La'Tonya West Books in Order
See La'Tonya West books in order, with quick summaries, linked series, reading guidance, and easy tips for choosing the best place to start.
Last updated: July 10, 2026
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La'Tonya West books in publication order
25 books
Consequences
by La'Tonya West
2009
West's debut turns on choices people think they can outrun, and the fallout that proves otherwise. It's a fast relationship drama about mistakes that keep echoing long after the moment has passed.
Crazy In Luv
by La'Tonya West
2010
Corey James has spent years juggling Janelle and Amy without either woman knowing the truth. A trip to Boykins forces the collision he has been dodging and turns his love life into open war.
Second Chance
by La'Tonya West
2010
Tionna travels to Savannah and runs into Nickell, the man she has loved since middle school, only to find he is engaged. When she learns a secret that could upend his future, she has to decide whether old love deserves another shot.
Nasty Secrets
by La'Tonya West
2011
Jasmine seems settled with her boyfriend Nathan until his sister Erika moves in and sparks a desire she can't ignore. Their secret affair grows harder to hide, especially when Nathan may be hiding secrets of his own.
Love and Paper
by La'Tonya West
2012
Meechie leaves Shad and starts chasing comfort in the pockets of his cousin Rodney. She wants money, ease, and the life she thinks she deserves, but nothing about that bargain comes cheap.
Nasty Secrets Part 2
by La'Tonya West
2012
The fallout from Jasmine, Erika, and Nathan's tangled secrets keeps building as love, loyalty, and truth pull in opposite directions. What started in private turns into a much harder mess to contain.
Sex Slave
by La'Tonya West
2012
This dark novella drops into a world of control, exploitation, and survival, where freedom carries a brutal price. West keeps the tension tight and the stakes personal.
The Story of Kimani Richards
by La'Tonya West
2012
After seventeen years with an abusive alcoholic husband, Kimani is done living in fear. As she fights for freedom, she also tries to stop her youngest son from becoming too much like his father.
Secret Lovers
by La'Tonya West
2013
Chloe falls for another man before her divorce is final, and the secret relationship throws everyone around her off balance. Lies, hurt feelings, and exposed trust turn a private mess into public trouble.
Side Chic
by La'Tonya West
2013
Lala has spent two years being Tre's side chic and telling herself she can stay in her lane. Then love and pregnancy change the rules, and the arrangement gets far messier than either of them planned.
Side Chic 2
by La'Tonya West
2013
Lala has given birth to twin daughters and wants Tre to show up like a father, not just a secret lover. As excuses pile up and Tamika stirs trouble, everyone around Tre starts showing cracks.
Side Chic 3
by La'Tonya West
2013
After Tre is shot, Lala and Kisha are forced to face how much of their lives still revolve around him. Fear, resentment, and unfinished business drive the next wave of drama.
Side Chic 4
by La'Tonya West
2013
Tre snaps after learning Lala's new man has crossed a terrible line with one of his daughters. As he goes looking for revenge, more ugly truths surface about the people closest to him.
Still Thirsty
by La'Tonya West
2013
Kaliyah is still chasing what she wants, and her friend Xay proves she can be just as ruthless. Their reckless choices pile up fast, and this time the consequences may turn deadly.
Thirsty
by La'Tonya West
2013
Kaliyah chases the good life through wealthy men and thinks she knows exactly how the game works. Then she meets Thrill, and her hunger for money and status starts pushing her toward real danger.
Around the Way Girls 9
by La'Tonya West
2014
This anthology follows women pushed into hard choices, and West's contribution, Outcast, centers on Breezy and King. It's a street-lit collection full of survival, pressure, and lives on the edge.
Blood Don't Make You Family
by La'Tonya West
2014
Nelle and Corey have survived plenty, but his betrayal with her cousin Mia may be the thing that finally breaks them. This sequel doubles down on cheating, family disloyalty, and the cost of forgiving too much.
Side Chic 5
by La'Tonya West
2014
Tre is reeling from tragedy, Kisha is trying to build something new with Lavar, and Mina is stuck in a nightmare she may not escape. The final book brings grief, suspicion, and one last round of hard choices.
Tremaine: When A Man's Fed Up
by La'Tonya West
2014
Ready to leave Boykins behind, Tre moves to Jordan City hoping to become a better man. Kisha has other plans, and the damage he caused at home follows him into his so-called fresh start.
Cookie and Meeko
by La'Tonya West
2015
After leaving Atlanta for Boykins, hustler Meeko tries to start fresh and falls hard for Cookie, a quiet woman who wants no part of street drama. Their chemistry is real, but his past, his money, and his baby mama make love complicated.
Cookie and Meeko 2
by La'Tonya West
2015
Meeko wants a real future with Cookie, but Shy is scheming to get him back and another woman is pregnant with his child. Their relationship is tested from every side as family drama and old habits close in.
Tremaine 2
by La'Tonya West
2016
Tre is already carrying more than he can handle when Kisha makes a shocking move involving their twin boys. With fresh loss hitting from every side, he is pushed closer to a breaking point.
Cookie and Meeko 3
by La'Tonya West
2018
Cookie and Meeko face another round of pressure as old street ties, family conflict, and unfinished business keep circling their relationship. The third book asks whether love can still hold when the drama never really stops.
King and Breezy
by La'Tonya West
2018
Breezy has spent years surviving abuse at home, and King is the friend who keeps pushing her to get out before it is too late. This short novel expands their story into a tense, emotional fight for escape.
From Main Chic To Side Chic
by La'Tonya West
2021
Before Tre, Lala was the woman in front, not the one on the side. This companion story looks back at her relationship with Darien Hill and how it changed the way she sees love and loyalty.
Where to start with La'Tonya West
If you want her best-known relationship drama: Side Chic → Side Chic 2 → Side Chic 3
If you want the fuller Lala story: From Main Chic To Side Chic → Side Chic → Side Chic 2 → Side Chic 3
If you want messy love triangles and betrayal: Crazy In Luv → Blood Don't Make You Family
If you want darker secret-driven drama: Nasty Secrets → Nasty Secrets Part 2
If you want street romance with a couple to root for: Cookie and Meeko → Cookie and Meeko 2 → Cookie and Meeko 3
La'Tonya West sub-series and character series
Cookie and Meeko books in order
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Side Chic
by La'Tonya West
2013Side Chic, Book 1
Side Chic 2
by La'Tonya West
2013Side Chic, Book 2
Side Chic 3
by La'Tonya West
2013Side Chic, Book 3
Side Chic 4
by La'Tonya West
2013Side Chic, Book 4
Side Chic 5
by La'Tonya West
2014Side Chic, Book 5
From Main Chic To Side Chic
by La'Tonya West
2021Side Chic, Book 6
Side Chic books in chronological order

Side Chic
by La'Tonya West
2013Side Chic, Book 1
Side Chic 2
by La'Tonya West
2013Side Chic, Book 2
Side Chic 3
by La'Tonya West
2013Side Chic, Book 3
Side Chic 4
by La'Tonya West
2013Side Chic, Book 4
Side Chic 5
by La'Tonya West
2014Side Chic, Book 5
From Main Chic To Side Chic
by La'Tonya West
2021Side Chic, Book 6
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Standalone La'Tonya West books
Author bio
La'Tonya West is an urban fiction writer from Virginia whose books live in the space where love, pride, betrayal, and survival keep crashing into each other. She was born in Fairfield, Virginia, grew up in the state, and has said that personal experience, things she has witnessed, and everyday situations all feed her fiction.
She started writing young. West has said she was around eleven when notebooks became a way to get out of her head and make sense of a rough childhood. She wrote stories and poems, shared them with her aunt, and kept going long before publishing was part of the plan.
That part matters.
At the end of 2008, she wrote Consequences and self-published it. That early do-it-yourself start shaped the rest of her career. A lot of her books came out fast and directly, and that same energy carries into the fiction itself. The stories move quickly, the emotions run hot, and the characters usually have to deal with the fallout from choices they thought they could manage.
A lot of readers first meet her through Side Chic, one of her best-known series. It starts with Lala, Tre, and Kisha in a messy triangle, then keeps widening into a bigger story about family, parenthood, jealousy, revenge, and consequences. West later returned to Lala's past in From Main Chic To Side Chic, which gives that character more history and shows that the drama did not begin with Tre.
She also writes well beyond one series. Crazy In Luv and Blood Don't Make You Family lean into cheating, loyalty, and betrayal inside close family circles. Nasty Secrets pushes hidden desire and dangerous secrecy to the front. Thirsty is sharper and more cautionary, while the Cookie and Meeko books mix romance with street pressure, baby-mama drama, and the question of whether a person can really leave an old life behind.
Her books tend to return to the same hard questions. What do people stay for when love has already turned messy? How much can a family absorb before it stops feeling like safety? And what happens when someone wants a better life but keeps reaching for it through the wrong person, or the wrong plan?
Virginia shows up again and again in her work, especially in small-town settings where everybody knows enough of your business to make trouble. West writes about women trying to hold onto their pride, men who swear they will do better next time, cousins and friends who blur the line between loyalty and betrayal, and households where love and stress sit in the same room every day. Readers who click with her work usually come for the fast pace, the cliffhangers, and the plainspoken way she gets right to the problem.
She keeps it personal.
West is also a mother of three, two girls and one boy, and that pressure around family responsibility runs all through her stories. Even when the setups get wild, the feelings underneath them stay familiar, hurt, hunger, shame, hope, and the need to be chosen.
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