Bøker av Malcolm Ivey

After thirty years in prison, Mason Foster is released into a 2018 digital society that he neither belongs in nor recognizes. With his father long deceased and his mother in a nursing facility suffering from late-stage Alzheimer's, his childhood home has gone quiet. Fully institutionalized with a lifetime of mental and emotional scars, he finds himself clinging to the solitude ... until two neighborhood children barge into his life, refusing to be ignored.Brooke Tyler thought she would never love again after losing her husband to the war in Afghanistan. But after years of raising Evan and Madison on her own, and a recent string of awkward dates that left her feeling guilty and lonelier than ever, she seems to have found her neurochemical match in cultured and successful Blane Barrington, a partner in a local law firm. But who is Blane Barrington, really?Hearts will be broken, lives will be shattered and tables will be turned in this unforgettable story of neighbors, lovers, and friends.

The last time Izzy saw his mother's trailer was through the rear window of a Dodge Aries driven by a social worker with the Florida Division of Children and Families. He was four years old. He spent the remainder of his childhood bouncing around the state foster care system. Always the outsider, introverted and awkward, he assumed he was exempt from things like friendship and love ... until he met Scarlett McGhee.Pharaoh Sinclair was born in a women's correctional facility. The illegitimate child of an unknown father and a crackhead mother. He grew up on the sidewalks of the Azalea Arms housing project, where gunshots and police sirens were as commonplace as the stench of the neighboring landfill. Molded by hustlers and pushers, with the dope game in his DNA, the lone soft spot in his concrete heart was reserved for his baby sister, Symphony. But could he protect her from the same streets that raised them?From the sugar-white sand dunes of Pensacola Beach to the murderous Arthur G. Dozier reform school, from strip clubs to emergency rooms, from trap houses to courthouses to prison cells, On the Shoulders of Giants chronicles the intersecting journeys of a foster kid and a project kid as they battle and stumble their way through adolescence into adulthood.An exploration of race, part memoir, part coming-of-age, part thriller, part love story, this transcendent novel defies genre. A book within a book. More than a story, a living organism. A legacy. The only child of Ezra "Izzy" James.

Rayla Broxson walked among murderers and rapists. It was far from a dream job, but better than anything else her small town had to offer. The prison was only meant to be a temporary stop but after six years, she found herself settling in to the subculture of correctional life with a trailer in staff housing and a sergeant for her husband.Lance Broxson had a mean streak that was legendary in the department. A former high school quarterback and hard-partying ladies' man, he finally decided to turn the page when he married Rayla. But could he overcome his own demons and the dark forces that tugged at him?Kevin Freeman was only trying to make it home. In his decade behind the razor wire, he had seen the worst that humanity had to offer and viewed both the guards and his fellow inmates with equal disdain ... until he met a kid too friendly for his own good and a woman who had no idea how beautiful she was.Set in the heart of the Florida Panhandle, where there's a prison at every interstate exit, With Arms Unbound charts the interlocking destinies of a woman trapped in a toxic marriage, the man who would die to set her free, and the husband who would kill before he let her go.

Weeks after giving birth to her son, Miranda McGuire is shipped off to the nation's largest female prison complex to begin a ten-year sentence. Still suffering from the crippling effects of postpartum depression, she must acclimate to this harsh new world-a world with its own rules, its own language, its own power structure. Here she will learn that her high IQ is about as useful as her politics, and that the line between friend and enemy can be as blurred as a watery strip in a plastic spoon. Outside the perimeter fence, a global pandemic rages on. Inside, far more pressing threats abound. As the postpartum fog slowly lifts, the dire nature of her circumstances becomes increasingly clear-trapped, hundreds of miles from home, with her baby left to the care of strangers. She must make it back. But standing in her way are endless coils of razor wire, armed guards, hostile inmates, an indifferent judicial system, and quite possibly her greatest obstacle . . . herself.