After her father was killed and her mother was deported, Sienna grew up in Miami's prostitution scene in the care of her father's business partner, Chatman. Beautiful and ambitious, Sienna determines that the best route to the life she wants is to become the most coveted of Chatman's call girls. When Sienna learns that her mother has been murdered and that Chatman had a role in the murder, she turns to her friend Ryan for comfort, beginning a secret relationship with the boy Chatman is grooming to take over his business.
     Eager to gain her independence from the man she both admires and loathes, Sienna takes steps to increase her value as a sex worker by learning her wealthy clients' cultures and languages, but her plan backfires. Chatman is more determined than ever not to let her go, and Sienna is equally intent on finding a way to break free -- no matter what it takes.  
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    Katrina Easely has stood by the side of her ruthless boyfriend Snipes for so long that she can barely see her way out of his sticky web. She's dropped out of college in the middle of her freshman year, and has even become estranged from her family and close friends because of him.
     But when Snipes shoots a cop, Katrina finds herself playing Bonnie to his Clyde as they run from the Feds. When things escalate, Katrina finds herself under intense pressure. Will she remain loyal to her man or will she break?

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     Written in 1928 - and never before published - Gentleman Jigger is a wickedly revealing satire of the leading lights of this vibrant time.
     An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger is the story of two brothers. Aeon, who passes for white and becomes a famous poet, faces the conundrums of love across the color line. Stuartt, who is openly homosexual - as was the author - joins the younger intellectuals of Harlem in defying authority figures, both black and white, at the notorious "Niggeratti Manor."
     After the group disperses, Stuartt moves to Greenwich Village and becomes sexually involved with a young hoodlum. Charming and audacious, Stuartt eventually seduces one of the gangster's top bosses, Orini, before his friendships with Wayne, a young heiress, and Bebe, Orini's "moll," set them all spinning in a whirlwind of jazz-age glamour and celebrity that ends in an ironic denouement.