Nova - Paperback

Twenty-year-old Malik Carter is tired of watching everybody else figure out how to get money. Growing up on Buffalo's East Side, Malik has seen what money can change-but nobody ever showed him how to get in. When opportunity finally comes, he refuses the easiest route and chooses to build something of his own. With Heavy beside him and Omar taking a different path, Malik enters a world where loyalty gets tested, friendships shift, and every move carries consequences. As his name begins to travel beyond the blocks that raised him, Malik discovers that the life he wants may be connected to a legacy much bigger than he ever knew. Everybody talks about getting money. Nobody tells you how they got in.

Long Book Description

Malik Carter has spent his whole life watching. Watching who has money. Who gets respect. Who people move differently around. Growing up on Buffalo's East Side, he learned early that everybody wants more-but almost nobody explains how they got it. At twenty years old, Malik is broke, ambitious, and tired of depending on his mother for things he believes he should already be able to provide for himself. So when local hustler Dre Whitfield offers him a lane, Malik makes a decision that separates him from the people closest to him. Omar takes the opportunity. Malik doesn't. He doesn't want somebody else's corner, somebody else's money, or somebody else deciding how far he can go. He wants something of his own. What begins as a search for money quickly becomes something much bigger. With Heavy beside him, Malik moves from the streets of Buffalo into rooms, relationships, and opportunities he never knew existed. But every door that opens reveals another level-and another piece of the mystery surrounding the father whose name still carries weight years after his disappearance. As Malik begins building his own operation, success changes everything. Friendships become complicated. Loyalty gets tested. Rivalries grow. And the name Nova starts becoming bigger than the young man who created it. Because getting power is one thing. Controlling what happens after everybody believes you have it is something else. NOVA is a gritty story of ambition, brotherhood, loyalty, family, legacy, and the cost of becoming the man everybody eventually has to answer to.