Origins: The Complete Collection — K.R. Bankston

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 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 vicious street gang with hands into all sorts of violent crime and no one was exempt. X-Mafia was moving like a steamroller plowing down any and everyone that got in their way.
Citizens were up in arms. Calls flooded the police switchboard on a daily basis. Local law enforcement caving to citizen pressure, press embarrassment, and political posturing, finally decided it was time to clean up the city and called in reinforcements. X-Mafia decided it was time to expand again and called for initiation.
Unholy Empire 1 & 2
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 year old Necie, his sister's best friend since childhood, a desire that would remain unobtainable until the night they finally came together and she agreed to be his. Their happiness would become a target once her parents found out and fully unravel the day she told him she was moving away and there was nothing he could do to stop it. Never one to back down from a challenge, Jacoury sets out to prove Necie wrong; unwittingly opening the Pandora's box of twisted lies, salacious secrets, and inconceivable carnage that will lie in their wake.
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 speak with Gino and tell him all the things resting on his heart one final time. Unfortunately the chance died years ago on a cold winter's night by the waterfront.
That is, until the day a dead man walked into his home and shattered his world.
Atomic (w/bonus novella: The Twins)
Atomic
Lady 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 anonymous tip to the police. Suspicion turns into innuendo. Innuendo into division, until the inevitable happens bitterly dividing the women, sending them spiraling into very different, very deadly directions.

Twins
Reaper and Shadow are afforded a lifestyle filled with every material thing their hearts desire, at the small expense of the lives they're hired to end. Their contented lives are eluded by only one thing: a 15-year old debt. That will be rectified soon however. In 30 days Lenhardt Cerrone, their father, is to be released from prison. One the 31st day they plan, together, to stop his heartbeat.