Black and Blue

GABRIELLE:
I've been avoiding risk my whole life. That's what you learn to do growing up well-off in a place like Detroit. This is a city that knows how fast things can turn.

That white boy made me forget myself. A few moments in his presence and I was consumed by a madness. I did things I never dared dream of.

But it doesn't feel wrong. It feels like freedom.

I shouldn't go back to him. He's from the wrong part of town. He makes a living out of violence. He's a risk in my unblemished life. One time was enough of a flirt with danger.

Thing is, he might just have me addicted.


SEAN:
I've fought for everything I've got in this world. My fists won me a new life, away from the squalor of my South Detroit past.

Now I'm starting to get my reward: money, fame, girls.

The waitress was just supposed to be one of many. Black girls weren't even my type, but something in her set me off. Everything about her screamed class - a word that had never been in this poor boy's vocabulary.

I thought I just wanted a taste of it. Turns out it's not the thrill I'm after.

It's her.

I've gotta show her that I can be more than my body. She wants me to fight for her heart?

Girl, get ready to be knocked out.

Black and Blue features sizzling dialogue, steamy sexual situations and some rough language. Mature and open-minded audiences only. This book is standalone.