It is June 1925, the dawning of a new, spectacular riverboat season, and Noble Prince s Red-Hot Rhythm Band is set to play hot jazz on the Mississippi Walter Von Bulow, the owner of the Morning Queen, has recently discovered Lucinda Lucky Martinson. Lucky s a talented young jazz singer. Von Bulow hires her in the year 1925, to sing in Prince s band. But she s in New Orleans for other reasons: Lucky Martinson s on a personal quest to reconcile her past. Lucky s left Harlem and her boyfriend Tolliver Williams a fellow jazz musician Lucky s in love with. She s put her personal and professional...

It is June 1925, the dawning of a new, spectacular riverboat season, and Noble Prince s Red-Hot Rhythm Band is set to play hot jazz on the Mississippi Walter Von Bulow, the owner of the Morning Queen, has recently discovered Lucinda Lucky Martinson. Lucky s a talented young jazz singer. Von Bulow hires her in the year 1925, to sing in Prince s band. But she s in New Orleans for other reasons: Lucky Martinson s on a personal quest to reconcile her past. Lucky s left Harlem and her boyfriend Tolliver Williams a fellow jazz musician Lucky s in love with. She s put her personal and professional...

Forty-nine-year-old Dade Eduardo Lord is the founder and president of Precision Records, a heavyweight record company based in New York City. Lord loves money, and, in fact, he worships it. At the age of twenty-three, he fathered a child, Crystal Hill, whom he abandoned at birth.

At sixteen, Crystal became MC Ms. Lady, a Brooklyn-based rapper. By age nineteen, she's known as the "queen of hip-hop" with hit records produced by Konscious Flow Productions, a rival hip-hop company of Precision Records. Not only is Crystal a brilliant rapper, but a scholar who attended Harvard University for...

After serving fifteen years to life in Borden Prison for the murder of Bootsy Taylor in Cross City, in the fictional state of Borden, assistant principal Jericho Walls is paroled. When Bootsy Taylor was murdered, Jericho was twenty-six. Facing his demons in Borden Prison, Jericho looks forward to starting a new life. But Red Taylor, Bootsy's older brother, is determined to change all of that.

The score between them, supposedly, was settled fifteen years ago, when Red Taylor's drug gang murdered Jericho's younger brother Allan in retaliation. Red Taylor, who is serving a...