“I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh, Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood.” —Nina Simone
If there’s one thing thirty-one-year-old Jude Carbine has sustained, it’s a hefty appetite for guns, buttah, and family. As the youngest boss in the Carbine hierarchy, he’s spent the better part of his life being a witness to violence and proving to be unscathed. Still, the essence of loneliness and insomnia that lingers at night leads Jude to pick up a side hustle, one that pulls his reputation of being bluntly honest into question and realigns the cocky gunman with someone just as… dirty.
Osage Taylor has always known she would be a doctor. However, she would’ve never believed at thirty-one, she’d be a single mother, unwed, and her family’s personal bank. Despite maintaining a successful medical practice, the ginger-haired beauty finds herself buried under bills and childhood trauma. Nevertheless, being a product of her environment triggers old hustles to feel like solid resolutions… until someone threatens to tell the world where the doctor goes when the hustlers call.
In need of refuge, Osage and Jude can’t seem to rid themselves of their desire for one another once they cross paths. Unbeknownst to them, where there is love, there’s jealousy, and where there is money, there’s a hater in the shadows.
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“I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh, Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood.” —Nina Simone
If there’s one thing thirty-one-year-old Jude Carbine has sustained, it’s a hefty appetite for guns, buttah, and family. As the youngest boss in the Carbine hierarchy, he’s spent the better part of his life being a witness to violence and proving to be unscathed. Still, the essence of loneliness and insomnia that lingers at night leads Jude to pick up a side hustle, one that pulls his reputation of being bluntly honest into question and realigns the cocky gunman with someone just as… dirty.
Osage Taylor has always known she would be a doctor. However, she would’ve never believed at thirty-one, she’d be a single mother, unwed, and her family’s personal bank. Despite maintaining a successful medical practice, the ginger-haired beauty finds herself buried under bills and childhood trauma. Nevertheless, being a product of her environment triggers old hustles to feel like solid resolutions… until someone threatens to tell the world where the doctor goes when the hustlers call.
In need of refuge, Osage and Jude can’t seem to rid themselves of their desire for one another once they cross paths. Unbeknownst to them, where there is love, there’s jealousy, and where there is money, there’s a hater in the shadows.