Even though Brynlee is a hood girl at heart, getting out the hood has always been number one on her to-do list.
Now at the age of 25, she has done just that. Big house, dream job, and even engaged to her college boyfriend. She has it all, but the questions she finds herself wondering are, am I complete? Am I truly happy?
After getting into it with her fiancé Troy, about the one thing she desires so desperately, she decides that it is time to let her hair down and escape reality for a while. But what she isn't prepared for is the person she finds herself bumping into.
Sawyer McKnight, the neighborhood's bad boy, is now the hood's hottest rapper. He went from the slums to the mansion. No money to more than he could count but still, he is missing someone to share it with.
In this love tale, you have two people from the same background but different walks of life.
Can the two be what the other truly needs, or will they just settle for what they're already used to?
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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