The Criss Cross
About this ebook
Nikki Ling is half Black and Japanese. She’s independent, street-smart, and the daughter of a sex worker. Living on the mean streets of New York, she’s forced to make a living the only way she knows how. When a wealthy South African Diplomat asks for her hand in marriage, things get brighter. Until she realizes that the soft-spoken, reserved gentleman is pathological, kinky, and sadistic. One day she meets a mysterious stranger who approaches her with the Criss Cross. Is the Criss Cross her ticket to a better life? Or will the Criss Cross ultimately become the double-cross?
THE CRISS CROSS ISN’T DONE YET! THE OLD GANG FROM LIFE, LOVE, AND LONELINESS HAVE SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS TO RESOLVE. IN THIS PAGE-TURNING NOVEL, SEE HOW THE DRAMA UNFOLDS FOR LYRIC, LACEY, MADISON, JOSHUA, AND ESTELLE.
About the author
Crystal Lacey Winslow is an American author, agent, ghostwriter, and book publisher from Brooklyn, New York. Well-regarded publications such as Black Enterprise, Essence, and Publisher’s Weekly heralded the efforts and accomplishments of Winslow. By 2005, she was an award-winning writer, and Vibe.com coined her as “Melodrama’s Queen Pen”—a prophetic epithet that came full-circle years later when she ghostwrote several bestselling novels. BET Nightly News did a segment on the ambitious entrepreneur and former radio personality, Wendy Williams, called her first book, “Fi-yah.”
