Nanette M. Buchanan, author of Family...Secrets, Lies &
Alibi's
Family Secrets, Lies & Alibi’s is an adult fiction- romantic suspense with
a dramatic twist. The main characters draw one into their world of drama
and chaos, which is unraveled after the death of D.Q. Mince.
Darrell Mince finds that the life he has with his family is slowly turning
into a mountain of secrets and lies. He leaves his home and two years
later is confronted with the death of his father. As the story progresses
Darrell Mince finds he is not his father's only child. He is named the
executor of his father’s estate and is sitting across from the woman whom
he has had a two-year relationship with. While caught in a web of
emotions, he must sort through the lies and alibis left by his father to
find out how and why he is tied into a family he never knew.
As he uncovers these secrets, Darrell finds himself creating secrets of
his own. Darrell must now keep those secrets to protect the business and
his family. Any avid reader would enjoy the suspense filled romance
between Darrell and Dershai as it keeps the reader at the edge of their
seat while the drama builds page after page.
My debut novel simply poses questions that require long thought and
imaginative thinking about a taboo topic……Forbidden love. Family Secrets,
Lies and Alibi's… is well worth each page of writing, leaving the reader
anxious for the answers written in the sequel, A Different Kind of Love.
China Ball's dramatic first novel, "Eleven Months of Hell," is a book
about a woman that always had a goal to complete her Bachelor's degree.
While stationed in Nea Makri, Greece in the United States Navy, Mercedes
struggles with serving her tour of duty when her son returns to the United
States to finish high school. Her intentions were to complete her 2 year
tour of duty and return to the United States.
Mercedes decides to take night classes and pursue her degree when she
falls in love with a charming but dysfunctional Air Force Sergeant, and
takes on his drama as well as her own. Mercedes marries the Sergeant and
continues her naval career when the most unexpected events happen to them.
The devastation leaves Mercedes weak and drained, but she is determined to
finish her Bachelor's degree. The Navy finds her medically unfit to
continue service and that's when she goes on to pursue other careers at
the U.S. Postal Service and federal government. She finishes her
Bachelor's degree and then takes on the challenge of pursuing her Master's
degree when even more drama and abuse take over her life.
Through it all Mercedes had several true and loyal but colorful friends.
These friends have unique and interesting backgrounds that help her
through it all. Her trials & tribulations deal with many of the social
issues of today: Addiction, Alternate life styles & Promiscuous behavior
are just to name a few. Despite all the challenges facing Mercedes, she is
persistent and determined to get her graduate degree despite Eleven months
of Hell!!!
In the city that never sleeps, Nathan Nan Jones, a young man that never
slept, just survived a vicious assassination attempt on his life. On the
same cold streets of Brooklyn, Jada Dupri, a Black girl lost, desperately
searches for some meaning to her convoluted life. Nan s execution was
sanctioned by the criminal underworld, in an elaborate plot to be carried
out by a corrupt group of bloodthirsty NYPD killer cops. Even though he
barely lived through the attack by the skin of his teeth, everything that
meant something to him was stolen away in less than a New York minute. He
had survived but, his mere existence may only be short lived.
A massive manhunt has ensued, and the word has been put out on the streets
to bring him in dead or alive. The clock is ticking, and he s living on
borrowed time. Since Jada s birth, the beauty of her skin has been her
sin...over time it became both a gift and a curse. She yearns to find the
father she has never known, to develop a relationship with her mother that
she has never had and to feel the unconditional love that she so
desperately needs. Even though these two individuals will never meet, and
their paths will only cross on one fateful night, the critical decisions
they both make will greatly impact the lives of one another.
After all, just like you and me, they are both merely pieces in the Game
of Trife. A Black girl lost, a young man s pain, a grandmother s guilt, a
fugitive on the run... Choose your piece, roll the dice and let the game
begin.
If the wrong opportunity came along at the right time....what would you
do?? Santee Mitchell seems to keep coming up short in life. At least
that's how it seems in her mind. Growing up she constantly played second
best to her older sister Sonya, and in adulthood, the patterned painfully
continues. She's stuck with a two-timing, drug-dealing boyfriend, while
her sister lucked up and hooked a professional ball player. Her money is
always running short, when it ran at all. The last straw comes in the form
of an eviction notice coupled with an ill-timed pregnancy.
Determined to turn her luck around, as well as put some money in the bank,
Santee turns to her friend Monique and is immediately hypnotized by the
sparkle of her diamond encrusted world. But what she doesn't realize is
that help from Monique comes with a price. A price that not even Santee is
willing to pay. Haunted by a fire that still burns for her ex and driven
by a wanton lust for a trick turned savior, Santee's plan starts to
unravel and it may be too late to right her wrongs when Monique turns up
dead and she is fingered for the gruesome crime; revealing a secret that
changes her forever and forcing her to look for answers in the one place
she's tried to avoid - inside herself.
Brilliant, beautiful and brazen, art expert Phoenix Sutherland is prepared
for anything when she embarks on a daring quest to recover a priceless
statue--anything except having her sexy ex-husband, Damon, as a specialist
on her team. Phoenix vows to remain professional. But with Damon's lean,
strong body awakening buried longing, forbidden pleasure beckons as they
enter the heart of Tibet, where danger, adventure and mystery await.
Soon the thrill of the moment rekindles sparks of desire neither Phoenix
nor Damon can resist, as they recklessly toss inhibitions aside and
discover the only real treasure worth risking everything to claim.
A high-profile lawsuit erupts into chaos, revealing its place in a larger
spree of violence in this scandalous tale of lust, lies, and vengeance. A
brazen gunman is targeting prominent African American men on the streets
of Los Angeles, and police are completely baffled. At the same time, savvy
big-firm attorney Vernetta Henderson and her outrageous sidekick, Special,
lead the charge for revenge against a man whose deceit caused his
fianceé's death. For Special, hauling the man into court and suing him for
wrongful death just isn’t good enough. While she exacts her own brand of
justice, a shocking revelation connects the contentious lawsuit and the
puzzling murders.
About the Author
Pamela Samuels Young is a legal columnist for Global Woman magazine and
the author of Every Reasonable Doubt and In Firm Pursuit. She lives in Los
Angeles.
Consequences: When Love Is Blind by Linda R. Herman
Life for Sade Peters is picture perfect. With a fabulous home in upscale
Atlanta, Georgia, Sade is living the life most of society only read about
in magazines. A successful novelist, Sade is married to the man of her
dreams, Andre Peters, an equally successful sports agent. Couple that with
a set of fraternal twins, and you have all the makings of the contemporary
modern day Huxtables. However, what life looks like from the outside, may
not necessarily match the inner workings of this household. The Down Low
is a real and earth-shattering truth, and Sade's happiness abruptly ends
when she is faced with this reality. Life as Sade knows it changes within
the blink of an eye when she soon discovers that both she and her husband
are HIV positive. Imagine walking through life in Sade's shoes. Who is to
blame when faith and trust is tested tremendously?
Finally a male point of view -- usually when it comes to breaking down
relationships between men and women you hear advice from over-the-hill
psychologists or unqualified doctors but not the average male, and never a
masculine brother with any kind of urban flavor. The Re-Education of the
Female changes that. For years, women have been the more communicative
gender. Now women will have an idea of what the men in their lives may be
thinking; and in some cases, why they think a certain way. Women will gain
insight on some of the actions and behaviors portrayed by men, which once
may have been deemed judgmental, insensitive, or just plain rude.
Dante Moore has depicted the male psyche from many different angles on how
a man not only perceives women, but how one relates and responds to them
as well. It's written in black and white, with a no-holds-barred approach
-- forcing women to take a step back and think a moment before engaging in
conversations, relationships, affairs, sexual encounters, and more with
the opposite sex. Keeping it real and delivering the all-out truth was
undoubtedly Moore's main focus when writing this book. Although candid and
direct, this book will prove to be very enlightening as it gives intimate
details on what men are looking for physically, mentally, socially and
emotionally versus what they're actually witnessing, experiencing and in
some cases, tolerating. A mature and open-minded intellect will really
understand and appreciate this representation of the male point of view.
This book is the perfect starting point for women to evaluate themselves
with a little more detail, before pointing fingers and tossing blame at
the endless reasons surrounding why they can't find a "good man." --This
text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
