Ewing, L. (2014). The lure. New York, NY: HarperCollins /Balze.

15-year-old Blaise lives in a bad neighborhood, where gangs roam the streets. Blaise lives with her grandmother who works herself to death every night trying to keep a roof over their heads. There are battles waged over drugs and territories, and even innocent bystanders get shot if they happen to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time.  Blaise thinks that things would be easier if she joined a gang, and she’s set on joining C9 but things get only more dangerous when she becomes a member of Core 9 and tensions with a rival gang heat up. Trek, the head of Core 9, asks Blaise to be his "lure," the sexy bait he'll use to track down enemy gang members and exact revenge and Blaise can't resist the money and power. As Trek puts Blaise in increasingly dangerous situations, she begins to see that there's more to lose than she ever realized-including Satch, the one person who has the power to get under her skin. 

This book started out pretty strong with me.  At a lexile of   its target audience is grades 9 – 12.  Unfortunately the plot started to fall apart and it became way over dramatic.  The love triangle was terribly predictable and some of the sentax choices simply did not seem realistic within the setting.  The ending left way to many unanswered questions for me to feel satisfied with it.  I’m not sure I would necessarily recommend this book, but I might consider others by Ewing after previewing them.  One review referred to it as “stylish gangster porn.”