Shella Langston has done everything she can to leave the hood, but the hood won’t ever let her go.
Shella Langston has spent her entire life fighting hard for community conventions to help addicts and give them resources they need to combat their addiction. The only blemish in her otherwise perfect world is her junkie brother Shaun, who has a habit of making life difficult for Shella and whom Shella has done her best to keep out of both trouble and the public eye.
Dr. Marius Rich is a drug addict counselor. Too handsome for his own good and a brilliant psychologist, he has been working closely with Shella to ensure that the best possible care reaches those who need it the most.
Every time she’s around Marius, Shella finds herself in jitters and the cool calm persona she’s built crumbles at his touch. As Shella gets closer and closer to Marius, she is determined to keep her junkie brother a secret from him.
But what she doesn’t know is that Marius has secrets of his own, and the biggest one of them all could destroy everything between them.
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