Pretty Pen & Powder Smoke

Sade Monroe has survived divorce, single motherhood, and the kind of poverty that makes you ration your hope. At thirty years old, she's raising three children alone in Jacksonville, Florida, juggling nursing school and a life that never slows down.

What nobody knows is that she's also Pretty Pen a bestselling author whose fourth novel just landed a seven-figure streaming deal.

She built an empire in stolen hours. Now the secret is about to detonate.

Her ex-husband Terrance resurfaces the moment he catches wind of the money, suddenly interested in a life he never helped build. Her youngest daughter's father, Malik "Ghost" Carter, loves his child deeply but can't stop disappearing long enough to prove it. And Kingston Banks a wealthy, dangerous, and dangerously attentive entrepreneur sees something in Sade that she stopped believing men were capable of seeing.

But romance and betrayal are the least of her problems.

One of Sade's novels contains details about a thirty-year-old murder that everyone thought was buried. Details she wrote as fiction. Details that are too close to the truth.

Now the streets think she knows something.

And they will kill to keep her quiet.

Pretty Pen & Powder Smoke is the explosive first book in The Pretty Pen Chronicles a five book urban saga about a woman who wrote herself out of survival mode and into the crosshairs of everything she never saw coming. Packed with slow-burn romance, jaw-dropping family secrets, street politics, and a final chapter that will leave you breathless.

The pen started it. The powder smoke won't let it end.