IndiaDickson4
Karen Clark is the youngest daughter of Detroit's first family of gospel - sweet-voiced, deeply spiritual, and raised in the house of strict tradition and discipline. She was never supposed to fall for someone like him.
Drew Sheard is no choir boy. The streets raised him, violence built him, and blood baptized him into a world of power. He's young, rich, and already running the city's underworld from behind boardrooms and bullets. His name rings out in whispers, and his enemies don't get second chances.
From the moment Drew saw Karen singing on that church stage, he wanted her-and when a Sheard wants something, he takes it.
Their love is messy, obsessive, and electric. He shows up to her church services in blacked-out SUVs. Sends roses to her recording sessions. Flips when she doesn't answer her phone. She's never known fear and desire in the same breath until she met Drew. And she's never known a man who would kill just to keep her safe-or all to himself.
Karen's family sees the danger. Mama Mattie prays harder. Her sisters whisper behind closed doors. But Karen is caught in a storm of love and chaos, fighting to keep her faith while falling deeper into Drew's world of money, power, and blood.
They love each other recklessly. Argue like enemies. Make up like sinners. They bring out the worst and the best in each other.
But can a gospel girl really survive in a gangster's world?
And when the streets come knocking on their front door, will love be enough to keep her alive?
This is a story of first love, first mistakes, and the kind of ride-or-die connection that can either save you-or destroy you.
Before the rings. Before the mansion. Before the baby.
There was just Karen and Drew-and a dangerous kind of love.
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