Round of Applause
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Keisha Cruz is a young, African American woman of 23. Her fast, sweet talking, perfect love making Puerto Rican boyfriend Kennan Cruz was well known in their hood. Dodging jail and bullets, until one night, a stray bullet flew through their studio apartment window and pumped threw his chest killing him on the spot. Keisha and her two young kids Manny and Sara watched his blood stain the wood floors and cried in agony. But was it a stray bullet, or was it revenge? Now his best friend Dario appears and wants to help Keisha and her family and she starts to love him, but after getting 3 years in prison Keisha doesn't know what to do. Now all she has his her kids, a gun, money, her job at the strip club, and her voice. Can her strong lyrical talent get her far? Or will that "stray" bullet come back around and claim its next victim? Who really pulled the trigger that night, and who is next? And as Kennan laid stone cold dead in his casket, who was the mystery person who took off running after giving a Round of Applause at his funeral?
This book has everything that people face living in the depths of the hood. Killing, brutal murder, children's lives at stake, decisions, sex, drugs, money, lies, and the brutal, life taking TRUTH! This book is nothing but the truth, no lies, no make believe, this happens every day...
I think you guys will love this book. It scares me just writing it. You will love I promise!
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