Brenda Frances is America's latest scribe to Urban Fiction, in her debut onto the contemporary literature scene with her novel, "Hearts of Steel". This tale of Sessie Jones and her best friend Deb Bovaise, spotlights two females looking to escape their impoverished existence from the Low-Bottom's of South Central Los Angeles. "Hearts of Steel is an extraordinary act of reporting explicit imagination. No one could doubt the authenticity of the tales of life and duty behind prison bars". Sessie and Deb make a blood-pact to be sisters committing to be loyal forever to one another in a bold plan for blazing a new trail in the oldest hustle known to man the world over. They enter the unknown as correctional officers hell bent on capitalizing off the tax free ill-gotton gains to be had behind bars in one of California's thirty-three State prisons; a system renowned as the largest in the world. with its basic education requirements for being hired, cushy benefits and fat paychecks. Once hired Sessie and Deb quickly learn the prison's get-down, identifying the players livin' within the gangsters paradise and they set about recruiting a group of women with Hearts of Steel amongst the prison staff, who want to be rich. Before long Sessie and Deb's business savvy elevates the financial status of each of the Whores under their management to owning diversified portfolios, and pushin' plushed out cars, to major paid V.I.P affairs in the warden's mansion for prison brass, and public officials. Each finds her sense of financial security and living the good life, until Sessie breaks the foremost rule of Ho'-hustling and falls in love. Caught up in a love triangle, Sessie's love for her king drives a wedge between she and Deb her life goes all bad, and her world is suddenly flipped topsy-turvy by the murder of a public official that servers up her undoing.