“7 Dayz On 7 Mile”

Authors: Keith Robinson and James McKinney

The lives and fortunes of three young men from drastically different environments become forever intertwined in the dramatic book “7 Dayz On 7 Mile”.

Life in Traverse City, Michigan is good for handsome biracial brothers Marcus and Michael “G-Baby” Dickerson. The young men have grown up and excelled in academics, athletics and professional life thanks to their upbringing by their beloved White grandmother, who took the boys in following their mother’s death in a car accident. The boys were raised to believe that their African-American father was somehow responsible for the accident and had subsequently abandoned his sons.

When tragedy befalls younger brother G-Baby in the form of life-threatening leukemia, an immediate bone marrow transplant is his only hope of survival. As both older brother Marcus and his grandmother have tested negative as possible donors, only one prospect remains. Within one week, Marcus must locate the boys’ long-lost father --- with the only information about Dad’s whereabouts being that he works on a street called 7 Mile in Detroit.

Soon after arriving in Detroit to begin his desperate search, Marcus begins to cross paths with a young man named Terrell Johnson, a.k.a. “T. J.” in which he has his own time-pressing dilemma. Ambitious and determined to start his own business after being fired from his auto factory job, T.J. approaches a local street hustler for a $25,000 down payment on a commercial building. Under the guise of friendship, the shark loans T.J. the money with the stipulation that it be paid back with interest … with 7 days.

Through several coincidental situations, Marcus and T.J. become acquainted. Neither is aware of the impact they’ll eventually have on each other’s lives … or what a difference a week can make.