The Best Kept Secret - Softcover

Kimberla Lawson Roby is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including The Prodigal Son and The Perfect Marriage. She is an NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work-Fiction and the recipient of the 2014 AAMBC Award for Female Author of the Year. Kimberla resides in Illinois with her husband.

Tracey Leighis an actor with numerous theater, television, and radio credits. She has narrated a number of audiobooks, includingThe Other Womanby Eric Jerome Dickey andWhat Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Dayby Pearl Cleage.

Rev. Curtis Black has finally changed his ways: no more close encounters with temptation, either of the flesh or of the wallet, just a simple existence running his new church and loving his young wife of two years, Charlotte, and their son, Matthew. But readers who relished Black's down-and-dirties in Roby's Casting the First Stone and Too Much of a Good Thing need not worry that the series will shy away from its deliciously trashy concerns. For Curtis has more than met his match in Charlotte, a babe 15 years his junior who didn't bargain on a solid middle-class existence when she married him—after all, he was a holy high-roller who knocked her up before she was 18. Charlotte fills the void she feels with spending sprees and wild sex with Curtis's best friend, Aaron. Of course, Curtis finds out, and Charlotte vows to be better. But Aaron, who has a history of mental illness, will stop at nothing to win Charlotte back—including sharing her entire sinful past (and Matthew's questionable paternity) with Curtis. Self-pitying, self-justifying Curtis figures that "nothing he'd ever done could compare to the sins Charlotte had committed," and so he promptly goes back on the prowl himself. The novel's utterly sleazy conclusion will leave readers shaking off the cooties—and eagerly awaiting the next scandalous installment.
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