After witnessing a crime, twenty-two year old-stripper by trade-Ebony Moore finds herself in a bind. What she sees will cost her. It could possibly be her life or maybe her heart...

He slowly turned to me with the meanest look I've ever seen on his beautiful face. His long legs allowed him to take three short steps towards me until we were face to face. He leaned down to reach my height and then pushed me against the wall. "I don't do relationships," he said very coldly. My heart dropped but my pride fell before my heart could reach my stomach. He resumed packing my bag. "Why not?" I asked with an attitude to appear unbothered but I really am. "Because, they're-" his sentence was cut off by gunshots. "Fuck!" He yelled then grabbed me and threw me on the floor behind the bed. _________________________ Life was never easy for Grace whether it was growing up in her country or moving to New York for a better life. But life never turns out the way you think it will. She'll soon find out whether or not, if one of the most dangerous man in the city, will be able to give her what the last man couldn't. Alessandro Columbo. That's all you have to say and men will twitch out of fear. The last name alone will get you to places you could never imagine. But that last name alone, can get you killed in a heartbeat. One of the most dangerous men in New York City, can't fall in love. Right?

Bad Boy Blue. He has that nickname for a reason. Abandoned by his white mother as a baby, Blue was taken in my gang-running father. He grew up on the streets, and was raised by a gun. After being caught with drugs and guns and sent to juvie, he was released to be with his uncle in Louisiana where his old life can't get to him. But it's not that easy. It's a struggle for him to do anything right, an nobody takes the boy with the tattoos and bad record seriously. Except Lou. Luigi Alayna Brown is used to being picked out to be picked on. Normally she had her brother there to take care of her but he's gone to college. She wants to escape the ties to her mother, but everybody wants to hold her there. Except Blue, who could care less. Even though she knows Blue likes her, she can't help but boycott the bad boy.