Read the Room by Mel Dau

In a world full of rooms, the most valuable lesson you can learn is how to read them.

Lo’ak Jordan has been reading the rooms of the streets for as long as he could read. The one room that he has not been successful at reading is the room of love. How can you read a room that you haven’t had a chance to walk in? What happens when he trips across the threshold? Will he stay in the room or determine that it’s not for him?
The only room that Tsireya Robinson has time to be in is one where the money resides. She’s a woman with responsibility, misfortunes, and dreams. When one of those misfortunes pushes her into a room that she had no business being in, will she be able to get out? Will it be a room that she wants to leave when that time comes, or will the writing on the wall make it the room she wants to live in forever?