Jules, a talented African American architect, is frustrated with his inability to crack the glass ceiling at his country-club like Georgetown firm. He is also engaged to his college sweetheart, Antoinette. They’ve shared a roller-coaster fifteen-year relationship. Both were involved in brief affairs; Antoinette with a womanizing Capitol Hill...

Quentin Johnson, a former police detective from Maryland, has made the cross-country move to Los Angeles to become a Private Investigator in Hollywood. And to re-ignite a relationship with a woman from his past, Antoinette. Antoinette has moved west to begin a new chapter in her life. To escape a failed, 15-year relationship with her ex-fiancé,...

One baby. Two mothers. A twenty-year lie.

In 2001, inside a Chicago booth reeking of menthol smoke and shredded desperation, a transaction was signed in the shadows. A son was traded for a sanctuary. A legacy was bought to bury a sin. They called it The Pact.

Twenty years later, the “Silk” of the Chicago North Shore and the “Steel” of a Manhattan...