For
Your Love
Blessings # 6
Blessings # 6
By: Beverly Jenkins
Releasing April 28th, 2015
William Morrow
Blurb
NAACP
nominee and bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to Henry Adams,
Kansas-an unforgettable place that anyone would want to call home-with a story
of family, friends, and the powerful forces from our past that can irrevocably
shape our future.
Mayor Trent July and his
wife Lily are enjoying life as newlyweds and embracing the challenges and joys
that come with being adoptive parents to two wonderful boys. But being a father
has inevitably forced him to think about his own birth mother. Raised by his
grandmother Tamar—and in many ways the good people of Henry Adams—Trent was
blessed with a childhood full of love.
But now he can’t help
wondering what happened to the scared teenage girl who gave birth to him. And
questions that he’s never voiced are now begging to be answered: Who was she?
Is she still alive? Why didn’t she want him?
Trent has always believed
no good comes from dwelling on the past, especially when you have a loving
family, a strong community, and folks who depend on him. But when the past
comes to Henry Adams, Trent has no choice but to face it—and the woman who left
him behind. The truth will shake his very being and everything he thought he
knew about life, love, and the bonds that hold families together…yet can also
tear them apart.
Prologue
Rita
Lynn Babcock had a good life. At the age of sixty two she had no health issues,
her husband Paul, a cardiac surgeon, still loved her madly, and their daughter,
Val was founding partner of an eponymous law firm. Rita was thankful for her
blessings but at the moment, her heart was heavy. Two days ago, she’d buried
her mother, Ida Merchant. Except for an
indiscretion Rita committed at the age of seventeen, they’d never shared a
cross word. Now, Rita Lynn and Paul were meeting with their lawyer in his
office to discuss Ida’s will.
“Please,
have a seat.”
The
lawyer, Dexter West was an old college friend of Paul’s and he took a moment to
look through the stack of papers before him as if to make sure all was in
order. The estate wasn’t large. Ida hadn’t been wealthy by any means but she’d
been well loved and until her stroke eighteen months ago, maintained her own home and finances.
With
Dexter’s guidance, Rita and Paul made the final arrangements for Ida’s earthly
possessions, from her house to the ten year old, sky blue Toyota she’d lovingly
called Gladys. Her extensive cache of African American history books was
donated to the local library, and all the money left in her bank account after
her bills were paid would be going to True Saints AME, the church she’d
worshipped in and loved for over a half –century. As executrix, Rita affixed
her signature to each document Dexter slid her way, and when they were all
done, she put her finger tips to the corners of her teary eyes to staunch the
flow.
Paul
gave her shoulder a tender squeeze and said softly, “It’s okay, babe.” Five
years ago, they’d buried his beloved mom, so he understood her grief.
“There’s
one more thing,” Dexter said gently. He handed her a sealed envelope. “Your
mother gave this to me a few years back.
She asked me to hold onto it until her passing.”
Rita
paused. “What is it?”
“You
should read it.”
His
face told her nothing but she had a strong sense of foreboding. She looked to
Paul and received a reassuring nod. The letter was one page and penned in her
mother’s strong handwriting. She read
the beginning silently but by the mid –point her eyes widened and she whispered
in a shocked and broken voice, “No!” The further she read the louder her, “No!”
echoed until she was screaming the denial again and again from the depths of
her broken heart.
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Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22693173-for-your-love?from_search=true
Goodreads Series Link: https://www.goodreads.com/series/61529-blessings
Author
Info
Ms. Jenkins is the
nation's premier writer of African American historical romance fiction and
specializes in 19th century African American life. She has over thirty
published novels to date.
She has received numerous
awards, including: five Waldenbooks/Borders Group Best Sellers Awards; two
Career Achievement Awards and a Pioneer Award from Romantic Times Magazine; a
Golden Pen Award from the Black Writer's Guild, and in 1999 was named one of
the Top Fifty Favorite African-American writers of the 20th Century by AABLC,
the nation's largest on-line African-American book club.
She has also been
featured in many national publications, including the Wall Street Journal,
People Magazine, Dallas Morning News and Vibe Magazine. She has lectured and
given talks at such prestigious universities as Oberlin University, the
University of Illinois, and Princeton. She speaks widely on both romance and
19th century African-American history and was the 2014 featured speaker for the
W.W. Law Lecture Series sponsored by the Savannah Black Heritage Festival.
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