Hard to Hold, Harder to Break is a gritty, emotionally charged urban fiction novel that explores the unspoken price of loyalty. When two childhood friends find themselves pulled into a world of fast money, broken promises, and rising tension, they must choose between who they were raised to be and who survival demands they become. Set against the backdrop of a city that doesn't forgive and love that comes with conditions, this is a story about what happens when holding it down starts to tear you apart. Some bonds save you. Others bury you.