A Jamaica Queens Love Story

By Handsome King

Before the name. Before the crown. There was a boy from Jamaica, Queens who fell in love for the first time and never fully recovered.

Set in the early 2000s, this raw and unflinching memoir style novella follows Handsome King, as he looks back on the relationship that shaped him. Carlene was everything. The smile that haunted his ceiling at night. The girl who made him flush his stash down the toilet. The reason he showed up to prom looking like a king before he ever carried the title.

But first love in Queens doesn't come without casualties. Disapproving parents. Street life. Jealousy. Toxic friendships. Violence inherited from a generation that never learned to break the cycle. And a move to Georgia that pulled the final thread on a bond that once felt unbreakable.

A Jamaica Queens Love Story is not a fairy tale. It's a confession. A love letter. A cautionary tale. Written with brutal honesty by a man who isn't afraid to show you the beauty and the wreckage in the same breath.

For anyone who ever loved someone so deeply it changed the trajectory of their entire life, this one's for you.-Handsome King

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GNK51NKR
• ISBN13: 9798248402489
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"