Synopsis
Urban Books superstars Electa Rome Parks and Eric Pete entertain readers with daring and empowering stories about the love lives of full-figured women.
Big, bold, and beautiful are three adjectives that describe Erika to a tee. Named after her mother's favorite soap opera vixen, Erika Kane, she is self-assured, headstrong, and opinionated. But Erika is also unlucky in love. Whenever she thinks she's found everlasting love, it always ends up being short-lived--literally. She has three dead husbands to prove that point and she has been dubbed the black widow. Just when Erika is about to give up on true love, she learns that, like it does in the soaps, love sometimes shows up when you least expect it. And like it does in the soaps, it can sometimes be deceiving.
Once again, life has gone wrong for Artemis Clay. It seems like she's always been unlucky in love, and this time is even worse than she could imagine. Her own family looks down upon her, and everything looks hopeless. Artemis decides to leave everything behind for a last-minute getaway. While she's enjoying her newfound freedom, she comes across not one, but two reminders that maybe not all hope is lost. Is she ready to take a chance on love again?
About the Author
Electa Rome Parks is an award-winning, national bestselling author of several mainstream (The Ties That Bind, Loose Ends and Almost Doesn't Count) and erotic (These Are My Confessions, Ladies' Night Out, Diary of a Stalker, True Confessions, The Stalker Chronicles and When Baldwin Loved Brenden)novels with Penguin Group, HarperCollins and Kensington. Electa was highlighted in Literary Divas: The Top 100+ Most Admired African-American Women in Literature and has written articles for several on-line magazines. The self-proclaimed, Queen of Real, Electa has been a frequent guest on radio shows such as V-103 and Kiss 104, has been nominated for many industry awards and has been interviewed by newspapers, AOL's Black Voices, Vibe Vixen, Upscale Magazine, Today's Black Woman, and Rolling Out,to name just a few.
With a BA degree in marketing and a minor in sociology, she is following her true passion and working on her next novel. Electa is currently touring with Atlanta's GA Peach Authors and eager for a book-to-movie deal.
Eric Pete is an award winning novelist and New York Times bestseller. His published works include: Real for Me, Someone's In the Kitchen, Gets No Love, the national bestseller Don't Get It Twisted, Lady Sings the Cruels, Blow Your Mind, Sticks and Stones, Reality Check, Crushed Ice, Piano In the Dark & Frostbite. He has also contributed to the anthologies After Hours, Twilight Moods and On The Line. He co-authored the novel The Family Business with New York Times bestselling novelist Carl Weber. Their next collaboration, The Family Business: From Paris With Love, is due in late 2013.
Born in Seattle where he developed his passion for reading, he relocated with his mother to Louisiana where he attended high school and college.
He is a U.S. Army veteran and member of Delta Sigma Pi Professional Business Fraternity.
A graduate of McNeese State University, he currently lives with his family in Texas where he is working on his next novel.
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