DEADBEAT: A NOVELETTE BY OCEAN K.

by Marsha Lewis

Deadbeat is a cautionary tale of boy meets girl at family court. It’s about love, lust, trust...and babies. Trey Washington’s whole life changes, the night he ventures out with a childhood friend, to a club for… cocktails. With plenty of single females to choose from, Trey wants intelligent, with a great smile and a bangin’ the only characteristics Trey’s looking for, after his recent break up. After a few dances, drinks and small talk, Trey and Naomi rendezvous to the nearest motel for more discreet fun. As they venture back for seconds and thirds, DNA tests determine, with an accuracy of 99.997%, that Trey “IS the father.” Naomi wants a full-time father for her baby and a family with Trey, but he simply isn’t having it. Deadbeat is a story of what happens when a man’s life is dismantled by a bitter, determined woman, and the lengths a desperate, determined man will go, to make sure he doesn’t have to pay a dime in child support. Even if he ends up having millions to burn… Can Trey beat the system that has him labeled a Deadbeat?

95 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 23, 2019