Publisher's Synopsis
The guilt of her ex-husband's death tortures Treasure Bluesman with horrid nightmares. It does not help that Treasure is feeling inadequate after being laid off from her job as a social worker. As requested, she nestles into the life of being a wife and a mother, but she still feels unfulfilled. Treasure falls into a deep depression and seeks help. It is then she meets a handsome & charming therapist who takes on the job of treating her depression, but also falls in love with her. They crossed emotional lines when they spent time together outside of counseling. Treasure sees him as a friend, but Lee wants more and becomes relentless in breaking up her marriage.
Blue has beaten the odds after a ten-year bid in prison. He is now an ambitious and successful entrepreneur who is opening a second grocery store while getting his college degree and being a family man. Blue cannot seem to balance it all when he becomes more unavailable to his wife and daughter. The tension between the two becomes thick when mysterious calls at the dead of the night spark that Treasure may be cheating. Blue also has his dark secrets that are tearing their marriage apart. Will Treasure resist the temptation of Lee? Can Blue and Treasure's marriage survive when their bond is being broken by both their bad decisions of the past and present?
Tasiyana Matters has been chosen to author a controversial article in a prestigious newspaper about the corruption in the black churches of Buffalo. It is the perfect payback from all the church hurt she has endured when she discovers they have gossiped about her weight and even her mother calls her too ugly to be a Pastor's wife. Once discovered about the article by her husband, Pastor William Matters he forbids her to have it published or it will end their marriage. Will Tasiyana defy her husband's wishes to teach her mother and the "mean girls" of the church community a lesson even if it means losing the man, she loves the most?
Lyrical loves the finer things in life while her husband Dru believes in saving for a rainy day. When Lyrical beauty Salon and Spa takes off, she spends even more. When her hasty spending habits cause troubles in their marriage and business relationship. All hell breaks loose when Dru gives her an ultimatum to stop spending or lose him as a husband.
The Roundtable of Truth about Love and Marriage addresses the traumas and dramas of what we refuse to deal with. They test all of their bonds as each couple sits at the table to have hard conversations and fight to stay together.
