They say a bond is better than a title... right? That's what everyone tells Ruby, but somehow, she's always the one left feeling shortchanged. Her relationship with Demetrius has never been simple-it's been a wild ride of passion and pain, love and disappointment. Up one moment, crashing the next. No middle ground. Years later, when fate brings them face-to-face again, those same familiar sparks hit just as hard. But this time, Ruby's not sure if she can handle another emotional merry-go-round. Has Demetrius finally grown into the man she always needed him to be? Or will he keep holding on to the bond... while refusing to claim the title?

People have been assuming that Melanie Chambers was the stereotypical hood girl all her life. But she defies those odds when she gets accepted to Madison University one of the top HBCU's in the country. What Melanie doesn't know is that getting into MU was the easy part. When she gets there alcohol, drugs, and sex is all she sees and often times she forgets why she is there in the first place. Not to mention, her on-again-off-again boyfriend Jamal is still partially in the picture. Melanie lands herself in a world of trouble when she finds herself falling for the campus drug dealer, Knight. Will Melanie make it through her freshman year? She thought that living in the hood was rough, but she hadn't imagined moving to an upscale college town would lead to all this. Take a look into the tale of this Hood Girl Gone Bad....