***Spin-Off from A Tainted Hood Love series***
Ericka's eighteen years of life has always been insulated from a world she has never been able to grace. Raised through harsh discipline, abuse, and protection that her known family fabricated as love. She knows no other life until she’s granted the privilege to attend college. Embarking on new territory, along with bad social interaction, she winds up in the eyes of the compelling Balla.
Brendan “Balla” Louis became a single father at a young age. Being a college student by day and heroin supplier by night, Balla is a young one anticipating life. Flawed but maturing, his interest is captured by Ericka the day their eyes are drawn to each other. Not knowing how he is placing a target on his back by involving himself in her life, he pursues her with intentions of valor.
Kiera has the blood of the Gates Cartel running through her. Wanting differently, she starts molding her life in a different direction early on. With a tragic loss in her younger years, the breaking of two families devastates many. In particular, Kiera and Pierre Louis. The time when the Gates and Louis family ruled together came to a bloody end. As the years pass, she doesn’t veer from the young love that was a staple in her life until she had no other choice but to.
Pierre “P” Louis is in the midst of beating murder charges in prison. As his release nears, he finds out that he has a child in the world he never knew of, which raises new and pressing issues.
With their families falling out, and secrets held, how will they find a way to raise a child in the core of the Cartels' nondealings? Will the tainted love be hung by the compromising events of the past, or will these four break through their barriers for a steadfast love instead?
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***Spin-Off from A Tainted Hood Love series***
Ericka's eighteen years of life has always been insulated from a world she has never been able to grace. Raised through harsh discipline, abuse, and protection that her known family fabricated as love. She knows no other life until she’s granted the privilege to attend college. Embarking on new territory, along with bad social interaction, she winds up in the eyes of the compelling Balla.
Brendan “Balla” Louis became a single father at a young age. Being a college student by day and heroin supplier by night, Balla is a young one anticipating life. Flawed but maturing, his interest is captured by Ericka the day their eyes are drawn to each other. Not knowing how he is placing a target on his back by involving himself in her life, he pursues her with intentions of valor.
Kiera has the blood of the Gates Cartel running through her. Wanting differently, she starts molding her life in a different direction early on. With a tragic loss in her younger years, the breaking of two families devastates many. In particular, Kiera and Pierre Louis. The time when the Gates and Louis family ruled together came to a bloody end. As the years pass, she doesn’t veer from the young love that was a staple in her life until she had no other choice but to.
Pierre “P” Louis is in the midst of beating murder charges in prison. As his release nears, he finds out that he has a child in the world he never knew of, which raises new and pressing issues.
With their families falling out, and secrets held, how will they find a way to raise a child in the core of the Cartels' nondealings? Will the tainted love be hung by the compromising events of the past, or will these four break through their barriers for a steadfast love instead?