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Portia

by Julia Press Simmons

A family legacy and a fragile chance at change

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A family legacy and a fragile chance at change

Portia’s rise from a childhood marked by hunger and violence to running an elite prostitution ring links her present power to a painful family history. Around her, Honey Williams is weighing the possibility of a different life against loyalty to the women who took her in. Her feelings for a man Portia has forbidden add another strain to that conflict. The setup brings together family inheritance, survival, chosen bonds, and the costs of trying to leave a life that has also provided community. The book’s world is the hood’s nightlife, shaped by sex, drugs, lies, and betrayal.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in urban fiction centered on prostitution and nightlife.
  • Readers drawn to stories about family legacies, survival, and difficult attempts at change.
  • Readers interested in bonds of loyalty complicated by romantic conflict.

Themes

Family legacySurvivalChosen family and loyaltyChange and belongingRomantic conflict

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Book overview

Portia is the madam of an elite prostitution ring in the hood. It might be time for this circle to meet its demise.

Portia grew up in the ass-for-cash game, seeing the best and surviving the worst. At five years old, hungry and huddled near a dumpster, she watched a trick beat the life out of her mother for the twenty dollars she'd just made. Portia sat there for hours until the hunger pains forced her to move, her life forever changed.

Portia has followed in the footsteps of her grandmother and mother, turning to prostitution. However, unlike her family before her, she has turned the game into a lucrative enterprise, becoming the madam of an elite prostitution ring in the hood.

Honey Williams, aka Honey Dip, is a former junkie trick turned call girl who secretly yearns for a relationship with her daughter and a chance at a normal life. She is tired of the game but doesn't want to turn her back on the prostitutes that saved her life and welcomed her into their family when nobody else wanted to be bothered. Just when she thinks things couldn't be any more complicated, she falls in love with a man who is young enough to be her son and declared off-limits by Portia.

Sex, drugs, lies, and betrayal... Welcome to the nightlife. You won't be disappointed.
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