Always Unique

✍ Scribed by Turner, Nikki

• Book ID: 108085253
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 171 KB
• Series: Unique 1-3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250043023

✦ Synopsis

I: With only two hundred dollars, Unique packed her suitcase and headed to New York City for a brand new start. It’s there that Unique meets big time boxing promoter, Kennard, and it is love at first sight. After nine months of living in the lap of luxury with Kennard, skeletons from Unique’s past show up and it will cost her a cool million dollars to not only keep her relationship but her life. Unique isn’t about to lose it all. With the help of her best friend, she devises a major heist, to pull it off all she has to do is stay alive.

II: Living the life she has always dreamed of, Unique isn't about to let her past ruin her future with her fiancé, Kennard. But the tables are turned on her and Unique is fighting for her very life. As for Kennard, he is stunned to learn about her past, but more importantly he is not about to let anyone get away with hurting his woman. As Unique and her best friend, Teeydah, set out on a path of revenge, a new menace and a new betrayal rises.

III: The blade of revenge cuts both ways. However, that is not going to stop Unique from getting those who are out to get her. And she is determined to be the last woman standing . . . Always Unique gathers together three popular Unique novellas from the New York Times bestselling, African-American powerhouse author Nikki Turner.

From Booklist

This volume gathers a set of Turner novellas that were previously published as an e-book series featuring Unique, a former criminal who falls in love and tries to build a normal, happy life with a bright future. But Unique is haunted by some of the folks she has wronged in the past, and pulls off a final heist to try and make things right. One of her previous marks rapes and blackmails her, and others try to kill her, but she is determined to hold on to her life with fiancé Kennard. A hallmark of Turner’s fiction is her portrayal of feisty female characters. Both Unique and her former best friend, Tydeeah, demonstrate strength and heart during their quest for a second chance at life. The language and situations in this collection are frankly raw and explicit, and the novellas are published together without transition and include some repetition. Still, readers who like Turner’s earlier work will enjoy this collection, and the third novella offers a surprise twist that is especially satisfying. --Amy Alessio

Review

"Turner brings a whole lot of drama...action-packed with surprising twists." —4 Stars! RT Book Reviews on Always Unique

"Turner's raw writing makes for page-turning suspense...urban-fiction fans will crave this novel and all of Turner's titles." — Booklist on THE GLAMOROUS LIFE 2: ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN'T GOLD

4 Stars! "Readers won't be able to put the book down." — RT Book Reviews on THE GLAMOROUS LIFE 2: ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN'T GOLD

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"Nikki puts a new twist on an old favorite. As thought provoking and witty as it is hood, Project Chick II is a great read." —K'wan

“Few writers working in the field today bring the drama [like] Nikki Turner. . . . [She’s] a master at weaving juicy, ’hood-rich sagas of revenge, regret, and redemption.” — Vibe on Forever a Hustler’s Wife