The House of EveFrom the award winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. 1950s Philadelphia: fifteen year old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter.

It begins in Africa

My Soul to Keep traps Jessica between the desperation of immortals who want to rob her of her life and a husband who wants to rob her of her soul

Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began

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and they always will

"When Ruby King's mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago's South Side

policy advocates

and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood

which basically makes it a castle

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood

They discover the Forest holds monsters

teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy