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After a long Labor Day weekend, 73-year-old Eugene Washington is found dead in his Leimert Park home. At first blush, his death seems unremarkable- heat wave combined with food poisoning from a holiday barbecue. But something in the way Washington died doesn’t make sense. LAPD Homicide Detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called to investigate the death and learns that the only family Washington had was the 6,000-member congregation of Blessed Mission Ministries, led by Bishop Solomon Tate. But something wicked is lurking among the congregants of this church.

Harlow Saint is just like any other chick born in the projects, but the difference with her is that she's trying to make it out. Hard work comes easy to her because she's struggled her entire life. All she wants to do is provide for herself and her younger sister, while her mother chases her next high in the streets. Things seem to take a turn for the better when she meets Revel, an up-and-coming kingpin. For a short time, Harlow believes she's found her happily ever after - until things shift and she suddenly finds herself in a situation she can't get out of.

Jackboy was born into slavery on a Barbados sugar plantation. His constant attempts to escape finally pushed the masters too far. They punished the whole family by splitting them up and selling them off. His father’s last words had been, “It’s okay, son, don’t never give up.” Several years later, wracked by guilt, but still obsessed with freedom, he slips away from a South Carolina tobacco plantation and outsmarts the Confederacy’s most vicious slave patrol captain who is hot on his trail.