Lakisha, the Author

#iWrite – It’s who I am!

If you’ve yet to get know who Lakisha is as an author, here are a list of my books. I write, it’s what I do. I don’t write for fame, I write because I’ve been favored by God to do so. Even with the fiction books, it’s not about me. I have a talent so I must use it. God didn’t say I had to stop at one genre, He simply gifted me and told me to use it!

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A Secret Worth Keeping

Shelby is a career woman turned housewife who enjoys the friendships that have been built with her 5 best friends; Camille, Lynesha, Raylin, Kerri and Chloe. They are all career women with different businesses or careers, husbands and even children but something is missing, something they can’t find at home, in a store or even in a book. So, they search for this missing piece in the beds, arms, cars, offices and even in storage rooms of other men who don’t mind paying for what Dem Dam Divas can offer. They enjoy the thrill of sneaking, creeping and even vacationing on someone else’s dime but what happens when it all becomes too much? From being found guilty with no evidence, secretly wanting someone who doesn’t want you, loving only to not be loved back, caught up in a dream that you’re about to be awaken from; will it be worth it in the end? Will their secret lives be revealed and will it become too much to handle? Will they regret their actions or stand by them? Will they finally question whether this secret is really worth keeping?

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A Secret Worth Keeping: Deleted Scene

What more can there be for these six friends who’ve vowed to keep their secrets until the end? More secrets, more lies; will they ever come clean? In this deleted scene of the #1 Best-selling novel, A Secret Worth Keeping, the darkest secrets of them all are finally revealed. In this 5,000 additional words, it is complete with sex, lies, and secrets. Plus get a preview of Part 2 with raw, unedited, and edge of the seat drama.

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A Secret Worth Keeping 2

These divas are back and the drama is unfolding. Shelby is in the midst of some major mess with her husband, Chloe is pregnant and confused, Kerri seems to be mending fences with her husband, Lyn doesn’t know what she wants, Ray wants happiness with Anthony but his wife has other plans and Cam–God only knows what she has in store. Will their marriages survive or will they even care? Will they place their secrets in a box to never open again or are the secrets worth all the hell that they might produce? Is it a lesson learned, lights out and game over, or are these secrets just worthy enough to be kept? Find out in a Secret Worth Keeping 2!

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Ms. Nice Nasty

Camille Holden-Shannon has always been who she says she is, a woman who can command a courtroom and bedroom without opening her mouth! She’s sexy, confident and not afraid; her credentials speak for themselves. She loves her family and her career but she cannot deny the fact that she loves sex and lots of it. She doesn’t break up homes; she simply gets what she needs and she’s gone!

Her career suddenly takes a turn in the right direction and she is thrown into the public’s eye and all hell breaks loose! A secret adds more fuel to the fire already burning inside her chaotic home and to make matters worse she finds herself being tormented by a ghost from her past! Can she hold it all together or will she break under the pressure? Will Ms. Nice Nasty hang up her stilettos or can she come out on top like she’s known to do.

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Ms. Nice Nasty: Cam’s Confession

What is it with secrets, sex, lies and did I mention sex?

For Camille, she has had her fair share of them all. From A Secret Worth Keeping to Ms. Nice Nasty. What’s next? Yea, she has always proclaimed to be “unapologetically Cam” but when it seems like the world around her is beginning to tumble down, she has to face some real truths about whom she really is and who she wants to be.

With the help or the badgering of her therapist, Camille is able to finally confront a demon from her past. She, tearfully, admits the ultimate betrayal that forced her to hide the person she once was and become the person we’ve grown to love (or hate).

In, Cam’s Confession, we get to see how the facade of Cam was created to mask her pain and how it’s become first nature. Yes, in the courtroom, Camille commands the attention but in the bedroom; it’s Cam that is laying down the law!

You got to know Cam in A Secret Worth Keeping and even better in Ms. Nice Nasty but in this special edition of Ms. Nice Nasty, Cam’s Confession; Camille finally breaks her silence and lets you in on a little more of her personal life. She’s still the erotic vixen you love to hate but is she ready to let Cam go in order to save her marriage and possibly her career? Will therapy finally give her the breakthrough she needs to let the secret life go? Or will Cam still be in denial about it all? Find out in this 11,000 word addition of Ms. Nice Nasty.

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Doses of Devotion –“Although your problems come with pain, the pain is proving that you’re not perfect but yet a person who God has picked to be placed at this point and through prayer you’ll be prescribed a promise of praise that allows you to be purified and through this purification process you’ll prosper and through your prosperity you’ll get power and with this power you’ll get God’s protection that allows you to prevail and once you prevail, you’ll have the patience to pursue your purpose.”

I didn’t write this book to tell you that each day will be easy because then I’d be selling you a dream however, I simply stopped to give you some encouragement.

Yes, this journey is hard but if everything was easy would you appreciate your struggle in overcoming? I don’t have all the answers but I can promise you a Master who has never lost a case. I get it, you may be in your struggle; right now but it’s only making you stronger, strengthening the weak places need to make your transition to greater.

— Don’t shortchange your struggle because without it, you wouldn’t be as strong as you are!

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You Only Live Once begins and ends in prayer and is filled with prayers, devotionals and helpful information to help your youth on their spiritual journey. This devotional was written to let them know that prayer alone doesn’t work but with prayer, fasting, faith and work they can get through their struggle. For the bible says; Faith without works is dead (James 2:17). I pray this book reaches those that need a little or even a lot of encouragement for the times you’ve seemed to fallen and don’t know how to get back up! I pray that this book gives them restored hope and understanding and courage to pray even the more. I even pray that this book creates in them a devotion to spend more time in devotion to God. It won’t be easy but it will be worth it!

No, it isn’t your average devotional but it is God’s word and it is geared towards youth, teens and young adults however it is not sugarcoated teaching because the world isn’t sugarcoating it’s teaching. This devotional is written to help them on their journey because this spiritual walk isn’t a joke and it’s hard, daily. The enemy isn’t playing and his attacks are getting harder day-to-day. My prayer is that the find what they need inside.

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Daily Devotional – 10/27/15 “Would you pass inspection?”

You’ve heard the saying, we (as in Saints of God) are the church, haven’t you? Well the bible shares with us in 1 Peter 2:5 this, “And you are living stones that God is building into his spiritual temple. What’s more, you are his holy priests. Through the mediation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifices that please God.” This lets me know that we are the bricks that make up the church of God. It doesn’t matter what shape you are, what color you happen to be and where you are placed; as long as you are usable in the building of God’s kingdom. See, God is the chief cornerstone which means He is the foundation (the concrete) that is laid with the 4 corners that connects the walls of the church. We, Saints of God, are the brick (bible says living stones) that are used in the building of the church thus making us important. Now, I have to ask the question … Would you pass inspection. If God had to look you over to see if you can be used in the kingdom, would you make the cut?

God is our foundation (He should be) so we know this would pass but what about everything else? Would your outer appearance (although it may have a few scratches and dents from everyday use) pass? Is it inviting to the unsaved? Would someone want to get to know the God you serve by looking at you? Would your inside be clean in order enough to pass inspection? If God looked, would He see something worth using in you or will your mouth and heart keep you out of commission? Would you pass inspection? I mean, if God is our overseer that makes Him our code enforcement officer, doesn’t it? Well, if He just happened to pop up for inspection to see if we should be used, would we pass? If He had to check what comes out of our mouth, would we pass? If He had to check how we serve, would we pass? Oh, don’t be put in the discard pile for the bible says in 1 Peter 2:8, “They stumble because they do not obey God’s word, and so they meet the fate that was planned for them.” But it doesn’t end there because 1 Peter 2:9 picks up and says, “But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.” Are you usable? Would you pass inspection?

Daily Devotional – 10/26/15 “Favor over fame!”

I’d rather have favor over fame! See, favor can take away the labor while fame adds to it. Favor can take my name into places I’ve yet to step in. Fame, if not handled correctly, can put my name in places it doesn’t belong. Favor can’t be taken from me no matter how many times I fall but fame can be taken if I fall. With favor I don’t have to tell folk who I am but with fame, folk will try to tell me who I’m not. Oh, I’d rather have favor over fame. See, favor can get me places man can’t remove me from but fame can take me places man can. When you’re favored by God, there are no limits because God sets no boundaries but when you’re in fame, there’s a fine line not to cross. Yea, there are some worldly benefits to having fame but it also comes with burdens. With favor, it forms the work for my hands to do but fame just makes me work. With favor, I can ask and it’ll be given but with fame, I may seek but not find.

This is why I’d rather have favor over fame. Fame can get my name in lights but favor can light my life. Fame can get me on the red carpet but favor can set me on the path of righteousness. Fame can put money in my account but favor can give me access to a never-ending supply of blessings. Fame may get me in the door but favor is what keeps me there. Fame may get me a drink but favor gives me access to a well that never runs dry. Fame may get me to the table but favor allows me to have a seat. I’d rather have favor for I’ll continue to cry out like Psalm 106:4 that say, “Remember me, LORD, when you show favor to your people; come near and rescue me.” I’ll petition the throne of grace and say like Abraham did in Genesis 18:3, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my Lord, do not pass your servant by.” I’d rather have favor of fame because with fame it’s about my name but with favor, it’s tied to my life!

Daily Devotional – 10/23/15 “I pray right now…”

Riding into work this morning, listening to 95.7 and the St. Jude stories; I cannot even begin to imagine. Listening to the parents who have suffered and those still suffering through watching their children fight cancer, makes me realize that it could be me! I don’t know how it feels to lose a child, I don’t know what it feels like to have a child hospitalized, I don’t know what it’s like to hear the doctor say your child may not survive, I don’t know what it feels like to watch my child suffer and there’s nothing I can do … I don’t know! But I do know that God is able. So while you are crying because your bae walked out on you again, while you are mad because you had a flat tire, while you are angry at some stuff that happened 15 years ago, while you are finding it hard to forgive, while you are wasting precious time; it could be worse. As a matter of fact, if you were to look back over your life, you’ll quickly find that with all the hell you used to raise; it should be worse. Yet, God has spared us one more time! Just to know that God doesn’t treat us how we treat Him is enough to stir something in your spirit. To understand that no matter what we face, we have what we need to come out victorious should be enough for you to lift your unworthy hands and tell the Lord thank you!

Oh, I know God is able and even after listening to the stories from the parents of patients at St. Jude; I still have renewed hope that nothing we go through is for our bad. I pray today for every child at St. Jude, for every parent that has to rock a child after dealing with a rough dose of chemo, radiation or even surgery. I pray now for the parents, who themselves, may be dealing with cancer, sickness or disease. I pray, at this very moment, for the parents who’ve had to bury a child for whatever reason. I pray, at the throne of God for comfort, peace, understanding and an extra dose of strength for all those dealing with whatever it is. I’m even praying for you who are reading this for whatever it is you’re dealing with. And my prayer is simple, “Lord, I need you to have your way! Amen.” If that isn’t enough then pray this one, “Lord, do it! Amen.” If that isn’t enough then pray this one, “Lord, I surrender! Amen.”

It doesn’t take much to get God’s attention. All you need to do is call Him and He’ll answer. Stop saying won’t he do it because he probably won’t but I know without a doubt that God will. Won’t God do it? Yes, each and every time!

Daily Devotional – 10/21/15 “Wake up like …”

It doesn’t matter that you laid down crying from a broken heart. It doesn’t matter that you may be temporarily out of funds. It doesn’t matter that you’re in the midst of your storm. It doesn’t matter that you don’t have all you think you have. It matters that you woke up like this! What’s this? You woke up! If you’re reading this, you’re in your right mind with the activity of your limbs. Yea, you may be in pain, you may be worrying about that, you might be still trying to figure out last month’s bills with this month’s added on, you may be looking for a job, trying to understand how you ended up in that valley or pit, trying to figure out how to feed the children dinner, trying to get somewhere with no car and no reliably friends but you woke up! Baby, you may not have the house you want but you didn’t wake up outside or in a homeless shelter. You may want steak but only have ground beef budget but you have food. You may not have the job you want but you’re surviving.

Chile, wake up like this! What this? Baby, wake up appreciating the blessing of seeing a new day. Wake up thanking God that He allowed the death angel to bypass your name and your house. Wake up with a praise on your lips instead of pity. Wake up expecting greater instead of gossiping. Wake up feeling like the royalty you are. Wake up walking in the favor you’ve been filled with. Wake up acknowledging the anointing you’ve been allowed to achieve. Wake up blessed because you are! Wake up grateful because you should be. Wake up thankful because you ought to be. However you woke up, you woke up!