Twenty-eight years ago, at age sixteen, this cocky, hardheaded Negro first set eyes on his forever. The day I married Princess, a lifetime is what I carried her off to. No one could have told me her demise would leave me carrying the weight of the world while our children were still school age. Nearly three decades were not long enough. Now, this chasm of despair swallows me, and I’m not sure I’ll ever climb out to see the other side. Nor do I want to see a world without Princess in it.
Neeraja Townsend
I’m the last woman standing. All my childhood friends are married now, and being the sole single friend is… not exactly boring. Okay, so hot girl summers are a damn snore. I grew up globe-hopping and jet-setting, so am I truly hyped about another trip? I don’t need a man. But a good one would make for damn yummy Sunday mornings. So I’ll accept my boyrfriend Farhad’s proposal to get married. The man who lights me up with just one look will never want me, too.
**This grieving husband, single dad romance is the fifth and final book of the Explore Men of the Hamptons Black romance series. Join the men who revolutionized Black success and luxury travel in this final installment that spotlights family, community, quiet power and love in the Black Hamptons.
**Trigger warnings: death, depression & mental health, pregnancy loss, language, explicit sex & alcohol
Lula White was born and raised in a small Arkansas community that's sandwiched between Sweet Home and Granite Mountain, where she watched her grandpa fend off snakes on fishing trips, shelled peas during soap operas, went on barefoot bike rides, and snuck into the illicit world of Danielle Steele books she had no business reading. Hers and her grandmother's shared passion for books, magazines and movies opened up worlds beyond her front yard. She's traveled, hobnobbed, and crisscrossed careers as a Los Angeles lawyer in Southern California. Her pen screams Black accomplishment and the brilliance of all blackness, in every space, through many layers. We are never too old, too young, or too tired to dream.