
Clark, who started her writing career while incarcerated, depicts Tasha's travails and Kyra's problems with a brutally honest squint, but it's hard to care about extra thuggy Trae. Rick Bryant, the couple's neighbor, gets involved with Kyra, Tasha's old friend, whose hubby, Marvin, is using drugs. Then Sabeerah, a devious young witness to Trae's New Jersey crime, moves to L.A. In her series on sisters trying to rise above the streets, she portrays a raw and true-to-life world where love can be just as dangerous as the men who cause it. To do this, he makes a connection with Charles Li, a Chinese mobster, and his dangerous daughter, Charli. Thug - 3 Essence bestselling author Wahida Clark has got her finger on ghetto pulse. Three years later, Tasha has three children and it's all good except Trace opens up a flashy nightspot, Club New York. Tasha and Trae, the hoods favorite couple, are still together following the events of Thug Matrimony.

although Trae briefly returns to the East Coast for some revenge killing after his cousin Shaheem's murdered.


In Clark's latest street lit, her fourth novel in the Thug series, the couple's moved to L.A. Back in the hood but movin' on up, Tasha and Trae Macklin have reformed somewhat but are still in urban grit mode.
