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Hard Knocks

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Brock " Rock" Jennings, who has served the maximum sentence for his crime will soon be a free man. All he just wants to do is provide a better life for himself. Soon he will be tested of his faith to stay away from behind bars.

Nia Bowmen, a inspiring journalist sought out to find ways to better the black community and most importantly anyone who has been incarcerated and suffer from mental illness. Although she have so many great things going for herself she tends to struggle with her own insecurity and looks for love in the wrong "person". 

This book is about trials and tribulations of both, Nia and Brock.All Rights Reserved

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Set me free

Rocío has spent years locked in her own world, a prisoner of the fears that paralyze her. Her days pass between the silence of her house and the shadows of a life she once dreamed was different. Until one night, a fugitive breaks into her home and disrupts everything she thought she had under control. Mauro is burdened by a past marked by decisions he didn't make and guilt that isn't his. In his desperate flight, he finds refuge in Rocío's house, never imagining that there he will discover something far more dangerous than police pursuit: the vulnerability and tenderness of a woman who confronts him with his own ghosts. Two strangers, two broken lives, two souls on the run. What begins as a threat soon becomes an unexpected alliance. Between fear and mistrust, a passion as intense as it is forbidden will be born, capable of confronting them with what they have been running from: the truth about themselves. Will love be the key that frees them, or a new prison impossible to break?