A Dark Place is a chilling story about the untold struggles of the disenfranchised and illustrates inspiringly how one man cannot turn his back on the problems of his former community—even though he so desperately wants to leave behind that troubled place in his past forever.
When poor babies wind up missing, no one seems to care.
Urban Brown is a white man who grew up in the dark recesses of the inner city, where he was the victim of torment, abuse, abandonment, deception, and violence. Urban overcame his horrid past and forged a peaceful and prosperous existence in an upper-class community. He has everything a man could ask for: a career that he loves, a sprawling estate, and a drop-dead gorgeous fiancée, Sierra. Then, out of the blue, he receives a phone call that changes his life.
Jamillah is Urban's sister, and unlike her brother, she hasn’t been able to overcome the horrors of her past and instead has turned to drugs to ease the pain. Life on the streets is hard enough, so once a baby comes along, she tries to sell him on the black market. Urban won't hear any of it, and he and Sierra resolve to raise the child as their own. But upon further investigation, Urban realizes that his sister is involved in a dark and sinister scheme to steal black babies from poor young women in small rural towns and sell them to the highest bidders. As Urban digs deeper into the kidnapping network, he gets dangerously close to the heart of the matter and is disgusted and disheartened by what he discovers.
Author Biography:
Travis Hunter is an author, screenwriter, director, and public speaker. His first novel, The Hearts of Men, was originally published in 2000 by Hunter’s own company, Jimrose Publishing House. During the 2000 Book Expo America in Chicago, Hunter received an offer from Random House for the re-release of The Hearts of Men. And so began a successful evolution of published adult novels: Married but Still Looking, Trouble Man, A One Woman Man, Something to Die For, A Family Sin, Dark Child, and Momma’s a Virgin. Inspired by his work with teens as the founder of The Hearts of Men Foundation, Hunter created a young adult series: Two the Hard Way, At the Crossroads, and On the Come Up, which were published by Kensington Publishing Group.
Hunter is a native of Florence, South Carolina and resides in an Atlanta suburb. He is a veteran of the United States Army and graduate of Georgia State University, where he majored in film and video and minored in psychology. Always an avid reader, Hunter parlayed his passion for the written word into a career as an author, playwright, and filmmaker, which has produced 11 published novels, an Off-Broadway stage play for the adaptation of his novel, Married but Still Looking, and a short film, which he wrote and directed based on his novel Dark Child.
