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When it comes to this thing called life, everyone has a role to play, but what happens when you want to go off script?

Iyana is a 26-year-old actress and soon to be a recipient of a Golden Globe Award. Her name is well known in Hollywood as one of the greats. However, when she seeks the lead role in an upcoming urban movie, the director and producers don’t believe she has the life experience to play the part. Iyana becomes determined to prove them wrong, so she sets out to learn about the street life.

Omani X is a 30-year-old drug lord who has amassed wealth and power in his city of Clarksville, Tennessee, yet it’s not enough to satisfy him. His closest friend, Zilla, who feels Omani has already accomplished everything he dreamed about, wants him to leave the streets behind and move out to LA, where he himself hopes to one day be a filmmaker, a dream he’s afraid to share with his closest friend.

Perfect seating at the award show of the year brings Omani and Iyana together, as if by some kind of twisted fate. After suspecting that Omani would be the perfect muse to learn about the street life, Iyana convinces him to bring her into his world, where she realizes there are no scripts, and there is no one to yell ‘cut’.

Drugs, death, assassination attempts, crooked politics, and constant street wars inject Iyana with a full dose of the streets. She’s forced to make decisions she never imagined facing, especially when rivals seek to eliminate Omani along with anyone in his circle.

Despite being a cautious and calculating man, who has managed to stay off the radar of the FBI, which is determined to bring him down, his luck may run out when they send an undercover agent to bring him down by any means necessary.

Will Omani’s world be too much for Iyana to handle? Or will she stick beside him to take on a role that’s bigger than every film in Hollywood? Will she remain one of the biggest names in Hollywood? Or will she become lost in her own True Fiction?

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What's good My Peoples?! I'm KOLD, an author of Street Lit, Urban Romance, Urban Paranormal, and Erotica. I'm from Clarksville, TN and I have been writing since 2015.

My author journey began while I was incarcerated in Kentucky. We didn't have any books by Black authors available to us at the facility I was in, and after speaking with inmates on the yard, we felt Street Lit books weren't reflecting our real experiences. I told them I could do better, and they challenged me to do it. So, that same day, I went in my cell and began writing, The Bottom. During my final eight years of incarceration, I wrote 33 books before I was granted parole in 2022. I became known as the 'walking library' at multiple prisons due to me always carrying around a large net bag full of my books.

To this day, I still handwrite every book, and I continue to base my stories off experiences either I myself have experienced, or the experiences of others I was around.

Writing is what saved me from getting out of prison and continuing down the same path in the streets that I was used to. I use my pen to articulate my thoughts, writing every story like a movie because that's how they play in my head.

While I am an author...I began a reader.

My favorite authors are a lot but they are: Donald Goines, Kwan, Wahida Clark, Nikki Turner, Kiki Swinson, Ashley & JaQuavis, Treasure Hernandez, Jahquel J, Kutura B, Theresa Reese, Ada Afam, M. Monique, C. Wilson, Bonnie Blanco, and T'Lyn. Non-Black authors I've read and enjoyed are James Patterson, Lee Child, Victor Fleming, and Janet Evanoich.

I am also an award-winning playwright after winning a PEN Award in 2022 for my play \"Can't Win PEN\".

I'm a writer hoping to write a book in every genre someday.

All I need is one chapter, allow your eyes to read one chapter from any book, and you'll be hooked. I appreciate you all in advance.

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