Johnnie Wise was just fifteen years old when her mother sold her virginity to an unscrupulous white insurance man named Earl Shamus. Stunningly beautiful, with long naturally wavy black hair, she possessed the voluptuous body of a thirty-year-old woman. Her skin was the color of brown sugar. Johnnie had heard about Earl Shamus and his escapades among the poor black women in New Orleans. But what she didn’t know was that Shamus had quietly made several of the girls in their neighborhood his...

An unforgettable cast of characters is unleashed into a realm known for its cruelty—the American high school—in this captivating debut novel.The wealthy enclaves north of San Francisco are not the paradise they appear to be, and nobody knows this better than the students of a local high school. Despite being raised with all the opportunities money can buy, these vulnerable kids are navigating a treacherous adolescence in which every action, every rumor, every feeli...

The ultimate handbook to gaining the key ingredient for success in any area of life...from America's #1 Confidence Coach!If you were more confident, how would your life be different?The Confidence Solution empowers you to becomes a confident and successful person by recognizing your inner strengths and talents. Dr. Keith Johnson has helped thousands of people from all walks of life take life-changing measures that positively moved them for...

After his blockbuster success of Little Black Girl Lost, and Little Black Girl Lost II Keith Lee Johnson takes us back to 1950's New Orleans, into the world of betrayal, envy, lust, and murder, where everyone has ulterior motives. The past resurfaces in this third installment of the life and times of seventeen year old Johnnie Wise. Truth has its consequences and Johnnie has a lot to answer for. The innocent girl we met in the first installment of this compelling series is gone; all that r...

Along the Elizabeth River in Norfolk stands an unassuming diner where love and misery are on the menu. The Brass Bough Cafe is a popular place full of regulars but something is very wrong. It's Tuesday, or so it says on the paper every day.When weary traveler, Ginette, arrives from France with a blank notebook meant to capture the world around her, she finds more than meets the eye. The unwitting diner patrons and a tenacious cat pull her out of despair, forcing her to see the real...

Author Lee Johnson describes Mixing Memory and Desire: How History Shaped the Foods of the Caribbean as ‘a food book with a large side dish of history.’It is not a cookbook – there are no recipes – or a forbidding history text filled with events and dates, but a primer for all readers of how the Caribbean’s turbulent history led to its distinctive cuisine. It is told in an entertaining and readable style, infused with appropriate poetic and song lyric extracts, and garnish...

The War Between the States changed a young Southern gentleman's life forever. He lost his love, he gave up his home, and he changed his name. Though his family searched for him with little success, the unknown family past of Andrew Hamilton caught up with Hamilton Anderson just when he'd started to live and love again.Can family secrets rip wounds in the sons as they did in the fathers? Can a second generation make peace with the twisted sins of the first, or did the sins of the fa...

Jeremy Hamilton makes Albemarle a showcase of free labor in a hot bed of slavery and rebellion. Driven into a marriage of convenience and confrontations with neighbors, he asserts his belief that slavery should die.Gabby Hamilton is obsessed to prove Jeremy is not her half-brother and make him admit his love for her. Nothing deters her, not his wife, public opinion, deaths of loved ones, or war itself.

Alison Timberlane's escape from a string of violent deaths, and an abusive husband led her to a new life in a new place with a new name. The lock on her heart is not easily opened when love tries to penetrate in the person of a young ex-soldier. When her past catches up, his secrets push her over the edge and back into danger.Fleeing to what she believes is her only refuge, Alison creates her own prison, and unravels the horrible carnage behind her. She is in no condition to attemp...

When a widow with a grown daughter decides to further her education, she's thrown into a world of unexpected possibilities. Pursued by a younger professor, and an egocentric doctor, she is torn by the striking opposites who disrupt her life.One seems too good to be true; the other is too closed to be understood. It seems easier to forget them both, but it isn't that simple.

Though she dreamed of castles and princes, Dierdre Bryant kept both feet firmly planted on the ground as she left the family farm in Ohio for college. She'd earned her success in Washington, DC, so why did her employer "sell" her to a Scottish viscount without her permission?Could she take Donald MacBaine's company out of the dark ages without losing what she'd worked so hard to attain? Could she resist the pull of castles and tales of ghosts and love or would she be caught in the ...

With the Civil War drawing to an inevitable close, wounded Matthew Keene falls into the capable hands of Brenna McKeon. Following her father's example, Brenna cares for him as she has troops from both armies throughout the war. Torrey McKeon battles unknown enemies to hold on to the family land, while he and Brenna share a deep secret.Brenna holds the Union Army responsible for her father's untimely demise. All her resolve to become a doctor cannot keep her from falling in love as ...