Forever a Hustler's Wife (25 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

N
IKKI
T
URNER
is a gutsy, gifted, courageous new voice taking the urban literary community by storm. Having ascended from the “Princess” of Hip-Hop Lit to “Queen,” she is the bestselling author of the novels
A Hustler’s Wife, Project Chick, The Glamorous Life, Riding Dirty on I-95,
and is the editor of and a contributing author in
Street Chronicles: Tales from da Hood.
Visit her website at nikkiturner.com, or write her at P.O. Box 28694, Richmond, VA 23228.

PRAISE FOR
NIKKI TURNER

Riding Dirty on I-95

“
Riding Dirty on I-95
is USDA hood certified.”

—T
ERI
W
OODS, AUTHOR OF
The Dutch Trilogy
AND
True to the Game

“[A] gritty, fast-paced street tale with heart.”

—Publishers Weekly

Street Chronicles: Tales from da Hood

“Nikki Turner has put together one helluva team for this one.
Street Chronicles
is a joint you need to cop!”

—T
HOMAS
L
ONG, AUTHOR OF
Cash Rules

“
Street Chronicles
is a walk through Anyhood U.S.A.”

—K’
WAN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF
Gangsta, Street Dreams,
AND
Hoodlum

The Glamorous Life

“Though hip-hop began in the music industry, Nikki Turner found a creative way to bring the rhythm to print—in fictional novels that give readers a close-up look at urban life.”

—Booking Matters

“Turner creates colorful, yet emotionally driven characters that captivate. Despite the deceit, cruelty, hatred and unspeakable wrongs, humanity maintains its presence in this glamorous life.”

—Upscale

“A gritty street tale of a young woman who has to decide which is more important—money or love.”

—The Seattle Skanner

“One of the premier queens of urban literature presents her latest steamy page-turner!”

—Black Expressions

ALSO BY
NIKKI TURNER

Riding Dirty on I-95

The Glamorous Life

A Hustler’s Wife

A Project Chick

Girls from da Hood

AS A CONTRIBUTOR

Street Chronicles: Tales from da Hood
(editor, contributing author)

The Game: Short Stories About the Life
(contributing author)

Forever a Hustler’s Wife
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

A One World Books Trade Paperback Original

Copyright © 2007 by Nikki Turner

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by One World Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

O
NE
W
ORLD
is a registered trademark and the One World colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Turner, Nikki.
Forever a hustler’s wife: a novel / Nikki Turner.
p. cm.
1. Swindlers and swindling—Fiction. 2. Street life—Fiction. 3. African Americans—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3620.U7659F67 2007
813'.6—dc22 2006046947

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