Leave New York or Die…

In 1976, the best a black kid in Harlem can hope for is to work for the mob or pick up extra bucks as an informer. Rand’s choices are either a quick bullet or a long, tortured punishment with death hanging off the end. The only oblivion is the drugs; Rand can either sell them, take them or both. It is too late for Rand, but that won’t stop him from trying to save his baby brother, Bo. He has but one chance to get it right: Rand must find a place for Bo that is so desolate and removed from Harlem that no one will dare follow, not even for revenge.

Once there, all Bo has to do is find a way to stay alive.

Soul of the Desert was short-listed by the Crime Writers’ Association for the Debut Dagger Competition!