#BookSeries Spotlight Luvin' Him Through The Lies by @MsCruse411

Book Title Luvin' Him Through The Lies: A Dope Boy's Love Story

Author Ashley Cruse

Series Book 1 of 3

Genre(s) African American Romance; Urban Fiction

Publication Date September 23, 2016

Publisher Leo Sullivan Presents

Print Length 142 pages

ASIN B01LWNU3GK

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Simone and Gator are the ideal couple that everybody adores. Simone stays on top of her shit. Beautiful, curvy, and very intelligent, she is a savvy librarian with a college education. All she dreams about is owning her own library and Gator running his own mechanic shop. She longs to have a regular life before they start working on a family of their own. First, she has to get Gator out of the streets. Soon, Simone gets that nagging feeling, letting her know that her husband, who she loves so much, can’t be trusted and is doing more than just handling his business with his empire.

Not every hood can come equipped with a team like the one leader Gator and his two partners, Benji and Young Don, created. Their loyalty, common goals, and trust is what got them to the level they are at right now in the game. But when another rival team threatens to knock them out of the game and take over their streets, things start to take a turn for the worse once they realize that someone from inside their organization is turning on them. As Gator tries to continue to control the problem and run his operation with the iron tight fist he’s been having, problems at home with his wife doesn’t make things any better.

Benji’s little sister, Sasha, has her own goal at hand. Besides going to school to earn her Bachelor’s degree, Gator is the one she really wants to entertain. As a matter-of-fact, she wants him so badly that she is willing to do whatever it takes to make sure Gator leaves Simone. The way Sasha sees it, she is willing to give him any and everything he wants right then and there.

As Gator turns more and more to the streets, Simone then hires a private detective to confirm her accusations of cheating. Simone ends up giving Gator the ultimatum, your family or the streets. Which one do you choose?

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Book Title Luvin' Him Through The Lies 2: A Dope Boy's Love Story

Author Ashley Cruse

Series Book 2 of 3

Genre(s) African American Romance; Urban Fiction

Publication Date November 16, 2016

Publisher Leo Sullivan Presents

ASIN B01N0ENDGH

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The news of Gator’s infidelity hits Simone hard. Life as she knows it is turned upside down with the fatal news delivered by none other than Sasha. Not only does Simone have to decide if her marriage is worth fighting for, but legal charges pursued by Sasha threatens to tear Simone’s whole world upside down. Life as she knows it is no longer. But more than anything, her matrimony to Gator, Til Death Do Us Part, is what she held sacred to her heart. Nothing hurts her more than knowing that she is going to have to decide if her marriage is worth the fight or does she fold and let Sasha win?

Loyalty and trust is the foundation that kept Gator, Benji, and Dontello’s operation on full deck. Nothing could come between the way they conducted their business or handled their operations until the Feds came in and ruined their takeover. Now, with Benji and Dontello locked up, Gator is forced to go on the run and lay low, carrying the money that everybody is after. Afraid of losing his better half, Simone, he vows to do whatever he can to save his marriage, but there’s one problem.

His side chick, Sasha, is now pregnant and has her own secret plot to bring Simone down in hopes of keeping Gator for herself forever. Her character will soon display how she will do anything it takes to get what she truly desires - becoming Gator’s wife and providing him with a family.

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Author Ashley Cruse

Ashley Cruse was born and raised in Abilene, Texas. She knew at an early age she always had a gift of writing and was blessed with the gift of imagination. This became apparent, overhearing her mother bragging about her creative writing to family members. Reading and writing was her passion which she lost interest in when her mother passed away at the age of 15. It was a dream of her mother's to become a writer and she never got the chance to fulfill that dream due to losing the battle to lung cancer at the beginning of Ashley's Sophomore year in high school. Ashley would later face obstacles in life that would lead her to picking up a pen and paper and trying her hand at writing a book in her mid-twenties to redirect the negativity that surrounded her during that phase in her life. She would go on to write Aint that a Bitch, He Never Said Sorry, and Queens and Kings. When she had finally typed up the first two books, she tried her best to research how to publish the first one she had written. She came across a self-publishing company who helped assist her with having her book published in 2011 but did little in directing her with editing and so forth. It wasn't until she signed with Kiki Swinson in 2015 that she began to learn the fundamentals of publishing a book. It would then open up a whole new world to the literary world that she had no idea even existed. She would go on to publish, The Last One Standing I and II, and He Never Said Sorry under Kiki Swinson Presents. Ashley would later leave Kiki Swinson in 2016 where she would go on to sign with Racquel Williams later on that summer. Her books, The Last One Standing, was rereleased under Leo Sullivan Presents and sign with Racquel Williams. She later republish The Last One Standing series (Part I and II) as Luvin’ Him Through the Lies: A Dope Boy’s Romance. Part III will be released in the near future. She is currently working on a couple of collaborations and a whole new series. She lives in Abilene with her three children.

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