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What would you do if you found a duffle bag full of 7 kilos of pure cocaine, $80,000, and 3 guns under your porch?

For Romeo Washington, a 16-year old unpopular high school kid from Clarksville, TN, with dreams of winning the heart of Zara Brown, the most popular girl at school, the answer was simple.....Get Money By Any Means.

Romeo's never sold a drug in his life so when his friends, Lil Tim and Ace, decide they don't want any part of helping him sell the drugs he found, he decides to become a dopeboy all on his own.

It doesn't take long for the reality of the street life to set in for Romeo. He he learns that what started out as a chance to get the attention of the girl of his dreams, and the respect of his peers who never knew he existed, throws him in the middle of a street war, which eventually brings him the wrong attention from Javion, a street hustler looking to take over the city, as well as the attention of another street hustler, Lazy, who's on a mission to find out who stole his duffle bag that he stashed while running from the police.

After living a life at the bottom and being treated like a nobody, Romeo gets a taste of a better life and his entire world takes on a drastic change. But is it, for better or worse?

Romeo must find a way to survive the streets as he tries to take on a lifestyle that most people don't survive, especially when they're NEW TO THE STREETS...

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What's good My Peoples?! I'm KOLD, an author of Street Lit, Urban Romance, Urban Paranormal, and Erotica. I'm from Clarksville, TN and I have been writing since 2015.

My author journey began while I was incarcerated in Kentucky. We didn't have any books by Black authors available to us at the facility I was in, and after speaking with inmates on the yard, we felt Street Lit books weren't reflecting our real experiences. I told them I could do better, and they challenged me to do it. So, that same day, I went in my cell and began writing, The Bottom. During my final eight years of incarceration, I wrote 33 books before I was granted parole in 2022. I became known as the 'walking library' at multiple prisons due to me always carrying around a large net bag full of my books.

To this day, I still handwrite every book, and I continue to base my stories off experiences either I myself have experienced, or the experiences of others I was around.

Writing is what saved me from getting out of prison and continuing down the same path in the streets that I was used to. I use my pen to articulate my thoughts, writing every story like a movie because that's how they play in my head.

While I am an author...I began a reader.

My favorite authors are a lot but they are: Donald Goines, Kwan, Wahida Clark, Nikki Turner, Kiki Swinson, Ashley & JaQuavis, Treasure Hernandez, Jahquel J, Kutura B, Theresa Reese, Ada Afam, M. Monique, C. Wilson, Bonnie Blanco, and T'Lyn. Non-Black authors I've read and enjoyed are James Patterson, Lee Child, Victor Fleming, and Janet Evanoich.

I am also an award-winning playwright after winning a PEN Award in 2022 for my play \"Can't Win PEN\".

I'm a writer hoping to write a book in every genre someday.

All I need is one chapter, allow your eyes to read one chapter from any book, and you'll be hooked. I appreciate you all in advance.

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