Phillip McCoy aka Big Mac is the head of a Virginia Beach crime family. He's married to his high school sweetheart Tootie. They control all the drugs moving on the east coast of the country. Big Mac has groomed his eldest son J-Mac to run the drugs and gambling of the family business. His daughter Princess is in charge of the family's prostitution business as well as a brilliant chemist. She has developed a synthetic drug that will revolutionize the drug world and make her family wealthier than they can ever imagine. The youngest son Baby Mac is in charge of the family's legitimate business. The McCoy family is the largest minority owner of hotels throughout the country. Baby Mac is also being groomed for a career in politics. His father has aspirations like the Kennedy family. Big Mac had decided early that he would use hotels to get his family out of the illegal business. The problem is when the family tries to get out there are people like Miguel, their Columbian supplier, who are not happy with the move and determined to stop the family. He also has to deal with the crooked city councilman Weber who opposes every move that the family makes in building new hotels because he blames them for his son's death. The McCoys are not your average crime family. They are the real McCoys.

This is the first urban novel of author Davian Clifton. It's titled "A Long Road to Redemption." James "JR" Roberts is a successful middle-aged African American male. JR utilized his athletic abilities to obtain a college scholarship thus allowing him to get out of the drug game that he and his brother controlled. JR had the American dream of the good wife, three kids, house, business, and plenty of money and respect in the community. After a business deal goes bad, JR finds himself in jail and loses everything he had worked so hard to obtain. His house. His money. His family. As well as his reputation. This story details the trials JR experiences as he works to regain all he has lost. There are people and consequences from his old life who are determined not to make his journey easy. He discovers that it is a long road to redemption. It is an urban tale with a spiritual twist.