Affaire de Coeur Chat Tonight RESCHEDULED

We had a couple techy things happen at AdC tonight and we're going to chit chat in the near future. Stay tuned for the new time. Hugs & kisses...


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July Family Dynamic Featured Author

I'm pleased to join Desiree Dalton and the members of Sexy Ebony Book Club as a July featured author. The topic this month is the family dynamic and Bastards is up for discussion. Stop by, learn about some of my favorite things, and enter to win a copy of book three in the Lost & Found saga series. See you on the Sexy Ebony blog.

Sexy Ebony Book Club blog

Memorable Moments...

Only the men in the Clayton family traveled to the reservation in Bryson City, North Carolina. Robert, Jewel, and Marcus rode in one car. Marcus’ uncles—Richard, Kyle, and Brett—rode in a car by themselves. Each man had taken days off from work or leave from the military to be present for their only nephew’s ceremony. This event was too important to their family to miss.

The Clayton brothers loved each other dearly, but didn’t see eye to eye regarding their father. Each had witnessed too much of his random illicit behavior against them and their mother. For that reason, the older sons rarely came home. Richard, or Richie as his family still called him, was married to one Anastasia Petrof Clayton, a white woman. No way his father was letting her in the house. He barely spoke to his granddaughters, mainly because he said they were whiny and he didn’t like whining little children. Add to that the fact that Richie had moved to California and the outcome was very few trips across country to see an ornery old Indian.


From Bastards
Blue Planet Publishing
February 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0982429860

Memorable Moments...

Change is inevitable. All good and bad things come
to an end. It is our responsibility as humans to understand
that change and become one with it. Even when we don’t
understand it, we must still reconcile it.


Marcus Clayton from Bastards
Blue Planet Publishing
February 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0982429860

Memorable Moments...

The fact that Marcus spoke French had long been a sticking point with his grandfather. According to the story, not only had Launa named Marcus after her father, but she had also taught him French before she taught him English. All of this was done in protest to her father-in-law’s bigoted ways. He considered her to be French rather than black because of her light complexion. Therefore, in Poppa C’s ornery mind, she was white. He didn’t like white, unless he was cutting hair. At that point, all money was green and he accepted all green.


From Bastards
Blue Planet Publishing
February 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0982429860

Memorable Moments...

While everything went well between Robert and his sons, there was nothing but tension between him and Ebony. There was still bitterness about the decision to terminate her pregnancy and there was mistrust based on lies told by an angry son. No matter what Robert told Ebony, she refused to let her guard down. And though she understood why Jewel had been so cruel, she couldn’t bring herself to surrender to her former lover again. Decisions made, Robert agreed to continue taking care of his sons financially and to visit them as often as he could. And as Robert walked back to his rental car and sped toward the airport, Ebony trembled with tears for the man she still loved and the baby she had sacrificed.


From Bastards
Blue Planet Publishing
February 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0982429860

Memorable Moments...

“I fell in love with the fact that I was loved in return. No presumptions. No criticisms. No rules that were impossible to live up to. No one to throw the Bible at me when I made a mistake.”


Robert Clayton from Bastards
Blue Planet Publishing
February 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0982429860