Life in a quiet upscale town of Columbus, Georgia quickly turned turbulent and deceptive for a real estate agent, Susan Veras, after her father, Michael, concocted a simple plan to sell a pricey mansion to Mark and Esther Balzac, a wealthy couple from New York City. A moment into the negotiation Esther suggested a second, more complicated, arrangement that temped Susan into a proposal that could destroy her life and her father's multi-million dollar empire.

You might read A Truck of Strawberries and find the story very hard to believe but I swear it's all true. My name is Tarrelle "Truck" Handerson. I play college football and I work at my father's tailor shop. Thursday night I went to bed in my father's house with less than twenty dollars in my wallet. I spent Friday morning in bed digging out my shorty then I called my cousin, Dante, to get a ride to the mechanic to pick up Dad's busted Volvo but it wasn't ready. By Saturday, I was living in a mansion, driving a new Porsche, spending thousands of dollars, sleeping with different chicks,...

Yo I'm Dante and I'm about to tell you a serious story. You probably lived my story or read mad hood books and know all about the fast come up that end with a dude like me in prison or dead. My story ain't new but I still gotta tell you how it all went down cause it look like I'ma die soon. I need somebody to know that I ain't want nothing to do with street life but the streets was stronger than what I wanted. It's crazy how I never saw myself as a street dude. I was raised in a quiet part of Brooklyn and I got good grades but my best friend, who came from a rough area in Bed-Stuy, was dead...