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A Thug's Christmas: The Billion Dollar Blackmail
This Thug Universe Christmas Special connects directly to the official INSIDE THE THUG UNIVERSE™ Access Pass and interactive AI experience.
Christmas was supposed to be quiet.
For Trae Macklin, it was supposed to be about family, legacy, and enjoying the clean life he fought to build. The streets were behind him. The money was legit. The empire was secure.
Then the leverage surfaced.
As the city lights up for the holidays, a calculated digital strike threatens to expose everything Trae has worked to protect—his business, his family, and the past he buried at great cost. This isn’t a random attack. It’s precision. Timing. Blackmail designed to collapse an empire from the inside out.
With law enforcement watching, rivals circling, and the clock ticking toward Christmas morning, Trae is forced to reunite a crew that knows how to move in silence. Every decision carries weight. Every mistake risks blood. And every choice asks the same
What do you burn to save the family?
As old ghosts return and loyalty is tested, Trae learns the most dangerous threat isn’t losing the money—it’s losing control. Because the street doesn’t care how clean you’ve gone. It only remembers who you were.
A Thug’s Christmas is a gritty urban crime thriller about power, loyalty, and the cost of trying to walk away from the hustle—set against the deceptive calm of the holiday season.
The street never forgets. It just waits.
Christmas was supposed to be quiet.
For Trae Macklin, it was supposed to be about family, legacy, and enjoying the clean life he fought to build. The streets were behind him. The money was legit. The empire was secure.
Then the leverage surfaced.
As the city lights up for the holidays, a calculated digital strike threatens to expose everything Trae has worked to protect—his business, his family, and the past he buried at great cost. This isn’t a random attack. It’s precision. Timing. Blackmail designed to collapse an empire from the inside out.
With law enforcement watching, rivals circling, and the clock ticking toward Christmas morning, Trae is forced to reunite a crew that knows how to move in silence. Every decision carries weight. Every mistake risks blood. And every choice asks the same
What do you burn to save the family?
As old ghosts return and loyalty is tested, Trae learns the most dangerous threat isn’t losing the money—it’s losing control. Because the street doesn’t care how clean you’ve gone. It only remembers who you were.
A Thug’s Christmas is a gritty urban crime thriller about power, loyalty, and the cost of trying to walk away from the hustle—set against the deceptive calm of the holiday season.
The street never forgets. It just waits.
91 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 17, 2025
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About the author
Wahida Clark
74 books1,448 followersWahida Clark was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. She decided to start writing fiction while incarcerated at a women's federal camp in Lexington, KY. Her style is street, raw, and she has an imagination that's in overdrive. When you read her novels they are so real you are convinced of one of three things: that you are inside the book, you know the characters, or you just have to meet them.
Her first novel, Thugs And The Women Who Love Them and the sequel, Every Thug Needs A Lady appeared on the Essence Best Sellers List.
Her first novel, Thugs And The Women Who Love Them and the sequel, Every Thug Needs A Lady appeared on the Essence Best Sellers List.
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December 25, 2025
Damn, this was good as hell! I forgot how much I missed the gang.
January 4, 2026
What in the AI Bs is this!?
I know AI writing when I see it. I’m very disappointed I’ve been a fan of Wahida Clark since I was 13. I’ve read ALL of her books and this!? You could’ve kept this not to be brash, you tried cutting corners using AI writing to create this book. This not even street literature, it’s very watered down anybody that’s been a fan since day one knows your writing style. Also I’m a writer it’s easy to spot AI writing. I love you Wahida but this… use AI as a tool not to think for you.
I know AI writing when I see it. I’m very disappointed I’ve been a fan of Wahida Clark since I was 13. I’ve read ALL of her books and this!? You could’ve kept this not to be brash, you tried cutting corners using AI writing to create this book. This not even street literature, it’s very watered down anybody that’s been a fan since day one knows your writing style. Also I’m a writer it’s easy to spot AI writing. I love you Wahida but this… use AI as a tool not to think for you.
December 26, 2025
A legend
I will always read Wahida books especially anything connected to the Thug series! This book made me want to re-read the series!
I will always read Wahida books especially anything connected to the Thug series! This book made me want to re-read the series!
December 28, 2025
Excellent
I've read lots of your books and never disappointed but I was good reading about the crew I enjoyed it
I've read lots of your books and never disappointed but I was good reading about the crew I enjoyed it
January 4, 2026
Trash
I don't believe she wrote this ridiculous garbage. I don't think Thugs 7 is her work either. Not unless she didn't actually write all the other Thug series books.
I don't believe she wrote this ridiculous garbage. I don't think Thugs 7 is her work either. Not unless she didn't actually write all the other Thug series books.
January 4, 2026
MORE PLEASE!!!
LISTEN!!!! A whole Banger as usual!!! Trae Macklin is still HIM! I need more. So does Jaz take Faheem back or nah? I can read about the team all day long.
LISTEN!!!! A whole Banger as usual!!! Trae Macklin is still HIM! I need more. So does Jaz take Faheem back or nah? I can read about the team all day long.
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