Description Success didn\'t come easy for three best friends from the streets.
Visit her online at www.shellyellisbooks.com..
She lives in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, not far from Washington, D.
C., with her husband.
The romance and women\'s fiction author is also a film buff and amateur painter.
Her novel, Another Woman\'s Man, was nominated for a 2014 NAACP Image Award.
Corruption, greed, lust, and betrayal set the stage for this edgy, romantic, diverse series, which is sure to please fans of De\'Nesha Diamond and Victoria Christopher Murray." --Booklist About the Author Shelly Ellis is an award-winning journalist who earned her journalism degree at the University of Maryland, College Park. . . "Ellis makes a promising start in her new Branch Avenue Boys series, which expertly melds elements of gritty urban fiction with contemporary multicultural romance and tells a captivating tale from three different perspectives . . .
His attempts to manage the damage will put him and his friends at killer odds to be the last man standing .
But murder and the unexpected return of the woman he\'s always loved is getting him in way over his head.
Jamal\'s backroom deal with D.
C.\'s corrupt mayor is giving him everything he thought he wanted: money, power, and women. . .
Unfortunately, one of his students is hiding Dolla Dolla\'s major stash--and Derrick\'s attempt to do the right thing will have shattering consequences .
Institute head Derrick hopes reuniting with his fianc e will keep his secret affair with a colleague in the past. . .
But revenge is a slippery slope that\'s putting a target on his back .
Arrested during a city-wide raid, Ricky must inform on D.
C\'s drug king pin, Dolla Dolla--and find the woman who loved and betrayed him. . .
But fallout from their very different adult lives is making loyalty something they can\'t afford--and igniting drama they never saw coming .
A stint at the Branch Avenue Boys\' Youth Institute taught Ricky, Derrick, and Jamal to unite when the going got tough. . .
And now dangerous choices and reckless desire will push their bond to lethal limits .
Description Success didn\'t come easy for three best friends from the streets
