When Queens Snap

She's a Harlem detective born into blood and secrets. The daughter of the city's most feared woman. A woman who's seen more death than love—and refuses to stay silent.
Ki'Zayiah "Kiya" Monroe wears pink nails at murder scenes and stares down killers with storm-gray eyes. Her past drips in blood and betrayal. Her present? A city screaming her family's name—and bodies turning up carved with the word "Bellamy."
But Harlem doesn't just want her truth. Harlem wants her soul.
Alongside Mari Banks—a raw, truth-telling podcaster hungry for justice—and surrounded by crooked cops, haunted lovers, and supernatural shadows, Kiya fights to bury the secrets that keep clawing to the surface.
Bodies are piling up. The swamp remembers blood. And for Kiya, love is the most dangerous battlefield of all.
This is true crime dipped in hood noir. A murder mystery pulsing with savage female power, generational curses, and one woman's refusal to bow.
When Queens Snap isn't just a story. It's a war cry for every woman who ever loved too hard, stayed too long, or dared to survive.

Shockee is a truth-teller, a survivor, and a woman forged in fire. Born and raised in New York, NY, she carries the spirit of a fighter in her blood and the wisdom of generations in her soul. She is a mother, a poet, a lover, a warrior — and a voice for women who've been silenced for far too long.
Through heartbreak, abuse, loss, and the deepest shadows of grief, Shockee found not only herself but her purpose: to speak raw truths that set others free. Her words don't just tell stories — they bleed, they heal, they roar.
When she's not writing, you'll find her rolling up to ease her pain, vibing to music that speaks to her spirit, and loving fiercely on her babies. She believes healing is messy, growth is painful, but freedom? That's worth everything.