Portia - by Julia Press Simmons (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Portia is the madam of an elite prostitution ring in the hood. It might be time for this circle to meet its demise.

Portia grew up in the ass-for-cash game, seeing the best and surviving the worst. At five years old, hungry and huddled near a dumpster, she watched a trick beat the life out of her mother for the twenty dollars she'd just made. Portia sat there for hours until the hunger pains forced her to move, her life forever changed.

Portia has followed in the footsteps of her grandmother and mother, turning to prostitution. However, unlike her family before her, she has turned the game into a lucrative enterprise, becoming the madam of an elite prostitution ring in the hood.

Honey Williams, aka Honey Dip, is a former junkie trick turned call girl who secretly yearns for a relationship with her daughter and a chance at a normal life. She is tired of the game but doesn't want to turn her back on the prostitutes that saved her life and welcomed her into their family when nobody else wanted to be bothered. Just when she thinks things couldn't be any more complicated, she falls in love with a man who is young enough to be her son and declared off-limits by Portia.

Sex, drugs, lies, and betrayal... Welcome to the nightlife. You won't be disappointed.

About the Author

Julia Press Simmons is the CEO of QMB Publishing, Amerime Media LLC, Sticky Situations LLC, and the Editor-in-Chief of Amerime Wire Magazine and Intellectual Ink Magazine. She is the critically acclaimed author of more than twenty books. Julia writes dark fantasy, paranormal romance, science fiction, and comic books with her husband under the pen names Simmons Gibbs and Mwandishi. She is an award-winning spoken word artist and playwright. Her play "Down There" was selected by the Shades of Black Festival Emerging Playwright's Series in Nashville, Tennessee. "Down There" also received a staged reading by the African American Playwriting Exchange in New York City. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.