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Harlem Girl Lost follows Silver Jones, a young African‑American woman who runs away from an abusive grandmother after her mother is murdered. Seeking an education, she is drawn back into the streets when she encounters Chance, a former friend turned powerful drug dealer. As Silver confronts the dark underworld of prostitution, heroin abuse, and murder, she fights to protect herself and offer Chance a way out of the cycle that doomed their childhoods.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Treasure E. Blue
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