Street Certified Heavyweight by Bonnie Blanco

Street earned his name from the hood itself. It wasn’t given to him, wasn’t handed down. He took it.
His hands were legendary before he ever stepped foot in a real gym, and the whole block knew it. Niggas twice his age gave him his respect because he demanded it without ever asking.

The courts tried to redirect him, handed him over to his uncle named Legal, and what happened next turned an already dangerous young man into something the whole city had to acknowledge. He became a CERTIFIED HEAVYWEIGHT, feared in the ring and on the streets…the kind of man people talked about in rooms he wasn’t even in.

But all that power, all that reputation, couldn’t protect him from Bri. She wasn’t from his world, but she knew him before the name meant anything, and she looked at him in a way nobody else did. It was like she could see straight through every wall he ever built. Street faced killers without flinching, but Bri had him off balance in a way no woman ever could.

He fought it hard. Told himself she wasn’t his, told himself he didn’t need that kind of distraction in his life. But Bri wasn’t going nowhere..and in the end, she did what the streets, the courts, and every opponent never could. She fought to claim the heart of a Big Dawg.