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She's Gotta Have It

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Before it was a tv show, it was a movie by Spike Lee, who won an oscar this year for his film, The Black Klansman . (It's about time, right?) The movie seemed great, but I didn't connect with it in 1986. I was only a teenager then and was not allowed to watch it. Years later, I saw the movie and thought Nola Darling and her three lovers were a bit too much. All the shameful names women are called for having more than one man in their life came to mind, slut, whore, (or "ho" as we people of color like to say), and adulteress. I felt Nola was a nymphomaniac that avoided commitment. However, when the tv series appeared on Netflix in 2017, one of my girlfriends told me I needed to watch it because the character, Nola, reminded her of me. I was taken aback at first, feeling hurt that my friend thinks I am a slut. After all, I am married with six kids and three grandchildren, so what in the world? However, I began to watch the show, (now in s

PASSION'S PRIDE: LEONESSA

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The first book in my shifter series, Leonessa, is set in the Sierra Leone, West Africa, an erotic paranormal tale unfolds....  Read the first two chapters here: CHAPTER ONE      The air held the scent of her prey as she crouched in the darkness, her three-foot long tail curled around her right side. She waited silently, patiently lulling her prey, a young male zebra grazing alone, into a false sense of security. Why it was out alone, she didn’t question, just thankful she would be able to kill and return it to the village for food. She took shallow breaths as each muscle in her body tensed, like a tightly wound spring that was ready to pop when she caught another scent, human. The sound of an approaching engine and the strange illumination of headlights spooked the zebra and it ran off into the distance. There goes my dinner. She thought regretfully. Incensed at her prey’s hasty retreat, she slowly turned to where the noise and light came from. Thirty yards or so

RIONA'S LUCK

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My newest E-book release, RIONA'S LUCK , is now available! Blurb: Riona Watkins, a sociologist from New York, always had bad luck with love. When her work takes her to Ireland, the birthplace of her mother, she thinks her luck might finally change. But the bad luck continues when she meets Emrys Kane, a mysterious man with piercing green eyes who comes to her rescue when she is harassed by a male colleague in a local pub. He tells her the meaning of her Celtic name and seems to be very interested in her, but disappears before she can really get to know him! Will she find him again before she leaves Ireland or will her bad luck continue? EXCERPT: The Midsummer festival was among the three largest that the Daione Sidhe celebrated. There would be bonfires on every hill, feasting and dancing in honor of St. John, (John the Baptist). A great time for the young males to choose their brides. Throughout history, many chose beautiful mortals, stealing them away, tho