Completed ✅ *BOOK 1 in the Gang Life series. * "You are mine! Do you understand?" He says. His soft lips are right up against my ear, his hands either side of my head and my back is up against the cold wall behind me. I roll my eyes at him, looking away. He slams his hand into the wall, making me jump and the white paint crack and chip. "Did you just roll your eyes at me?" He asks, voice dangerously low. "Don't do that... unless you want to see how I handle it" He groans, his dangerous dark brown eyes bore into mine. *** When young African-American girl Adeline Carter is faced with possibly one of the most interesting business deals of her life, how will she handle it? Will she rise above the challenge? Or will she crumble to his charms first?

Gold "Goldie" Monroe is a seventeen-year-old born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She lives in Glenwood projects, where you can hope to make it out of. Her mother taught her from an early age that love, and men ain't shit, and that money is the only thing you need. Everything is going good for Gold until she has to pay off her mother's debt to a ruthless hustler. They both come up with a plan of her robbing and killing a hood famous hustler Zane "Z" Taylor for the money, but it ain't that easy getting close to him as they thought. With her mother's life on the line, and death knocking on the door can Goldie stick to the plan. © 2013 Ebony Goddess