Hard Candy

Candice Hardaway is the daughter of rising New York drug kingpin Eric “Easy” Hardaway, who has plenty of money and just as many enemies. When Candy arrives home from school and finds that her entire family has been murdered, she runs to the only person she can trust—her uncle Rock. 

Joseph “Rock” Barton is a reclusive first-class “cleaner” who performed hits for Easy and ultimately became part of the Hardaway family. When he takes Candice in, it’s not long before she asks him to teach her the skills necessary to take revenge on the drug dealers responsible for killing her family. 

When she turns eighteen, Candice, now known simply as Candy, uses her beauty and skills to get close to her father’s enemies, and one by one, Candy attempts to exact her own dose of revenge. Did Uncle Rock teach Candy to be hard enough to make it out alive as she rubs elbows with some of the most dangerous killers in the game? Or will her targets realize that they left one Hardaway alive and put a bounty on her head?

Amaleka McCall grew up in the streets of Brooklyn, New York. She earned her bachelor's degree in criminal justice from St. John's University and her master's degree in public administration from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She resides in Northern Virginia.