Jack Billings is a young developer at an IT company in Atlanta, Georgia. He works hard. He enjoys his friends. He loves his family. He seeks success in America, his dream by birthright, despite the depravities of the American culture. Eddie Smith was a failure seeking to leave his past behind. He dreamed of a better life. He wanted to be a good man, but the taint of crime was cloying. It clung to him, attracted him, and made him find his way back to failure. When old friends enter both their lives, the connections that are made will change their world irrevocably. At the intersection of these...

Lawrence Chelton loved hard, but at the same time it was all soft, deep, and lasting, filled with a belief that soul mates really do exist. He would do anything for the woman he loved. He was tender, caring, strong, and protective. He knew how to stand and be the man a good woman would truly want-or so he believed. When the woman he loved left him at the altar, he changed. He lost his belief in love. He lost his respect for women. He lost his ability to be decent, to be a good man. He no longer believed love was enough. He didn't know what was enough, what was life-fulfilling. However, after...