Author: Evelyn Sola
Release Date: 2/15/2021
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Page Count: 401 pages
Trope: Diverse Romance, Second Chance Romance
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Title: Heart and Home
Author: Andrew Grey
Series: Standalone
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Romance
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: Dec 15, 2020
Edition/Formats Available In: eBook & Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
Professional marketer Alan Wright needs time to recover,
both physically and mentally. After getting out of the hospital, his best
friend Clay takes him to his farm, where it’s quiet to recuperate. Healing is
going to take a lot more time and effort than Alan ever imagined and require
professional help, which comes in the form of a strong man with a gentle touch.
Haley Martin, a nurse-therapist, has never fit in with his
family, the town, or himself. When he’s hired to assist Alan with his recovery,
he discovers a place with people like him who live their lives without shame or
fear. As Alan begins his recovery, Haley starts to come into his own as well.
He just has to have the courage to take it to heart.
As Alan and Haley both learn to overcome their challenges,
Haley needs to figure out how to deal with his overbearing father and stand on
his own two feet. Together, holding on to each other, they learn to be stronger
together and start to build a possible future. But their old lives still have
pull, and they both must decide what’s truly important.
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Andrew’s hobbies include collecting antiques, gardening, and
leaving his dirty dishes anywhere but in the sink (particularly when
writing) He considers himself blessed
with an accepting family, fantastic friends, and the world’s most supportive
and loving partner. Andrew currently lives in beautiful, historic Carlisle,
Pennsylvania.
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Title: Our Friendship Matters
Author: Kimberley B Jones
Series: Standalone Title
Genre: YA Fiction
Publisher: Rhetaskew Publishing
Release Date: Oct 5, 2020
Edition/Formats Available In: eBook & Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
Short Synopsis:
Leah and Sasha are 17-year-old friends who had been close to one another since elementary school, but as the summer approaches they find their friendship tested in ways they never anticipated.
Following graduation, Sasha's privileged life and perception of the world around her is suddenly altered when an old childhood friend persuades her to join in a campaign against an injustice after his best friend is killed by the police.
But joining the protest has unforeseen consequences for Sasha, distancing her from Leah, who becomes jealous of Sasha's new friends and finds herself on the opposing side, protesting alongside her group of new white friends.
As the tension mounts between the two bitterly opposed factions, a tragedy strikes and threatens to make Sasha and Leah enemies. Can they find a way to resolve their differences, putting them to the side and learn to accept each other's viewpoints? Or is their long friendship finished for good?
Long Excerpt:
17-year-old best friends Sasha, a black teenager and Leah, a white teen are two girls from affluent backgrounds and live comfortable lives, attending a well-established private Christian academy in St Louis. As they enter their final year, the main things occupying their minds are graduating and their senior prom.
But the lives of two popular girls are about to undergo a transition that neither of them wanted or expected when Mitchell, a young African-American boy from the city’s East View High School is shot and killed while walking home from a basketball game, by a police officer who had mistaken him for someone else.
Now tensions are rising among the community where he lived, and the citizens of St. Louis are angry.
One night, while Sasha is out, she sees her old childhood friend, Ricardo, who is protesting the death of Mitchell. Curious about him and wondering if there is anything, she could do to become involved, Sasha talks to her friends about it.
They aren’t interested in getting involved however, and Sasha’s parents also forbid her from doing anything. As the closely held views she once had are quickly evaporating, Sasha makes a momentous decision and goes against all the advice she is given.
She decides to go against her parents and friends and protest downtown with Ricardo and his friends, Rashad and Victoria, who all attended East View High School. When Sasha feels like her friends have turned against her Ricardo and his friends are there for her.
But her determination to fight for justice for Mitchell causes a rift in her relationships. An argument with Leah drives a wedge between them and leads Leah to take the opposite viewpoint, taking sides with those who are supporting different viewpoints, while Sasha’s boyfriend is jealous of the time she is spending with Ricardo and breaks off their relationship.
But there’s a bigger problem that neither girl knows about the groups they support. A war has been going on for several months between them and now Sasha and Leah have been sucked into it by their new friends.
Realizing her error, Sasha tries to reach out to Leah, but her friend’s stubbornness prevents her from accepting the olive branch and Sasha has to accept that the friendship is at an end.
Then, one night, a confrontation in a club leads to Rashad being severely beaten by Jacob and Joshua, two of Leah’s group.
Leah witnesses the assault and tries to intervene but is threatened by them and pushed to the ground. Now fearful of repercussions Leah turns to Sasha for help, knowing that her father is a lawyer.
She goes to the police station to tell the truth, which puts her and her family in danger from Jacob and Joshua, so her parents send her to their private lake house in the Ozarks, which nobody knows about. Her friends Leo, Sasha and Cameron accompany her for her safety and to talk over what happened during the summer.
Leah and Sasha become friends again. Sasha has a big going away to college cookout, which she invites her friends she met this summer and her friends from her school. This is when they all say their farewells and discuss the views of protesting and get Sasha’s dad’s thoughts on the matter.
Kimberley B. Jones is a small country girl from St. George,
SC. She followed her heart in college writing children books. Recently she
decided to challenge herself and branch off to novels. She is your typical
nomad who moves from place to place. Not by choice, but her husband serves in
the military. She has a bachelors and masters in early childhood education. Kimberley
is represented by Rhetaskew Publishing Company and is best known for her debut novel,
Our Friendship Matters.
When she is not writing, she is either thinking of another
topic or reading. She loves writing, it gives her a chance to escape into another
human character and express herself, other than being your typical mother and
wife. If you don't want to be on her bad side, then she needs her white
chocolate mocha every morning. Some days Folgers breakfast blend coffee is
okay.
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