Kiss the Ring (33 page)

MEESHA MINK
is the bestselling and award-winning author of more than thirty books written under three names, including the critically acclaimed Real Wifeys series and the explosive Hoodwives trilogy, which she cowrote. She was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, and lives in South Carolina.

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mink, Meesha.

Kiss the ring : an urban tale / Meesha Mink.—First Touchstone trade paperback edition.

pages cm

“A Touchstone book.”

1. African American women—Fiction. 2. Revenge—Fiction. 3. Gangs—Fiction 4. Inner cities—Fiction. 5. Newark (N.J.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.R8945K57 2014

813'.54—dc23

2014005439

ISBN 978-1-4767-5530-4

ISBN 978-1-4767-5534-2 (ebook)