Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kiss the Ring | 2014 | Meesha Mink | Buy |
| 2 | All Hail the Queen | 2015 | Meesha Mink | Buy |
Meesha Mink’s standalone novels center on Naeema “Queen” Cole, a character often compared to a modern-day Foxy Brown. Kiss the Ring (2014) introduces Queen as a woman with an undercover identity who moves through Newark’s streets with a mix of toughness and intelligence. Library Journal named it one of their Best Books, and it showed that Mink could carry a novel on the strength of a single compelling character.
All Hail the Queen (2015) picks up where the first book left off, with Queen racing against the clock to find out who attacked her man and why. The sequel keeps the same fast pace and street-level tension that made Kiss the Ring popular, while raising the stakes for a character readers had already invested in.
These two books sit apart from Mink’s series work with the Bentley Manor trilogy and Real Wifeys. Where those series follow multiple characters across sprawling storylines, the Queen books are tighter and more focused, built around one woman’s fight to protect what matters to her.