The first novel in the Corrupt Officer's Guide series. Running from his traumatic past at Osceola prison John Youngblood a young African American male protagonist welcomes his transfer to work at a new prison. With his financial state in ruins, he struggles to help Julia his new house guest. 

 

Becoming aware of the corrupt system around him Officer Youngblood starts to lose morale. Then an opportunity to make a fast two hundred fifty thousand dollars begins to change whom he thought he was. Growing closer to Julia awakens an emotional part of him he'd closed off.

 

Check-to-check living and a past full of skeletons prevent him from opening up to his new friend who would be perfect for him. Maybe if he takes the corrupt opportunity he could afford everything he ever wanted.

 

But is money everything? Officer Youngblood is about to learn the true cost of working for the Department of Corrections.