4. Kate Love is an ambitious young newspaper reporter on the trail of a railroad stock swindler who has been preying onelderly Blacks. Her investigation points to Rupert Samuels, one of the wealthiest and most eligible black men in the east, but her covert efforts to get close enough to uncover thegoods on him bring her to the brink of becoming his wife. Snatched from the altar by Dix Wildhorse, a Black Seminole Marshal from Oklahoma’s Indian country, Kate has no choice but to flee with the daring knight her father sent to rescue and wed her. Marriage had never been part of Kate’s plans, and she isn’t about to abandon her career to become the dutiful wife of a wild west lawman bent on wrapping her in his own protective cocoon. Determined to hold on to her independence despite the dark simmering fire Dix’s bronzed, muscled embrace ignites, she challenges him at every turn.Yet even as their battle of wills intensifies, the heat of their passion blazes with unmatched fury…a wildfire of lovethat can only be answered in the sweet ecstasy of surrender.

    Kate Love is an ambitious young newspaper reporter on the trail of a railroad stock swindler who has been preying onelderly Blacks. Her investigation points to Rupert Samuels, one of the wealthiest and most eligible black men in the east, but her covert efforts to get close enough to uncover thegoods on him bring her to the brink of becoming his wife.

    Snatched from the altar by Dix Wildhorse, a Black Seminole Marshal from Oklahoma’s Indian country, Kate has no choice but to flee with the daring knight her father sent to rescue and wed her. Marriage had never been part of Kate’s plans, and she isn’t about to abandon her career to become the dutiful wife of a wild west lawman bent on wrapping her in his own protective cocoon. Determined to hold on to her independence despite the dark simmering fire Dix’s bronzed, muscled embrace ignites, she challenges him at every turn.Yet even as their battle of wills intensifies, the heat of their passion blazes with unmatched fury…a wildfire of lovethat can only be answered in the sweet ecstasy of surrender.
  5. When the notorious Black Daniel is carried, badly injured, into Hester Wyatt’s home, there is no question that he will be cared for and protected. Once a slave herself, Hester regularly gives shelter to runaways, yet the man of mysteries she now harbors brings greater danger than she’s ever known… He is Galen Vachon, a member of a unique elite class of pre-Civil War blacks. Handsome, arrogant and accustomed to lavish living, he fears he’s been betrayed in his work with the underground and wants to move on quickly. Yet the magic healing caresses that flow from Hester’s lovely indigo-stained hands tear at his heart and torment his very soul. And even as Hester tries to deny the passion this highborn, bronzed Adonis fires within her, Galen is setting his sights on making her his…forever.


    When the notorious Black Daniel is carried, badly injured, into Hester Wyatt’s home, there is no question that he will be cared for and protected. Once a slave herself, Hester regularly gives shelter to runaways, yet the man of mysteries she now harbors brings greater danger than she’s ever known…


    He is Galen Vachon, a member of a unique elite class of pre-Civil War blacks. Handsome, arrogant and accustomed to lavish living, he fears he’s been betrayed in his work with the underground and wants to move on quickly. Yet the magic healing caresses that flow from Hester’s lovely indigo-stained hands tear at his heart and torment his very soul. And even as Hester tries to deny the passion this highborn, bronzed Adonis fires within her, Galen is setting his sights on making her his…forever.
  6. In 1882, Cara Lee Henson knows no soldier can be trusted to stay in one place-and that included handsome Sergeant Chase Jefferson from the Tenth Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, who are being honored by her Kansas town. Rumor has it that Chase is definitely not the marrying kind. Dallying with the dashing man in blue could cost the pretty, independent young woman her reputation and her job as a schoolteacher. So Cara is determined to repel Chase’s advances-even though her aloof façade barely masks her smoldering desire-for never before has she longed for a man the way she aches for Chase. On the other hand, the charismatic cavalryman has no intention of taking no for an answer. With his tender words and soulful caresses, Chase intends to conquer the strong-willed ebony beauty before he leaves town-and teach her how to love fully, sensuously and forever. Irresistible characters and a story brimming with passion and excitement make Night Song a romantic delight.

    In 1882, Cara Lee Henson knows no soldier can be trusted to stay in one place-and that included handsome Sergeant Chase Jefferson from the Tenth Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, who are being honored by her Kansas town. Rumor has it that Chase is definitely not the marrying kind. Dallying with the dashing man in blue could cost the pretty, independent young woman her reputation and her job as a schoolteacher.

    So Cara is determined to repel Chase’s advances-even though her aloof façade barely masks her smoldering desire-for never before has she longed for a man the way she aches for Chase. On the other hand, the charismatic cavalryman has no intention of taking no for an answer. With his tender words and soulful caresses, Chase intends to conquer the strong-willed ebony beauty before he leaves town-and teach her how to love fully, sensuously and forever.

    Irresistible characters and a story brimming with passion and excitement make Night Song a romantic delight.
  7. Ms. Jenkins is the nation’s premier writer of African-American historical romance fiction and specializes in 19th century African American life. She has 30 published novels to date. because i am about to post multiple novels by her ;-) the history lessons make the novels…the romance is the icing AND cherry on top.

    Ms. Jenkins is the nation’s premier writer of African-American historical romance fiction and specializes in 19th century African American life. She has 30 published novels to date.

    because i am about to post multiple novels by her ;-) the history lessons make the novels…the romance is the icing AND cherry on top.
  8. In this powerful account of growing up black in South Africa, a young writer makes us feel intensely the horrors of apartheid. Living illegally in a shanty outside Johannesburg, Johannes (renamed Mark) Mathabane and his illiterate family endured the heartbreak and hopelessness of poverty and the violence of sadistic police and marauding gangs. He describes his drunken father’s attempts to inculcate his tribal beliefs and to prevent his son from getting an educationthe one means by which he might escape from the ghetto. Encouraged by his determined mother and grandmother, Mathabane taught himself to read English and play tennis, and, through the assistance of U.S. tennis star Stan Smith and his own efforts and intelligence, obtained a tennis scholarship from a South Carolina college in 1978. Now he is a freelance writer in New York. In the course of relating his inspiring story, he explains the anger and hate that his country’s blacks feel toward white people and the inevitability of their rebellion against the Afrikaner government.

    In this powerful account of growing up black in South Africa, a young writer makes us feel intensely the horrors of apartheid. Living illegally in a shanty outside Johannesburg, Johannes (renamed Mark) Mathabane and his illiterate family endured the heartbreak and hopelessness of poverty and the violence of sadistic police and marauding gangs. He describes his drunken father’s attempts to inculcate his tribal beliefs and to prevent his son from getting an educationthe one means by which he might escape from the ghetto. Encouraged by his determined mother and grandmother, Mathabane taught himself to read English and play tennis, and, through the assistance of U.S. tennis star Stan Smith and his own efforts and intelligence, obtained a tennis scholarship from a South Carolina college in 1978. Now he is a freelance writer in New York. In the course of relating his inspiring story, he explains the anger and hate that his country’s blacks feel toward white people and the inevitability of their rebellion against the Afrikaner government.
  9. Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown’s childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem — the children, young people, hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humor. The book continues to resonate generations later, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles of urban youth are as deeply felt today as they were in Brown’s time, but also because the book is affirmative and inspiring. Here is the story about the one who “made it,” the boy who kept landing on his feet and became a man.

    Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown’s childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem — the children, young people, hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humor. The book continues to resonate generations later, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles of urban youth are as deeply felt today as they were in Brown’s time, but also because the book is affirmative and inspiring. Here is the story about the one who “made it,” the boy who kept landing on his feet and became a man.

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