Killing her grandmother was a choice Helena Hunter made all by herself, but she wasn’t thinking about the consequences of her actions when she pulled the trigger. Back home after eight years in prison, she finds that the little girl she left behind is now a teenage stranger who thinks her mother might be a monster. The family members who labeled her the black sheep want her to forget the fact that they all played a part in her downfall. And the wonder of being free again is overshadowed by the fear of a future filled with uncertainty.

Shaking the stigma of incarceration proves to be more than Lena bargained for. Before her life went to hell, she was a middle-class computer geek and a proud parent. Now that she’s been labeled a menace to society, she is a walking, talking poster child for what can happen to victims who take the law into their own hands.

Experience is the best teacher, though, and whatever lessons Lena hasn’t learned, she soon will—from the most unlikely sources. Complete freedom is possible, but only when the truth is finally revealed and the ghosts from her past are exorcised.

Those brave enough to step into Lena’s world will be left asking themselves one burning question: “What would I have done?”

Pam always said that it would take an act of congress to get her to go back home to Mercy, Georgia, but all that’s really called for is the death of her twin sister, Paris. Suddenly she’s eating her words and sneaking back into town like a thief in the night, trying to lay low and not draw too much attention to herself.

When she left Mercy, she was an orphan with a wild and loose reputation that had as much truth to it as it did falsehood. Fast-forward eighteen years, and Pam is a celebrity recording artist with money to burn and a reputation for being curiously reclusive.

Nothing about Mercy’s quiet, tree-lined streets and old-fashioned way of life welcomes Pam home. Like most small towns, Mercy seems like a safe place to live, but Pam knows different. It isn’t just the little town she grew up in; it’s the place where she lived her worst nightmare. Things have changed, but then again, they’ve remained the same, and the longer Pam stays in Mercy, the faster things spin out of control. The people she calls friends turn out to be her worst enemies, the people she considers family turn out to be wolves in sheep’s clothing, and the truth about the life she lives is exposed for the lie that it really is. Everyone wants to know why Pam ran from Mercy, and they’re about to find out.

In a gritty and cautionary tale, a former drug dealer must deal with ghosts from his past when he’s reunited with one of his best customers.

Smoke used to supply Breanne with crack so she could block out an existence she couldn’t escape from, and he was hungry enough to take anything she had to offer in exchange for his magic rocks. Fast-forward sixteen years and Breanne is back to tell him he is the father of her sixteen-year-old son.

In this gritty sequel to Where There’s Smoke, the past comes back to haunt Smoke Avery and Anne Phillips, and the choices they make will change their lives forever.

A father’s work is never really done. Then again, neither is a lover’s.

After a few ups and downs, Alec “Smoke” Avery and Anne Phillips have found a rhythm they can both groove to, and they’ve made a love connection. But just when they think they can finally settle down, their past comes back to haunt them in ways they never imagined.

Smoke’s former flame is stalking him, and she’s determined to have him all to herself. That’s the last thing Smoke needs while he’s trying to deal with Anne’s emotional baggage and convince her that he’s all the man she needs. Anne suspects that Smoke is still stepping out on her, and when things get tense, she decides to do a little stepping out of her own.

Away at Kentucky State on a basketball scholarship, their son, Isaiah, has become motivated to straighten out his life, but his nemesis, Hood, isn’t done wreaking havoc. His sudden appearance on campus is jeopardizing Isaiah’s scholarship, and his life.

Things go from bad to worse when, during a heated lover’s quarrel, Smoke and Anne commit the perfect crime to save their son and themselves. When the smoke clears, truths will have to be told, and Anne will have to accept that she and Smoke are more alike than she cares to admit.

Terra Little takes listeners on a roller coaster ride of emotions in this story of a very real, very dysfunctional family.