Winner of the Watty's 2017 Awards ✿ Destruction is a form of creation; buildings crumbled as he walked past. Khari Spence, trapped in a city steeped in hatred, longs to embrace his true self even if it means risking everything. He finds a fragile refuge in an old apartment with peeling wallpaper and blank journal pages -- and hopefully in a girl. Milo Locke, disillusioned with the hollow lure of materialism, seeks to rid the ideologies her parents forced onto her. When their worlds collide, will they help each other heal from past wounds, or will their secrets tear them apart?

it was something about the way he spoke.

"Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end." - Jennifer Harrison I didn't know what love felt like and I had no intentions of finding out. I was merely infatuated with the raven haired boy. And even though the feelings were not mutual, I felt a longing for his attention. But when I finally got it, I wished that I hadn't.

When Lauren's mother died, her abusive father looks to her to play the role of house wife and bedmate. Lauren finds a way to escape it all when she meets local barbershop owner and Kingpin Rio.