Hoping to build a life with the father of her toddler daughter upon his release from prison, former foster child Terelle works double shifts as a nursing assistant and clings to her fading optimism, while wealthy Kai, hiding a shameful past, seduces Terelle's boyfriend and struggles to prevent the truth from catching up with her. By the author of Pandora's Box. Original.

Insatiable

Hobbs, Allison

Literature & Fiction

Strebor Books, intl.

SidechickologyBy Body of Work and Allison HobbsReverend Donahue "Donny" Cambridge, III, 42 years old, is originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Donahue is the Associate Pastor at The Mighty Fortress Baptist Church, which was founded by his great grandfather and handed down to his grandfather and his father. However, Donahue was not gifted the church upon his father's death. It was given to Emerson Maynard instead, Donahue II's protégé. Donahue II felt that Donny was not capable of either leading the church without messing up the finances, or keeping the congregation engaged and in well attendance. Bottom line: a poorly attended church is a poorly funded church. While Donny had the looks and pedigree, he lacked the charm and overpowering presence that it would take to keep the tithes flowing.Donahue has a love-hate attachment to Emerson. Part of him reveres him and looks upon him as his idol. The other part is envious of the fact that Emerson overshadows him at every turn, even if it is not intentional. Emerson allows Donny to preach once a month and gives him leadership over the youth ministry, Bible Study, and the deacon board but never lets him forget who the HTIC (Head Theologian In-Charge) is. Donahue is a manwhore, a male slut, and puts on pretenses with the women so they will put out when he has an urge. They cater to his various desires. His main chick, Mahalia, will spread her legs but won't suck dick or do anal. Nor does she allow him to dine between her legs. But Mahalia is his "cover" in the sense that he appears to be able to get and keep a woman to his peers. But he has no intention of ever marrying her, even though that is her only goal in life. Donny has conquered dozens of women during his three-year "situationship" with Mahalia-some from the congregation but mostly random chicks he runs across around "the gateway to the west." His latest "project" is Koolaidria, named after her mother's favorite sugary drink at the time of her birth. Known as "Kool" for short, she is thirty-six and has struggled her entire life to get a man to make a commitment to her and her self-esteem is in the toilet. She grew up poor and is now living paycheck to paycheck and trying to raise her five kids. Emerson Maynard, 44 years old, born and raised in St. Louis. The son of a single mother was mentored by the late Rev. Cambridge and followed in his footsteps, Reverend Maynard has been married to Danielle for twenty-two years. They have two daughters. One is away at college and the 14-year-old resides at home. In a neighboring city, he has a mistress, Sierra. Omari is their four-year-old son whom he adores. Living a double life has been complicated, leading to drinking issues that he has managed to conceal from his two families and the congregation that idolizes him. He believes he loves Sierra and his wife equally and always buys duplicate presents for both Danielle and Sierra. Sierra is young, attractive, educated, and is definitely wife material. She can't believe that after planning her life so carefully, she ended up being the side chick. At thirty years old, Sierra was patient for the first four years of their relationship but now that she and Emerson are into the fifth year, she is desperate to become the pastor's wife. It doesn't help that his assistant pastor is adding to his problems by disgracing the church by recklessly whoring around with anything in a skirt. If Donahue were anyone else, Emerson would have kicked him out of the church long ago, but the fool is his childhood friend and also his mentor's son. Motivated by loyalty, Emerson puts up with Donahue's behavior to a point. Meanwhile, during a couples' counseling session that Emerson is conducting, he meets a beautiful and deeply troubled, unhappy wife. Feeling compelled to help her, he is led down a path of immorality and sin that threatens to destroy everything he's built.

Sidechickology

Work, Body of

Erotica

Independently published

Ambition, desperation, and redemption abound in nationally bestselling author Allison Hobbs’s unforgettable novel about a woman forced to sink to the darkest depths of morality . . . and her quest to fight her way back. Victoria Carlton invested everything into her dream of becoming a singer—her hopes, her time, her life savings—only to fall victim to the harsh realities of the recording industry. Devastated, broke, and faced with the choice between committing herself and her young son to a world of homeless shelters or entering the seedy world of prostitution, she applies for a job at Pandora’s Box, a downtown Philadelphia brothel that bills itself as a “massage salon.” Her lifestyle quickly improves, and the gratification of instant cash replaces her willingness to find a low-paying, legitimate occupation. One day, an unlikely customer appears at Pandora’s Box. Young, handsome, and well dressed, he is immediately drawn to Victoria. The two begin a love affair fraught with complications, leaving Victoria plagued by guilt and insecurities until a botched robbery and the murder of a coworker compel her to look beyond the fast money and reclaim her morals—and her life.

Pandora's Box

AuthorHouse

Scandalicious: A Novel (Zane Presents)

Strebor Books

Investing everything she has in her ambitions to become a singer, Victoria Carlton finds herself a destitute and unemployed casualty of the recording industry and works as a massage salon prostitute before she falls in love with a handsome customer. A first novel. Original.

Pandora's Box: A Novel

United States

Insatiable: a seductive portrait of two women and their obsession with one man. Life has delivered some hard knocks to Terelle Chambers, who grew up shuttling between foster homes. She desperately needs something or someone to believe in. She plans her future around Marquise, the father of her toddler daughter. Devastatingly sexy, Marquise is currently in jail on drug charges. Terelle, however, is living for his imminent return and dreaming of the day they can start building a life together as a real family. A cunning seductress, Kai Montgomery is the bi-racial adopted daughter of a wealthy Caucasian couple. Rich, beautiful, and well-bred, Kai is Terelle's polar opposite. After being dumped by an affluent and very married physician, Kai is without a sex partner. When one of numerous trysts results in the best sex of her life, she becomes obsessed and is quickly set on a collision course destined to destroy many lives.

Strebor

Dangerously in Love

What Makes a Man Stray From Home? Another Woman? Or is it Something So Sinister, So Dark . . . It's Beyond Reason, Beyond Belief! Chanelle Lawson aka Sensation, one of the city's premiere exotic dancers is sick and tired of the sex industry. She's ready to hang up her G-string in exchange for a traditional life. When she finally meets the ideal catch, she soon suspects that he has a dark side and begins to fear that the "man of her dreams" may be her worst nightmare. After three years of marriage, Dayna Reynolds begins to feel the overwhelming urge to conceive a child. Getting pregnant, she believes will revitalize her failing marriage and justify her enormous weight gain. Conceiving a child, however, isn't as easy as she'd thought. For one thing, her husband is hardly ever at home and when he is, sex certainly isn't on the agenda. Reed Reynolds is striving for success by hobnobbing with members of an elite society. His new associates would be shocked to learn of his secret life-a life so sordid it jeopardizes his marriage, financial stability, and any chance of a successful career. Reed is a sex addict and his addiction has spiraled way out of control. Fully aware that he should seek professional help, he continues to recklessly indulge his perverted sexual urges, until they escalate into an unspeakably sinister act that's beyond reason? beyond belief. The unfortunate intermingling of these individuals creates an irrevocably catastrophic chain of events. In the midst of shattered dreams and hopelessness, will anyone survive the pain of being dangerously in love?

Dangerously In Love

Bestselling author Allison Hobbs delivers a powerful, compelling novel, chronicling the volatile lives and relationships of twin brothers. When Tariq and Shane Batista were four years old, they witnessed something that no child should ever be subjected to. In an act of confusion and terror, their mentally unstable mother was murdered right in front of them. Even though they are twins, Tariq and Shane grow into two very different young men. Tariq is the kind-hearted "golden-boy" while Shane is dark and brooding, angry and deceitful. After being placed in foster homes together, Shane is sent to a reform school for boys when they become teenagers. When they're reunited, Shane is hardly reformed and now has two shady sidekicks, Brick and Misty. Tariq has an unconventional yet stable home life, complete with a wife and a child. Shane has no ambition and seems content to play the part of small-time gigolo and get by on the financial support of the women who flock to him. Still, despite their stark differences, the brothers remain close. However, old habits die hard, and Shane is lured back out on the prowl. As he delves deeper into more infidelities and more danger, Shane relies on Tariq to supply his alibis and tests the limits of unconditional love. With intensifying drama, Double Dippin' is a riveting and absorbing story of one brother's love and another's betrayal.

Double Dippin'

Bestselling author Allison Hobbs's latest creation features a complex web of ghosts, evil spirits, the crimes of the antebellum South, and the endless depths of revenge. Eris is a fallen goddess who has been demoted to roam the earth in the guise of a slave. Intending to become the mistress of the plantation, she uses her dark powers to bewitch and sexually enslave her owner, Arthur Stovall. Her plan, however, goes awry and Eris is banished to the dark realm -- the dwelling place for corrupt and depraved souls. With an uncontrollable desire for vengeance upon the Stovall family, Eris uses trickery to escape this lower dimension. However, two hundred years have passed and settling the score with the plantation master is no longer an option. Undeterred, Eris turns her merciless intentions toward the last descendant of the Stovall line, who happens to be an African-American male, making her road to revenge much more complicated. With an all-encompassing plot, spanning from the 1800s to present-day Philadelphia, and Hobbs's signature themes of erotica and the paranormal, The Enchantress is a quick-paced, thrilling novel.

The Enchantress

From bestselling author Allison Hobbs comes the sassy, savvy tale of a woman consumed by a secret sex life, wealth and indulgence - obsessions she will go to any length to fulfill. Milan Walden is living the high life. She has it all, a high-power career, respect from her peers, and unlimited business potential. But when she finds herself unemployed and facing criminal charges, she flees the only life she's ever known to start again. Milan accepts a position as a live-in companion to ailing millionaire Noah Brockington. Her hunger for glamour and luxury drives her to become involved in a twisted relationship with her employer that soon results in a bizarre prenup and frantic preparations for the strangest wedding anyone could expect. Fighting off greedy family members, Noah's obession with quirky sex, and the yearnings of her heart, Milan finds a new zest for life as she strives to become the sole heir of the Brockington fortune. A Bona Fide Gold Digger is an addictive spin through scandal and temptation that will leave every reader dizzy, but wanting more.

A Bona Fide Gold Digger

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Insatiable

Sidechickology

Pandora's Box

Scandalicious: A Novel (Zane Presents)

Pandora's Box: A Novel

Insatiable

Dangerously In Love

Double Dippin'

The Enchantress

A Bona Fide Gold Digger