She isn’t the first author to make a name for herself in the explosive category of urban fiction, but Meesha Mink, AKA Niobia Bryant, established herself as a fictional force to be reckoned with ever since her first best-seller, Three Times a Lady, became a nationwide best-seller list in 2001. Since then, the prolific and popular writer has penned many romantic and commercial mainstream fiction favorites, including the collaborative Hoodwives series (The Hood Life, Shameless Hoodwives and Desperate Hoodwives) and Hustle Hard, the final book in her Real Wifeys trilogy.

The protagonist of HH, Sophie “Suga” Alvarez (the childhood friend of Luscious from book two’s Get Money with a surprising connection to Goldie, the main character of book one’s On The Grind), continues the tradition of embodying the fierce and fearless-type females that ’ride-or-die’ for their loved ones, rep their men to the fullest and are about making as much paper as possible by any means necessary. As she asserts in the prologue, “the man I love doesn’t live within the law. Not slinging dope or gang-banging or some s*** like that; but nothing about his job is nine-to-five. Nothing about his hustle is safe or easy….I have fear that the wrong move on his part will lead up to the feds taking him from me or some n**** on the come-up taking his life. And then where will I be?”

Divided into three parts, the swiftly-paced HH follows “Suga,” her fiance Dane and their lives straddling the fence between legit and and illegal in Newark, NJ. A Senior Account Specialist by trade….(click here for the rest of our take on “Real Wifeys 3”)