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It is 1925; in Harlem, New York what is a privileged Negro man supposed to do? Spend his time attending tedious social functions, listening to dull dab conversations, and date the frigid Harlemites of society. To please his upper class family, lawyer Winstead Codwin spends his days being the perfect Negro gentleman, and secretly avoiding his duty to marry his father’s best friend’s daughter Penelope Ashford definitely below frigid Harlemite. To escape his humdrum world of wealth and the pressures of marriage, Win spends his evenings in nightclubs, and then in the beds of beautiful dancers. He will do his duty for his family by being a successful lawyer, but he would never marry. So he thinks until the beautiful sharecroppers daughter Claire Mathison walks through the doors of Smalls Paradise, nightclub. Win is captivated by her innocence, and her beauty. Determine to have a love affair only; Win embarks on a campaign to get the lovely Claire in his bed. Claire has plans of her own, sure Win’s sizzling looks has her body pulsating to the point where she is willing to embark on a love affair. Just not with a man she could definitely lose her heart to. After all, she doesn’t belong in his world. News of lynchings in her hometown, and no word from her dad has Claire running home to find him, abandoning all thoughts of a love affair. Not about to let the beautiful creature who has gotten under his skin runaway from him Win follows Claire to Roanoke, VA where they both band together to find Claire’s missing daddy.

This is the only positive African-American romance book that I know of that talks about what life was like for those that were not part of the Harlem Renaissance, dealing with the struggles of racism, yet finding true love in the midst of insurmountable difficulties.  Available now for PC, Kindle, or any other eReader.  Sample the beginning of the book for free.