Black Tonya: A Women's Fiction Novel

Tonya Heart starts life with almost nothing. Her mother is addicted to drugs and her father is a stranger, and she grows up on the hard streets of Chicago with little help from anyone. Her grandmother, worried that Tonya is drifting toward trouble, sends her to Atlanta in the hope that a new city will keep her on the right path. Trouble follows her there, and she is soon tangled in a dangerous situation that drives her back home. In Chicago her luck seems to turn when she learns about the man who fathered her and discovers an inheritance. Just as she begins to feel she has earned a good life, a new man arrives and threatens everything she has built. This is an urban novel about secrets, family and survival.