Not Yo' Ordinary Girl

"A Coming of Age Urban Saga of Tianna Simmons"Tianna lives life in the fast lane, where survival is the only rule—and she’s willing to break every single one. At just seventeen, she’s already the queen of her block: witty, street-smart, and always a step ahead. With a mother battling her own demons and a little brother to care for, Tianna learned early on that if you want something, you take it.But when she meets Dezmond—a smooth-talking older man with wealth, power, and promises of a better life—her world shifts. He sees something in her that no one else does: potential. For the first time, someone offers Tianna a way out of the crumbling streets she’s tied to. And she’s desperate enough to take it.What Dez doesn’t tell her is that his world comes with a price. The deeper Tianna falls under his spell, the more she’s pulled into a dangerous game of lies, betrayal, and crime—a game rigged from the start. What once seemed like an escape turns into a trap, and Tianna, blinded by ambition and the promise of a glittering future, doesn’t see it coming.Her friends, Shonda and Malik, tried to warn her. But Tianna wasn’t listening. She thought she could outsmart the streets, thought she could play the game. Instead, the game is playing her.In the fast lane, there’s no safety net. No heroes. No happy endings. Just choices and consequences. Tianna’s hunger for more—a better life, a brighter future—pulls her into a world where nothing is as it seems. She learns the hard way that all that glitters isn’t gold, and the price of chasing her dreams might just be her soul.This isn’t a fairytale. It’s the story of a girl who thought she could outrun her fate—and discovered too late that you can’t escape the consequences of the choices you’ve already made. Read more