The Criss Cross

✍ Scribed by Crystal Lacey Winslow

• Publisher: Melodrama Publishing
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Nikki Ling is half black and Japanese. Shes independent, street-smart and the daughter of a prostitute. Living in the mean streets of East New York and Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn shes forced to make a living the only what she knows how. When a wealthy, South African diplomat asks for her hand in marriage things seem to get brighter. Until she realizes that the soft-spoken, reserved, gentleman is pathological, kinky, and sadistic. One day she meets a mysterious stranger who approaches her with the Criss Cross. Is the Criss Cross her ticket to a better life? Or will the Criss Cross ultimately become the double cross? Wait! The Criss Cross isnt done yet! The old gang from Life, Love Loneliness have some unfinished business to resolve. In this page-turning novel see how the drama unfolds for Lyric, Lacey, Madison, Joshua, and Estelle.