Well, that’s not good.Īs their wedding day marches ever closer-and premarital counseling gets way too close to the truth-Maxine must decide who and what she truly wants. Another person who doesn’t know: Theodore, Maxine’s loving fiance. Celeste doesn’t know that her big sister is her birth mother, but everyone else in the family knows. What happened 13 years ago is a somewhat open secret in Maxine’s family: At the age of 17, Maxine gave birth to Celeste, who was then adopted by Maxine’s mother and stepfather. Maxine is planning a wedding with the nearly perfect Theodore, yet she can hardly keep her mind on the wedding or Theodore when her first love, JD, comes back to town after a 13-year absence.
In her followup, ‘Til I Want No More, Pearson offers readers a delicious and savory story of one young woman and the secrets that threaten to upend her carefully balanced life. She’s also a top-drawer storyteller, having won a Christy Award for her first novel. Pearson ( A Long Time Comin’) is a rarity in Christian fiction: An African American who writes about the faith and family focus of African American characters.
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