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Bubbling Brown Sugar:
African-American Romance

Rochelle Alers

All My Tomorrows. BET, 2005.
After being passed over for a promotion, up-scale chef Lydia Lord quits her job and takes a volunteer position at a summer camp for disadvantaged urban children. There she meets the camp's director, ex-football player Kennedy Fletcher. While she entertains no notions of finding romance, Lydia nevertheless finds herself attracted to the charismatic Kennedy. By the same author: Just Before Dawn (2000), No Compromise (2002), Secrets Never Told (2003)

Robyn Amos

Bring Me a Dream. HarTorch, 2001.
D.C. cop-turned-bodyguard, Jasmine White, is hired to protect handsome radio jock Spencer Powell from a stalker. Making her job more difficult is Powell's reluctance to trust his well-being to a woman, no matter how beautiful she is, and her growing attraction to her client

Venise Berry

All of Me. Dutton, 2000.
Serpentine Williamson, a 40-year-old Chicago television reporter suffering from low self-esteem because of her weight, learns that she must learn to look beneath the surface and love herself if she is to find happiness. By the same author: So Good (1996)

Lynn Emery

Good Woman Blues. HarTorch, 2005.
With her personal and professional lives in shambles, Erikka Rochon returns to her bayou roots to reassess where she went wrong. Things start to look up when she encounters Gabriel Cormier, son of a prominent family, a man with a past more notorious than hers. By the same author: Gotta Get Next to You. (2001).

Gwynne Forster

Blues From Down Deep. Kensington, 2003.
Having grown up in Hawaii, Regina Pearson knows very little about her family or her African-American heritage. With the passing of her father, she makes the long trek to North Carolina hoping bond with the people who share her roots. Instead, she finds a family torn apart by strife, secrets and lies. Then Regina discovers a passionate connection she hadn’t counted on with a man who’s ready to show her what real family’s all about. By the same author: When Twilight Comes (2004, 2002).

Carmen Green

Doctor, Doctor. BET, 2002.
Shayla Crawford, a spoiled, immature neophyte doctor who thinks she is simply going to join her father's practice gets a dose of reality when he sends her to work in a rural medical center tending to the needs of the poor. She butts heads at every turn with Dr. Jake Parker, but as Shayla grows as an adult and as a woman, nature takes its course.

Hunter Hayes

Shoe's On the Otha' Foot. St. Edge, 1998.
While 21-year-old apartment manager Leslie finds herself in a relationship with a building contractor 14 years her senior and who comes complete with a live-in girlfriend and teenaged son, her cousin Rochelle, a 35-year-old divorced mother of three can't decide between married Eustace and barely-old-enough-to-drink-legally Anthony. Only in New York, kids. Only in New York.

Donna Hill

Divas, Inc. , Griffin, 2004.
Tiffany, Chantal, and Margaret have been friends since elementary school. Margaret has always been the plain, unsophisticated one, living vicariously through the exploits of her friends. But when Tiffany and Chantal head to Europe on an extended vacation, leaving Margaret to tend their apartments, Margaret decides to see how the other half lives. By the same author: Dare to Dream (2004); Getting Hers (2005)

Brenda Jackson

Unfinished Business. St. martin's, 2005.
When p.i. Alex Maxwell is asked to keep investigative reporter Christy Madaris safe, he must deal with the promise he made in jest years ago to marry her--a promise she had believed with all her heart. Now she is all grown up--smart and stunning--and wants nothing to do with him. But deep down, she still loves him and when her life is in endangered, Alex is determined to save her and redeem himself. By the same author: The Midnight Hour (2004), Perfect Timing (2002), Ties That Bind (2002), A Family Reunion (2001), True Love (2000).

Beverly Jenkins

Night Song. Avon, 1994.
Fearful of losing her position as a teacher--not to mention her reputation--Cara Lee Hanson resists the advances of cavlaryman Chase Jefferson. But the soldier is determined to conquer the reluctant schoolmarm's misgivings and her heart.

Margaret Johnson-Hodge

True Lies. Kensington, 2002.
Perpetually unlucky in love, accountant Dajah Moore finally finding someone worth spending her life with when she falls for gorgeous corrections officer Rick Trimmons. But Rick's troubled past comes between them when the mother of his four-year-old daughter, tries to shatter their newfound love. Followed by: This Time (2004).

Felicia Mason

Sweet Devotion. Steeple Hill, 2004.
Amber Montgomery has escaped from a bad marriage and has begun a new life as a caterer in little Wayside, Oregon. Almost immediately She runs afoul of the local police chief, Paul Evans, but when the two are thrown together as youth chaperones, their relationship takes a different turn. By the same author: Testimony (2003).

Kayla Perrin

In an Instant. BET, 2002.
When her longtime boyfriend suddenly ends up engaged to the boss's daughter, travel agent Tara Montgomery decides to concentrate on her career and forget about men. Then, sexy and charming Darren Burkeen walks into her office one day...

Candice Poarch

Lighthouse Magic. BET, 2003.
Cecily Edmunds arrives on Corlee Island, off the coast of North Carolina to claim her inheritance--a lighthouse she turns into a tearoom--and to uncover the truth of a 30-year-old mystery. Ryan Anderson owns the campground adjacent to the lighthouse and is more interested in acquiring her property than entering into another potentially disastrous relationship (his ex got everything in the divorce). Soon a dangerous enemy threatens Cecily and the budding relationship that is beginning to claim her heart.

Francis Ray

Trouble Don't Last Always. Grififn, 2004.
Broke and on the run from an abusive husband, Lilly Crawford turns up on the doorstep of former neurosurgeon Adam Wakefield when her car breaks down. When she becomes aware that Adam, blinded as a result of a car-jacking, is in need of a caregiver, she offers her services. Although the embittered doctor doesn't want anyone's help or pity, he takes Lilly on. Slowly, they both begin to heal. By the same author: Like the First Time (2004).

Carolyn Chambers Sanders

Sins and Secrets. Warner, 2005.
Candice, Amber, and Toi are three young black women who have risen above life on the streets to become successful entrepreneurs. But they have learned the hard way that that having money doesn't always equal happiness, and all three are forced to question what they want out of life.

Anthologies

Got to Be Real: Four Original Love Stories. NAL, 2000.
Cafe Piel, by Eric Jerome Dickey; Kenya and Amir, by Marcus Major; Money Can't Buy Me Love, by E. Lynn Harris; and I'm Still Waiting, by Colin Channer.

Della's House of Style. St. Martin's, 2000.
Contains: It Could Happen to You, by Donna Hill; Matter of Trust, by Francis Ray; Sweet Surrender, by Rochelle Alers; and Truly, Honestly, by Felicia Mason.

Island Bliss. St. Martin's, 2002.
Contains: From the Heart, by Rochelle Alers; Officer and a Hero, by Marcia King-Gamble; Our Secret Affair, by Carmen Green; and Heart's Desire, by Felicia Mason.

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