Flint: Book 1: Choosing Sides

Flint: Book 1: Choosing Sides by Hernandez, Treasure. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9781601621719.

Welcome to Flint, Michigan, one of the roughest little cities in America, a place where the good die young, loyalty is a rarity, and everybody has a hustle. Malek Johnsons hustle is the basketball court and hes the best Flints projects has ever produced. Hes on his way to the University of Michigan, but not for long, because all the NBA scouts say hes destined for the pros after a year or two of seasoning. He finds love in the super fine girl everyone calls Halleigh, and he promises her that he will take her out of the hood. When Halleighs virginity is traded in exchange for her mothers drug tab, their dream spirals out of control and they are quickly separated and sucked into the life that they have so desperately tried to avoid. With no place to go, their destinies take them down separate paths. Malek becomes affiliated with the North Sides biggest kingpin and Halleigh is manipulated into the streets by his South Side adversary. North versus South, love versus loyalty, and lies versus truth. What will they choose? Walk with Halleigh and Malek as they introduce you to a new struggle in a new city . . . a place called FLINT.