Novels by Allison Hobbs

With intensifying drama, Double Dippin’ is a riveting and absorbing story of one brother’s love and another’s betrayal.

When Tariq and Shane Batista were four years old, they witnessed something that no child should ever be subjected to. In an act of confusion and terror, their mentally unstable mother was murdered right in front of them. Even though they are twins, Tariq and Shane grow into two very different young men. Tariq is loving and kind-hearted while Shane is dark and brooding, angry and deceitful. After being placed in foster homes together, Shane is sent to a reform school for boys. When they’re reunited, Shane is hardly reformed and now has two shady sidekicks, Brick and Misty. Tariq has an unconventional yet stable marriage and a young son. Shane has no ambition and seems content to play the part of small-time gigolo and get by on the financial support of the women who flock to him. Still, despite their stark differences, the brothers remain close.

However, old habits die hard, and Shane is lured back out on the prowl with Brick and Misty. As he delves deeper into more infidelities and more danger, Shane relies on Tariq to supply his alibis and tests the limits of unconditional love.

 

Chanelle Lawson is tired of the sex industry and is ready to hang up her G-string, but not before she snags Mr. Right--someone who is not only handsome but rich enough to cater to her every material desire. When she finally meets the ideal "catch" she soon suspects that he has a dark side and the man of her dreams might be her worst nightmare.

After three years of marriage, Dayna Reynolds begins to feel the overwhelming urge to conceive a child. Getting pregnant, she believes will revitalize her failing marriage and justify her enormous weight gain. Conceiving a child, however, isn’t as easy as she’d thought. For one thing, her husband is hardly ever at home and when he is, sex certainly isn’t on the agenda. Feeling unattractive and unloved, a vulnerable Dayna easily succumbs to the advances of an enigmatic stranger.

Reed Reynolds is striving for success by hobnobbing with members of an elite society. His new associates would be shocked to learn of his secret life—a life so sordid it jeopardizes his marriage, financial stability, and any chance of a successful career. Reed is a sex addict and his addiction has spiraled way out of control. Fully aware that he should seek professional help, he continues to recklessly indulge his perverted sexual urges, until they escalate into an unspeakably sinister act that’s beyond reason…beyond belief.

 

Life has delivered some hard knocks to Terelle Chambers, who grew up shuttling between foster homes. She desperately needs something or someone to believe in. She plans her future around Marquise, the father of her toddler daughter. Devastatingly sexy, Marquise is currently in jail on drug charges. Terelle, however, is living for his imminent return and dreaming of the day they can start building a life together as a real family.

A cunning seductress, Kai Montgomery is the bi-racial adopted daughter of a wealthy Caucasian couple. Rich, beautiful, and well-bred, Kai is Terelle's polar opposite. After being dumped by an affluent and very married physician, Kai is without a sex partner. When one of numerous trysts results in the best sex of her life, she becomes obsessed and is quickly set on a collision course destined to destroy many lives.

 

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Ambition, desperation, and redemption abound in this compelling debut novel about a woman forced to sink to the darkest depths of morality...and her quest to fight her way back.

Victoria Carlton invested everything into her dream of becoming a singer--her hopes, her time, her life savings--only to fall victim to the harsh realities of the recording industry. Devastated, broke, and unemployed, Victoria is propelled into action when an eviction notice forces her to choose between committing herself--and her young son--to a world of homeless shelters or entering the seedy world of prostitution. Desperate, she puts her ethics aside and applies for a job at Pandora's Box, a downtown Philadelphia brothel that bills itself as a "massage salon." Victoria's lifestyle quickly improves, and the gratification of instant cash replaces her willingness to find a low-paying, legitimate occupation.

One day an unlikely customer appears at Pandora's Box. Young, handsome, and well dressed, he is immediately drawn to Victoria. The two begin a love affair fraught with complications, leaving Victoria plagued by guilt and insecurities until a botched robbery and the murder of a coworker compel her to look beyond the fast money and reclaim her morals--and her life.

A steamy tale of the power of money, love, and desperation, Pandora's Box is an enthralling first novel from talented literary newcomer Allison Hobbs.