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At their grandmother's request, estranged sisters are reunited at the site of their family's eight-seven-year-old restaurant, where they must face complicated truths about themselves and their family history. 

Learn more at: 🥰 https://rhondamcknight.com/bitterandsweet 

 

From the beloved author of The Thing About Home comes a dual timeline tale of family, grief, secrets, and the sweet redemption that lies within the bonds of sisterhood.

-The Present-

When summoned to Georgetown, South Carolina, sisters Mariah Clark and Sabrina Holland both assume their ailing grandfather's health has gotten worse. Neither expects their grandmother's undeniable request--save the family restaurant.

Mariah is at a crossroad in her life. After being dumped by her husband and forced to walk away from their diner that she helped rescue from bankruptcy, bitter feelings consume her. Even though the restaurant has been in the family for eighty-six years, giving her all to another struggling business isn't something she wants to do.

Living out of her van and striving for a fresh start, Sabrina yearns for stability for herself and her daughter and a chance to turn her baking hustle into a bona-fide business. The family restaurant may be just the blessing she needs--but as old tensions and angry disagreements resurface, Sabrina wonders if her sister will let her have a say.

-The Past-

After falling victim to a love she thought would last a lifetime, Tabitha Cooper finds herself away from home and struggling to survive in Charleston in the early twentieth century. She is determined to turn corn into cornbread and to take care of her children the best way she knows how--by serving food that's good for the soul--and along the way forges a path that leaves a legacy of success for generations to come.

Through letters that reveal Tabitha's complicated past, the sisters discover truths that just might be the right recipe to mend their hearts--if they can find a way to savor the blessing of today and leave the bitter aftertaste of old memories behind them.

Learn more: https://www.rhondamcknight.com/bitterandsweet 

BGC Book Club Presents: Rhonda McKnight, author of BITTER AND SWEET

A dual timeline, multigenerational story about estranged sisters who find the secret to their problems in 100-year-old letters from their great-great-grandmother. 

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All The Cowboy Wants by Rhonda McKnight

 

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Everything about him was big…big feet, big hands, big spirit, big laugh, big spender…big, big, big! ~ Addison Ingram 

He has something she needs.
She has something he wants.
Neither expected the complication called love.

Journalist Addison Ingram has yearned for more serious bylines and being assigned to interview Stone Bennett of the upcoming Bachelors of Atlanta series isn’t a part of her plan. She loathes rich, entitled men like Stone but interviewing him is a means to even meatier stories. However, Stone is not the man she thought he was and that discovery could lead to more than she bargained for.

Stone Bennett wrangles horses and women but he never gets attached. No woman has held his attention for more than a night and he doesn’t expect things to be any different with Addison Ingram. Then he hires her as a ghostwriter for his passion project and the chemistry between them makes him yearn for more than a business relationship. Stone thought he didn't need love, but will he discover Addison's heart is what he wants? 

 Available wherever ebooks are sold. Paperback coming soon. 

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Once Upon A Dream by Vanessa Miller

 

This book by Vanessa Miller is probably one of the prettiest covers I've seen in a long time. 

Growing up, Tamara Davison felt like a princess in the empire of her father's megachurch ministry. She never wanted for anything, and in her eyes, life was pretty near perfect. It wasn’t until her NFL bound boyfriend broke her heart and a sobering truth about her father's past was revealed that Tamara began to wonder about the perfect life she thought she had.

Jonathan Hartman loved Tamara Davison the moment he met her. Jonathan was brought up by a single mom who struggled to make ends meet. He had to work two jobs in college, but it all paid off. Now he is successful and rich beyond anything he ever imagined possible for a kid that came up the hard way like he did. It had been ten years since Tamara ran after a pro-baller rather than give Jonathan’s love a chance. Tamara is back in his life now and Jonathan must find a way to convince her that true love feels so much better than any fairytale she could ever dream up.

Once Upon A Dream is a reprint of Heaven On Earth with 25% new content, book discussion questions and a book club kit.

Available wherever ebooks are sold and on Amazon for paperback. Click Here. 

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All He Needs by Rhonda McKnight

 

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People marry for financial reasons all the time, but it’s usually not to get their own money!

Marriage settles a man or at least that’s what Zeke Bennett’s great-grandmother believed. Only a settled man will inherit her millions. Fast forward 70 years and the only settling Zeke wants to do is on a business deal. The opportunity of a lifetime is dangling in front of him, but poor Zeke doesn’t even have a girlfriend. Well, he does, but she’s his best friend and he can’t marry her—can he?

Rachel Ingram is in love with her best friend, Zeke, but he doesn’t know it. Fortunately for her, she has a Team Ingram—five sisters with a plan for how to turn Zeke’s head and heart in Rachel’s direction. In a game that begins with lies and manipulation, Rachel must fight hard to flip her fake marriage to a real one. Will she discover God’s plan would have been better?

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All She Wants by Rhonda McKnight

 

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He took Lenise’s hand and press the envelope into her palm.    

Examining it, Lenise flipped it over. “What’s in here?”

He lifted an eyebrow. “Babysitting money.”

Lenise squinted and pushed it back into his hand. “This isn’t necessary. If I want to go out, I can pay my own sitter.” 

Cole raised a hand to his face. He stroked his freshly trimmed chin hair. “Yeah, but if I overpay her, she’ll be more inclined to be willing to sit for you again.” He put the card on the hall table.

Lenise cocked her head. He was a man who was used to getting what he wanted. That was obvious. “How can you be sure you’ll want to take me out again?”

He released a breath and took her hand. “I knew I wanted another date when you opened the door.”  

About the Book:

Homeless! Lenise Reid never thought that would be her story.

Widowed with a baby, Lenise was making it work as a single mother until a fraudulent transaction wipes out her balance at the bank leaving her with no money. Living paycheck to paycheck takes on new meaning as her world is turned upside down, and she ends up sleeping in her car.

Cole Bennett’s first date with Lenise was all he needed to know she was a woman he wanted to pursue, so when she ghosts him, he goes on a mission to find out why. What he finds is a woman so wounded that even in her most desperate state she struggles with his charity.

Cole has more to give than Lenise knows how to receive. Will past hurt keep her from accepting the most precious gift God has to offer?

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Unbound Hearts by Michelle Lindo-Rice Book Blast

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Genre: Interracial Christian Romance

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Unbound Hearts (Able to Love Book 2)

Would you hire the person responsible for your losing both your legs?

Before he lost both his limbs, Jasper Orion was on his way to being voted Most Valuable Player in the National Football League. A man of faith, his faith in God remains unshaken and he starts his own business. With God’s leading Jasper decides to hire Charmaine Evans, the woman responsible for his demise. But, unexpectedly, Jasper develops feelings for his newest employee. He longs to hold her in his arms. Wheelchair bound, will Jasper’s love for Charmaine motivate him to walk again?

A backslidden Christian, Charmaine Evans’ ambitions left her broke, unemployed and a social pariah. Guilt-ridden, she returned home to Port Charlotte, FL to lick her wounds. To Charmaine’s surprise, Jasper not only offers her forgiveness but also a job when no one else would. Charmaine marvels at Jasper’s faith while grappling with her own. Bound by her past, will Charmaine learn to accept God’s plan for her heart and her life?

Michelle Lindo-Rice enjoys crafting women's fiction with themes centered around the four "F" words: Faith, Friendship, Family and Forgiveness. Her first published work, Sing A New Song, was a Black Expressions featured selection. Originally from Jamaica West Indies, Michelle Lindo-Rice calls herself a lifelong learner.

She has earned degrees from New York University, SUNY at Stony Brook, and Teachers College, Columbia University. When she moved to Florida, she enrolled in Argosy University where she completed her Education Specialist degree in Education Leadership. A pastor's kid, Michelle upholds the faith, preaching, teaching and ministering through praise and worship. Feel free to connect with her at michellelindorice.com You can read her testimony, learn about her books, PLEASE join her mailing list, or read a sample chapter at michellelindorice.com

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Coming soon...Unbreak My Heart by Rhonda McKnight

Jacob Gray believed he’d spend the rest of his life loving his wife, Cameron Scott, that is until he discovered she was pregnant and there was no way it could be his child. He tried to put Cameron out of his mind and heart, but five years have passed and he still loves her.

Cameron Scott’s reality T.V. show career is spiraling into an abyss. She’s desperate enough to do almost anything to keep a roof over her head and provide the financial support that’s needed for her ailing grandmother. When her ex-husband, Jacob Gray, reenters her life offering a lifeline she realizes she still loves him, but can they forgive the mistakes in their past and allow each other to heal their broken hearts?

                                               Chapter 1

Fame came with a price. Cameron Scott knew that better than anyone in her circle. One day you were “fab” and up. The next day you were down, walking the streets like a nobody with a hashtag on your forehead in front of the word FAIL. Fans, the media, friends and family talked about you on either end of the extreme, but you were invisible when you fell in the middle which was where Cameron was thought to be at this point in her career. Technically, she was actually at the bottom, but no one knew it yet. Her contract with RAT Productions, Real American Television, was not going to be renewed. The show, similar to The Chew and The View, but sexier because it was mostly relationship chatter was replacing her. Her former boss was clear that she wasn’t gritty enough nor had she brought authenticity to her feelings about what was going on in the featured guest lives. Authenticity of her feelings? He didn’t want that. She was fed up with men. That was what was REAL. Every experience she’d ever had was negative, from the first man in her life to the most recent, her ex-fiance, Reverend Doctor Rick Housley. If her thoughts could kill he’d be resting in peace right now. Announcing their break-up on television before he even told her? And she thought the folks sending break-up text messages were bad. 
Housely was being interviewed on Entertainment This Week. When the interveiwer asked him about their wedding date, he'd turned toward the camera and with the sincerity that only those dreamy eyes of his could convey, he’d said, “I love you, Cameron, but I’ve searched my heart and prayed with my God. I’m not ready for marriage. I hope you’ll forgive me. I hope America will forgive me.”

“Have you forgiven yourself,” the interviewer asked pushing the microphone further into his face. If she wasn’t careful she’d hit that new cap he had on his front tooth and he’d jump on her.

Rick continued, “I have, because I know we’re human and we make mistakes.”

Human. Rick was barely that. Ambitious. That was more like it. And gay. Most definitely gay. If she hadn’t searched her heart, she’d shout that out to the entire world. But she had searched her heart and realized there was no reason to out Housley. Telling the world she’d fallen in love with a gay man was way down on the list of things she wanted to talk about it. In fact, falling in love with any man bottomed out a long time ago. And the truth was she didn’t love him. He’d lied about his sexuality and she’d lied about a few things of her own, so they were even.  

“You look familiar,” the taxi driver stated. Cameron noticed he’d been peeking back at her every so often and she knew that peek. It was the, ‘I’ve seen you on T.V.’ look that she’d grown accustomed to getting. “Weren’t you on that show with that guy?”

Cameron bit her tongue to keep from rolling her eyes and looked down into her purse. “Yep. Is There A Saved Man In The House?”

He popped his fingers. “That’s right. That’s right. The dating reality show.” He nodded his head a few times. She could tell he was smiling to himself like he’d figured it out on his own. “Sorry about the breakup.”

Cameron looked up and forced a smile. “Thank you, but I’ve decided to assume it’s for the best.”

“Yes, but to put it on the T.V. like that,” he began. He shook his head. “I don’t know how you Hollywood people do it. I don’t think you could pay me a million dollars to be on T.V. with all those cameras following me and knowing all my private life.”

Cameron took in his reflection in the rear-view mirror then sized up the condition of the grungy taxicab. Couldn’t pay him a million dollars? She wondered what one had to pay him to get a haircut. People loved talking about what they wouldn’t do for money until money was offered to them. “The show was mostly scripted,” she replied.

“Script what?” he asked, his thick African accent was getting stronger.

“We have lines. We’re like actors. It’s not all real.” She waited a beat and then added. “It is entertainment you know.”

“But people think it’s real.”

Touché . Valid point. And what people thought did matter. At least it did to her, but again, she wasn’t outing Housley. Theirs was a relationship built on mutual need. Housley needed to launch his ministry and she needed money, lots of it. That’s why she’d  auditioned for Is There A Saved Man.

Cameron never expected the on screen chemistry between herself and Rick Housley to be so strong, especially since they really didn’t have much off screen. Rick had set his eyes on her early and their cat and mouse game had captured the hearts of America; the last show being the one where Rick proposed and placed a huge diamond ring on her finger. Cameron said yes, but reluctantly because she knew she didn’t love him. He didn’t love her. And there was the matter of his questionable sexuality. She knew they would eventually break up. But even with all anticipation of that moment, the show had been Cameron’s lucky break in more ways than one. She had the diamond, but more importantly she was reality television star. Every television program from Good Morning America to The View to Jimmy Kimmel wanted to interview her and then out of those interviews came a weekly spot on The Real TV to do a piece about Christian dating. Then she got her big break with her RAT for the I Heart Show. But she’d blown it. She’d blown it because she couldn’t go the distance with the pretense.

Initially, she’d been fine with the dismissal. The show was stupid. She was sure she’d get another job, after all, she was Cameron Scott, America’s reality show sweetheart, but after meeting, after meeting, after meeting there hadn’t been a single offer. Not one call back. No interest in her. She was out of meetings and more importantly, she was out of time and money.

“401 Fifth Ave.” The taxi driver’s voice awakened her from her musing or was the blues a better way to describe her thoughts? She was feeling sorry for herself. Cameron turned toward the passenger side window. Through the light misting of rain she she glimpsed the aging building that housed the studio. She wrinkled her nose disapprovingly. Times Square was the home of many of the country’s T.V. studios as well as the heart of the theater district. This building was less than a mile away, but it felt like it was on the other side of the world. Hastag FAIL. She couldn’t escape thinking it.

“Thanks.” Cameron handed the cab driver the fare she couldn’t afford and accepted the receipt he’d dutifully printed without asking. The cab ride was a splurge. It had been pouring when she left home. She didn’t want to wrinkle or stain her Armani suit traveling on the train in the rain, but she’d definitely be on the subway for the trip home.

She stepped out of the taxi and unbeknownst to her right into an invisible hole in the asphalt. She gasped and twisted her body awkwardly to keep from falling. Fortunately, the taxi door provided support otherwise she would have surely fallen and hit the pavement.

“You okay, miss?” the driver asked. His concerned was genuine, but it was not appreciated. Cameron shook her head, turned to him and shot him the stink eye. He should have been more careful about where he’d stopped the passenger side door.

“I’m fine. No thanks to you!” she yelled in true New Yorker fashion and slammed the door. Glad that the heel of her Manalo shoe hadn’t come off in the tussle, she stepped up on the sidewalk, smoothed her skirt and stopped breathing. Her attaché case. She turned, the taxi whizzed down the street. She’d left it on the backseat. Not only was it her favorite Coach bag, but it held her resume and references. How was she supposed to show up for a job interview without them?  

Cameron swallowed, let out a long breath and counted to ten. “Pull it together. You know what this is about. You can’t let it rock your confidence.” She spoke the words out loud to herself, but thought inwardly, If you don’t get this job you’ll be homeless.

Sufficiently motivated, she shook off thoughts of what she didn’t have. She’d have to improvise. It wasn’t the first time and as long as she was in the entertainment industry it surely would not be the last. But, she did want her bag back. Glad she had noted the taxi number, as she always did, she tapped on her phone until she found the main number for Yellow Taxi, filed a missing item report and put in a request for the driver to call her to get it redelivered. Then she entered the building, showed security her appointment letter and rode the elevator to the third floor.

“I’ve never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging bread.” She closed her eyes tight and whispered it over and over during the ride. The elevator doors opened. She walked into a lobby full of women. Most of them were familiar: A couple of former stars from the Housewives franchise, one of the twins from that show about the sisters, she could never remember which was which, Tia or Tamala something and one of the youngins’ from the Kardashian clan. Her breath caught in her throat. So much competition. She wanted to repeat the scripture again, affirm what she knew by giving the Word power, but the only thing she could think as she approached the receptionist desk was maybe she wasn’t the righteous.

***

Unbreak My Heart is the second book in the Second Chances Series about second chances at love. It will be available on July 16th on Kindle/Nook and in paperback on August 5th.  Please visit me at my website and join my mailing list for updates. www.rhondamcknight.net and like my page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/booksbyrhonda 

Are You There, God? by Theresa A. Campbell

About the Book

As a young woman in rural Jamaica, Dupree struggles to maintain a home for herself and the ailing aunt who is raising her after she was abandoned by her teenage mother. The effort of life with no electricity, running water, or money often leave Dupree battered and bruised, but she refuses to be defeated. She might have been forced to grow up too fast, but she will not succumb to the wiles of the devil, choosing instead to rely on the power of Almighty God to help her through.

After a brutal attack that takes her to hell and back, Dupree must reach for her inner strength once again to survive. Her journey for a better life leads her to Kingston, a city some people refer to as “Jamaica’s Sodom and Gomorrah.” There, she sees and experiences things beyond her imagination. Dupree seeks comfort in the arms of her Prince Charming— but he might just be a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Caught up in a web of lies and betrayal, Dupree fights to save her life. In pure desperation, she seeks an answer to her question, “Are you there, God?” Will she be around to hear His response, or will it be too late?

About the Author

Theresa Campbell was born and raised in Jamaica West Indies. She received her

associate’s degree in business administration from Bronx Community College, a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Baruch College, and a master’s degree in business administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Theresa has had a deep passion for reading ever since she was a child. It is her desire to inspire readers with her stories by uplifting their faith in God.  Readers may contact Theresa at her website and social media links: theresaacampbell.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/theresaacampbell and https://twitter.com/theresaacampbel

Baptist Junkie by Telishia Berry

About The Book

Telishia describes her debut novel The Baptist Junkie as a Christian fiction story of redemption set in 1968.

Brenda is the youngest of Deacon John Wilson’s four children. He tries to keep them all on the straight and narrow, but his strict, religious practices only ignite a pattern of rebellion for Brenda. The day she loses her virginity, she conceives a child. The problem is she is sixteen and pregnant out of wedlock, an issue a 1968 society uses to reject young girls. Her dreams of someday becoming a wife and mother, living happily-ever-after are diminished when the father of her unborn child rejects her, the church shuns her, and her father’s words, “You are ruined!” send her on an emotional tailspin.

Her quest for love, acceptance, and validation leads her on a journey of poor choices in men, friends, and indulgence in drugs from marijuana to heroin. Her tumultuous trek takes her from the church house, to the dope house, to the whorehouse, and eventually the jailhouse.

Will this good girl lost find her way? Will she redeem herself and her faith in God? Will she realize her worth is not based on the judgment of others? Will she recognize true love when it crosses her path or will she keep running from her pain?

About The Author

Telishia Berry, a native of Flint, Michigan has several gospel-themed musical plays in her production credits, including Wake Up, Wake Up 2, and Hairweave. Telishia Berry is also the publisher of Courageous Woman Magazine, an online magazine that highlights the accomplishments of extraordinary women. Berry moved her family to Los Angeles to pursue her son, Kendre’ Berry’s acting career. Kendre’ is best known for his roles as “Jabari” on the hit TV show Girlfriends and “Durrell” on HBO’s Six Feet Under.  

Connect with Telishia at Facebook and Twitter at www.twitter.com/cwmag   

The Baptist Junkie is available on Amazon and at www.telishiaberry.com

Without Faith Blog Tour

About the Book

A diva and a gentleman have shown up for couples counseling, but now Sienna is the one in danger....

She’s a sleuth. She’s a scorned wife. She’s a sista on a mission. Sienna St. James is more than a sharp-witted social worker. She’s a problem solver who keeps getting pulled into life-and-death mysteries that only complicate her already complex life. With a head-strong teenage son and a missing, estranged husband - who could be anywhere on the globe - Sienna has to figure out what gets her focus first: the questions she has about her own love and loss or the dangerous quirks and dark confusion of her current clients... And then there are the current eligible men around her who are jockeying for position, waiting for her to make up her mind about it all.

About the Author

Leslie J. Sherrod, the recipient of the SORMAG Readers Choice Award for Christian Author of the Year (2012), has a Masters in Social Work and has worked as a therapist, just like her current protagonist, Sienna St. James. Her novels, Losing Hope, Secret Place, and Like Sheep Gone Astray have been featured in Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library Writer’s LIVE! Series, as well as local CBS and NBC affiliates, and on AOL’s Black Voices. She has received a starred review from Booklist and is a contributor to the bestselling A Cup of Comfort devotional series. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she also took courses in writing at The Johns Hopkins University. Leslie lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband and three children.

 

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