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While at Spelman, she continued to study drama and dance and became entrenched in the burgeoning Atlanta music scene. She began as an extra and hip-hop dancer in videos for TLC and other LaFace Records artists and local independent acts. From there she worked a few jobs behind the scenes in the music industry as a publicist, recording studio manager, and recording engineer's apprentice. In 1996 her adventurous spirit took her to Miami on a vacation where she fell in love with the South Beach club scene. She moved to Miami, working a myriad of jobs including waiting tables, Promotions Co-Ordinator for the local UPN affiliate, teaching middle school English in Liberty City, and promoting the South Beach nightlife. While auditioning for an independent film, she made severable valuable connections that resulted in more appearances in music videos. Meta worked with artists such as Jadakiss, Styles P., Tupac, JaRule, and Timbaland, and was also Jet Magazine's Beauty of the Week, April 8, 2002. After taking time off to focus on raising her son she moved back to her native Chicago and began to work in philanthropy, using her gift for writing and social skills to raise millions of dollars for worthy causes. She has served as the Director of Development and Marketing for Rimland Services (Evanston, IL), the Director of Development for The Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, and Director of Leadership Giving for United Way of Metro Chicago. She also began to learn the art of DJing earning the reputation as Chicago's hottest emerging female DJ, while simultaneously penning her debut novel.
Paperback: 288 pages SEX APPEAL follows Ebony Knight — once the most sought-after dominatrix in Miami — on her quest to avenge the murders of her fiancé and her mother, and to regain control of her stolen empire worth over $14 million from the former best friend who betrayed her. Escaping from the mental hospital she was locked in was easy, but getting revenge is harder than Ebony planned. An eccentric and multicultural cast of characters seem determined to stand in her way, like the Carol City crime family that’s trying to extort Ebony, and the deranged, bloodthirsty mental patient who helped Ebony escape. There’s also a nosy reporter hot on Ebony's trail and a no-nonsense Miami detective not far behind her, and both are determined to learn the truth about what happened the night Ebony lost everything and sparked one of the most explosive sex scandals in South Florida history. True to the style she is known for, Méta Smith keeps the thrills coming a mile a minute in SEX APPEAL, while still allowing the over-the-top characters to show their depth and their humanity. She effortlessly mixes an electrifying cocktail of intriguing plot twists that makes SEX APPEAL a true page-turner. In Smith’s sixth book, she offers not just an erotic thriller, but a chronicle of one woman’s journey from narcissism bordering on sociopathy, down the road to redemption and self-actualization. Méta Smith’s name has become synonymous with erotic, psychological thrillers, and her latest novel, SEX APPEAL, delivers a liberal dose of the spice her readers have come to crave.
Binding: Paperback A sexy urban novel in the tradition of Zane... A harrowing thrill ride you'll never forget. Ebony Knight was raised by her mother to be on the lookout
for the score, The One, the man who could bankroll a luxuriant
lifestyle -- by any means necessary. Now, as the internationally
sought-after dominatrix Supreme Mistress Ebony, she has found
that man while catering to the kinky needs and fetishes of the
ultra-affluent: millionaire Erik Johansen, driven by his twisted
obsessions, will pay any amount for the pain and pleasure she
doles out. And Ebony's not beyond using his secrets to her own
advantage.
by Meta Smith, 50 Cent Binding: Paperback Heaven Diaz was raised by her abuela to be a good Catholic girl. But nothing -- and no one -- will mess with her life, or there will be hell to pay.... With a fantastic career, a luxurious home, and a successful and adoring husband, Heaven has a lot to be thankful for. But a chance meeting with a sexy and manipulative woman changes her life almost overnight, pulling Heaven into a violent drug war -- a battle she didn't want but now can't escape. What no one counted on is Heaven herself -- for when this good girl gets pushed too far, her wrath is deadly.
by Joy King, Electa Rome Parks, Cheryl Robinson, Meta Smith
Binding: Paperback Sizzling hot and soulful secret "confessions" from four of the most exciting voices in erotic black fiction! Bianca's job as the new personal assistant
to an arrogant NBA superstar is unending hell. But when the
lights go down—and the uniform comes off—she's seduced by this
hard-bodied athlete's off-the-court moves . . . Kennedy Logan is too ashamed to reveal the
truth about her steamy relationship with hot, insatiable
Drake—his sweet lies and hellacious lovemaking—to anyone except
her private diary . . . Fresh from a break-up, uptight, unfulfilled
middle school teacher Alexis heads to Texas, where they say
everything is bigger—and where she finds a tasty Dallas police
officer who's strapped with way more than a gun . . . Lucky went from waitress to recording star,
with a string of hits and a Miami mansion. Now she's back home
in the Windy City to tease and torture the handsome, cheating
stud who broke her heart. But the man's hot loving may be too
hard for her to resist . . .
Binding: Paperback Maddeningly clichéd, yet as entertaining as daytime talk show brawls, Smith's second novel treads on the same turf as her street lit debut, Rolexxx Club: the hip-hop gutter. When Bobbi Hayes, a sexual conquistador and "one of the hottest DJs in Miami," crosses paths with Mikhail Petrov, a shady club owner of the Russian underworld persuasion, she falls easily under the sway of the immensely and illicitly rich Mikhail and accepts a DJ job on his yacht cruise to Greece. He eventually gives her the run of Babylon, the Hope diamond of the Miami club scene. Money can't buy love, but it certainly numbs the senses of the supposedly streetwise Bobbi, who is used by Mikhail as a front for devious activity that all but the dead, blind or totally naïve could see. As the relationship between Bobbi and Mikhail hits the skids and bodies start dropping, Bobbi turns to hunky club security chief Q in one last effort to find someone to trust. But is it too late? The cornucopia of sex, name dropping and hip-hop melodrama is bound to be gobbled up by fans of the genre. —Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Paperback: 336 pages When Dez begins working as a dancer at Miamis famous Rolexxx Club, she merely sees it as a way to pay the bills before she makes enough money to chase her dreams. Then Ginger, a world-weary dancer at just 25, takes Dez under her wing and shows her that beautiful looks and an intoxicating demeanor can attract the most successful men in the world. Dez gives in to the promise of easy money, but not for long. After trying to make a name for herself as a singer and model, Dez catches the eye of Bentley, the worlds hottest hip-hop star and record producer. Instantly smitten by her charm and talent, Bentley whisks Dez into the studio, where she just might become the next rap superstar. But someone from her past doesnt want her to succeed, and unless she learns who her enemies are, Dezs life and dreams could burn out faster than a shooting star......
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