Urban Girl Chronicles: Love & Loyalty is one of a short series of fiction inspired urban novels that tells a story of a young African American girl named Mariah, who was born in the streets of Oakland, California. Mariah's life has been a constant struggle since she can remember. At a young age, she began to write her thoughts in her diary to release some of her anger towards life. At the age of twenty-one she had a crack addicted mother, she had been raped, she was homeless, a stripper, and had attempted suicide. After all her struggles as a child, she lived her life on the edge as an adult....