When you've grown up in a bad neighborhood all your life nothing seems that bad anymore. You've become numb to the pain and nothing can ever make you feel indifferent about the situations that surround you. That's exactly what has happen to Nia, she's fallen into that pit of a numb tragedy. She doesn't care about much, not school nor what happens to her as long as she's having a good time. With her current boyfriend Brandon (Banks), currently selling drugs she doesn't have a care in the world besides being down for him. But what happens when she is locked away for a whole year? So much can change in a seventeen year olds life. What will she do when everything she thought she knew has crumbled? Find out in Something Like Hope.

I just won't let go. I can't let go... I love her too much. And I needed some way to talk to her, other than popping up at her house and blowing up her phone. So I grabbed a piece of notebook paper a pen, and began writing.. letters to her

He was a cold, dark lawyer and she was a girl that had lost her father...