Publisher's Synopsis
The hard knock life is something Shantell Bryant knows too well. Life has dealt her a bad hand. As a child she had to deal with enough hardships and pain to last a lifetime. Raised in Charlotte, North Carolina's most infamous projects, Piedmont Court, it's an uphill battle just to survive. A product of a broken home, things go from bad to worse when her mother becomes severely addicted to drugs. Her mother's drug abuse has a domino effect on young Shantell's life. It robs her of her innocence, placing her into adult situations. Shantell is forced to grow up fast. In this sex crazed world, soon Shantell discovers that the only way out of these dire streets, is to go all out. She comes to the sad realisation that her only chance of bettering her conditions might lay between her legs.
