He built an empire in the streets. She's building a life he might not survive to see.
Coal has a wife who loves him, three children who adore him, and a business that runs on cash, loyalty, and the constant threat of prison or a bullet. He's promised Kellee he's getting out of the game - one last run, one legit deal to buy his way clean. But the streets don't let go that easy, and a missing suitcase from his last trip means somebody's already watching.
Kellee has built her world around a man who's rarely home and a fear she can't say out loud. When Coal's world finally collapses, she's left with three kids, a dying car, a suspended job, and a bank account that says she's on her own. What she does next - go back to school, fight for a master's degree, and resist the smooth, patient pull of another man who's never left her side - becomes its own kind of hustle.
Another Degree of Separation is a raw, dual-narrated street lit saga about the distance love creates when the streets, the law, and temptation all come for the same family at once. Told in alternating voices by Coal and Kellee, this is a story about loyalty tested past its limit, a marriage that shouldn't survive what it survives, and the different kinds of "degree" - of separation, of education, of how far you'll go for the people you love - that define a life in and out of the game.
Fans of Wahida Clark's Thug series, Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever, and Jessica N. Watkins' Cartier Cartel will recognize the streets - but Kellee's fight to rebuild on her own terms is a story this genre hasn't told quite this way.
Grab your copy of Another Degree of Separation today and find out how far love, loyalty, and one woman's will can carry a family the streets tried to break.
