Angel, Jaz, Tasha and Kyra are living proof that hope is more than a word. These girlfriends are pulling themselves out of the ghetto - and trying to bring their hearts up to higher ground with them. But sometimes the past just can't be forgotten. Angel has met the man of her dreams - after living through a nightmare with ex-boyfriend and pimp Snake. She plans to start a new life with Kaylin until an unwanted guest crashes their wedding and all the old rage and bloodlust from the 'hood breaks out. Now Angel's going to need every prayer in heaven to make it to the altar...

Author Biography

Wahida Clark was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. She decided to write fiction while incarcerated at a women's federal prison camp in Lexington, Kentucky. Crowned the "Queen of Thug Love Fiction" by Nikki Turner, the "Queen of Hip Hop Fiction" herself, Wahida's style of writing is the template for urban literature. When you read her novels, they are so real that you are convinced of one of three things: you know the characters, you want to know the characters, or you are one of the characters. Her bestselling novels include Thug Matrimony, Every Thug Needs a Lady, Thugs and the Women Who Love Them, Payback Is a Mutha, and the novella Enemy in My Bed in Sleeping with the Enemy, all published by Kensington/Dafina Books.