K.R. Bankston

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2007
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Gianni Legacy

1 - A Deadly Encounter (May-2009)
2 - Sins of the Father (Dec-2009)
3 - Smoke & Mirrors (Aug-2010)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • King of the Game

    Is it ever okay to lie to someone you love?ARMANI PROCTOR, co-founder of TMK records, is a successful businessman with a dark past he’s trying desperately to leave behind. His deepest desire is realized when he meets a beautiful reporter and falls ...

  • A Deadly Encounter

    The Gianni Legacy - 1

    Dezi Gianni is a very much a man used to getting what he wants. Kayla DeWitt, the beautiful woman dining in the restaurant where he and his partner are having lunch,is no exception. Dezi finds himself in a constant battle keeping the true depth of hi...

  • Sins of the Father

    The Gianni Legacy - 2

    Some say that Evil, like Love, never dies. 20 years ago Kayla DeWitt met Dezi Gianni and a whirlwind romance began. A romance filled with love, joy, intrigue, deception and ultimately death. Still, after all she'd been through and all she'd lost, Kay...

  • Smoke & Mirrors

    The Gianni Legacy - 3

    Dezi Gianni has spent twenty plus years rebuilding his empire, becoming even more powerful than he'd been before. Though the life of luxury and privilege that people only dream of never faltered, Dezi was not fulfilled. There was still that one loose...

  • Unraveled: A Short Story Collective

    Welcome to the world of author, KR Bankston. In this compilation, the author invites the reader into her space to explore and enjoy the multi-faceted works she’s created. Over 200 pages of short stories and extended excerpts from all her full lengt...

  • Thin Ice

    Life sometimes takes strange twists, for seemingly no reason at all. Things long since grieved over and buried, forgotten and left behind, seem to be resurging; defying reality and logic. Ice and Ryan are dead, their legacies not soon forgotten. For ...

  • Hide & Seek

    Three years later, the city of Atlanta, we still find Ian “Ice” Bailey on top of the world. His businesses are flourishing; the empire he shares with his brother Ryan is strong and ever expanding. He’s gaining new allies on a daily basis and hi...

  • Armageddon

    The saying goes: You can’t keep a GOOD man down. For Ian ‘Ice’ Bailey that means payback’s a bitch. Left to rot in a hellish, nightmarish existence inside Carsdale Mental Hospital, buried deep in the back woods of Louisiana, the fortunes smil...

  • Resurrections

    Life sometimes takes strange twists, for seemingly no reason at all. Things long since grieved over and buried, forgotten and left behind, seem to be resurging; defying reality and logic. Ice and Ryan are dead, their legacies not soon forgotten. For ...



  • Checkmate

    Finally the specter of Ice’s interference has been removed and Tariq and Kaitlyn are happily raising their twin daughters, their lives and business back on track in their new home, Gary, Indiana. It would seem the fates have found favor in the coup...

  • Now You're A Star

    Teja, executive assistant for the prominent Atlanta Talent Agency, is woman who knows what she wants and makes no bones about attaining it. To her delight, what she wants has just walked in the door. Jesus, that man is fine as hell, she thought once...

  • The Gianni Legacy - Volume 1

    A Deadly Encounter - Dezi Gianni is a very much a man used to getting what he wants. Kayla DeWitt, the beautiful woman dining in the restaurant where he and his partner are having lunch,is no exception. Dezi finds himself in a constant battle keeping...

  • Hangman & Socrates

    Ian “Ice” Bailey and Kaitlyn “KiKi” Ross have a destiny. Their lives have been filled with one tumultuous, tempestuous, occurrence after the other. Finally fate, divine destiny, or just plain bad luck, depending on one’s point of view, has ...

  • The Master Orchestrator

    Jared and Morgan Piper have a wonderful marriage. They’re in love and happily planning to expand their family. Jared’s best friend, Brian Holbrook, is a man on a mission. He’s focused, driven, and determined never to let another woman hurt him ...

  • Echoes of Reckoning

    Victor (n) : A person who defeats an enemy or opponent in a battle, game, or other competition. Surely Ian ICE Bailey has proven without a doubt that this word perfectly describes him. He’s defeated Tariq TOP Taylor in the most personal of ways; f...

  • Separazione Finale

    Ian ‘Ice’ Bailey is running out of time. His wife, Kaitlyn ‘KiKi’ Bailey, is moving full speed ahead with plans to divorce him and reconcile with her ex-husband and current lover, Tariq ‘Top’ Taylor. Ice is pulling out every stop, every d...

  • Epiphany

    What doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger. After discovering the mistake that changed his life forever, Ice is painstakingly putting himself and his business back on track and learning to live again. Tariq’s own blissful happiness is ma...

  • Ambition

    Stagnant, Stale, Boring. The feelings expressed inside both camps. The time for rest is over. Our factions have decided it’s time to procure more territory, setting about to do that very thing. After garnering new alliances, they begin mapping out ...

  • Homecoming

    Business handled, conquests made, supply and suppliers on track, it’s time to return home for our road weary soldiers. Home, the place of tranquility, peace, joy and happiness. The place where one can retreat from the pressures and demands of the o...



  • Siren Song

    The Siren’s Song: an enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous. This would seem to be the theme of life for our soldiers and their loved ones on a daily basis. Even in the midst of happiness, reunions, past and present loves, ...

  • Life After Death

    Three years have passed and Dezi 'Devastator' Gianni is enjoying his life with Kayla tucked far away from the turmoil they left behind in their tropical oasis. His business is booming with new conquests and partnerships being forged; Aidan grows dail...

  • X-Mafia: The Rise of Pirate and Creeper

    Welcome to the city of brotherly love, Philly cheeses, those unforgettable boxing movies, and X-Mafia territory. The latter being something the city would definitely rather not be known for. X-Mafia, guided by their leaders Creeper and Pirate, was a ...

  • Thin Ice - The Serial Novel (Volume 2 books 5 thru 8)

    Finally the specter of Ice’s interference has been removed and Tariq and Kaitlyn are happily raising their twin daughters, their lives and business back on track in their new home, Gary, Indiana. It would seem the fates have found favor in the coup...

  • Thin Ice - The Serial Novel (Volume 3 books 9 thru 12)

    TI 9 - Epiphany What doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger. After discovering the mistake that changed his life forever, Ice is painstakingly putting himself and his business back on track and learning to live again. Tariq’s own blissful ...

  • Unholy Empire

    18-year old Jacoury Slaughter and his best friend Ramell worked hard to escape the poverty that was their legacy in Kansas City. Their needs were simple: to live on their own terms and to love whom their hearts desired. For Jacoury that desire was 16...

  • The Agency

    Competition: It makes life interesting. It forces one to go the extra mile to come out on top. Jordan Young makes a lifestyle of competition, consistently staying at the top of pack at Dimensions ENT, in the rapid fire world of commercial advertising...

  • Christian

    Christian Jennings had few friends in his offbeat line of work. After all, it’s not easy to make friends with those you’ve been hired to kill. Gino Crown he considered more brother, than a friend. Christian yearned to have the opportunity to spea...

  • Atomic

    AtomicLady Dy and Queen Be are terrors in the Black Underworld. Best friends as close as sisters, they are inseparable. They both love Henry, Dy’s older brother, in very different ways. Their worlds implode the night Henry is arrested after an anon...

  • Shattered

    Life, like time, moves on. Three years later every one of our warriors has found happiness, peace, and contentment, with the paths and partners chosen. Tariq and Kaitlyn celebrate as each day brings a new reason to smile, to laugh, to celebrate their...



  • Origins: The Complete Collection

    The entire Origin Series in One Volume. Find out how some of your favorite characters from Thin Ice became who they are today.X-Mafia: The Rise of Pirate and CreeperWelcome to the city of brotherly love, Philly cheeses, those unforgettable boxing mov...

  • Evolutions

    When Carnel ‘Mook’ Dowry laid eyes on Kim Rae, he knew she was the one. Connecting, their love affair ran the gamut, from exuberance to tumultuously intense; still they persevered and thrived, growing stronger with each passing day. Years later, ...

  • Crossroads 2

  • Darker Shades of Light

    Shinobi’s life is finally settling down after a lost and disjointed awakening. Finding his niche within his new family, he’s less and less unsettled by questions of what if, and what was. He’s even allowed himself to love again, a natural progr...

  • Crosshairs

    Shell games, deliberate lies, elegant deceptions, all running amuck, the targets wide and varied. It seems everyone has an agenda and none of our families will escape the net unscathed. What’s done in darkness always comes to light, but what happen...

  • Reawakening

    A decade passed, memories faded, children grown into adults, time waits for no one. Ready or not, this is a reality everyone must face. For Kaitlyn and Ian however, fate isn’t quite done with them yet, as another tumultuous upheaval of revelation i...

  • Interception

    Andrew 'Drew' Joseph lives the life most people dream of, a Sports Agents replete with an A-List clientele and all the trappings success brings. There is never a shortage of professional sports players soliciting his services; especially those that r...

  • Shattered Peace

    After a tumultuous upbringing and years of abuse, Tatiana's life was finally her own. No more lying. No more pretending. She was free from the chains that bound her to the abyss of her old life. Tatiana was healthy, happy, and embarking finally up...

  • Aftermath

    A storm of epic proportion has rocked Dezi ‘Devastator’ Gianni’s life. He awakens to nothing. His empire lies in ruins, fortune depleted, his daughter is ripped from his life. The woman he loves has married his enemy, and the only country he kn...

  • Blood Legacies

    Harmony is never a mainstay it seems where matters of the heart are concerned. A late-night phone call proves this supposition true yet again for the Bailey and Taylor clans. Tasked with freeing their daughter from the sinister trap set by an unscrup...



  • Ace High

    Charming, cunning, crafty, and captivatingly handsome, Axiom ‘Ace’ Reid is pleased with the cards life has dealt. Using them to his full advantage at every opportunity, he victoriously prevails. Now setting his sights on the loftiest of goals, th...

  • Sinister Alliance

    Dezi Gianni, one of the most feared names in the criminal world, has everything a man could ever want. Wealth, respect, family, the love of his life in his arms every night. Still Dezi held one last aspiration for his legacy, waiting for the right li...

  • The Genesis Project

    Delve into the world of Genesis Reid as she navigates her world of affairs, mystique, and murder.It’s just another day at the office for Genesis Reid—until she steps off the elevator into a nightmare. Working her way up from order entry t...

  • One Of The Boys

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    Welcome to the not so glitzy world of the Casino gaming industry.Addix Kerringer, lord and ruler of all he possesses. His strip clubs and Casinos are the talk of the town. He also enjoys a prestigious seat on the Casino Owners Conglomerate. Charming,...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

K.R. Bankston has published 43 books.

The next book by K.R. Bankston, The Genesis Project, will be published in July 2024.

The first book by K.R. Bankston, King of the Game, was published in March 2007.

Yes. K.R. Bankston has 1 series.
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