Everything is Everything Book 1 is the exciting urban tale that first appeared in the smash hit box set, Scandalous Heroes. Now Pepper Pace has re-released this highly acclaimed novel with edits and additional material removed from the version appearing in the box set. "I had to edit the novel's size down in order for it to appear the box set. But I knew that once I published it independently I would add everything back into it. I hope you enjoy the newly edited version of Scotty and Vanessa's story." In 1977 12-year old Vanessa White lives just out of reach of the projects that both scare and entice her. It is the year that she meets 14-year old Scotty Tremont, one of the few white boys to live in the ghetto. Initially afraid that Scotty intends to beat her up because her cousin called him white trash, Vanessa soon learns that although Scotty is a ‘Trick Baby’ and will probably be a dope boy just like his brother, he also somehow manages to be compassionate. Scotty is learning something as well; that his path has not been laid out before him and that everything isn’t necessarily everything. This two part book series takes the reader back to the 70’s style urban lit stories of life in the ghetto. It begins in the 70s and moves throughout the decades following the lives of people whose stories have intertwined in a romantic, tragic, sometimes funny tale of street life. This story is for adult readers only and contains mature themes including language, sex, violence, drugs and racism.

In 1977 two kids formed an unlikely bond—one a white boy living in a mostly black housing projects and a black girl residing on the ‘hilltop’ which looks down on the ghetto. Two years later both are tentatively approaching first love. But the secrets of the past forces them apart until one day Vanessa returns to a world that she never felt a part of. Her first love is now a drug dealer and Vanessa still feels irrevocably linked to him. But she won’t live her life with a man that exists on the edge of right and wrong. And Scotty makes the supreme sacrifice for his family and for his future. Now in Book 2 of Everything is Everything, the secrets of the past explodes around them all and threatens to steal not only the dreams of Scotty and Vanessa but also their very lives. From a return of those thought long lost, to the Hip Hop scene of New York City, prison, death, a huge dysfunctional family and the drug game that is never far out of reach, Scotty and Vanessa must navigate through the minefield of street life in order to learn that blood is not always thicker than water. Warning: This Urban Literature novel delves into a world of drugs, money and the racial tension of the 70’s and 80’s. It includes graphic language, drug use, sexual situations and violence.