighbor, Ayaan, ever since moving to Flossmoor, Illinois. The deception has worn her down to the point she is sitting in her home becoming a bit unhinged.