Works by
Teri Woods
(Writer)

Fiction

• Angel (2006)
  With a tormenting secret from her past haunting her every step, the once sweet and innocent Kareemah El-Amin’s delicate mind snaps, sending her on a darkened path that will transform her into her deadly alter ego, Angel. With nothing to lose and the world to gain, she embarks on a quest to rule the gritty streets of our nation’s capital, by taking over the rough and rugged D.C. drug trade.

  Guile, cunning, and ruthlessness are her tools, while death, destruction and deception are her trade. Her quest to conquer the shady underworld is brought to a cataclysmic halt by a horrendous act against the one person who brought her any semblance of sanity, her baby sister.
  With revenge on her mind, Angel sets out on a bloodthirsty quest to avenge the one person in life whom she truly loved. The clock is ticking, the police are on her trail, and a shocking betrayal threatens to send her to prison for life. Will Angel avenge her sister’s shocking torture and manage to escape the clutches of the determined detective Sean Jones? Will she find out who her betrayers are, before it’s too late? Will she get her life together and move on? Or will she suffer the same fate that she has dealt to so many others?

  The stakes are high, the players are ruthless, and the result of failure is death.

Deadly Reigns Series

1. Deadly Reigns (2005)
   Damian Reigns, a Harvard educated business man with GQ looks, runs the Reigns Family Enterprise worth billions of dollars. His brother Dante, a Princeton graduate with a degree in psychology is a lethal weapon and protects the family business at any expense. Their sister Princess is calculating, manipulative and just as deadly as her brothers, but is now among their greatest enemies.

2. Deadly Reigns II (2006)
   Damian, Dante and Princess Reigns, America’s most notoriously violent crime family is back. Except this time, they’re not at war with each other. they’re at war with an enemy they can’t see; an enemy who has more political power than they and is backed by an even more powerful secret entity.

   Can they stand united and survive a war waged against them by El Jeffe, the commission, and the FBI? the family’s only hope is in the hands of the brother that despised them all, Dajon Reigns. Deeply inexperienced and totally out of his depth, dajon takes on the treacherous waters of the narcotics underworld as well as the high and mighty world of international politics to save his family from complete and total destruction.

   The stakes are high as the Reigns Empire is on the verge of collapse and the Reigns family is on the verge of demise. Will the reigns family survive this deadly storm?

3. Deadly Reigns III

Dutch Trilogy

1. Dutch (2003) with Dutch
   The first of a trilogy tells the story of Bernard James a.k.a. Dutch the most dangerous and feared gangster to come up in Jersey in the last thirty years. From his experience and skill as a young car thief, Dutch recognized the opportunity to ruthlessly become the ruler of the streets and grabbed it. After serving 18 months in prison for a botched auto theft, Dutch promised himself, he’d never return to prison. Once out, he never looked back.
   
   Driven by the desire to live the life of his dreams, Dutch and his crew – Craze, Angel, Qwan, Roc, and Zoom fearlessly locked down the streets of Newark for over 10 years.

   Now, Dutch is on trial for allegedly masterminding what the press has called The Month of Murder’, a brutal thirty-day killing spree where no one was spared. With Dutch facing multiple life sentences and a possible death penalty, the streets are in a mixed uproar of celebration and dread. The story depicts the passion of a man who possesses the determination to win ‘The War’ he fights everyday. Some fight to survive; Dutch fights to win.

2. Dutch II: Angel's Revenge (2005)
   This second installment of the trilogy takes us into the lives of Angel Alverez and One-eyed Roc, two of Dutch's merciless soldiers who have been locked down in federal prison for their roles in the legendary Month of Murder.

True to the Game Series

1. True to the Game (1999, 2007)
   This book represents the drug game during the late 80's from the inner city streets of Philadelphia. The main characters, Gena and Quadir find themselves caught in the vicious, yet seductive world of drugs and money. Quadir a millionaire drug dealer flipping kilo after kilo, builds a massive money empire. He, however, is also faced with the art of extortion brought upon by the notorious junior mafia. She, however, is faced with holding onto her man, her house, her car and the money.
   
   This is our life, these are our streets and this book represents our losses, our gains, our sorrows and joys. With the good, always comes the bad and when you play in this game you have to count the highs and the lows. When you deal with loss after loss, when the people closest to you are gunned down, when the people closest to you are millionaires from hustling in the drug game, when you live this life and have everything money can buy, the price is too often life in return. It's so hard to think about the bad when it's all good. It's so hard to think about the sacrifices that will be made so the next can eat, so the next can come up, so the next can survive to tell about it. We at MMP thank the massive support from the brothers locked up, the massive support from the streets, and if we never make it on a book shelf the hustle was the real. We at MMP promise to never forget you, never forget the hustle and always represent. This one is for the streets.

2. True to the Game II (2007)
   This is the sequel to Teri's amazing first novel True to the Game. Fans have been awaiting this story for over five years. TRUE TO THE GAME II will pick up where True to the Game left off-- with one difference, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Little does Gena know that the man she has fallen in love with, so soon after Quadir's death, is his archrival, Jerrell Jackson. Unfortunately, Jerrell is determined to get his revenge against Quadir's crew and he'll start with Gena.

3. True to the Game III (July 2, 2008 release)
   The third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you on a marathon race through the mean streets of Philly. Starting off where the second installment's dramatic cliffhanger left us, True III will finally reveal Gena's mysterious stalker and savior, as well as introduce a new killer so vicious, so cunning, so ruthless, he'll have you looking over your shoulder with each turn of the page.
   
   The crooked cops are searching for the money, Gena's family members are now the target for Gena who's hiding from everything and everyone, as the race is on for Gena's survival. Will she manage to keep the money, can she get out of town and make a new life for herself, and will her family survive the maniacal killer that is hell bent on tracking her down? Will Gena stay, True to the Game?