Shelly Ellis

Down on her luck and broke, Jennifer Dudley long ago traded dancing in the chorus line for swinging from a stripper pole to make ends meet. She’s hoping an offer to come back home and teach dance at her old performance academy will be the opportunity she needs to fix her life....

Monique Starr’s music career is at an all-time low: she’s in danger of losing her label contract and an embarrassing event has her front and center in all the gossip blogs—for all the wrong reasons! She decides to head back to D.C. to revamp her image....

It's business as usual for the infamous gold digging Gibbons women of Chesterton, Virginia. But this time, middle sister, Stephanie, may be the one getting played…Stephanie Gibbons has finally hit the jackpot. Her new sugar daddy, Isaac, is loaded and treating her in high style. When he...

One by one, the infamous Gibbons sisters of Chesterton, Virginia, are giving up their gold digging ways - except the eldest, who's holding out for her seven-figure man. But her heart may have less expensive tastes.... Thanks to her cold-hearted ways with men, Cynthia Gibbons doesn't blame the...

Book 2 in the Branch Avenue Boys series Success didn't come easy for three best friends from the streets. And now dangerous choices and reckless desire will push their bond to lethal limits.... A stint at the Branch Avenue Boys' Youth Institute taught Ricky, Derrick, and Jamal to unite when...

Diamond. Noelle. Vanessa. As Cyrus Grey recovers from a near-fatal shooting, the women who each thought they were his only wife are fighting hard to make new dreams—even if it means going one dangerous step too far....

One wealthy businessman, a trio of unsuspecting wives, and an explosive turn of events. In this scandalous, twist-filled new series from Shelly Ellis, will too many secrets and one devastating bond unite three women - or destroy them? Noelle. Diamond. Vanessa. Each woman believes she is Cyrus...

Three best friends from the streets found success--in very different ways. But with a crisis detonating around them, their bond could also destroy everything they care about.... No matter how tough the odds, Ricky, Derrick, and Jamal learned to unite and fight during their time at the Branch...

In her fantastically fun new series, Ellis' debut novel introduces a Kardashian-style family of money-hungry women who are determined to have it all. Over three generations, the Gibbons women of Chesterton have built their reputation as a family of shameless - but refined - gold diggers. But now...

They beat the odds and turned their lives around. But now, three best friends will go head-to-head with ambition, deception - and each other.... Derrick. Ricky. Jamal. One's responsible; one's still a player; one's upwardly-mobile. Sentenced to the Branch Avenue Boys' Youth Institute at 12, they...