About this Book

16-year-old Katrina 'Trina' Ricks hails from Washington DC's most notoriously violent ghetto. While her mother works the night shift, she endures molestation at the hands of her stepfather. Fear and desperation eventually drive her murder her stepfather. Now on the run, Trina finds herself deep in the thrall of a lesbian affair with her married school teacher whose husband is a big time drug lord and who, upon discovering their relationship, promises death to both women.