Böcker av Johnni Sherri

Four diverse young women, each at a crossroads in their lives, meet at a very popular HBCU.Born and raised in the heart of Brooklyn, Franki doesn’t take crap from anyone. Continuously hurt by the men in her life, she finds herself using them for the only thing she believes they’re good for: sex. When she’s labeled for her promiscuity and a new tragedy strikes, how will she recover?Paris, on the other hand, has led a life of privilege out in Beverly Hills—one that didn’t include very many minorities in her circle. When her mother sends her off to an HBCU in hopes that she’ll reconnect with her people, she finds herself culture-shocked.Asha, the local girl, is a complete slacker when it comes to school and anything else that doesn’t align with her future plans of becoming a basketball wife. She is a user and a mastermind manipulator who will ultimately have to pay a price.Lastly, there’s Hope, the good girl. Raised by her father and brought up in the church, she’s been sheltered most of her life. When she falls hard for the big man on campus and gets her heart crushed to pieces, will she persist?Told from each character’s distinct point of view, this narrative is about young women navigating the dynamics of sex, love, and heartbreak in college. Being outcasts in their own right, these four young women ultimately forge a very unique bond.

After barely surviving their freshman year at NC A&T, the girls have to make it through the summer.Just before spring break, Hope learns that she’s pregnant, but now she’s unsure of exactly what to do. On the one hand, she doesn’t want to disappoint her father because he only knows the meek and sheltered child he raised. He has yet to face the young, fleshly woman she’s now become—the one that has fallen weak for a man. But on the other, the father of her unborn child is not who she once thought he was.Despite making the conscious decision to separate herself from the married Malachi Montgomery, the pain of losing him causes a natural tug of war inside Paris’s heart.Franki’s heart continues to open up to church boy Josh, but she’s unsure of just how long their relationship will last without sex. Every day, she struggles with her past, and when things back home take a turn for the worse, the lines between intimacy, sex, and religion are blurred.Finally, Asha hits rock bottom—so low that she attempts to mend relationships that were once thought to be broken beyond repair. She even makes notable strides in putting the puzzle pieces of her life back together, but will it all be too late? Will it even be enough to change her selfish, gold-digging ways? Find out in the finale of Heartbreak U.