With a professional booster for a mother and a pimp for a father, crime was the family business, and Tara held a degree in “Hustling 101.” Her street smarts and her love affair with Julio, however, weren’t enough to keep her out of prison, and now that she’s inside the institution, each day is a new adventure for Tara.

She hits the gate kicking her credentials and calling in favors, and before long, she’s back in charge and running things. But what Tara doesn’t know is that she isn’t really in charge like she thinks, because someone else has other plans for her. Julio, a seasoned Dominican kingpin, is behind bars too, but he definitely isn’t new to the joint. He’s doing Federal time, and he thinks it’s going to be a cakewalk, but this time around, he’s forced to gain respect the hard way from a whole new breed of petty thieves and wannabe gangsters. He will have to knock a few young boys out first and then just take over … or can he?

What happens to love that has been tested by time and space, hurt and tears? Can it find its way back? Julio’s and Tara’s lives, along with the people they love the most, will be changed forever by prison. Will it be for the better or worse?

Based on Tammy Fournier’s own gritty true story, this compelling urban novel details the life of a powerful booster–groomed by street legends and influenced by love.

With a pimp for a father and a thief for a mother, it’s always been a hustler’s life for Tara. Now, at eighteen, she’s about to inherit the family business and looking forward to having the streets on lock … until she meets Julio.

At the age of nine, Tara had learned every lesson her true-to-the-game parents ever taught her. By eighteen, she had found her niche: boosting the best merchandise from the best boutiques in the city and flipping it on the streets for cash–keeping the very best pieces for herself, of course. Tara became known as one of the baddest boosters on the East Coast, second only to her mother.

Chasing and stacking paper, as well as romancing men on the side, Tara held weight in the streets and used it to her every advantage. She was groomed by street legends, and the code of the streets was a valuable jewel that Tara and her family guarded with their lives. It was her father who taught her rule number one: the game was to be told, not sold, and it was to be passed down only to the select few worthy to play. To get next to the family was a privilege, and with Tara next in line to the throne, people were her puppets, and she the puppet master. Shortly after meeting a Dominican kingpin named Julio, however, the power shifts as Tara falls in love … and out of control.

Influences in her life lead Tara to make some life-changing decisions. Will love find a way? Does someone have other plans for her, or will she be the next to reign over the family business?