Growing up in the ruthless streets of Baltimore, you live by the sword you die by the sword. Taught as a child to get it how you live, crabs in a bucket mentality, dying to make it out. You become addicted to one thing and that's your way out, if you even have a way out. With that addition, comes along, drugs, sex, death and money. Being subjected to them things, you fall into a game that no one plays fair. Meet this group of youth as they experience what they call a 'hard knock life' as they run these ruthless streets of Baltimore. Better known as Murderland nation, they become a savage to the streets, because their minds are so poisoned, murder, money, sex and drugs take over their lives. Living life, they soon to learn there is No love in the trenches. Who will fall victim to these streets or who would make it out of the trenches alive? Never judge one's story until you walked in their shoes, follow, Peppa, Savage, Monese and Knight as they take you on this wild journey.
WATTYS WINNER
When her fiancé ends up in a coma and his secret mistress, Halley, shows up, Mary feels like her world is falling apart. What she doesn't realize is she's actually falling in love...with Halley.
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Eight years after a traumatizing accident that killed one of her loved ones, Mary Kincaid is about to marry her childhood sweetheart when the universe yanks the rug out from under her yet again, leaving her fiancé badly injured and in a coma. Of course this is when his secret mistress shows up, a beautiful person whom Mary should by all rights hate - so why does she find herself inviting her to stay in the spare bedroom? She soon learns that sometimes the person you're looking for comes when you're not looking at all.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story mentions violence, addiction, and childhood trauma, which may be triggering for some readers.
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