Charm Town Codes

Book two of the Charm Town Book Series trilogy, Charm Town Codes, is a fictional, crime, mystery novel set in the urban school district of Charm Town. The series, told during the course of one school year, depicts the lives of main characters Peyton Stanfield and Hamilton Banks. Beautiful, intelligent, and confident, Peyton, privately balances her role as school social worker to troubled adolescents at Montebello High School and her role as lover to Hamilton, a demanding, yet captivating, married, wealthy Jamaican businessman. Their insanely intoxicating and addictive love affair rattles Peyton and shocks Hamilton. She chooses to surrender her family values and upbringing and he chooses to abandon his secretive enterprise and disrupt the lifestyles of an eclectic group of individuals with a keen interest in students who reside in zip code 20242. When a murder occurs, Montebello High School and the Charm Town school district is rocked to its core and left to answer decades-old questions of race, class, and equality. Honest, thought-provoking, and amusing, Charm Town Codes, depicts the inner workings of urban schools and the tumultuous, tragic, and triumphant lives of the adults who tirelessly look beyond the challenges of street life to educate and the students who show up each day seeking safety, opportunity, and validation.   Charm Town (2016) Charm Town Codes (2018) Charm Town Revelations (2019)