Publisher's Synopsis
Dayonna has everything going for her: she's beautiful, has a loving fiance and a fantastic career at the leading law firm in southeast Michigan. She's got no worries...or so it seems. In reality, Dayonna is miserable. The only reason she still has a job is because her boss, Chance, doesn't have the heart to fire her. Dupree, her fiance, is heavily entrenched in the street life and doesn't have time for her, but he does have time to chase ass in the streets. Luckily she has her beauty going for her, but she's sick of playing the same game and coming up as the loser. Plato Cisneros rules the streets of Detroit with an iron fist with his fiance Cherise by his side. Lately Cherise has begun to disappear to places unknown, and once he discovers she's sleeping with one of his trusted workers, he begins making plans to replace her. As a kingpin, he despises disloyalty, and the fact that Cherise does so without an ounce of remorse only pisses him off more. Fate makes it possible for Dayonna and Plato to meet one night at Club Fetish, and it changes both of their lives for the better. However, when they decide to take their relationship beyond friends before completely cutting ties with their soon to be exes, is when things get interesting. Dupree and Cherise both wage their own personal war on the couple, and vow to be the last ones standing. Smooth is a fast talking, ruthless kingpin hailing from the streets of Denver who, after attending the funeral of the aunt who raised him in Dayton, decided that he should control the drug trade on the streets of Ohio. This poses a problem for Plato, since his reach extends from Toledo to Cleveland as well, and his empire is continually growing. The two men wage war for ultimate control, and the winner gets to run the state as he sees fit. But is it truly about hood fame, or is there something else that constantly fans the flames between two street kings? Behind Dayonna's sweet exterior lurks a dark secret that no one knows about outside of her best friends since grade school. Santana, Jada and Jess all know Dayonna's true character, and keep her alter-ego in check as she plays the role of unassuming good girl at Plato's side. Will she be forced to reveal her truth once she's backed into a corner, or does she find a way to keep it all under wraps? Come along for the ride as Dayonna, Plato, Smooth, Dupree and Cherise take you through the mean streets of the D, down the road to Ohio's hidden nightmares and across the Ambassador Bridge to Windsor as they discover what a woman is capable of when she's married to a kingpin."
