Defying stereotypes attached to young black males raised in the hood by teen mothers and absentee fathers, Morgan Mitchell excelled as a scholar to a prestigious university. During college, Morgan meets friends who help shape his life's experiences. One such friend, Giselle Gibson, a student from his hometown of Baltimore, becomes his love interest. Unable to speak love's language to one another, Morgan and Giselle venture on a winding and potentially deadly slope. Plagued by an STD, rejected by the love of his life, devastated about the news of his father, and cut by broken images of those closest to him, Morgan's life shatters to the point of no repair. Will he be able to reach the only one who can save his soul before it's too late?
DD Jewell is the author of a series called Shattered that coalesces four twenty-somethings’ lives that intersect during life-shattering situations and circumstances. DD introduces the characters through the first book, The Story of Giselle. Each book connects with the others with overlapping incidents, however, each one tells the colorful unique journeys of these young professionals’ triumphs, tests, and tragedies.
DD Jewell graduated from the University of Virginia. DD lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and children.