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Jules, a talented African American architect, is frustrated with his inability to crack the glass ceiling at his country-club like Georgetown firm. He is also engaged to his college sweetheart, Antoinette. They’ve shared a roller-coaster fifteen-year relationship. Both were involved in brief affairs; Antoinette with a womanizing Capitol Hill...

Quentin Johnson, a former police detective from Maryland, has made the cross-country move to Los Angeles to become a Private Investigator in Hollywood. And to re-ignite a relationship with a woman from his past, Antoinette. Antoinette has moved west to begin a new chapter in her life. To escape a failed, 15-year relationship with her ex-fiancé,...

One baby. Two mothers. A twenty-year lie.

In 2001, inside a Chicago booth reeking of menthol smoke and shredded desperation, a transaction was signed in the shadows. A son was traded for a sanctuary. A legacy was bought to bury a sin. They called it The Pact.

Twenty years later, the “Silk” of the Chicago North Shore and the “Steel” of a Manhattan...

Dr. Dara Chen, a charming and nubile psychotherapist, has returned to her Central Park residence in New York City. She had been on a year-long hiatus following the death of her father in Thailand. In the previous installment, “Lunar Eclipse of the Heart,” Dara participated in the harrowing rescue of her former patient and roommate, Antoinette,...