After losing his older brother, Quintavius is determined to graduate college and leave a legacy that the brothers of his fraternity can be proud of. When his senior year rolls around he’s ready to jump in to it head first. Wearing his last name proudly on his back and his frat letters on his front, Q is cocky, unpredictable and ambitious with a master plan to take over the computer programming business by storm.
Camilla is Quintavius’s younger sister and in all aspects his better half. She’s a Greek woman with amazing standards and a dream bigger than the curly hair that rests on her head. She has everything she could have ever wanted; a line of well-respected women in her sisterhood, two doting parents, a brother willing to go to war for her and the perfect relationship she’s put several years in to… until her Prince Charming turns out to be the villain, not only verbally abusing her, but hitting her as well. Camilla finds herself stuck in her abusive relationship and her entire life is thrown through a loop. As her seemingly perfect life tumbles apart behind closed doors she finds herself attempting to hold together the pieces of her life and hide its chaos from her older brother who she knows would want blood.
Dreeka is a sophomore battling with the knowledge of not only her father having cancer, but her father having a whole other family complete with a daughter her age. Dreeka finds herself extremely close with her half-sister, Lexus, over time, but getting over the betrayal by her childhood superman isn’t something she can do easily. She throws herself in to her studies and avoids going home as much as possible and when Lexus drags her through a sorority recruitment process she finds herself scrambling to get through the pledging process while somehow falling under the spell of the charming Quintavius.
Lexus is determined not to end up like her mother, a woman hopelessly in love with a man that loves someone else. After watching her mother practically chase after her father her entire life, Lexus is over the whole love bit. She has it programmed in her head that all men are cheaters and time and time again they’ve proven that to be true. As her mother focuses on her father’s failing health, Lexus turns to stripping to pay for her education and soon finds that she’s good at it. Besides getting college paid for in full, Lexus doesn’t really want much… except to go Greek.
Trell is a senior, but is still stuck in the partying phase of his life. Somewhere between drugs, booze, and his clingy and short-tempered girlfriend, Paris, he loses his way and struggles to somehow find it again.
Booker is in search of quick cash and soon finds it moving drugs in the ghettos of lower downtown. He just wants to secure enough money to make a decent living while going through school. Instead, he finds himself smacked right in the middle of an all-out street war to come.