Took the Charge – Paperback

Seven years ago, Cassius “Cash” Holloway looked at his best friend in the passenger seat, said one word, and took a charge that wasn’t his.

Go.

Now he’s 2,561 days into a twenty-five-year bid at the Kettle, Georgia’s hottest, meanest prison, counting every one so the place doesn’t own him. He doesn’t ask for anything. He doesn’t expect anybody. And he definitely doesn’t expect the new CO on his block.

Officer Egypt Coleman has rules. Don’t learn their names. Don’t learn their stories. And never let anybody find out the kid on D-Block is her baby brother. Then the quiet inmate in the law library sees right through her, and keeps her secret like it’s his own.

Prentiss “Priest” Odom runs the Westside, but he hasn’t slept right since his brother went down for his crime. He’ll pay any price to bring Cash home, even if that means walking a duffel bag of cash into the office of the bougie, too-fine attorney who looks at him like he’s trash.

Journee Whitlock needs the money. She doesn’t need a drug dealer with a mouth like sin. And she really doesn’t need to find out that the prosecutor she has to beat is the ex who cheated on her three weeks before their wedding.

Somebody set Cash up. Somebody is still getting paid. And somebody in their own circle would rather see him dead than free.

When love means risking your badge, your license, and your life, how much time are you willing to do for it?