Have you ever been jumped? Have you ever lay in an alley clinging to consciousness, bleeding to death, knowing you could die where you lay? I have. The streets are a dangerous place; watch over your shoulder while you walk or you may just find out what I’m talking about. Horrors lurk in the shadows, evil prickles the back of your neck, you know someone is watching you, waiting until you’ve long forgotten that gut feeling… waiting to catch you off guard. Friends can’t help you, although they may try. I watch them fall around me and I wonder how we got here. How did we enter this hell?

Nowhere is safe in the neighborhood. Clay and his gang, the Locals, can’t walk the streets alone these days. Fighting for everything and nothing at all, the Locals struggle on the streets trying to build a safe life around each other. Haker and his followers, another neighborhood gang, have set a vendetta against them, trying to tear down their protection; but the Locals aren’t backing down — they’re going down swinging. Clay’s life will never be the same when a chain of events turns deadly and leaves all of the Locals changed forever.

Shandy L Kurth has been writing since the age of eleven. She enjoys writing real life fiction and strives to connect with her readers by creating characters that are relatable. She loves working with and teaching children. She lives in Kansas with her husband.