Promise and her best friend Mouse have fled Newark and are hiding out in New York City, wanted by the police--and the streets--for the death of B-Stone, leader of the Bloods. In the city, Promise has found work as a waitress at a hole-in-the-wall strip club. But one fateful night, she is forced to face her past when an up-and-coming rapper draws several shady characters into her orbit.

Meanwhile, Asher has maneuvered himself into a position of great importance after B-Stone's death, albeit with some help. But his ambition may cost him when he must make the ultimate choice: his best friend's life, or his own.

Promise and Asher have each come into their own, but will they ever be able to come together?

Bestselling author K'wan weaves a tangled web of complex relationships and power struggles in Promise Kept, a tale peopled with gangstas, drug dealers, dreamers, and schemers from both sides of the Hudson.