Book excerpt: Jacinda Whitaker-Drake has left her old life behind in Atlanta, Georgia and started a new one over eight hundred miles away in Manhattan, New York. Taking a break from practicing law, she is on her way to becoming a social worker. Her beautiful daughter is growing up fast and learning at one of the best early learning education centers in the state of New York and everything is looking up for their future without their beloved husband and father. That is, until someone from the past the past she is running from finally catches up with her in the most unexpected way. Now, Jacinda has to keep her past from messing up her new life, including the new relationship that she is involved in that’s not as perfect as she thinks. Will the past that’s been haunting her for years reveal its skeletons or can Jacinda win the war once and for all? Find out if lovin’ a gangsta ever got easier for Jacinda because every love story don’t have a happy ending.