Charm City (Peace In The Storm Publishing Presents)

Nikki has seen more in her twenty years than most have seen in a lifetime. The mean streets of Baltimore have claimed the lives of her loved ones and given no regrets. When her grandmother succumbs to a long term illness, Nikki is on her own for the first time in her life and revenge is fresh on her mind. The only question is, will revenge be as sweet as she envisions it to be? Grip's parents have seen how the Baltimore drug trade can tear a family apart. They've spent their lives making sure that their son is not exposed to the things they had to live through. Grip has lived a stable life in the suburbs and never once knew the meaning of struggle or what it's like to be truly from the streets. Now that his infamous Uncle Travis is home from prison, will Grip soon follow in the footsteps of his notorious family? Lemon lives life only for today. His grandmother is his only support and he's tired of taking from her so he turns to the only thing he knows- a life of selling the same drugs that left his absentee mother strung out and his father shot dead in a gutter. After a deal gone wrong, Lemon finds himself on the run in Baltimore County and hooked up with a group of unlikely suspects who have only one thing on their minds- fast money. Nikki, Grip, and Lemon meet by what they thought was chance and The CCC- Charm City Crew has their pictures everywhere after a chain of high stakes bank robberies. The Charm City crew eventually finds that their acquaintance is not by chance and that the mastermind of the crew is the last person they thought it would be.