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Two women seek revenge on the man who has wronged them. Stephanie discovers a text message from a mystery woman on her husband James' cell phone. The other woman, Katie, is just as surprised to learn of Stephanie's existence. Now the two are teaming up to teach James a lesson.

The novel begins as we find Johnnie in bed, and even though there is a thunderstorm directly over her Ashland Estates home, she is sleeping soundly for the first time since the murder of Richard Goode (her mother's killer), and the subsequent riots. However, during her waking hours, Napoleon Bentley enters her mind more often than she'd care to admit. She wants him to bed her again, but she loves Lucas Matthews, her boyfriend. Or is he?

After a grisly murder, a missing star, and a stunning theft disrupt a glitzy movie premiere, the glitterati and paparazzi leave Rome for the "safer" confines of San Francisco. There Italian police detective Nic Costa, still charged with securing priceless movie-related artifacts, redoubles his viligance. When two more stylized murder occur, an enigmatic American actress drafts Nic as her personal bodyguard. But can he resist her allure long enough to pursue a possible link to the Italian Mafia and chase down the killer?

The fifth in the series picks up where the fourth book left off by continuing the diary of Josephine Baptiste. As more details about Josephine's past come to light, the African heritage of modern-day Johnnie Wise is further explained.

Revealing the roots of Johnnie Wise's family tree, the author takes readers to Nigeria where a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, preparing to marry a much older man, escapes with her young lover on a Dutch slave ship bound for America where she becomes Josephine Baptiste.

Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has mysteriously aged, and calls in the Peculiar Crimes Unit to track down a killer who is stalking London's oldest watering holes.

Set in 1950s New Orleans, Little Black Girl Lost is a powerful tale filled with sex, greed, and the explosive political and social climates of an America long gone. Fifteen-year-old beauty Johnnie Wise lives her life devoted to God. But her innocence is shattered when her mother, who has been a prostitute for years, sells Johnnie's body to lecherous insurance man Earl Shamus.

When a corpse disrupts school renovations in 1195, the institution's founder immediately blames an outlawed knight hiding in Dartmoor's wilds. Though the knight has reason to despise his accuser, the coroner questions the nobleman's guilt.

On the verge of singing a monster contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, all Nelson had to do was be cool and not screw up. But he did, suffering a career-ending knee injury playing a meaningless game of pick-up. That's something he's got to live with, so he's working hard and looking for his break. Little does he know, he's about to lose his lady, sexy school teacher Parris Stalls. Soon-to-be-dissed Nelson may have been a playa back in the day, but there's always another baller waiting in the wings.

Thirty-something Faye thinks the notion of finding a "Mr. Right" is laughable, and has all but given up on the idea of true love. But Carl, the guy next door, feels otherwise. Little do they know it, but soon their lives will take a surprising turn.