The brain child of Elizabeth LaShaun and KR Bankston. Two dynamic authors coming together to give their readers what they expect; delectable literary perfection. Bankston brings the mayhem like only she can (Hard). LaShaun provides the drama and heart (Konfection) readers have come to expect.
Three the Hard Way
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Sweep around your own front door before sweeping around someone else’s is a proverb that best friends Kierre, LaTavia, and India live by. They are willing to put their lives on the line for each other, but sharing their inner demons is out of the question.
Kierre White is a woman that knows what she wants and goes after it, by any means necessary. Her past has invaded her present, but Kierre refuses to face it. She has the answers to all her problems, or so she thinks. When her past and a relentless man come knocking on her door, Kierre must finally sit down, reevaluate her life, and do the one thing she has always feared.
India Wilcox is a young teacher who works overtime to keep her world picture perfect. A lovely career; sexy, successful man, and great friends. India is so busy trying to maintain the façade, that when the last person she ever expected comes and exposes her life for the empty existence that it is, she finds herself totally confused and exhausted from the thick blanket of denial she is slowly being forced to shed.
LaTavia Johnson’s life is perfect. Until her husband loses his job. LaTavia turns to the race track and lotto tickets hoping to soothe her angst and fear of their current situation, praying Lady Luck is on her side. With her new hobby LaTavia finds out firsthand how fickle Lady Luck can be as her world begins to crumble and her self-made web of deceit begins to tighten around her.
Join these three woman as they discover themselves, and the true meaning of not only friendship, but pure, uncorrupted sisterhood that only transparency brings. Read A Sample Now
Still the Hard Way
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Three years have flown by for best friends LaTavia, Kierre, and India. They have the battle scars from the wars they fought and as a unified front won. Now all they want is to enjoy the harvest after the rain. Problem is life is always waiting to take things up another notch.
Life couldn’t be better for LaTavia. More in love with her husband than ever before, now she has a flourishing career as well. Unfortunately, while life has been prosperous, full of new possibilities for LaTavia, for others that’s hasn’t been the case. Now they want retribution at all costs. Atonement will put her family and sobriety to the ultimate test.
Peace has finally come to stay for Kierre. She enjoys being a stay at mom while her husband blazes up the corporate ladder. Life is good especially with her overprotective, knight in shining armor Grayson. Noticing a few chinks in his armor, Kierre believes it’s nothing he can’t handle, until one lands knocking the shield from his hands. Kierre finally gets a full glance at the attacker, dismayed that this enemy and battle is hers, not her husbands.
Wife, mother, friend are all titles India loves, but allowed to consume her. her lack of self-care coupled with brewing self-esteem issues equals a recipe for disaster squarely dumped in her overworked husband’s lap. India knows an ingredient is missing, unable to pinpoint what it is, she instead demands Chief figure it out.
Another day, another problem, is an understatement for these women. Believing they’ve mastered moving as a trio; the looming question is can they apply that mastery and save their marriages?
Love the Hard Way
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Broken, disillusioned, shattered. This wasn’t the life they dreamed of, the promises they were given when they said I do. India, Kierre, and LaTavia aren’t looking through those rose colored glasses anymore. Lives in shambles, marriages barely existing even on life support, the best friends gather the wagons trying to navigate where they all go from here.
India loves Chief, but he obviously doesn’t love her back. Not like he perpetrated when he finessed her into giving up her life, career, and future to be his wife, mother to his children. Overnight she seemed to become old news with him ready to move to someone younger, sexier, thinner and less of a drain on his youth. Kicking herself for being unprepared for his treachery and betrayal, she scrambles to grasp onto the nearest life preserver determined not to drown.
Kierre never thought she would hear the words Grayson said to her. The hatred in his voice. The anger in his eyes. He knew her past when they linked up. She never hid any part of the sordid history, yet here they were, him accusing her of destroying his life. The victim; he put her on trial and found her guilty without thought. One thing about Kierre, she could and would hold her own. It was time to make her plans, take her child, and live her own life.
LaTavia couldn’t seem to escape the quicksand of her present existence. Needing Glen to be her strength, he was missing in action both literally and figuratively. Their love life always top notch, her husband spends most days avoiding her. Promoted at her job, it becomes more burden than blessing with Jordan popping up at will showing no signs of letting her off the hook for the money she still owes him. Deciding she has to talk to Glen sooner rather than later, LaTavia makes a desperate ploy, consequences be damned.
With every odd stacked against them and the situations seemingly worsening, our couples have their work cut out for them. Anything worth having is worth fighting for, isn’t it?
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