(Book One of the Promise Series) Franklin Diaz was an urban legend after his reign of terror over Texas ended. The blood bath and chaos that ensued on one faithful night not only took his life, but left his wife Sasha widowed and his three children, Chantel, Quincy and Alexis without their father. After years of trying to protect her children from their father's past it comes back to Sasha once her husbands former right hand is released from prison and begins manipulating her children as they become more entangled in the life their father once lived. With Quincy preparing to take up where his father left off and Chantel and Alexis following in their mothers footsteps, the Diaz children take on more than they bargained for when they're forced to pay for their fathers passed sins and learn more about his shady dealings.

"This was suppose to be easy, nobody was suppose to get hurt". Twenty year old Ivory Santana was what most people would call friendly and caring. She'd be the person you'd least expect to have a father running one of the biggest drug trafficking industry's in America. Ivory has went through great measures keeping that part of her life private while attending college at NYU, that is until she's taken. Twenty two year old Jade and his older brother Ohaji are 2 completely different types of people that you wouldn't expect to even associate with each other if they weren't related. With dreams of one day being as legendary as their father once was. The two brothers were given the task of kidnapping their boss, big Al's enemy's daughter until he agrees to compromise. Sounds simple enough right? WRONG. What happens when Ivory teams up with the brothers and this turns into a cat and mouse game between bonds and blood?