When a drug dealer abandons Pamela Xavier, leaving her with only a stack of bills, an empty refrigerator, an impending eviction notice, and no prospects, she learns to deal with the streets, the playas, the drug lords, and the law. She wants money and happiness, but at what cost?

"From the author of the best-selling The Butler--an emotional, inspiring story of two teams from a poor, black, segregated high school in Ohio, who, in the midst of the racial turbulence of 1968/1969, win the Ohio state baseball and basketball championships in the same year. 1968 and 1969: Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy are assassinated. Race relations are frayed like never before. Cities are aflame as demonstrations and riots proliferate....

"Almost Yankees is the story of the New York Yankees' then Triple-A farm club, the 1981 Columbus Clippers, and its players performing in the shadow of one of the sport's most famous teams and infamous owners"--