LHHNY: Rashidah 'Rah' Ali releasing her first novel 'A King and an Ace'

Love and Hip Hop Reality TV star Rah-Ali is adding on to her brand with the release of her new novel "A King And An Ace."  

The book opens the doors into the heart of a young woman who is experiencing the twists and turns of life. Mia, the main character, seems to have it all but she is battling a huge secret that she never wants to reveal. She constantly endures the trials and tribulations of life's unpredictability; dealing with sexuality, love, relationships, and betrayal. 

Her strength of character and individuality is tested in more ways than one. Readers will definitely keep turning pages as they begin to unravel the unique back story and life challenges Mia goes up against. Ali uniquely fuses creative, urban fiction with facets of real life experiences and situations making for a compelling story.

Check out an excerpt from the book called "Our Final Chapter" below:  

Our Final Chapter  

 Ring, Ring.Ring, Ring.The telephone number you are trying to reach, Six, Zero, Nine. Five, Seven, One. One, Zero, Seven, One is not available. Please leave a message at the sound of the beep. Those words were all I heard each and every time I called Ace on the phone.    I hung up for the third time. I had been trying to reach him for so long, I started to wonder if he even knew I was calling. "Maybe he has his phone set up so that my calls automatically go to voicemail."  I thought out loud. New technology made anything possible.  For the first time in my life, I didn't have a plan. Everything I tried failed. I didn't know what else to do in order to get through to him. The tone of my text messages would range from concerned to flirty to rage. No matter what approach I took, nothing would make Ace respond. He was close minded to anything I had to say and he had made the decision that I wasn't the woman for him. I just hadn't got the official memo. His actions were notice enough as far as he was concerned. Days turned into weeks, weeks grew into months and still no communication between us. The cold fall season had changed and warm Spring days were approaching. The pain in my heart grew heavier with each day passing. I always thought with time came healing but it was the complete opposite for me. I couldn't stop my mind from replaying all of our good laughs together. I missed the sound of his voice and waking up to his "good morning" text. Sometimes I'd dream of us re-connecting but I'd wake up to a empty room and call history. It was like someone had set my heart on fire. I would have settled for whatever he had to offer. I truly felt that anything with him was better than anything without him. As much as I hated showing anyone this vulnerability and emotion, I turned to Noah and Amira for answers.       

  "I haven't heard from Ace at all. He won't speak to me."We had a disagreement and since then he's drifted from me." "Did he mention anything to you?" Can you talk to him for me Noah?  With a smile emerging Noah responded "I told you, that nigga gets like that." "You thought you had it in the bag, that's a funny style nigga." That boy in every thing but a coffin." Noah joked "What does that mean?""What the fuck does that have to do with me?" "I couldn't care less about these around the way groupies fucking Ace. I want to know why he hasn't spoken to me, something is going on." Noah and Amira looked at each other showing there dis interest in my dilemma. Talking to them was pointless. Amira had harbored a jealousy that hadn't taken its course just yet and Noah was happy as hell things had took a turn. "You already had a good one, why you need two?" Look what I'm stuck with" Amira said. Referring to my long term relationship with King. "Man Fuck that nigga, you need to holla at my man Jag" he keeps asking about you. He'll spend a few dollars." I frowned my face up in disgust at the thought of dating another one of Noah's friends. I didn't care if it was President Obama. I was damn near in mourning and all Noah wanted was the details on how good or not my pussy game was. Details he never got from Ace and he was clearly not happy about it. I dismissed his invitation, though he would repeatedly suggest it every time I came around. "Listen man, Ace moved on, he's not feeling you" the nigga got a girl so you need to do you, he thinks your fucking with pillow and ain't no way he's fucking with you if your doing that." "Why would he think that?" Pillow and I are cool, we kick it but why would he think I was fucking with him?" I asked as I looked over at Amira out the side of my eye as to say "but you are"  "I don't know but my advice to you would be to stop talking to the nigga all together if you really want to fix shit with Ace." He had given  me the advice against his better will, but it was all I needed to know to make sense of what happened. I called Pillow and asked him if he had given anyone the impression that he and I were dating. I asked him to be honest, knowing that he was someone who liked to impress people, I asked if he had led anyone to believe that. "Nah, I never told anyone we were dating"." I mean certain people in my immediate circle know where cool and that I like you but no I never said that" He said in his soft conniving bitch voice,,,,That was all I needed to hear. I knew what type of game he was playing as I proceeded to royally curse his soft ass out. " You punk ass, fake pretty boy, pussy ass nigga…I know you have lost your mother fucking mind". "Are you trying to rock me to sleep?" " You speak to me and know I'm sick over this nigga and it's because of you that I'm going through this shit?" "Does it look like I want you?" "I fuck with real niggas, real niggas only, and that you are not." I was livid to say in the least. Pillow stayed quiet on the other end of the phone. It was war! I immediately begin to terminate all means of communication between he and I. Deleting him off my blackberry messenger, un-following him on twitter, deleting his number from my phone and any other way I could think of. He dialed me back to back but I refused his calls. Amira and I had taken 4000 dollars from him as a deposit for a few apartments he needed in the city. He would never see his money or the keys to any apartment on the account of me. I dared his bitch ass to do something and I'd sit on top of his cotton ball ass and poke him out myself. It was nothing for me to put 25 dollars on his head. Yes 25 dollars! A lot of niggas disliked his bitch ass and it would have been easy but I decided that I didn't need that burden on my conscious. I was mad enough to do it.  I felt betrayed and more importantly, I was made to look like I had no loyalty. The furthest thing from what I stood for. After going on a week long tangent.  I decided to calm down and let go of the anger and obsession with Ace and our relationship. It was so hard for me because I really felt I was robbed of my soul mate. He was suppose to be my Ace.  I felt that we were suppose to be in each others lives in some way or another but the lack of communication allowed the streets to tear us apart.  

         I packed my bags and headed over to Amira's so we could leave for the JFK airport together. We had planned a trip to Vegas for Memorial Weekend and although my spirits were down, I thought the trip may take my mind off of things. Run.tell.that also known as "Noah" told us that Ace would be there and that he and some of there friends had rooms at the Aria Hotel as well. I immediately changed the reservation to stay at the Venetian. I still loved Ace with all my heart and wanted nothing more than to see his face but it had been months and my heart couldn't bare anymore disappointment. My plan was to stay out of his way. Noah had told us that he specifically told him "don't bring that girl around me" when he got wind that we would be in town. I'd become numb to it all and intended to do just that, "stay away". Noah and Amira commented that they had there popcorn ready to see the movie. We all flew to the west side together. Myself, Amira, Noah and Noah's mini me Mel X. He was a miniature Noah shadowing behind the islamic religion path that Noah had chosen and speaking gossip as a first language. After a long 5 hour flight, we landed and went our separate ways. Amira and I checked in, unpacked and went straight to bed. It was late and we were exhausted.     The next morning we put on our bathing suits and headed out to TAO Beach, a cute little pool party in the exterior of our hotel. It was a popular scene and people came from all of the other hotels to drink, sunbath and listen to the DJ play music. We met up with a few of our other girls that were in town and hung out at their cabana. "Babe Noah said there on there way over here" Amira said referring to Noah and his crew. "oh ok" I responded nonchalant but in my mind I wondered if Ace would be with them. I wondered what he would say, if anything at all. 20 minutes later Amira got a text that Noah wanted her to come out and get them. "I'll be back babe, and I'll text you if Ace is with them." "ok cool" I said. Less than 5 minutes later I got a text from Amira that said "HE IS HERE BABE" in all capital letters. I didn't know what to say or think so I just sat there. I wasn't going to show excitement to see someone who clearly didn't want to see me. They all entered the cabana area and went to the bar. I looked over to my left and caught direct eye contact with Ace. My first instinct was to run and hug him, wrapping my legs around him like a 5 year old little girl happy to see her dad but I wouldn't embarrass myself like that so I just waved hello. He waved me off to say whatever and I turned my head back in the opposite direction. "Damn, is he serious" I thought…or is he just kidding around? I couldn't call it but I wasn't going to approach him to find out. The next few hours were dreadful. I made sure not to look in his direction as if there was a ray of sun that would have burned my eye lids if I did. At some point or another, they left but I wasn't quit sure when. Once again, Ace was gone without a trace.  

       We all ate, laughed and drank until we grew exhausted from the heat and decided to head back to our hotel.  There were potentials everywhere but I couldn't bring myself to find interest in any of them. I wanted one man and one man only. I didn't even want to entertain conversation with any other guys. I had it bad. Night fell and we all got ready to hit the club. After a few drinks, I was starting to enjoy myself. We bathed, oiled our bodies down and prepared to hit the town.  I don't remember what Amira had on but my Theory leopard leggings were painted on. I wore a cute off the shoulder Alice & Olivia lipstick top with matching FENDI sandals and clutch. I took drastic measures of change rocking a dramatic platinum blonde bob. Light make up with my signature red lip. I damn sure dressed my ass off and my walk was mean.     "I'm here, where you at?"  I yelled into the telephone speaking to one of my girlfriends who was on her way to the club to meet us. "I'm here too" she said before we both noticed the echo  and realized we were right in front of each other. We laughed hysterically before walking in with her male friends. A few players from the Pittsburg Steelers. Trailing closely behind was the largest pack of groupies I had ever seen. They came in every shape and color. "Damn" these bitches are deep" I said as we laughed. We entered the club singing to the tune of Drake and lil Wayne before sitting at our table. The music was rocking and bottles were flowing. Lloyd banks came out and did a short performance that got a great reaction from the party goers. We were in the zone…."Babe, oh my god. Theres goes Noah" Amira said. "I see his beard" Noah rocked a thick, long Philly beard as a reflection of his islamic religion. "Where?" I asked. "Right there" and I see Ace too" "He has a girl sitting on his lap" I couldn't see shit so we left our table and pretended to head for the bathroom. There table was close enough that we didn't have to go far. "Excuse me ms, you are pretty as hell and your body is on point" a guy from Noah's table said before grabbing my hand to get my attention. I kindly said "no thanks" as we made our way passed there table. Just as we thought the coast was clear, Ace grabbed Amira's arm and initiated a playful two step with her. I went along with it like they were old pals. There was nothing for me to do but stand there so I kept walking straight to the bathroom. Two seconds later, Amira walks in "what the hell was that?" "Girl I don't know" He just grabbed my arm and we started dancing" "I can't believe there table is so close to ours" "I know" Brushing our hair and reapplying a coat of lip gloss before walking out the ladies room. Right as we approached the table in the direction of where we were seated, Noah stopped us and told us to sit with them. "I don't think that's a good idea, I'm going to go back where I was" he doesn't want to be around me why would I invade his space like that?" Stop being a punk, just sit down" Noah said. I didn't completely trust his advice so I sat as far away from Ace as possible with my back turned. To my surprise he was standing right in front of me two stepping with Amira again and nudging me. I didn't bother to respond because that wasn't a direct invitation of friendship and Ace could switch up at any given moment. He was a true Gemini and there was two different sides. I did my best to ignore them while not looking bothered. The rest of the night went smoothly as we all made our way to exit the club  "Lets go back to Ace's room" "The After party" Noah said, co-signed by his pears. "Come on, ya'll coming?" Noah asked. "Hell no, I'm not going to his room" "What are you thinking?" I asked. "Just come on" both Noah and Amira encouraged. "ok" I said reluctantly. Something told me that I should have went back to my room as planned. We all piled up in the limo and headed back to Ace's room. We hadn't even had so much as a conversation but here I was posted up in his hotel room. I felt out of place even though I appeared mellow. I kept my game face even when my heart raced. Drinks got passed around, the music was turned up loud and everyone was in there own zone. There was no room on the couch so I sat on the bar area. I intended to just cool out until Amira was ready to go. I didn't want to seem like I was pressed to be in his room. I leaned back and accidentally knocked over a glass that hit the floor. It didn't brake but it was like the sound was the switch for Ace's other personality.  He reached over and snatched me off the bar "what the fuck are you doing" he said. "Why the hell are you grabbing on me?" "What's your problem?" I yelled back. The room went silent. Some how the music had stopped and everyone was focused on the domestic squall between Ace and I. "Get the fuck off of me," I pulled away and went straight into the bathroom. I buried my face in my hands unable to hold back the tears any longer and cried months worth of pain. I couldn't believe what had happened and I just wanted to disappear. "Ya'll need to talk, Noah said while pulling Ace in the room and closing the door behind them " Nah, no we don't. All the shit she did?" he looked at Noah to say "You the one that told me half this shit, now you want me to talk to her? I hadn't known it at the time but Noah had been playing both sides of the fence. It was times like that, that made me think he was in my corner, but I didn't know that the same way he brought ammunition to me regarding Ace, he had done the same with him. Ace of course trusted everything he relayed because he figured it was coming from a reliable source, Amira "my closest friend" and I believed him as well because it was coming from his "close friend." Ace expressed his disgust for me by calling me a creep and disloyal before telling me to get out of his room. My defense mechanism set in and I stopped crying and started lashing back out. Calling him names and shouting the things that I had heard he was doing over the months. Before I knew it, Ace was dragging me out the room on my back causing me to get rug burns before shutting the door. I laid on the floor for a second crying and feeling a heart brake I never knew existed before banging on the door. "Is he crazy?" Do I look like some worthless bitch you just curse out and throw out your room?" I had, had enough. I banged on the door and when he opened I swung, Ace backed up and I missed. Causing me to fall into his arms. He held my arms down so I couldn't swing but I screamed profanities. He wrapped his arms around my chest and lifted me up. I lost my breath shortly as he whispered in my ear "You wanna go to sleep?" He was subtlely threatening to stop my breathing if I didn't sit my ass down. Shamefully it turned me on and I wanted to rip his clothes off and pleasure him in every way possible. At some point or another, everyone had cleared out the room once we started to fight and the only person still there was Ace's cousin "Teddy" who I had just met but we'd come to be really cool in the future. "You losing your cool Mia?" Ace asked me before telling me to calm down, kissing my forehead and wrapping my arms around his neck. "Calm down" he said. His words were soothing like a mother giving her baby a bottle to go to sleep. We had finally got to a decent place and before I knew it one of the birds that Ace had met in the lobby came down the hallway, ashy and barefoot ready to get it in with him. She knocked on the room door as I shot her a look of disgust. Instead of taking her low budget ass in the room and being quiet, she askes him if he's coming in. "Yes he's coming HOE" just wait a second. "You gone get the dick don't worry." Which immediately set off a ruckus in the hallway. Noah begin pulling me in the opposite direction while I yelled out "HE DON'T EVEN LIKE BLACKIES, YOU HOE BITCH" That bitch just didn't know that I could care less about her getting some dick. I had deeper issues with Ace that I wanted to resolve. We approached the end of the hallway before coming face to face with the bird gang. The posse of the hood bugger in the room with Ace. The punk bitch must have called her friends to her defense. "Where's our girl they asked?" Like they wanted to do something. "THAT HOE IS IN THE ROOM GETTING FUCKED LIKE HOES DO" I said before slamming my fist dead into the face of the bird brain who asked. A wild fight broke out in the hallway. Amira, Noah and I went at it in the hallway while Teddy,  Ace's cousin struggled to capture the whole thing on his camera phone. He was amused by all that was taken place to say in the least. We eventually broke it up and went our separate ways, I intended to kick there asses every time I saw them whack bitches. I was a pretty bitch, but I was far from a punk. My heart  aint pump no kool-aid, as my mom would say. The rest of the trip was a drag, I saw Ace a few times after that but it was always so many people around and spectators it made no sense to even try to talk. I saw him the last night while waiting in the lobby for Amira to come down from Noah's room, he was leaving the Casino table and we said good bye before I watched him disappear into the elevator. He was on his way to grab his bags and head back to New York. I knew there was no chance of resolving anything once we got back home because I had no way of contacting him. I had tried to call him after the situation at his room but the number was disconnected. I had no idea how long it was that way because I hadn't called in so long.         The last day of the trip, I was on the phone with my mom but my service was bad at Noah's room and the calls kept dropping. " I thought the network was behind me" I joked with Amira, Noah and Mel X referring to having Verizon and still dealing with dropped calls. I asked Amira if I could use her phone to finish speaking with my mom. I stood in the hallway, updating her on everything that happened during the trip. My mom and I were real close and I always kept her in the loop. We spoke for hours before wrapping up the call. I hung up and the screen went straight to the the text conversation Amira had been having before I asked if I could use her phone.                         

AMIRA: "I was dreading going on this trip with her, but we split the room and it's Vegas so I can stomach her lol"             

FRIEND: "lol, how has she been?"             

AMIRA: "Still herself, obsessing over Ace and they got into a huge fight at the hotel yesterday and he dragged her out his room."                        

FRIEND: "What? No way…..What the hell happened?"                      

  AMIRA: "Yep, it was crazy. He called her a creep and dragged her out his room because she knocked over a glass lol…I know it's wrong for me to say this, but she always  acts like nothing bothers her. It kind of felt good to see her cry. She bleeds like the rest of us.      It must have took me close to a hour to read the months worth of dialogue between Amira, Noah and her best friend Shakira. She harbored so much envy and jealousy but I never really confirmed before reading it in black and white. Countless conversations between her and Noah about how much they didn't like me and how I thought I was better than everyone. Noah made comments about Ace and his flaky personality, not wanting anyone near his bitches and how cocky and secretive he was. Noah joked that it was all good until his man Jim got on one of his bitches and you could see the insecurity in him. There was so much evidence before my eyes, that I was nauseous. I wished I had Ace's number so that I could forward all of the things I had read. I was surprised and my brain could hardly store all the information. All along, Amira had been praying on our downfall, while Noah did his best to execute it. I'd usually go into violent mode when I felt betrayed or disrespected but I was too disappointed with myself for not seeing and not listening to my mothers warning. I walked back into the room to face Noah and Amira about what I'd read………………… KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, Amira opened the door.  

"A King And An Ace," will be released on March 27th, 2014 and will be available at iTunes, Amazon, Kindle, Barnes and Noble as well as other speciality book stores.