Born to one of the city's most notorious families, Shai Clark has always managed to be a good kid. A college basketball star, Shai shuns his family's gang world while his trigger happy brother stands next in line for the throne. Things get ugly when Shai's father is murdered and his brother removed from the equation. Shai finds himself at the head of his father's empire and the streets are thrown into chaos, and so must face the choice of pursuing his own dreams or putting his father's lands in order.
Author Biography
K'WAN is the #1 Essence bestselling author of Welfare Wifeys, Section 8, Gutter, Still Hood, Hood Rat, and others. He wrote his first novel, Gangsta, as a therapeutic release, and it went on to become an Essence bestseller and a part of urban-lit history. In 2008 he received the Black Author of the Year Award from Black Press Radio. He has been featured in Time, KING, The New York Press, and on MTV and BET. Besides an author, K'wan is also a motivational speaker, a mentor to at-risk children and the C.E.O. of Black Dawn, Inc. He lives in New Jersey.
