Diamonds and Pearl: A Novel (The Diamonds Novels Book 1)

Diamonds and Pearl follows Pearl Stone, daughter of a drug baron known as Big Stone. Despite her privileged upbringing and instruction to avoid the street life, Pearl is drawn to its allure. When Diamonds, a young hustler from Louisiana, arrives in New York City, Pearl's carefully maintained boundaries collapse. Diamonds has survived poverty and hardship in New Orleans and is willing to do whatever necessary to survive, including violence. After a robbery-turned-mass-murder forces him to flee Louisiana, he arrives in New York and meets Pearl. For the first time, Diamonds finds something he values more than wealth and power: love. As circumstances intensify, Diamonds must confront his past to secure his future—but doing so may reveal to Pearl that not everything that glitters is gold.