VALERIE WILSON WESLEY

OF BLOOD AND SORROW

Tamara Hayle can't believe life is so good. The city's most powerful businessman wants to work with her. Her new lover seems caring and supportive as well as stable and successful. And her son Jamal is coping well with teen angst and the aftermath of the shootings that forever changed his world. But as Tamara sardonically observes, "When things stir that easy, there's always something lumpy at the bottom of the pot."

Enter Lilah Love, an old acquaintance who begs Tamara to find her missing child. And Basil Dupre, Tamara's outlaw ex-lover, has strolled into town bring chaos and passion. Suddenly the safe world Tamara has built for herself comes tumbling down, crashing completely when Jamal witnesses a brutal murer and becomes the prime suspect.

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About the Author

Blackboard best-selling author Valerie Wilson Wesley is a contributing editor for Essence magazine and is the author of the Tamara Hayle mystery series for adults. She is also the author of Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do, for which she received the 2000 Black Caucus Literature Award in adult fiction from the American Library Association. Her latest adult novel is Playing My Mother’s Blues. Ms. Wesley’s children’s books include The Willemina Rules Book series 1-7, Freedom’s Gifts: A Juneteenth Story, and she is the coauthor of the Afro-bets Book of Black Heroes with Wade Hudson. Ms. Wesley lives in New Jersey with her husband, screenwriter and playwright Richard Wesley, and has two grown daughters.

Author's Website: www.tamarahayle.com