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Former supermodel and talk show host Hailey Barnes has a knack for catching her guests off guard with difficult and personal questions. Her tough interviews have earned her a Daytime Emmy, but while her professional life is at its peak, she’s not satisfied with her personal life.
Hailey wants what she can’t have, and that’s her ex-college sweetheart’s hand in marriage. Her on again/off again relationship with Trevon keeps her name in the tabloids, and that works for her, until she receives a wedding invitation in the mail—inviting her to Trevon’s wedding to another woman. He’s ready to settle down, just not with Hailey.
Besides dealing with a broken heart, the ex-supermodel is dealing with a deranged fan who has resorted to sending her disturbing mail at her Hollywood studio and her home. Hailey decides to use the opportunity as a quest to convince Trevon she should be his bride.
Trevon and childhood friend Garrett Morgan are co-owners of GT Securities, a security firm that caters to celebrities. Hailey’s plan backfires when Garrett heads her case instead of Trevon. When ex-playboy Garrett starts developing feelings for Hailey, Hailey’s life becomes even more complicated. As Garrett investigates, all evidence points to the person Hailey least suspects.
Cheryl Robinson is the
author of five novels. Most recently, When I Get Where I'm Going, In
Love with a Younger Man and Sweet Georgia Brown. She is a
native Detroiter and graduate of Wayne State University. Robinson now
resides in Central Florida where she is writing her next novel. Cheryl has
set many goals for her writing career, which include becoming a New York Times
bestselling author. Cheryl’s novels are primarily character-driven and her
themes often revolve around family, relationships, love, beating the odds, and
redemption. Listen
to an excerpt.
BPM:
Who do you want to reach with When I Get Where I'm Going and the
message within?
I am a Women's Fiction author. That does not mean I only write for women.
Nor
does the fact that I'm black mean I only write for black people. I don't write
to exclude any one, but to enlighten and entertain us all. I write about women
and women's issues, and of course, men are in my novels too. As an author I have
an opportunity to go beyond stereotypes. I've learned over the eight years that
I've been writing professionally that there is a way to entertain without
offending.
If I, as a black woman, do not feel good about how we are represented in the
media. If I don't feel empowered about what is being written about us on the
internet and elsewhere and if I have to continuously hear from the media that
black women are "the least desirable of all the races" or not a
preference by some men even within our own race, as an artist, I have an
opportunity to present a different message that isn't a negative one, but can
still be realistic. It's like music. Some songs only have a good beat while
others also have wonderful lyrics. I want to write books that make people feel
good.
My intended message isn't given to readers, but written in such a way that the
reader gets out of it what they came to the story with and how they view the
story and the characters will be interpreted by how they view the world. But
maybe, if I do my job as I intend to, they will have a different opinion after
it's all said and done.
BPM: Introduce us to your latest book, When I Get Where I'm Going.
What would you do if you discovered that you had a sibling you never knew
existed? Would you be like Heaven, so excited to connect to that person that you
quickly took to Facebook and started searching? Would you be like Hope, too
caught up in the trials and tribulations of your own life to even care? Or would
you be like Alicia, skeptical at first, but willing to open up to the idea?
Alicia, Hope, and Heaven are three estranged sisters embarking on one special
reunion. And it will take an earth-shattering discovery, a lucky lottery ticket,
and a near-fatal encounter to finally bring three sisters together and have them
realize that nothing can save a person like family. Please take a moment
and read the latest book review by AALBC, by
clicking here.
BPM: How can our readers reach you online?
Readers can connect with me through my website at: www.cherylrobinson.com
and also join me on my recently created Facebook page. There is a link on
my web site to Facebook.
Life Knows No Bounds: One Who Loves You More by Andrea Clinton
• Alisa is a money grubbing gold digger who sashays through her days wearing this title like a tiara. Feeling life’s all about the expensive gifts and money a man can give her, Alisa follows the steps of her mentor and basks in the glory of using men, until she stumbles upon Omar.
• Omar is an African American Muslim trying to fight his demons and find his way back to the Islamic life he knew as a child. Distraught over disagreements that divided the Muslim community a decade prior, where many Muslims became victim to inner city chaos, Omar became a product of his environment and is at the head of that chaos.
Tired of hearing her mother rant and rave about her gold digging ways, Alisa decides to take her great grandmother’s advice, "Always get a man who loves you more than you love him." Stumbling upon Omar in his brand new Cadillac, Alisa decides to make him her man, or rather, her victim, or will the tables turn? Hell erupts, splatters like geysers, while skeletons and bones fly out closets in, Life Knows No Bounds, “1 Who Luvs U More.”
Andrea Clinton: What Impact will this book have my readers?
Readers will learn about a very overlooked profession on the rise, "Gold Digging." They'll get to see that there's more than what meets the eye when women toy with men's emotions and use them for their hard earned money.
My Plight:
Some would say I was ungrateful, and I guess to a degree I was. But more than ungrateful, I was blind, too blind to see straight. Even now I can’t see what it is I should’ve done. I just know what I shouldn’t have done. And I know I wasn’t happy. I was unhappy with myself, with what was going on, and it was the unhappiness that drove me. It drove me to do things, drove me to where I am today, nowhere, with no one. Just sitting here playing the song,
I know how it feels to be lonely by Morgana King, in my head, over and over and over again.
I was a mental-mess, and I mucked things up really bad, and now they can’t be fixed. Forgive me if my story’s scrambled, but how else can I tell it when my mind is scrambled. So, when my story sounds twisted, shaky, and unclear at times, just know, so is my mind. Why else would I be sitting here talking to a Greek statue of a white woman with cellulite thighs, barely any clothing and no pupils? Yes, I’m really messed up in the head, and my nerves are shot. But that’s how it is when you see yourself as a casualty, and the world deems you the antagonist.
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"Life Knows No Bounds: 1 Who Loves You More," Andrea Clinton's first installment in the LIFE KNOWS NO BOUNDS chronicles, is a harsh realistic portrayal of urban love and life in mid-1980's New Jersey. Alisa, a boastful, self-proclaimed gold-digger, finds herself lost in a world of love and conflict as she tries and fails to apply her great-grandmother's wisdom to her complicated love life.
Alisa is well known in her hood for her selfish, gold-digging ways. Despite aggressive warnings from her family, she has mastered the game of getting a man for everything he has and gracefully moving on to the next. But when she hooks up with Omar, she soon realizes that she has entered into a game that she is ill-equipped to play.
Omar, a young, sexy hustler from around the way, knows what it takes to get Alisa's attention. He uses his flashy car and genteel manners to lure her in, but he has so much more in store for her. They start a tumultuous love affair that's riddled with gun fights, jealousy, expensive gifts, explosive arguments, and Alisa's spoiled rotten attitude. When Alisa's antics push Omar to the limit as he struggles with the conflict of his religion and his love for her, the future of their relationship is gravely threatened. "Always get a man who loves you more than you love him", the powerful last words of her dying great-grandmother which Alisa vowed to follow. When she finally understands the meaning of those words, it may be too late, as she comes dangerously close to losing what she fought so hard to gain.
With Life Knows No Bounds: 1 Who Loves You More, Andrea Clinton has created a dynamic urban love story, decorated with realistic dialogue and hard-hitting pragmatism. The story was compelling and the characters were vibrant. Although Alisa was a spoiled brat with an ugly attitude, I found her to be relatable and worthy of my empathy. I felt Alisa's and Omar's struggle until the very end and found myself
rooting for them despite their flaws and troublesome relationship. Life is no fairytale and Clinton has colorfully portrayed that truth through this novel. I was able to thoroughly enjoy the read. I recommend this novel for those looking for an explosive urban love story with a realistic perspective.
--- Reviewed by Monique D. Mensah, The RAWSISTAZ™ Reviewers
About The Author: Andrea Clinton is a novelist, poet and essayist, and aspiring screenwriter/filmmaker. As a Montclair State University graduate, she
possesses a degree in English, Film and Journalism. She’s the founder and CEO of the non-profit organization, People Helping People; worked as Editor in Chief of AMISTAD newspaper, New Jersey; and is presently working on a biography and screenplay featuring the life of her uncle George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic and the Clinton family.
Visit with Andrea at the Around-The-Way Publishing, LLC website: www.AroundTheWayPublishing.com.
To request a complimentary review copy and press kit, or to purchase copies for resale, call:
(973) 280-2729. Tear sheets may be sent by email: AroundTheWayPub@aol.com.
Ever Changing: Inside Outward by Rhonda K. Herring
The theme of
Ever Changing is taken from the Serenity Prayer. As a child the author had to recite the Serenity Prayer a million times.
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the “wisdom” to know the difference.” Little did she know that the prayer that was instilled in her as a little girl would take her through many hardships. Go with her as she learns the true meaning of the prayer that she loved as a child and as she struggles with the “wisdom” to know the difference.
Ever Changing is about finding the true love of my life. Someone who loved me completely even when I didn’t love myself.
I thought I loved myself but I did not. The decisions and choices I made early in my life proved it.
Check it out when you read through the pages of my book.
The true love of my life loved me perfectly. Not like I wanted to be loved but how I needed to be loved.
The love that I needed in order to find the true purpose in my life.
I walked this journey and continue to walk this journey-but now with joy and peace.
I endured many hardships as you will see (relationship issues, marital problems, divorce, literally homeless at one point, family sorrows, Pentagon Survivor (9/11), etc.)
What I learned along the way has taught me the deeper meaning to life, love and success. What I would like to share with you is my relationship with God.
My ministry is to bring reconciliation and healing to hurting people. How do I know that people are hurting? God not only told me, God used “me” as an example.
Ever Changing is a testimonial of Faith, Maturity and Spiritual development.
To our Father be the Glory!
How do you say goodbye to the one you love? Is this even an option when you've invested your body, mind, and soul into your relationship?
Charisse Farrell is a successful, beautiful corporate attorney who has it all, but when the love of her life David Richards betrays her, she has to reevaluate her future.
Tempted by the desire to love again and her need for revenge Charisse is haunted by a demon from her past that turns her life upside down.
When love knocks her down, Charisse has to get back up fighting. Fighting for love!
Primary discussion points: abuse, cheating, self-discovery, embracing
love and finding faith
Audience: Contemporary Fiction; Women Fiction;
African American - Urban Life
The Little Black Book of
Success
Laws of Leadership for Black Women
Written by Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood and Rhonda Joy McLean
In this engaging and invaluable “mentor in your pocket,” three dynamic and successful black female executives share their strategies to help all black women, at any level of their careers, play the power game—and win.
Rich with wisdom, this practical gem focuses on the building blocks of true leadership—self-confidence, effective communication, collaboration, and courage—while dealing specifically with stereotypes (avoid the Mammy Trap, and don’t become the Angry Black Woman) and the perils of self-victimization (don’t assume that every challenge occurs because you are black or female).
Some leaders are born, but most leaders are made—and The Little Black Book of Success will show you how to make it to the top, one step at a time.
About Elaine Meryl Brown
Elaine Meryl Brown, former VP, Creative Services at HBO, is an Emmy® Award-winning writer and producer who has won numerous awards in the broadcast industry.
In 2007, Brown was chosen as one of The Network Journal's "25 Influential Black Women in Business."
A favorite of Black Enterprise, she was featured in the magazine and at their Women of Power Summit. A Wheaton College Alumni Trustee and member of the Coalition of 100 Black Women (Bergen/Passaic Chapter), Brown is also the author of two novels published by One World. She lives in New Jersey. For more information on Elaine visit
www.elainemerylbrown.com
About Rhonda Joy McLean
Rhonda Joy McLean is deputy general counsel of Time Inc. and the former assistant regional director of the Northeast Region of the Federal Trade Commission. She has worked as a corporate litigator in a major New York law firm and taught administrative law at the City University of New York. She lives in New York City.
For more information on Rhonda visit http://www.rjmcareertransitions.com
About Marsha Haygood
Marsha Haygood is the president and founder of StepWise Associates, LLC, a career and personal development consultancy. She was formerly the executive vice president of human resources and administration at New Line Cinema and Orion Pictures. She lives in New York and Florida.
For more information on Marsha visit www.stepwiseassociates.com
Essence Magazine National Bestselling Novelist, Vanessa Miller, Tackles the Issue of Women Preachers in Yesterday's Promise
Christian romance novelist, Vanessa Miller, reminds us that the steps of a man, or a woman, are ordered by the Lord, no matter what plans they may make, in her upcoming release,
Yesterday's Promise. She beautifully intertwines this underlying theme as she takes on the long-standing issue of women preachers through the interaction between Melinda Johnson and her ex-fiancé, Steven Marks.
Melinda Johnson has always felt called to ministry. So, when her father, Bishop Langston Johnson, decides to step down after thirty years of leadership at Omega Christian Center, it seems only natural for her to take his place.
But Bishop Johnson feels led by God to appoint Steven Marks to succeed him, a man who is opposed to female pastors, not to mention the fact that he is Melinda's ex-fiancé.
Feeling defeated, Melinda nevertheless maintains her position as the church's Missions and Community Outreach Director. Frequent interaction with the new bishop incites bitter sparring and rekindles long-suppressed attraction, which grows only stronger when Melinda develops a relationship with Steven's precious daughter, Brianna, who's still struggling with the death of her mother.
Readers will find out if Steven and Melinda can set aside past pains, forgive each other, and learn to love again, or if their opposing positions regarding women preachers will keep them forever at odds.
Readers of Yesterday's Promise will be convinced that it is wise to cast all of their cares upon the Savior and let Him work out the conflicts in their lives.
Here is what others are saying about Yesterday's Promise:
"God is calling His people to possess the land. He is anointing individuals to go into the 'unique lands' of the days we live in to represent Jesus and proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. Vanessa Miller has an end-time, marketplace ministry to the fiction lovers of the world. I salute her for doing it in Jesus' name!"
-- Kimberly Daniels, Founder of Kimberly Daniels Ministries International, Pastor, Spoken Word Ministries
"Yesterday's Promise is a wonderful reminder that God requires total obedience and is looking for men and women to arise and be counted as leaders of integrity and honor. It is a message of hope for men and women alike, who will be assured that God is faithful to accomplish all He has predestined for their lives. Promotion comes from God; He changes the times and seasons, and our times are in His hands. May you be blessed as you read this book and be encouraged that God has you in mind." -- Dr. Cindy Trimm, Best-selling author, Founder of Destiny Churches & Ministries International
Vanessa Miller is a best-selling author, playwright, and motivational speaker.
She started writing as a child, spending countless hours either reading or writing poetry, short stories, stage plays and novels. Vanessa's creative endeavors took on new meaning in 1994 when she became a Christian. Since then, her writing has been centered on themes of redemption, often focusing on characters facing multi-dimensional struggles.
Readers and critics alike have responded with overwhelming affirmation. Vanessa's novels have received rave reviews, with several appearing on Essence Magazine's Bestseller's List. Miller's work has receiving numerous awards, including "Best Christian Fiction Mahogany Award" and the "Red Rose Award for Excellence in Christian Fiction."
Her writing has also been nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Christian Fiction and as the Black Expressions Book Club Alternate Selection for the past three years.
Vanessa is a founding member of the "Anointed Authors on Tour" whose aim is to support community arts and literacy efforts.
Miller graduated from Capital University with a degree in Organizational Communication. Vanessa Miller and her family live in Dayton, Ohio.
For more information about the author, visit: www.VanessaMiller.com.
To book Vanessa Miller for speaking engagements, events, and/or book signings, please contact Cathy Hickling at 800-444-4484 x283 or by e-mail at:
Chickling@whitakerhouse.com
Bruised Love – “When love leaves a bruise, does it ever heal?”
The answer is show in the lives of the characters introduced in this dramatic novel. Cassandra Smith, who left home for love, finds herself accepting abuse. She has returned home to find her internal strength. Mary Smith realizes her love for her daughter, Cassandra, has been smothered by her hatred for Trevor Black, the lover her daughter chose. She must rekindle their severed relationship before it’s too late.
Lamont Dearling has been warned, “A woman who has been abused, can never understand real love.”, but nothing including Trevor Black will keep him from pursuing his childhood sweetheart, Cassandra Smith. Trevor Back, the abusive love and part time father of Cassandra’s four children, has found he is no longer on top of his “game”. His abusive dealings on the street, other women and now Cassandra has caused problems that bring deadly consequences.
Cassandra Smith, Mary Smith, Trevor Black, Lamont Dearling and the others, take the reader through pages of a riveting story of love, betrayal and murder.
The story is a vivid portrait of Reverend Godbolt's family and his forebears. The family's secrets set the stage for a profound and provocative debate about black identity and destiny in America's past and present. We see the saga of Reverend Godbolt, who has always ruled his family with a steel glove, and who is questioning his faith, near the end of his life. A secret has kept him from truly trusting his wife and even loving one of his children. We see his spirited daughter, Nefertiti, who harbors a secret of her own, which keeps her from being able to actualize as a woman.
We have the love triangle of the two men who loved Nefertiti, Pharaoh Curry, her first lover, and Isaac Thorne, her first husband, who both are trying to win her back. This situation is compounded by Nefertiti's current interracial marriage. It was this last act of insurrection against the family's mores which has ex-communicated Nefertiti from her insular family for the seven years preceding her father's seventy-fifth birthday celebration. At the opening of the novel, Nefertiti has returned from Santa Monica, California to Shallow's Corner, Michigan. In her return as the prodigal minister's daughter, the scene is set, as past and present ghosts of hidden sins come home to roost.
Although the kernel of the story takes place from a Wednesday through a Sunday, the story is told out of sequence, in order to reflect the way that the memories of past regrets haunt the characters.
The title and the theme are intertwined. The characters, in their search for wholeness, whether through materialism, classism or religion, lose sight of the main issue. Just as they will carry nothing out of the world with them when they die, they can not own one another's soul. They can only love one another freely. It is the ability to connect, therefore redeem, one another, which determines the success, or lack thereof, of the characters in the book.
In addition, through out the novel, there is an adoption search which operates on two levels as an allegory. The search of the Diaspora of Blacks for wholeness in America (in that they were torn from Mother Africa) is mirrored by the search of one of the characters for her family tree. The novel deals with the issue of adoption which often runs counter to African American culture due to the history of children being sold away from their mothers. At the same time, the struggles a mother faces who has given a child up for adoption faces, is universal.
Meet the Author
Dr. Maxine E. Thompson is the owner of Black Butterfly Press, Maxine Thompson's Literary Services and Thompson Literary Show, and Maxine Show.
She hosts an Internet radio show on
www.artisfirst.com
She is the author of novel, The Ebony Tree, Award-winning Hostage of Lies, A Place Called Home, The Hush Hush Secrets of Writing Fiction That Sells, How to Publish, Market and Promote your Book Via Ebook Publishing, The Hush Hush Secrets of Creating a Life You Love, Anthology, SECRET LOVERS, (with novella, Second
Chances) and Summer of Salvation. SECRET LOVERS made the Black Expression's Book Club Bestselling list on 7-8-06 (after a 6-6-06 release date.)
A new anthology, All in the Family, (her novella, Summer of Salvation) came out in April 2007). Another new anthology, Never Knew Love Like This Before (her novella, Katrina
Blues) was published in June 2007. It was #13 on Amazon's top 100. Is now a Kindle choice and on their bestsellers list and has been on there many times as a multicultural and romance anthology.
Novel, Hostage of Lies, came out in December 2009 and was voted a Best Book on EDC Creations/Black Pearl Magazine.
You can sign up for her free newsletter at: http://www.maxinethompson.com
Wretched Saints – Spiritual Short Stories by Marc Lacy (Author), Assuanta Fay Howard (Author), and Shonell Bacon (Editor)
Between these covers may be your spark to eternal life or a ticket to everlasting
confusion ... depending on how you look at it. For we all have the greatest intentions at heart regardless of whatever we may desire to accomplish. Our faith provides energy and focus during the lifelong scamper down the path of righteousness. However, one thing that poses the greatest challenge is the fact that no human being can escape being human... til death do us part. Temptation lies behind each exit off of Heaven's highways. Detours become more alluring as construction takes place within the most crucial times of our lives - in turn, potentially providing a next day delivery service to hell's doorstep.
Wretched Saints provides a literary window through which we may possibly see traits of ourselves within one or more of the characters as they learn the hard way to listen when God is talking. Thus His signal, when digested properly allows suppression of sinful urges opening up the door, for spiritual growth.
Are you a Wretched Saint? Open the covers...and see.
Of course our desire is to walk within The Kingdom's Neighborhood, but it can be very difficult leaving the alluring amenities of home. We have the protocol down pat; especially when others can witness us witnessing. However, when backs are turned and the sun has set, the righteous hotness of the self-proclaimed saint can suddenly turn lukewarm. Although the tongue can no longer house rationalizations, we still find a way to verbally cover spiritual deficits...thus casting us further into a pit of unrighteous debt surrounded by several unused shovels.
A Hot Mess: Sin Secrets and Scandal
by S. James Guitard
S.
James Guitard is the national bestselling author of four books in a row: Delilah's Revenge, Chocolate Thoughts, Mocha Love and Blessed Assurance. Mr. Guitard's highly-anticipated book, A Hot Mess, is a fast-paced, drama-filled, entertaining novel that is suspenseful, uplifting and entertaining.
His first book Chocolate Thoughts has consistently been rated one of the nation's best African-American books and has appeared on numerous bestseller lists. A native of New York who now resides in the Washington, DC area, Mr. Guitard has devoted his professional career to improving the quality of education for poor and minority children as a college instructor, administrator, school teacher, Capitol Hill lobbyist, as well as an education policy specialist.
A Hot Mess: Sin Secrets and Scandal
ISBN-10: 1929642717
A Hot Mess, is a fast-paced, drama-filled, entertaining novel that is suspenseful, uplifting and entertaining. A Hot Mess is a Hot Mess!
Conniving and confident, De'Borah Harriston is the kind of woman you love to hate. Beautiful and backstabbing. Fashionable and fake.
But De'Borah couldn't care less. She's got a job to do. Will De'Borah succeed in bringing down one of Bishop Jackson's arch-enemies or find herself entangled in her own web of destruction?
Bishop Xavier Jackson is a charismatic and seductive mega-church pastor who leads a secret society involved in corruption from City hall to the halls of Congress. Targeted by a criminal investigation, how far will the Bishop go to keep his mega-power, mega-money and mega-stardom?
A true man of God, Pastor David Goodwill finds himself embroiled in a controversy and plagued by a vicious smear campaign as he shepherds his congregation from sin to Savior, lust to Lord, world to Word. Will being true to his authentic call mean tearing down his prestigious family name and everything he loves?
Crystal Calloway has already proven she'll kill to protect her family and philandering husband. Now the exposure of a deeply hidden secret threatens to destroy everything. Can Crystal save her family while protecting the only man she's truly loved her brother-in-law, Pastor David Goodwell?
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Never What it Seems II: A Mother’s Love
by Diane Martin
Never What it Seems II: A Mother’s
Love is a story of sacrifice, dedication, and unconditional love. Dee and AJ, best friends, thrown together by circumstances beyond their control are up against their biggest challenge ever – motherhood. Dee, mother of two adopted daughters, grew-up in a household void of love. She struggles each day to juggle a career and a family that desperately requires twenty-four hour attention, but she can’t assume a role foreign to her.
Raised in a household with an alcoholic father and an absentee mother, Dee has no idea how to handle these girls who were placed into her life by God to eliminate the loneliness created by a husband, her first love, who betrayed her by living a life on the “down-low.”
AJ, her best friend and mother of one, is married to the man of her dreams. A union that birthed a beautiful little boy struggles to survive.
Born to a father who thought she was put on earth to be his surrogate wife and a mother who sat quietly by, ignoring the screams and cries for help that came from her bedroom at night, AJ wants to love her son, but can’t because she doesn’t know how. She reaches out to her husband for help, but he’s MIA due to situations beyond his control.
In a role unfamiliar to them, life and experience will take them on a journey that will lead them back to the place where it all started.
Lord, I'm Ready to Be a Wife: Helping You Go From Single
to Married God's Way
by Christine Pembleton -- Book Video
The author shares her experiences as a single and now married woman. You ll discover how to change your marital status by changing the way you look at marriage and, after you ve read this book, Queen Esther will no longer be just a Bible character, but your girlfriend. Her story, along with Ruth, Rachel and Rebekah, will encourage you in your preparation to become the queen in your husband's kingdom.
Endorsements
"Lord, I'm Ready to Be a Wife is the perfect companion for any woman who is believing God for a mate."
- Kim Brooks, Bestselling author
"Who knew so much power could be packed in such a cute little pink book"
- Sherri Lewis, Bestselling author
"Christine Pembleton did a great job in giving single women a realistic picture of marriage to determine if they are really ready for marriage".
- Jewell Powell, marriage coach
"Candidly compassionate, thought provoking and insightfully inspirational"
- Catrice Jackson, author and speaker
"It was practical application to prepare yourself for one of the most important roles of your life if you are single and desire to be a wife"
- Darnyelle Jervey, speaker and author
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ISBN-10: 0615292011
ISBN-13: 978-0615292014
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"Life Knows No Bounds: 1 Who Loves You More," Andrea Clinton's first installment in the LIFE KNOWS NO BOUNDS chronicles, is a harsh realistic portrayal of urban love and life in mid-1980's New Jersey. Alisa, a boastful, self-proclaimed gold-digger, finds herself lost in a world of love and conflict as she tries and fails to apply her great-grandmother's wisdom to her complicated love life.
How do you say goodbye to the one you love? Is this even an option when you've invested your body, mind, and soul into your relationship?
Charisse Farrell is a successful, beautiful corporate attorney who has it all, but when the love of her life David Richards betrays her, she has to reevaluate her future.
Essence Magazine National Bestselling Novelist, Vanessa Miller, Tackles the Issue of Women Preachers in Yesterday's Promise 
The story is a vivid portrait of Reverend Godbolt's family and his forebears. The family's secrets set the stage for a profound and provocative debate about black identity and destiny in America's past and present. We see the saga of Reverend Godbolt, who has always ruled his family with a steel glove, and who is questioning his faith, near the end of his life. A secret has kept him from truly trusting his wife and even loving one of his children. We see his spirited daughter, Nefertiti, who harbors a secret of her own, which keeps her from being able to actualize as a woman. 
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James Guitard is the national bestselling author of four books in a row: Delilah's Revenge, Chocolate Thoughts, Mocha Love and Blessed Assurance. Mr. Guitard's highly-anticipated book, A Hot Mess, is a fast-paced, drama-filled, entertaining novel that is suspenseful, uplifting and entertaining. 
Never What it Seems II: A Mother’s
Love is a story of sacrifice, dedication, and unconditional love. Dee and AJ, best friends, thrown together by circumstances beyond their control are up against their biggest challenge ever – motherhood. Dee, mother of two adopted daughters, grew-up in a household void of love. She struggles each day to juggle a career and a family that desperately requires twenty-four hour attention, but she can’t assume a role foreign to her. 