About Blood, Lies, & Secrets: When Nightmares Become Reality:
When Scotty Butch, better known as Butchy, is finally released from a ten-year stint in prison for a busted drug deal, he and his four childhood friends—Brendell, Tyrone, Keith, and Randle—reunite.
But along with this reunion of the familiar comes the tension of past traumas and current heartbreak.
As they face childhood abuse, cheating spouses, murder, failing relationships, and harrowing truths, each must come to grips with their pain or suffer in silence as they struggle to keep their secrets.
But as events continue to unfurl, will they be able to accept their new realities, or will their nightmares catch up with them, leaving them with nothing but anguish and regret?
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Author Bio:
Born and raised in the 1970’s in the inner city of Washington, DC. I was the youngest of five and raised in a two-parent household right next door to a crack house. My parents worked long and hard and laid down strict rules, but it wasn’t enough.
By the mid 1980’s DC was known as the murder capital of America, being a place that is only 68 square miles, young black men were slated not to live passed the age of twenty-one, so writing took me out of that reality and off the streets. It’s always been a passion of mine and it was a way for me to leave my world and create another. It’s an avenue of self-expression or any expression of thoughts, fiction or non-fiction.
I began writing in elementary school. My 8th grade teacher would have me write short stories every Friday for the class. And I continued throughout high school. But once I started college, I had to put writing on the back burner. However, I revived it in my 30’s and I self-published a novel called The Life and Times of Bean.
But writing Blood, Lies & Secrets was the most challenging of my life because I was working my full-time job for a federal government agency and two part time jobs and writing any chance I got. Once I completed self-publishing, I got rid of both part time jobs and still currently working my full time and just celebrated my 25th anniversary at this job.