Upcoming Releases
The Beauty Within
The Beauty Within is a full-length romance novel that deals with first impressions, the perception of beauty, and learning to accept love not only from others, but from yourself.
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When full-figured barber Tyler Carver enters GD Fitness for a personal training session, she immediately butts heads with her trainer Gunnar Daniels. Refusing to allow Mr. Just-Walked-off-an-Abercrombie-&-Fitch-Billboard’s rudeness, she gives him a piece of her mind and storms off. Too bad she can’t stop thinking about the gorgeous gray-eyed grump.
Former fashion model-turned-gym-owner Gunnar Daniels, having a day sent express from hell, thinks it can’t get any worse until Tyler Carver, in all her curvy, chocolate glory, takes his breath away the moment he locks eyes with her. Knowing he acted out of character during their session, he apologizes to her. Yet, he wants so much more.
Can Tyler and Gunnar help each other discover that beauty is more than skin deep…that the beauty within is what truly decides the beauty without?
Reconstructing Jada Channing
Reconstructing Jada Channing is the reworking of my senior thesis, a novella, into a full-length novel. I worked under the guidance of my thesis advisor, Professor Jamaica Kincaid, and the thesis won the Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for best thesis on African-American Literature.
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Jada Channing was never supposed to see him again after that night, that one glorious night where she lost all good sense and muzzled all the voices telling her why being with him wasn't a good idea: he was older, wealthy, and white. She was none of those things, and yet she fell for him anyway--just as her great-great grandmother had fallen for her white great-great grandfather all those years ago. It had ended badly for them, and neither historical precedence nor current times were promising in the case of such affairs.
Now Jada has a child from that night, but she has never told the father because he lives a life that could never include her or her half-black son--or so she thinks. What happens when the father reappears five years later, completely oblivious to the knowledge of his child, and the feelings she had locked away after that one night return twice as powerfully? Will history repeat itself, or will Jada give herself the chance to create an entirely new future?
