Dating to Die - by Carl Weber & Joylynn M Jossel (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Paisley Parks is the HBIC. She navigates dating, fashion, and family with enviable grace--all while running an underground empire.

"Sometimes you get to pick family while other times family is picked for you. Either way, when it comes to being dealt a bad hand with family, you better figure out how to win with it."

That's the motto, rule, and law of each branch of Paisley Parks' family, better known as The Cousins. Paisley doesn't know how, at forty years old, she became the head cousin in charge. Loving the power she inherits from running the various branches of her family tree, as well as the prospective business branches that make up their wealth, Miss Paisley Parks steps into the role with designer shoes. Keeping a family strong, intact, and in line means every now and again, Paisley has to kick butt with those designer shoes.

Paisley finds herself having to wield her power of manipulation to keep the worker bee cousins--like Keyokee, who desires fame over the fortune the cousins are building--to stick to the family's standard operating procedures. Not to mention navigating when to yield to the antics of play-cousin Angel, which could expose their high-revenue systems, strategies, and schemes.

Paisley wears many hats, figuratively and literally, to match the shoes she's stepping all over the men who are just dying to date her and her cousins. And unfortunately for the men, but fortunately for Paisley and her family's businesses, they do.

Book 1 of the Dating to Die series is just the first piece of the puzzle needed to put together the portrait of a family that brings new meaning to generational wealth. Paisley Parks helps to brilliantly execute a blueprint that ensures her entire family eats. Even if it sometimes makes it hard for her to sleep at night.

About the Author

Carl Weber is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels and short stories. He graduated from Virginia State University with a bachelor's degree in accounting and has an MBA in marketing from the University of Virginia. A lifelong reader, Weber wanted to write stories about ordinary people who have crazy things happening in their lives. Now, when he's not connecting with readers through his books, Weber is finding new talent for his own publishing company, Urban Books. His latest venture is Urban Books Media, a production company that is turning several of his novels into films. His films, The Man in 3B, The Preacher's Son, and Influence, are available now on streaming services. His television series, The Family Business, is currently airing on BET+. 

Joylynn M. Jossel is a native of Columbus, Ohio. After thirteen years of being a paralegal in the insurance industry, she finally divorced her career and married her mistress and her passion, writing. In 2000, she founded her own publishing company. Joy shares what she has learned in the literary industry by instructing a workshop titled "Self-Publishing: The Basics You Need to Get Started." In this informative workshop, Joy touches on everything from copyrighting, eBook publishing, and bar-coding, to ISBNs and economical printing on demand.
In 2004, Joy branched out into the business of literary consulting, providing one-on-one consulting and literary services such as ghostwriting, professional read-throughs, write-behind services, and critiques. Her clients include first-time authors, national best-selling authors, New York Times bestsellers, and entertainers.

Joy has also written a children's book titled The Secret Olivia Told Me under the name N. Joy, which received an American Library Coretta Scott King Honor. The book club rights were acquired by Scholastic Books, and it has sold over 100,000 copies.