Life (Sullivan)

Freddy Thugstin's saga continues from In this Life, the national best selling novel, as Life Thugstin meets Hope Evans an eccentric college student, born and raised in Miami's notorious Pork and Beans Projects. All her life, Hope has dreamed of becoming a lawyer and one day helping her people out of ghetto oppression. By some uncanny fate, Hope meets the handsome thug, Life, in the midst of his desperate attempts to elude a massive police manhunt. Their brief encounter leads to a liaison of lust and passion, but with vast differences they soon part ways. Years later, Hope and Life meet again on opposite sides of a courtroom. Life, one of the biggest drug kingpins in the United States, is on trial for his life. On the other side of the courtroom is Assistant US District Attorney Hope Evans, who is holding a deep, dark secret. The infamous kingpin, Life, is the father of her child. Life is the ultimate tale of murder, sex, drugs and betrayal.

History repeats itself in this sequel to the mega-hit novel written by Leo Sullivan, Life. Marcus is a young man tossed into the same life of violence and poverty that his father tried to desperately to escape when a confrontation with the son of Life's nemesis, Stevie D, turns tragic. With Kayla by his side, Marcus is forced away from the life of adolescent innocence that he'd found comfort in and become a man. His love for Kayla makes them the perfect team, however, he soon finds that she has an addiction that could ruin them both. When history repeats itself, Marcus finds himself walking in his father's shoes, something he'd never considered. Will his fate turn out just as tragically as it did for his parents, many years before?

When Stevie D., one of Life's old foes surfaces to take revenge on Marcus for killing his son, Marcus Thugstin is placed into a whirlwind of drama that finds him fighting for his life and searching for his mother, Black Pearl, as well as Kayla's mother, Nandi. But in the midst of this, he has Mike Spitler on his tail, the son of another one of Life's old foes, and Spitler has made it his business to be a constant thorn in Marcus's side. With Blazack to his right and Kayla not far behind, Marcus sets out to take action in the streets in the same way his father did before him. But with history repeating itself, will Marcus make it out alive? And will Kayla prove to be the ride or die that she always promised she would? As fate would have it, Marcus is devastated when the love of his life is brutally murdered. Then things take a turn for the worse when the one person he thought he could trust, betrays him.