The ninth installment of Roby's Reverend Curtis Black series — a position on which the publisher's copy, the author's own book page, and catalog listings agree. Months after Reverend Curtis Black, pastor of Deliverance Outreach, learned that his wife Charlotte had affairs with two men, the marriage is formally intact but finished in private: Curtis is cordial, distant, and determined to file for divorce once their son Matthew graduates from high school. Charlotte, who has also come to love Curtina, the daughter Curtis fathered outside the marriage, does everything she can to make amends and save the union. Curtis, meanwhile, is being pursued by a woman determined to become the next Mrs. Curtis Black, and the contest moves toward a shocking confrontation that tests the family and the congregation. The novel won the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction.
Author: Kimberla Lawson Roby · Original publisher: Grand Central Publishing (New York), 2012
