Promise Broken
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Beware of the company you keep.
Kโwanโs urban fiction coming-of-age novel, Promise Broken, is set in the gritty streets of Newark, New Jersey. The story follows seventeen-year-old Promise Mohammed as she attempts to uphold friendships and new relationshipsโeven if they lead to her demise.
After Promiseโs mother dies in a tragic car accident, it leaves a void in Promiseโs life that she is yearning to fill. This titular novel finds Promise spiraling into a life of crime and drug affiliation by the company she chooses to keep.
Also coping with abandonment and a lifelong broken commitment from her biological father, Promise ultimately has two goals: to graduate from high school and to be loved. But can she find the love that she seeks from her aunt Dell, two best friends, Mouse and Keys, or drug-dealer Asherโthe man who captivates herโdespite the fact that each relationship will lead to life-altering events? Only time will tell.
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K'WAN is the #1 Essence bestselling author of Welfare Wifeys, Section 8, Gutter, Still Hood, Hood Rat, and others. He wrote his first novel, Gangsta, as a therapeutic release, and it went on to become an Essence bestseller and a part of urban-lit history. In 2008 he received the Black Author of the Year Award from Black Press Radio. He has been featured in Time, KING, The New York Press, and on MTV and BET. Besides an author, Kโwan is also a motivational speaker, a mentor to at-risk children and the C.E.O of Black Dawn, Inc. He lives in New Jersey.
Honey Jones is originally from Baltimore, Maryland, and currently resides in New York City. She is an actress, acting coach, and teaching artist in all five boroughs of the New York City school system. Her credits are extensive in regional theater, and she has also done soap and episodic work. She holds a BFA from Howard University and an MFA from Penn State University.
