Wahida Clark Books in Order

Marco is a hustler's hustler, eager to prove his loyalty to his plug Genesis by eliminating a traitor in their Atlanta crew during the tense Christmas season of a pandemic. As top earners start turning up dead in a string of robberies, and sisters Rochelle and Lacy chase their own survival, Marco races to uncover the truth before he becomes the next target.

With fifty million dollars missing, Nina Coles should be living her dream life with retired agent Rick Brown, but their score has drawn bloodthirsty gang members, Armenian mobsters, bitter ex-bosses, and crooked agents. When a woman from Rick's past steps back into the picture, Nina has to figure out who she can trust and whether love or money matters more.

After a painful breakup with the father of her sons, Ansinette is focused on survival, not romance, even though her handsome neighbor Marcus clearly notices her. As a global virus keeps them homebound and her ex circles back, Ansinette must decide whether to risk her heart on a man who wants a simple, stable life with her and her boys.

Jari Rockjaw is a battle-weary dwarf bounty hunter who wants nothing more than a quiet homestead far from the human cities he despises. When the king of Ekepia asks him to hunt down the most vicious dwarf alive, Jari and his misfit crew take on one last, wildly dangerous quest they cannot easily walk away from.

Viridius Vispanius has spent his life protecting the emperor of the realm of Wolfryia, only to be betrayed by friends and framed when the ruler is murdered. Exiled to the wilderness with a price on his head, he seizes a risky chance to return, joining a desperate plot that could rewrite the future of the empire with a single well-placed blade.

Raised on the violent streets of New Orleans and sick of what drugs are doing to his people, underworld legend James Johnson forges an unlikely alliance with a most-wanted fugitive. Armed with new technology, money, and a radical plan to strangle the drug trade and oil profits, he sparks a global conflict that powerful governments and cartels are desperate to stop.

James Johnson's technology has shaken the drug game and the oil industry, but the Saudi oil king strikes back with a death squad on American soil. As the Johnson clan reels and their leader lies critically wounded, his heirs must regroup and decide whether to answer terror with a revolution of their own.

In the seventh Thug novel, the Macklins and their friends are older but no safer. Trae comes home from prison to troubling secrets about Tasha, Kyra is torn between the man she loves and the family she wants, and the crew faces ruthless enemies from cartels and organized crime who threaten everything they have built.

This street-lit anthology, curated by Wahida Clark and Shannon Holmes, gathers gritty stories from multiple writers about hustlers, addicts, and survivors in neighborhoods where respect is earned and power is taken. Each tale follows characters facing life-altering choices in a world where the streets rarely give second chances.

This limited-edition companion to the Thug series collects raw diary entries and letters from key characters, giving a glimpse into their private thoughts, guilty secrets, and buried fears, and deepening the emotional fallout from the main novels.

Taylor "Tay Tay" Washington thought she had the perfect life, married to her college sweetheart and sitting on top of a lucrative drug empire, until his abuse turns their fairy tale into a nightmare. A wild night back home and an intoxicating new man drag her into a fresh storm of passion, danger, and payback.

Eshe, Milla, and Sun-Sole meet as strangers behind bars and quickly learn that prison is full of snitches, setups, and dirty officials. Refusing to be broken by the system, the three women band together to expose corruption, protect each other, and strike back at those who profit from their confinement.

Margo Harris clings to the seductive, dangerous Salvatore Mazzillo as a way to escape the pain of her past, even as new secrets and shady associates surround her. The deeper she falls into his world, the more she has to question what love really is and who she can trust.

Kyron Santos, Kaylin's older brother, became a pawn in Tasha Macklin's plan to punish Trae, a choice that ended in pregnancy, murder, and shattered trust. In these court-ordered therapy sessions, Kyron finally tells his side, exposing buried motives, regrets, and the hidden cost of the Thug world.

Rejected by her powerful, homophobic father and left to survive alone, Butterfly, a Black trans woman, hustles her way into a glamorous life built on small scams and big lies. When a vengeful enemy and a charming schemer named Atwater pull her into a new con, she must decide whether to chase power or finally break free.

Told in reverse, this dark love story traces the last day in the lives of Ebony and Bless, a modern Bonnie and Clyde who take on their city's police force. Hour by hour, their choices, secrets, and impossible devotion unfold, turning a doomed Valentine's Day into an unforgettable ride.

The final Payback novel finds Shan and her circle deep in a high-stakes consortium where every move can be fatal. As rival bosses gun for control of Detroit, old loves, new alliances, and a mysterious list of names collide, leaving everyone scrambling for survival, revenge, and one last shot at power.

After years of surviving hustle, prison bids, and complicated love, Tasha, Trae, and their closest friends are forced into a war they never wanted, facing internal betrayals and one of the deadliest crime organizations they have ever seen, where the only options left are to go to war or die trying.

Picking up after Payback with Ya Life, this installment drops Shan, Briggen, and their crew into a glittering world of hip hop glamour, luxury brands, and high-level drug money where power plays and betrayals pile up fast, proving that in this game there is always another bill to pay.

Tasha and Trae are trying to repair their marriage after years of secrets, infidelity, and violence, but the streets are not done with them yet. While Trae dodges enemies and temptation, Jaz faces explosive drama of her own, and every choice threatens to pull their tight circle apart.

This anthology gathers street-lit stories about love, money, and betrayal, from a corporate professional who falls for a thug to gang soldiers facing the real cost of war, and introduces Nina, a woman whose fierce bid to stop being disrespected plants the seeds of The Golden Hustla.

On the run after a check-cashing scam goes bad, Nina Coles steals from her ex and slips into a new identity in Georgia, landing a high-pressure job at WMM, a crooked telemarketing firm. With a ruthless boss, a vengeful former partner, the mob, and an undercover cop all closing in, Nina must pull off one last risky play to save herself and her children.

Now in Los Angeles, Tasha and Trae Macklin seem to have it all, from a booming nightclub to a beautiful family, but new money brings new temptations. As Trae partners with a dangerous crime family and a woman from his past resurfaces, the couple's love and loyalty are pushed to the edge.

This two-novella collection follows women who risk everything for the wrong men, from Kreesha, a weed queenpin betrayed by the lover she built up, to Larissa, whose prison hustle and best friend's treachery set the stage for a brutal, very personal kind of payback.

Still grieving her best friend's death and pregnant by a married man, Shan decides to leave her fast life behind and start over in Detroit. Her brother Peanut's enemies have other plans, and as old beefs ignite into a deadly turf war, Shan must fight for her future and her child.

Angel is ready to marry Kaylin, a former dealer who is trying to go legit, and her girlfriends are finally pulling themselves out of the ghetto. But unfinished business from the past crashes the wedding and drags Angel, Jaz, Tasha, and Kyra back into a storm of jealousy, violence, and hard choices.

Brianna lives for designer labels and the thrill of the con, using lies and men to bankroll her lifestyle, while her friend Shan grinds honestly at a men's prison. When one ruthless scheme explodes and Shan is caught in the crossfire, Brianna must face the bloody cost of her hustle.

Roz, a smart, ambitious woman on her way to a career in physical therapy, has escaped the corner life and plans never to look back, until she meets Trae Macklin, a charismatic drug dealer whose world of fast money and danger proves almost impossible to resist.

College friends Angel, Jaz, and Kyra are determined to build professional careers far from the violence of their neighborhood, yet they keep getting pulled back by the drug dealers and hustlers they love, forcing each of them to choose between safety and desire.