| Author/Contributor(s): | Gaines, L.B. |
| Publisher: | Black Odyssey Media |
| Date: | 7/27/2027 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Xena Snow has spent years dancing at North Philly’s Velvet Room to keep the lights on for her six-year-old son, Messiah. So when Messiah’s father, Quan, resurfaces after his prison bid and asks her to make a pickup, she tells herself it’s easy money.
It’s a setup . . .
Naseer “Nas” Redd is ruthless. He runs the city with quiet authority and a deadly reputation. Everyone in the streets knows his rule: women and children are off-limits. Yet Xena wakes up inside his guarded compound, and by morning, Nas’s men have pulled her son out of school. Quan has exactly seventy-two hours to pay the eighty thousand dollars he owes.
Xena studies the man in charge, looking for any weakness she can use to get Messiah out. But Nas is studying her too, and he has been for far longer than she realizes.
As Quan grows more desperate and the people closest to Xena reveal what they’ve been hiding, she has to decide whether the man who took her is the most dangerous person in her life or the only one who has ever kept her safe. In a city where everyone wants a piece of her, survival may come down to how close she’s willing to get to power.