She was the good girl raised to follow the rules. He was the street king who made his own. Twenty years later, fate is ready to play dirty.
Chanel "Channy" Davis had plans. Graduate, leave Crestwood behind, and never look back. But the night her first love, Xavier, is ripped away in a blur of bullets and sirens, those plans fall apart. Two decades later, she has returned home a mother and a prosecutor, hardened by grief and the passage of time. She has built a new life. One that almost feels whole. Until Xavier comes back. Fresh out of prison, Xavier is done with the streets. But he has never been done with Channy. As past wounds reopen and dangerous secrets resurface, the two must confront what was left unsaid, unhealed, and unresolved. Their love never died. But in Crestwood, love like theirs has a price.
