All She Can Take
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Sidney Berry had her life planned out: after high school go to culinary school, become a world-renowned chef and marry her childhood sweetheart, Aiden. But after a tragic incident that shakes her world at the end of her senior year, her plans derail and she ends up a twenty-three-year-old struggling single mother living in her childhood neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY.
But just as Sid is barely keeping her head above water, she meets Phil, a low-level dealer with a big mouth and a thing for her. With him comes an opportunity to get herself out of her most recent financial bind, all she has to do is take something that does not belong to her. Sid has to decide whether to take the high road and remain in her mess or take all she can to get back everything she lost.
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