Momma’s A Virgin
Publisher: Strebor Books
Pub Date: September 27, 2011
ISBN: 0758242514

Essence bestselling author Travis Hunter tells the story of a young woman who takes control of her own destiny after lifelong abuse.

Zola Zaire never had a chance to choose her man. Raped at fourteen, her mother threw her out at sixteen and she was forced to live with a man three times her age. Abuse was all she’d known and she had gotten comfortable as a bottom dweller, until her son was taken from her. That’s when she decided to become the predator instead of the prey.

Momma’s a Virgin is Ngiai’s struggle to overcome a horrible past and take control of her future. With the help of her brother, they settle all past scores—but will her quest for revenge jeopardize her future?

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At the Crossroads
Publisher: Dafina Books
Pub Date: December 2010
ISBN: 0758242514
Genre: Young Adult

Franklyn “Franky” Bourgeois is fifteen, and he’s already done more living than most. First he was blasted out of a normal childhood in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. Determined to survive, he left town with two older cousins. They were nothing short of thugs, but they were all he had. And hard as he tried, even for a good kid like Franky, their influence was hard to resist…

Now Franky’s just a heartbeat away from a life of crime–until he gets an unexpected chance to turn things around. Getting back on track is easier said than done, especially when a group of prep school fools set out to keep Franky on the streets. But Franky’s always been a survivor. He’ll just have to prove it one more time..

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Tall, dark, and handsome, Prodigy Banks goes from being a ladies’ man with a shady past to being a man any mother would be proud to call her son. But when his past life of gratuitous sex and violence threatens his newfound respectability, decisions need to be made. Will he make a man’s choice or a boy’s guess?

Bernard Charles is haunted by childhood memories of abandonment and poverty. His workaholic ways and desire to provide his family with all the material things he didn’t have frustrate his wife, Diane, and leave her vulnerable to another man’s advances. After her betrayal, will Bernard move on or move out?

Winston “Poppa Doc” Fuller has a fix for what’s ailing the younger generation. His wisdom brings healing to everyone he touches, yet he hasn’t been able to reach his own thirty-three-year-old son. After Poppa Doc is stricken with lung cancer, his only wish is that his son will become a man before Poppa Doc leaves this earth.

Newcomer Travis Hunter has crafted a tale that is funny, sexy, and touching about three men at very different points in their lives and what it truly means to have the heart of a man.

PRAISE

“Travis Hunter takes us into the lives, the thoughts, and straight into the hearts of men. His work reflects the voice that is often missing; the voice of a brother who loves, listens, and tells his own truth.”
-Bertice Berry, author of The Haunting of Hip-Hop

“A book I’ll share with my sons for years to come.”
-Carl Weber, author of the Blackboard bestseller Lookin’ for Luv

“Even cynical readers may be won over by his relentless positive message and push for African-American communities built on respect and love.”
- Publishers Weekly

“Interesting and revealing look into the male psyche.”
- Today’s Black Woman

Trouble Man
Growing up on Philadelphia’s gritty streets, Jermaine Banks was used to fighting but lately life has been throwing him hooks and jabs he’s never been prepared to deal with. Almost thirty years old, with a three-year-old son who worships the ground he walks on, a pregnant girlfriend whose family hates every breath he takes, and a slain best friend for whose death he feels responsible for, Jermaine realizes its time to change. But can he step up to the challenge, or will continue to be a Trouble Man?

For Calvin Sharpe, time is running out. He is living proof that money is the root of all evil. He sacrificed his family for his pursuit of the almighty dollar and used money to solve all his problems. But now his two biggest secrets — shady business dealings and an abandoned child — have been exposed, and his bank account can’t save him. When both his family and the FBI demand answers, Calvin goes on the run. After hitting rock bottom, he decides to its time to stop running and face his responsibilities—to both the law and his family, including the son he left behind.

PRAISE

“Highly Recommended — and y’all know I don’t recommend much!”
-Eric Jerome Dickey, bestselling author of The Other Woman

“Travis Hunter continues to deliver entertaining, funny and true-to-life stories with his latest Trouble Man, a novel about love, war, family and people struggling to do the right thing. I felt that I knew these people.”
-Malik Yoba, actor and playwright

“Once again, Travis Hunter gives us unforgettable characters that move and touch us in a way very few authors have done. Trouble Man is full of surprises and shows with patience, love and a willingness to look deep within your soul we all have the capacity to grow and change for the better. This is fabulous work from a writer who has proven once again that he’s here to stay.”
-Mary J. Jones, Pageturner.net

Married but Still Looking
Publisher: Villard
Pub Date: May 2002
ISBN: 0-375-50569-5

Women have flocked to Genesis Styles ever since he was a teenager. He’s a good-looking, smooth-talking former pro-basketball player, but he has a problem: He has never been satisfied with just one woman. Then he meets Terri and everything changes. Sort of.Genesis knows that Terri is perfect for him, and they become engaged. But Genesis just can’t seem to stop cheating on Terri nearly every chance he gets. Genesis’s best friend, Prodigy, constantly warns him that he’s going to mess up the best thing ever to happen to him, but Genesis is not ready to listen.

After dealing with a family crisis, Genesis realizes the importance of his relationship with Terri, and he begins to change his cheating ways. He knows that once he says, “I do,” everything will fall into place. But it may be too late, because one of his past indiscretions comes back to haunt him, and Terri has a few surprises of her own for Genesis.

PRAISE

“Hunter’s writing is fluid and fast, and the dialogue is often raw and gritty yet comical.”
-Black Issues Book Review

“Travis Hunter offers insight into the male psyche in ways that will captivate the reader, with stories that are both entertaining and compelling.”
-Lolita Files, bestselling author of Child of God

“Despite its title, Married but Still Looking is about the sanctity of marriage, accepting responsibility for one’s actions and understanding the consequences of bad choices.”
-The Dallas Morning News

Something to Die For

Nasir Lassiter is a college basketball star with a promising future–until a murder rap lands him in prison with a life sentence. Without hope, Nasir shuts down. But after five years he’s suddenly free and surprised to see how much the outside world has changed.

He discovers he has a daughter, Brandy, who believes her father has been away in the army all this time. His girlfriend, Ayana, is now involved with Alonzo, a wealthy, possessive man. Nasir’s life takes another turn when he finds out that his mother has taken to drugs to ease the pain over his fate. Ayana, meanwhile, struggles to break free of Alonzo’s jealous grip and gets a taste of his seemingly endless rage.

Nasir would love to right the wrongs his absence has brought the women in his life. And when his daughter is kidnapped, he will risk everything to save her–even if it means putting his newfound freedom on the line.

A riveting novel of love, loss, and reconciliation, Something to Die For follows the twisted path of a man desperately fighting for the good life he deserves–and for the family who needs him now more than ever.

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A One Woman Man

Bestselling author Travis Hunter returns with a stunning new novel about family, success, and just how far a man would go to protect those he loves.

Dallas Dupree is a one woman man. A handsome and successful teacher, he is both worshipped and envied in his Atlanta neighborhood and chooses to live and raise his daughter, Aja, in the ghetto he grew up in rather than desert his roots.

The only problem is that the one woman for him – his beloved Yasmin – passed away giving birth to his daughter. Now Dallas struggles through a string of empty relationships unable to commit his heart because no woman can measure up to Yasmin. However, when Dallas plays with the wrong woman, he finds the consequences may cost him much more than he can afford.

Dallas ‘s sister Carmen has issues of her own. All of her life she has struggled with a weight problem which had caused a lack of self esteem. Now she is an affluent doctor who lives out in the suburbs with her new husband, Sterling . When a family crisis forces her to take in her wayward niece, she finds out secrets that rip apart her picture perfect world.

Their older brother, Priest, is pretty secretive about how he makes his money – and he does make a lot of it. He has been a father figure to both Dallas and Carmen, but now they are all grown up, they want nothing to do with their shady older brother. But when Dallas and Carmen are in trouble, they turn to the one person who has always been there for them and learn there is more to Priest than meets the eye.

Karim Spencer, raised in the home of a bootlegger in a run-down neighborhood, has gone on to become a successful businessman with a tony home, a beautiful girlfriend, and a son. But memories of tragedy and betrayal have kept him entrenched in the past, as have the living reminders of his former life, including his down-on-her-luck sister, Nadiah; JaQuan, Nadiah’s thugged-out teenage son; and Karim’s older brother, Omar, serving a life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit.

As emotions reach a boiling point, does Karim have what it takes to set JaQuan on a straight path, clear his brother of a bogus indictment without jeopardizing his own future, and hold together the family that he so desperately loves?

As Travis Hunter skillfully draws us in with strong, believable characters with endearing flaws and broken dreams, A Family Sin, full of riveting twists and turns of plot, unravels the mystery of a long-buried secret that threatens to tear a family apart.

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Dark Child: A Novel
Publisher: Strebor Books
Pub Date: June 30, 2009
ISBN: 159309244X

When poor babies wind up missing, who cares.

Urban Brown, a white man who grew up in the dark recesses of the inner city where he was the victim of torment abuse, abandonment, deception and murder. Urban overcame his horrid past to live a peaceful and prosperous existence in his upper class community. He has everything a man could ask for, a career which he loves, a sprawling estate and a drop dead gorgeous fiancée, Sierra. Then out of the blue he receives a phone call that changes his life.

Jamillah is Urban’s sister and unlike her brother, she wasn’t able to overcome the horrors of her past and turned to drugs to ease the pain. Life of the streets is hard enough but once a baby comes along she tries to sell him on the black market black market. Urban wont hear any of it and he and Sierra resolve to raise the child as their own. But upon further investigation, Urban realizes that his sister is heavily involved in a dark and sinister scheme to steal black babies from poor girls in small, rural towns and sell them to the highest bidders. As Urban digs deeper and deeper into the kidnapping network, he gets dangerously close to the heart of the matter and is disgusted and disheartened by what he discovers. Dark Child is a chilling story about the untold struggles of the disenfranchised that inspiringly illustrates how one man is not able to turn his back on the problems of his former community—even though he so desperately wants to leave that troubled place in his past forever.

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Coming up in the inner city, Kwame and Romeo Braxton never had anyone except their Nana and each other. So when big brother Kwame caught two years for doing nothing but keeping the wrong kind of friends, their lives were turned upside down. And things are about to get shaken up one more time.

Romeo is seventeen and the star quarterback for the Tucker Tigers. He gets all the attention he can handle from the honeys-and the big-time college football programs. Deciding where to take a scholarship should be Romeo’s biggest problem, but these days it’s the last thing on his mind.

Not only is Kwame finally getting out of jail, their absentee mother Pearl is back on the scene, and Rome’s girl Ngiai says she’s ready to get serious. Oh, and a couple of thugs beat Pearl nearly to death and wrecked Nana’s crib.

With everything in their lives out of control, Kwame and Rome are at a serious crossroads. Now they’ll have to decide who’s really got their backs, and what kind of future they’re ready to step up to.

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