When A Good Will Goes Bad by Omar Scott

by Omar Scott

When A Good Will Goes Bad! Betrayal, murder, and deceit surrounds this urban tale of William Ford, a young man living alone, unhappy, and hiding from his past for the last ten years. Then a letter arrives in the mail from his former high school inviting him to his reunion. All of sudden, William's memories of the past that he has conveniently tucked away in the dark corners of his mind, begin to creep back into his current consciousness. He has been keeping a dark secret all that time. He now realizes that he can no longer hide from the past. He decides that he must go to the reunion where he confronts his demons, and comes to grips with who he has become. But what he finds out next will change his life forever. A captivating tale with twist and turns, written with fluid narrative and contemporary urban dialect. When a good Will goes Bad brings to life the inner most thoughts of a young black man dealing with heartbreak, loyalty, and loss on the streets of the Dallas.

Paperback

First published August 20, 2007

About the author

I’m originally from Los Angeles. My Mother is from Harlem, New York, and my father is from Alexandria, Louisiana. We moved to Dallas in the late seventies to start a new business, but things didn’t work out for my parents and they divorced when I was eight. Growing up in a single family home, where I was the oldest of my mother’s three kids, things were difficult. I gravitated toward gangs and crime. And it wasn’t until I was faced with going to prison and losing my friend to a senseless murder that I turned my life around. I found my calling to write. I went back to school and studied creative writing and liberal arts at Mountain View College. It was there where I found my unique voice and style. To tell crime stories from a deeper, more emotional place. To put the love and the passion in my stories and have endings with a twist. Then I wrote a short story called Troubled Waters and submitted it to a reader’s website called Timbooktu. They like it, and I was the featured author for that month. I followed that up with my first book, When a good will goes bad, then The hands of love, and next was Meet Mr. Wright.

Reviews

[April Lowe · Rating 5 out of 5]

A nice coming of age story set in the nineties. Kind of like the boy version of Fly Girl. A teenager struggling with finding his identity. Being torn in different directions by two girls and a friend who thinks his only way out is dealing drugs. Good story