Every city has a hood, and every hood has a drug-infested corner. As a once successful businesswoman, Desiree "Rae-Rae" Johnson use to avoid driving through that section of the neighborhood--until she fell on hard times. After becoming a crack addict, she starts living with her soul mate Bilal "Bunchy" Wilson, the man who introduced her to cocaine. After witnessing a double murder and struggling to survive the everyday dramas to support their drug habits, they manage to pull off one of the biggest robberies in New Jersey's history. Bilal is sentenced to life for murder and armed robbery and meets his sudden death in prison, leaving Desiree to face the demons of her past alone. After turning her life around, she meets one of the top men in the game, Ishmael Jenkins, and falls for him, not knowing his secret past. Ishmael is comfortable in his position in the hood and falls for Desiree just as hard. All hell breaks loose as Ishmael's loyalty is tested and Desiree struggles to maintain her sobriety. Between love, murder and a possible relapse, will they survive? Or will they be another statistic in this society in which we live? Have you seen this in your hood? Well, this is what happened In My 'Hood....

You thought there would be no one left in the hood after the horrible chain of murders that occurred in In My Hood. But the hood don t stop living; the saga only continues with a new breed of street dwellers to take their place. Nettie is back to wreak havoc on the city of Newark by targeting the HNIC, Leroy Big Roy Jenkins. But she is not alone. She recruits Ishmael s old squad, along with a few people of her own and takes getting money by any means necessary to a new level. But there s a new cat on the block and his name is Wild. The name is self-explanatory and he has the same vision in sight: to conquer and destroy Leroy. Nettie and Wild join forces to create the illest crew Essex County has seen in decades. Greed and jealousy rear their ugly heads among the crew, causing a turmoil of destruction that reveals Nettie ultimate secret. Will Nettie trade in the blade she sucked on for years for a gun? Or will the hood take her out first?...

Nina Boyd is the mother of two teenage boys and a functioning drug addict. Her two sons, Malik and Marquis, understand their mother's struggle and out of love they ignore her addiction.

Marquis, the youngest at seventeen, is Nina's pride and joy. He has just graduated from high school and has college next on his agenda. However, Malik, who thinks he is grown at only nineteen, has dropped out of high school and made a deal with death.

Todd Death McClain, a well-known street-dealer, preys upon young cats who want to be in the drug game. Once you ve been recruited there is only one way out Death!...