The big sun coming strong through the motel blinds, wake up to your girl, for now lets call her Cleopatra. Cleopatra, I watched you fix your hair, then put your panties on in the mirror, Then her six inch heels catch her. She's headed to the Pyramids...she's working at the Pyramids tonight.

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The sleek, two door Mustang races through the empty streets of Los Angeles at dusk as Kash tries to get away from the bright red Land Rover that stays on his tail as he cuts corners and swaps paint with parked cars. Kash looked next to him and in the passenger seat was Cammie Frederick. Highland County University's most intelligent student but also the most unnoticed. Not too long ago did he break into her home and take her without her consent. Now he's driving her into her new life with him. A life with Organized Criminals, the gangsters with expensive suits and ties not sagging pants. What is she getting herself into...more like what she is being dragged into.

Keisha Cruz is a young, African American woman of 23. Her fast, sweet talking, perfect love making Puerto Rican boyfriend Kennan Cruz was well known in their hood. Dodging jail and bullets, until one night, a stray bullet flew through their studio apartment window and pumped threw his chest killing him on the spot. Keisha and her two young kids Manny and Sara watched his blood stain the wood floors and cried in agony. But was it a stray bullet, or was it revenge? Now his best friend Dario appears and wants to help Keisha and her family and she starts to love him, but after getting 3 years in prison Keisha doesn't know what to do. Now all she has his her kids, a gun, money, her job at the strip club, and her voice. Can her strong lyrical talent get her far? Or will that "stray" bullet come back around and claim its next victim? Who really pulled the trigger that night, and who is next? And as Kennan laid stone cold dead in his casket, who was the mystery person who took off running after giving a Round of Applause at his funeral? This book has everything that people face living in the depths of the hood. Killing, brutal murder, children's lives at stake, decisions, sex, drugs, money, lies, and the brutal, life taking TRUTH! This book is nothing but the truth, no lies, no make believe, this happens every day... I think you guys will love this book. It scares me just writing it. You will love I promise!