A Hood's Second-Chance Summer

Fresh off a six-year federal sentence, Hood returns to Edgewood determined to win Fumi back, while the streets, the money, and everyone else can wait.

Fumi has spent those years rebuilding her peace, growing her business, and choosing herself, and this summer she is out with her girls, done with the noise and unwilling to reopen a relationship she already buried.

Hood will not accept her refusal, staying close wherever she goes and trying to prove he is no longer the man she walked away from.

Another man is quietly offering the consistency, patience, and peace she has been missing, so Hood is up against both his past and the future she might choose instead.

In Edgewood, where everybody knows somebody and word travels faster than the summer heat, old flames, jealous exes, and unfinished business refuse to stay buried.

A second chance and hard-won peace pull in opposite directions, and one of them will have to decide which one holds.