Zyra Saunders

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Imagine the best day of your life suddenly becoming the worst. Shekinah Glorie is a fifteen-year-old naiveté who is forced from her comfortable suburban lifestyle in Wheeling, West Virginia, only to be thrust into the middle of the ghetto in Toledo, Ohio, to live with the family of a dad she's never known. Shekinah uses her circumstances to give birth to a beast within her soul as she takes on a "good girl gone bad" persona, which is quickly put to the test when she bumps into the neighborhood bullies. Nevaeh Johnson and Hajirah Valez are self-proclaimed sisters, and hood chicks, with an attitude big enough to match Shekinah's. After a heated exchange, they learn that their bad girl attitudes aren't the only thing they have in common. They realize that they've all lost loved ones to gang violence, and so they turn their anger towards the neighborhood gangsters, formulating a plan to cut the head off the snake once and for all. No one is exempt, not even family. This is the story of three teens who fight to bring justice to their community and pave the way for hurting hearts to heal all over the world. In a neighborhood where the police are just another gang, these girls are taking the law into their own hands. Vengeance is theirs!