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Would you love your father if he had been abusive to you when you were a child? Could you forgive him?

LOVE POUR OVER ME'S PRELUDE:
It's the 1980s. Pork chops smothered in sweet onions are frying in the kitchen. PacMac is the rave. Outside sirens blare their way down the street. Not much has changed in Dayton, Ohio. Miles away, in Philadelphia, the University of Pemberton awaits the arrival of a high school track and field phenom, a local celebrity who is eager to escape home. But trouble has a way of following a man, especially one who's on the run.
Relax. Stay awhile . . . Come closer . . .

"Love will find and heal the most broken heart, disappointed abused and ashamed.

Love has come. There is no turning back." - from Love Pour Over Me

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Gain a rewarding understanding of relationships with LOVE POUR OVER ME

Get ready for the coming of age romantic mystery ride of your life. Love takes second stage to murder in this modern day novel that has an unforgettable Shakespearean twist.

Overview – Love Pour Over Me
Survival isn't Raymond's goal. It's not his aim. Raymond's a go-getter. But, he's pushed to survival territory early as a child growing up in a home with a bullying, alcoholic father. Raymond and his alcoholic father, a man who works hard at an automobile plant, live alone in a house in West Dayton, the toughest part of the city. These men are pushed together after Raymond's mother walks out.

Love Pour Over Me takes you (its reader) on an up-close journey through Center City Philadelphia, Africa and later, the rugged mountains of Tennessee. Sports enthusiasts will love Raymond's track skill. His is an athletic talent not to be messed with.

Raymond's father struggles with untreated alcoholism, forcing young Raymond into childhood trauma and alcohol abuse. Raymond's mother, a starry-eyed dreamer, abandons Raymond when he is only two years old, leaving him to grow up with an alcoholic parent.

But, it's at college, where Raymond's life is supposed to take off, that things start to get frighteningly mysterious. Right away, Raymond meets a motley sort of friends, each with a hard-to-believe story of his own. The men enter a lifelong bond. They also make a pact to keep their involvement in a murder secret.

Raymond's desperate attempts to avoid love threaten to keep him from the only woman he's ever truly loved, the woman he was born to love. Is love really enough? Find out. Get your copy today. read more
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LONG WALK UP  

Mulukan is only six years old when her mother dies, leaving her an orphan. The community that Mulukan lives in finds her a peculiar child, someone to be wary of. Not knowing what to do with her, they push her to the outskirts.

The morning after her mother is buried, and, as if following the rise of the pygmy kingfishers that fly away from nearby acacia trees, the little girl sets out on her own. Although unaware, her mother’s spirit serves as her guide.

It is because of this timeless mother-daughter connection that Mulukan finds the courage to continue her life’s steep, and, at times, agonizing journey. Wayward men follow and frighten her. Except for the kindness of two strangers, she goes many nights hungry while she struggles to find rest lying against a bitter earth.

Despite her brokenness, like thousands of street children around the world including those living in the United States, Mulukan triumphs. Her life takes a dramatic shift after she gains employment with the leader of one of Africa's most empowered nations. The leader guides Mulukan, now an awkward, impoverished yet courageous young woman, working with her like she's clay. He changes her life forever. By the end of Long Walk Up Mulukan makes history and becomes Africa's first woman president. She also discovers profound truths about herself and her people that leave her with unanswered questions, great concern and hope. read more - Buy Now

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SPIRAL

Can Detective Cramer stop a kidnapper before another child turns up missing?

Memphis is a dangerous place in the 1940s.

Set in the heart of Memphis' Shelby County in the 1940s, Spiral is the story about the great lengths a hard working mother will go to protect her family. When young girls start missing in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, the mother, Tammy Tilson, begins to look upon the father of her oldest son's fiancée with suspicion. Her efforts to find and stop the killer cost one of her own children his life. It is not until the finger of guilt points in her grandson's direction that she begins to lose her resolve.read more - Buy Now

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LOVE HAS MANY FACES

Could the price of "celebrity" be too high?

When an iron-willed, internationally famous actress finds herself out of A level movie roles and struggling to pay her car note, she places an ad for a roommate in The Daily Times. A student attending New York Manhattan University, a woman dreaming of becoming a sought-after celebrity playwright, responds to the ad, and the future for both women changes forever. The women’s social and cultural backgrounds are worlds apart. After they lock themselves into a formidable lease in Manhattan, they are forced to build a bridge of friendship.

Love Has Many Faces paints the power of that enduring friendship. Red carpet events, sexual prowess, eager fans and powerful men with bad intentions charm and threaten the women's lives. Yet, the celebrity actress and the playwright achieve what many thought impossible, what many across the globe struggle to experience, only to have an event from the actress’ past come back to haunt them to a dreadful end.

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PORTIA

Chicago's South Side is rich with history, art, sports and culture. It's home to some of the world's most prominent people. Chicago is also home to people with deep cultural roots and a thirst for powerful change, people like defense attorney, Portia, a woman whose father's Civil Rights involvement comes at a cost.

Portia's mother is a rare and highly effective public school teacher. She teaches in schools located on the same part of town that she and her family make home, the South Side. But, drive, determination and healthy family roots are not enough to keep Portia safe. Her life is threatened at a time when she's most vulnerable, simply not ready.

Portia is an emotional journey through generations of an African American family as perceived through the emotions and memories of Portia, a courageous and insightful woman who battles breast cancer. Portia realistically examines certain aspects of personality and love between family members as well as the tenderness and affection which can only occur between romantic soul mates. From a young African American woman coming of age during the Civil Rights Movement to a Chicago based defense attorney glimpsing her own mortality while confronting breasts cancer and an uncertain future, Portia will tug on the reader's heart strings all along the way.. read more - Buy Now