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In her latest novel she plunges a female bond agent with a troubling past into the graffiti subculture, where a dangerous and unpredictable fate awaits.
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BURNAugust 2006
In her third hip hop novel, Black Artemis explores a critical yet underappreciated element of hip hop subculture – graffiti. Burn is also a novel about the risks and consequences of pursuing alternatives when ordinary means fail. Through the eyes of a compelling anti-heroine and her most diverse cast of characters yet, she continues to tackle relevant social issues including immigration and public health.
Life has been one hustle after another for Jasmine Reyes. After her parents abandoned her and her twin brother Jason, they often took to the streets in their quest to survive. When a violent episode results in her brother’s arrest and suicide, Jasmine vows to find another way. She literally hustles to quit the game and eventually opens her own bail bond agency, leaving behind street life but holding onto her street smarts.
Despite her hardcore background – and even because of it – Jasmine occasionally gives a client the break that no one ever gave her. One such client is talented graffiti artist Malcolm “Macho” Booker who reminds her of another writer still close to her heart – her brother Jason. Against the advice of sometimes lover and police officer Calvin, Jasmine bails Macho out of jail. For eight months, he proves worth the gamble until he mysteriously disappears.
After finding an unusual database on Macho’s computer, Jasmine’s search leads her into the path – and eventually the arms – of Dr. Adriano Suárez, the handsome founder of the community health clinic where Macho worked. Jasmine and the doctor turned crusader have many things in common – deep passions, grand ideas, unhealed scars, and even dangerous secrets.
As Jasmine’s investigation conjures the ghosts of her ugly past, finding Macho before Suárez uncovers her true identity becomes a matter of life and death in ways she never imagined.
EXPLICIT CONTENT
The first work in the emerging genre of hip hop fiction to feature heroines, Explicit Content explores the changing face of hip hop...
PICTURE ME ROLLIN'
In this hardcore novel of love and betrayal, a female ex-con moved by the power, poetry, and dangerous passion of Tupac Shakur...