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Girls from da Hood 16

Author Racquel Williams, Na'Cole, T. Friday
Paperback
$18.95 US
Kensington | Urban Books
On sale Dec 16, 2025 | 288 Pages | 9781645567530
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Three of Urban Book’s most exciting novelists team up to tell the tales of the streets and the women who run them.

Summer Fling in New York (Racquel Williams): It’s something about them island boys that have the American girls going crazy!
Good girl Naomi is intrigued by this stranger, who makes his intentions clear from the moment he lays eyes on her, and will stop at nothing to get her attention. However, her heart and her mind are in turmoil as she’s tempted to give him a chance. There's only one problem: another man holds the key to her heart. Trini is a boss in the streets of New York. Snatching up Naomi seems easy at first, but he soon realizes that she's not your average female, and he will have to work twice as hard if he wants to get her. Nothing goes as planned, and the idea of scooping up the woman he desperately wants might be in jeopardy when an unexpected situation arises.
Will Naomi give in to Trini's demands, or will she find out that all this boss has to offer is good sex and lots of headaches?

Thot Girl Summer in Chicago (Na’cole): Sex, lies, money, and deceit are the laws a true thot lives by. Tisha Santana is no exception to the rules. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, she lived a tough life. Coming from a broken home, she saw her future being just as hopeless. That is, until she met Marcel, the man who stole her heart. After two years of being together, Marcel became property of the Feds. Coming to grips with his twenty-year sentence, Santana decides it is time to move on with life. However, this time around, she isn’t looking for a man or love.

Thot Girl Summer in Detroit (T. Friday): Best friends Trina McKnight and Eve Santana were young and beautiful with banging bodies. Thinking that sleeping with men to pay for their lifestyle would be a piece of cake, things slowly start falling apart for them. Meeting Candy is a dream come true until the friends realize they no longer have any control over their own bodies or lives. After a tragic event, Trina fights hard to get her future back on track. Can she leave the lifestyle that she’s so familiar with and start all over with a new love interest?
Racquel Williams was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and came to the United States in 1992. Struggling to support her sons as a single mother, she chose the wrong path and ended up sentenced to 37 months in prison on drug charges. Upon her release, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she lives with her two sons. She is pursuing a degree in psychology and has self-published several novels along with her novels published by Urban Books.  

Na’Cole is an urban romance author. She enjoys pulling her readers into a world of love, lust, and betrayal. Before discovering her love for writing, she worked in the financial industry as a cash vault associate. In 2018, Na’Cole self-published her debut book. Na’Cole resides in Chicago, IL with her two children and fiancé.

T. Friday was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She is the mother of five children. At a very early age, T. Friday fell in love with reading series such as Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High, and Goosebumps. In her early teens, she was introduced to urban fiction with books by Donald Goines and knew that she wanted a career in the book industry. In January 2016, T. Friday had her left leg amputated, and that was when she realized that she had been taking her life for granted and it was time to make her dreams come true. She picked up a pen and some paper then started writing. T. Friday signed her first contract with Racquel Williams of Racquel Williams Presents in 2017. She is the author of more than 20 books, and she has plans to continue writing until one day all of her books are turned into movies.
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Three of Urban Book’s most exciting novelists team up to tell the tales of the streets and the women who run them.

Summer Fling in New York (Racquel Williams): It’s something about them island boys that have the American girls going crazy!
Good girl Naomi is intrigued by this stranger, who makes his intentions clear from the moment he lays eyes on her, and will stop at nothing to get her attention. However, her heart and her mind are in turmoil as she’s tempted to give him a chance. There's only one problem: another man holds the key to her heart. Trini is a boss in the streets of New York. Snatching up Naomi seems easy at first, but he soon realizes that she's not your average female, and he will have to work twice as hard if he wants to get her. Nothing goes as planned, and the idea of scooping up the woman he desperately wants might be in jeopardy when an unexpected situation arises.
Will Naomi give in to Trini's demands, or will she find out that all this boss has to offer is good sex and lots of headaches?

Thot Girl Summer in Chicago (Na’cole): Sex, lies, money, and deceit are the laws a true thot lives by. Tisha Santana is no exception to the rules. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, she lived a tough life. Coming from a broken home, she saw her future being just as hopeless. That is, until she met Marcel, the man who stole her heart. After two years of being together, Marcel became property of the Feds. Coming to grips with his twenty-year sentence, Santana decides it is time to move on with life. However, this time around, she isn’t looking for a man or love.

Thot Girl Summer in Detroit (T. Friday): Best friends Trina McKnight and Eve Santana were young and beautiful with banging bodies. Thinking that sleeping with men to pay for their lifestyle would be a piece of cake, things slowly start falling apart for them. Meeting Candy is a dream come true until the friends realize they no longer have any control over their own bodies or lives. After a tragic event, Trina fights hard to get her future back on track. Can she leave the lifestyle that she’s so familiar with and start all over with a new love interest?

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Racquel Williams was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and came to the United States in 1992. Struggling to support her sons as a single mother, she chose the wrong path and ended up sentenced to 37 months in prison on drug charges. Upon her release, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she lives with her two sons. She is pursuing a degree in psychology and has self-published several novels along with her novels published by Urban Books.  

Na’Cole is an urban romance author. She enjoys pulling her readers into a world of love, lust, and betrayal. Before discovering her love for writing, she worked in the financial industry as a cash vault associate. In 2018, Na’Cole self-published her debut book. Na’Cole resides in Chicago, IL with her two children and fiancé.

T. Friday was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She is the mother of five children. At a very early age, T. Friday fell in love with reading series such as Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High, and Goosebumps. In her early teens, she was introduced to urban fiction with books by Donald Goines and knew that she wanted a career in the book industry. In January 2016, T. Friday had her left leg amputated, and that was when she realized that she had been taking her life for granted and it was time to make her dreams come true. She picked up a pen and some paper then started writing. T. Friday signed her first contract with Racquel Williams of Racquel Williams Presents in 2017. She is the author of more than 20 books, and she has plans to continue writing until one day all of her books are turned into movies.
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