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Sayon Hughes longs to escape the rough-and-tumble Bristol neighborhood of Ends, the tight-knit but sometimes lawless world he was raised in, and make a better life with Shona, the girl he's loved since grade school. With few paths out, he turns to dealing drugs until a fatal altercation and an unexpected witness, Shona's pastor father, leaves him stuck. If Shona learns his secret, he will lose her forever. But if he doesn't escape from Ends now, he may never get another chance.