Bøker av Starlett Fisher

Sparkle is a young woman with two children. Thirsty, for not only a drink of alcohol, but thirsty for a better life. Impoverished from birth and no father in her life to sway her self destructive behavior. She spends her days in the rough crime infested streets of Buffalo, NY, with its humid and hot summers, to its almost arctic, snowy winters. Sparkle has an attitude stemming from her abuse as a child, at the hands of her estranged sister Angel, and that attitude is the one that causes her world to collapse around her.Sparkle finds sisterly companionship in the least likely person. A girl named Tracy, who she was supposed to hurt. She could not understand how her Sister Angel had felt so negative about this girl Tracy, who she called friend, and sister. Angel had always been slick, cunning, and hateful. Sparkle is a African American woman on the verge of changing.Sparkle's story is one of love. She has had a soul burning crush on one of the regular thugs that hung out in front of her apartment. Juice is a light skinned handsome, lean, muscular young man, who blended in well with his background. He did what most young men did, hit it and quit it. At least until he engages in a lust filled alcohol enticed relationship with Miss Sparkle Jones. He finds himself cheating on his baby's mother, whom he had an ongoing relationship with since high school.He was compelled by her will and her free spiritedness, as well as her beauty. She was just like one of the guys to him, that is, until he finds himself in bed with her. If that relationship was ever going to end, it would be by her hand, not his. Sparkle had her own baby daddy issues to deal with. Her two children both had the same father, whom she despised. He had cheated on her more times than she'd care to remember. She needed him for money, and being a drug dealer he had plenty of it. What he gave to support his children was not very much at all, and welfare was her prime source of income.Her Uncle Woody was her foundation, an uncle from her father's side. He would be her transportation and Counsel at times. He called and visited her often, and made sure she had beer and cigarettes, yet he tried to put it in her heart to try god, by going to church. Instead, Sparkle chose drug dealing as a way out of her poverty. Night living, clubs, and drinking excessively became her new way, it became her only way. Sparkle had dumped her thug boyfriend and pawned her kids off entirely on her childhood friend Chris, who no longer lives in the hood. Uncle Woody eventually too, became nothing more than an aging old fool to Sparkle. However, Tracy, the friend and sister she'd longed for Angel to be, stayed solid and true.Tracy brings a wisdom to Sparkle that only a sister can. When she brought remembrance of the beginning of their friendship back to Sparkle's confused and intoxicated mind, the tears flow, the emotions thunder, and a piercing pain of reality is forced to be reckoned with. Sparkle now embarks on the journey of putting right all the things she had done wrong. This would take a little time she knew, but with the return of Juice to her life, brings more than hope. The confusion she had in her mind had vanished! That is, until Tragedy strikes one last time, and fate rears its ugly head once more. Had all the struggles Sparkle gone through in vain? Were they for her to survive, only to endure this most heinous of punishments by god.

Olivia Blake and her two best friends, twin sisters Pandora and Venus Pratt were three teenagers in search of stardom and felt that with an excellent plan A you didn't need a plan B. The twins got wind of a big shot agent that would be in Buffalo holding auditions and was also paying cold hard cash. Olivia, passive and well brought up in the south, finds herself infatuated with Julian Taylor the co-owner of the company that held the talent auditions, his being ten years her senior didn't seem to be much of a deterrent. Having issues with her father's infidelity and subsequent departure from her life a few years earlier, it's no wonder she would have unresolved issues. She was determined to have this man Julian as her very own. Years later they did marry and move to New York City, only her happily ever after fairy tale life takes a turn for the worse when she finds out that she isn't the only one he's been making love to, and that the other woman is her half-sister. Now years later and two young children involved she has more than just herself to think of, so she takes a flight and returns to Buffalo to her mother in an attempt to ease the pain of having to look at the husband she so innocently trusted with her heart, not knowing how she would be able to explain how her husband did her the exact same way as her dad did her mother. Pandora comes by to aid with moral support and found that she ended up beating Laila the adulteress half- sister almost to death.This action caused a reaction from the present Julian who had come to Buffalo to try and explain to his beloved what a terrible mistake he had made, and pitch reconciliation. Melee ensued and a devastated Olivia found herself forced to stab her husband hoping to free a choking Pandora from his grip. In all of the confusion Laila pulls a gun meant for Olivia had she refused to give up Julian, and pointed it at Pandora whom had pounded on her relentlessly.Two shots rang out and Olivia falls to the floor along with Julian, Julian with two bullet wounds and Olivia with none. She is told that she would be the one facing attempted murder charges. She would ultimately be the one sitting in a jail cell for the next seven years.During her incarceration she had only her belief in the Almighty and her need to see her children again to keep her clinging to her sanity. Thankful for her family and best friends she gained hope. Finally after spending two years of her life caged and forced to live a sub-standard life away from her children and family her prayers were answered. Julian, whom had made a full recovery and after interference from a nagging Pandora found his own strength and went to the police with the truthPandora's life changed that same day in the same building Olivia's did when her ambitions got the best of her; she wanted to be at the top over both Olivia and her sister Venus. She strolls into the office of one of the men she thought had the power to bring her dreams to life only to witness the brutal rape of a girl around her very same age and she didn't have the courage to stop it. The three girls shared a bond of friendship sought by many and enjoyed by few. They each carried with them into adulthood, the consequences of adolescent choices that will mark their souls forever.