Prodigy Banks is young, good looking and charming and lives a life of womanizing and crime until one man, Poppa Doc, shows what it truly means to be a man.

Bernard Charles is a workaholic who refuses to let his child go through any of the perils that he had to endure while growing up without his parents, but his quest for providing has left his wife lonely and vulnerable.

And then there is Poppa Doc, who at sixty-eight years of age has seen it all and always has a fix for what ails you. Stricken with lung cancer, Poppa Doc's now strives to save the younger generations from destruction starting with his own son, Michael, who refuses to take responsibility for his life and those of his children.

In "The Hearts of Men", Prodigy, Bernard and Poppa Doc seek to define and examine manhood for themselves via their struggles with family, fatherhood, marriage, friendships and careers in a way sure to resonate and entertain a lot of readers -- and especially those hundreds of thousands of readers of Terry McMillan, E. Lynn Harris and Eric Jerome Dickey.