Gwynne Forster, Author . Arabesque $5.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-58314-192-2
The death of reclusive, elderly inventor Prescott Rodgers sets tongues wagging in the small town of Ellicott City, Md. Prescott's will stipulates that his beautiful 29-year-old widow, Melinda, must set up a literacy foundation and remarry within
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Gwynne Forster, Author . Kensington/Dafina $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-57566-919-9
Making the switch from contemporary romance (Secret Desire) to mainstream African-American fiction, Forster reverses King Lear
by giving the good youngest daughter the keys to the kingdom. Widowed matriarch Marge Hairston is the power behind the...
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Gwynne Forster, Author . Kensington/Dafina $14 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1309-9
Forster (Whatever It Takes
; If You Walked in My Shoes
) continues her soft-focus chronicle of the Thank the Lord boardinghouse's residents, this time setting a 35-year-old small-town virgin and a high-powered New Yorker on paths to self-discover
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Gwynne Forster, Author . Dafina $14 (295p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1310-5
The prolific Forster (Blues from Down Deep
; When You Dance with the Devil
; etc.) delivers a simplistic story of love and parenthood. Susan Pettiford, a 34-year-old interior designer, moves back to hometown Woodmore, N.C., from New York City after...
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Gwynne Forster, Author . Kensington/Dafina $14 (266p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2560-3
In Forster's heartwarming ode to life (after Getting Some of Her Own
), Petra Fields of Ellicott City, Md., learns she has an inoperable brain tumor. Only 36 years old and a single mom, she resolves to face her diagnosed four to six months of...
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Gwynne Forster, Author . Kensington/Dafina $14 (312p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2562-7
Popular author Forster (A Different Kind of Blues
) charts the course of a young African-American journalist, her love life and her eye-opening trip to Africa. Leticia Langley is a lucky young woman fresh out of college: not only has she landed a...
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Gwynne Forster, Kensington/Dafina, $14 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-4699-8
After Maryland millionaire Leon Farrell dies in Forster's absorbing sequel to 2004's If You Walked in My Shoes, his adult children—Gunther, a software game developer who's suffering from a bad strain of the flu; Shirley, a cruise line PR director;...
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Gwynne Forster, Author Kimani Press $5.99 (326p) ISBN 978-1-58314-098-7
Set in Baltimore, Forster's (Fools Rush In) legal romance provides a strong heroine but its pace lags under the weight of stilted descriptions. When Schyler Henderson heads a legal case against the children's social service agency run by Veronica...
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Gwynne Forster, Author Dafina Books $14 (282p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1308-2
Forster (Whatever It Takes ;If You Walked in My Shoes ) continues her soft-focus chronicle of the Thank the Lord boardinghouse's residents, this time setting a 35-year-old small-town virgin and a high-powered New Yorker on paths to self-discovery....
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Gwynne Forster. Kensington/Dafina, $14 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-4701-8
Stilted dialogue, unrealistic circumstances, and characters who represent positions more than people mar this otherwise compelling tale from Forster (When the Sun Goes Down). Kendra Richards, 33, has spent her entire life trying to win mother Ginny’s
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