Marcus Carothers

When Short gets out of prison and tries to get his life straight, he is faced with temptations and influences of the hood.

A gangster rejects an opportunity to go straight and moves to take over Chicago's South Side. But police are closing in as street violence escalates.

While trying to keep the family he loves, Demetrius Lavene trolls Chicago’s South Side and finds lustful promiscuity in its most fatal form.

While community advocates urge him to leave the criminal world behind, Richard Steele dives deeper than ever into a life of drugs and violence.