Ten years after their home was almost torn apart by infidelity, Mona and Shawn Black are just getting back to normal . . . or so it seems. Both Shawn and Mona are still keeping secrets from each other and their immediate family. Back to his old tricks, James Parks exits prison older but not wiser, and his bitter rage seeks revenge. He again manipulates the lives of the Black family with knowledge of secrets that they hold locked away. He uses any and everyone in his path to get his payback; that is, until he stumbles onto someone who offers him something he vowed to do away with forever: love. Will Mona and Shawn learn that it is best not to keep secrets and just let the chips fall where they may? Will James bury the hatchet to try his hand at love once again? Is there still hope for these wayward souls, or will they be swallowed up by their lies and secrets once again? Secrets, lies, deception, murder, lust, and revenge rule the pages of this sophisticated drama. Let's see what happens when the gates of their lives swing wide open once again.

Jerry(James) Parks exits the plane from California and enters the BWI airport in Maryland with a lot of pain in his heart and hurt on his mind. The moment he touched the ground he was a force to be reckon with. There is no one spared in his path. He settles into life in Baltimore with a name change, a new attitude and a new identity; he transforms into the person he proclaims that others made him out to be. He is alone in his new life but he doesn’t plan on staying that way. ‘Loot them and leave them’ is his new mantra and he stands by it firmly. He won’t be a victim of love any more. With plans to ruin lives embedded in his belly, his first steps into Baltimore, Md are rocky but fruitful. His first encounters with the low down and flashy gay men of Baltimore only fuel his rage. He learns more and more as days go by on how to manipulate each person he comes in contact with just to get what he thinks is due him. Join James Parks on his journey of revenge before he meets the Black Family.

James Parks' thriving bloodline, Ashley and Alex Black, have transitioned back to Baltimore living, and the drama they thought was over continues to plague them. It seems like chaos is hardwired in their DNA. Ashley is hard at work in her career and is enjoying her new life, but an old flame comes back into the picture and wants to play for keeps. Throw in her boyfriend, Troy, with his own secrets, and her life is pandemonium. Alex is a sports agent and a party animal with a libido to match. When he stumbles onto a client with a secret, he has to make a decision: do the right thing or cash in. Toss in a sneaky and relentless stalker named Jasmine, and Alex finds himself dealing with more than he can handle. New and old drama collides in this continuing saga of the Black family. Someone wants revenge and is waiting to rid the world of some bad blood. Will Alex and Ashley survive another round of drama?

After a brief stay in County Jail, Darin Jones is finally sent to a Federal Prison. While in the Federal Prison, Darin makes friends and also finds some enemies. He must walk the line of a Federal Inmate if he is to survive, while at the same time not conform to the prison life mentality. Darin Jones experiences one of the greatest miracles of life from behind bars. A prison riot breaks out thanks to the actions of this first-time offender. This is only Darin's start in his sentence, he still has a lot to learn. Or will the prison system get the better of him?

From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.