Still Bitter by Vick Breedy

If you have read Bitter, you’ve been anxiously awaiting the sequel Still Bitter. Still Bitter is like the second season to the Bitter reality show on paper. Still Bitter invites you into the lives of your favorite characters from Bitter and their children twenty years later. Ben thinks his daughter Karma is the only blood relative that he has left. He has held a grudge for twenty years and finally has an opportunity to get some vengeance. With the help from an unlikely acquaintance, he succeeds. This isn’t business. This is personal. Is getting vengeance worth what he gets in return? She may not have her beauty, but Ava is happy. She became wealthy by blackmailing her rapist. Ava has been called crazy, but she has a great investigative mind. She puts that mind to work when she opens a private investigating agency. Little did she know, this would be the gateway to digging up dirt and uncovering secrets that may destroy her loved ones’ lives. What will she do with this dirt? Throw it or sweep it under the rug? Karma is Ava’s daughter. She was raised by a woman that knows more about pain than love. Nevertheless, her mom treats her like a gift that only the highest bidder should have. She is groomed to be everything that the right man will want physically and sexually. Karma finds her man, but things don’t go the way she fantasized. It is within this relationship that Karma discovers a side of herself she didn’t know existed. She’s addicted to something more dangerous than drugs. Eve grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her mother is an off and on again drug user. Eve stopped going to school in the eleventh grade. Her low wage job doesn’t pay enough for her to move out. She wants more for herself. She decides to get her GED. Taking that first step opened up doors that she never imagined would open. It leads her to a job in Boston, Massachusetts. While in Boston, Eve finds out the tragic truth about her real family. Craig is older and wiser. He’s found love and is ready to settle down. Something comes up that won’t allow him to put his gangster behavior on pause. His worst fear comes to life when his new love gets caught up in his drama. When he learns of his new love’s fate, he is forced to go back to being the ruthless man he was in his younger years. He knows who's to blame for his pain. He should have taken care of him years ago. When he does, he puts his most beloved family member in harm’s way.