Larger Than Lyfe by Cynthia Diane Thornton

Larger Than Lyfe

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Cynthia Diane Thornton

Strebor Books · Ebook · February 15, 2011

Keshari Mitchel the most powerful woman in the American music industry—but also one of the most powerful women in organized crime, and she’s determined to finally extricate herself from the game.

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Who it’s for
A record-label mogul’s double life puts music-industry power beside the demands of organized crime.
Genres
Black Urban Fiction, Crime Fiction, Black Women's Fiction
Published
Strebor Books, February 15, 2011

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Keshari Mitchel the most powerful woman in the American music industry—but also one of the most powerful women in organized crime, and she’s determined to finally extricate herself from the game. Beautiful, Wharton-educated, recording industry mogul Keshari Mitchell is leading a double life.

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As owner of Larger Than Lyfe Entertainment, a multimillion-dollar record label specializing in platinum-selling hip-hop, R&B, and jazz, she is undeniably the most powerful woman in the American music industry. As second-in-command in The Consortium, one of the most powerful, Black organized crime rings on the West Coast, she also happens to be one of the most powerful and most feared women in the United States’ criminal underworld. But she wants out—out of an organization that does not accept resignations. As Larger Than Lyfe unfolds, readers receive a VIP pass into Keshari Mitchell’s very glamorous but extremely dangerous life. Readers get a taste of the decadence, drama, and hedonism so prevalent in the music industry, while also viewing the dark side of organized crime where millions of dollars are made and controlled from the trafficking and sale of cocaine, where law enforcement can be bought and corrupted, and where lives can be snuffed out strategically and without remorse at any given time to protect and expand criminal empires. Keshari Mitchell is on the verge of total meltdown as she works desperately on a daily basis to keep the stressful duality of her life as record industry mogul and increasingly reluctant crime boss separate. This most complex predicament is complicated all the more when she breaks her own rule regarding romantic entanglements and falls in love with the handsome, new, West Coast general counsel at ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers). Will love of a lifetime be able to survive and surpass the deception of Keshari Mitchell’s double life? And will Keshari Mitchell be able to survive and walk away from the very dark side of her life that is blood in, blood out?

Keshari’s Double Life

A record-label mogul’s double life puts music-industry power beside the demands of organized crime.

Come here for

  • A record-label mogul balancing music-industry power and organized crime
  • Keshari Mitchell’s attempt to leave an organization that accepts no resignations

Expect

  • A view of the music industry’s decadence and drama
  • A criminal underworld shaped by trafficking, corruption, and strategic violence

Where it sits

Black Urban Fiction60%
Crime Fiction41%
Black Women's Fiction26%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Black Fiction
  • Black Urban Fiction
Authors
Cynthia Diane Thornton
Publisher
Strebor Books
Published
February 15, 2011
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Black Fiction