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    Cold As Ice
    Cold As Ice
    Cold As Ice
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    Cold As Ice

    By T. Styles

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    T. Styles', Cold as Ice - Pepper Thomas is a straight A student living in a rough part of Southeast Washington DC, who manages to stay away from drugs, violence and crime. That is, until next-door neighbor and drug dealer Ice's home is robbed. With newfound evidence that can be held for ransom, can Pepper be as Cold as Ice?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCartel Publications
    Release dateMay 23, 2017
    ISBN9781945240515
    Cold As Ice
    Author

    T. Styles

    Author. Show Host, Motivational Speaker. Award Winning CEO of The Cartel Publications - an international, independent publishing house, Mean Girls Magazine, Rich Bitch Publications and Cartel Urban Cinema. Toy's publishing house, The Cartel Publications, is the face of today's urban fiction and street fiction industries. In both the digital and print world, the Cartel represents the best her generation has to offer in African American literature. She has aptly been dubbed "Urban Fiction Empress" and "Literary Master". Toy is multifaceted and currently runs an independent publishing company, movie production company and a copywriting agency in the Washington DC and Maryland area. In addition, she facilitates her popular seminar "How To Write A Novel In 30 Days", using her non-fiction novel of the same title. Toy consults authors and publishing houses on what it takes to achieve success and longevity in the industry. She has been featured in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Essence Magazine, Don Diva Magazine, Oprah Winfrey's Network and Urban Book Source. She has been awarded Author Of The Year by AAMBC and was voted Most Underrated Author by The Urban Book Source. When not writing, running the Cartel or producing independent movies based on her company's novels, Toy travels and shoots videos for Cartel TV, a show geared toward her publishing house. Her first movie, 'Pitbulls In A Skirt', under her movie production company Cartel Urban Cinema is due first followed by 'Mother Monster'. Her novels include, The End (How To Write A Book In 30 Days), A Hustler's Son (series), Black & Ugly (series), Raunchy (series), Shyt List (series), Pitbulls In A Skirt (series), Redbone (series), The Face That Launched A Thousand Bullets, Quita's Dayscare Center, Reversed, Luxury Tax, and Cold As Ice. www.thecartelpublications.com - www.richbitchpublications.com www.meangirlsmagazine.com - www.cartelurbancinema.com Specialities: Publishing, Writing, Public Speaking (Motivational, Branding, Writing), Copywriting

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      Cold As Ice

      By

      T. Styles

      (Originally Published in 2007)

      Copyright © 2017 by The Cartel Publications. All rights reserved.

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      DEAR READERS,

      I wrote this story early in my writing career to be included in a collection for my previous publisher. I believe it sparked the start of my raw story telling nature. I wanted to share it with you under my label.

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      T. Styles

      PROLOGUE

      JUNE 2007

      PRESENT DAY

      Pepper and Zykia sat on the edge of the bed eyes glued onto Pepper’s TV at the horrible sight. And to think, someone she saw everyday was responsible. Someone she didn’t necessarily trust, but at least there was no fear, until now.

      Pepper, ya’ll ready to eat? Grace, Pepper’s mother yelled from the kitchen.

      Uh…no…ma, she said wiping the tears from her face. We’ll eat later.

      Don’t let it get cold, Grace continued. "Ya’ll have been in there all day.

      But neither of them could eat if they wanted. The scene was extremely violent and had both girls cringing. After more time Pepper stood up and pressed pause on the worst part. She couldn’t barely stand tall or look at anymore.

      Calm down, Zy, she responded slowly taking the phone from her hand. I’m fucked up about this too. But I have a plan.

      CHAPTER ONE

      DAYS EARLIER

      JUST ANOTHER DAY

      The sweltering heat didn’t stop the beat of the street in Southeast DC. Dudes were washing their cars or moving product, while females were walking up and down the block in the hopes of being seen in their designer fits and purses. While the blood in the veins of 58th avenue’s worst project continued to move, 17-year-old Pepper Champagne Thomas was sitting on the steps of her house getting her hair braided, watching it all and hating every bit of it.

      A few feet over, two girls who were supposed to be friends were pulling each other’s hair out over a boy who didn’t want either of them, while their fake friends crowded around.

      As she watched, sweat ran down her back causing the white tank top she was wearing to cling to her skin and the black LRG sweat pants she was sporting didn’t make her much cooler. Ants were circling a piece of melted candy her cousin threw on the ground next to them, and the ice in her cup filled with Coke had dissolved and become tasteless.

      It was hotter than a pair of opened legs.

      When the fight was over, she wiped sweat off of her face with her hand, Pepper noticed her cousin used an entire pack of red braiding hair in an hour, which was strange considering she was supposed to be doing micro minis, not African twists.

      Nic…I think these too fat! You know I don’t lie ‘em like that! Pepper said under her breath trying to avoid confrontation. She was rubbing her fingers over the extra large braids.

      She knew the moment Nic’s big mouth friend, Treesy called on the phone and broke her concentration, that she’d be too concerned with gossip to tend to her hair.

      Nic, I said these too fat!

      Nic hit her cousin’s hand with the yellow rat-tail comb and said, Hold on Tree.

      With that

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