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Bishop T.K. Wilson, head of New York’s largest African‑American church, campaigns for borough president while his family presents an image of respectability that masks scandal and temptation. The Wilson children—Dante, a church‑courtman with a hidden desire for law, and Donna, struggling against her father's expectations—navigate their own paths of desire and disobedience. As jealousy, romance and illicit liaisons blur sacred vows, the family must confront long‑held secrets and wrestle with the true meaning of devotion.
Set in Queens and framed by contemporary church life, the novel explores the tension between public persona and private failings, and questions how faith and family reconcile in the face of personal ambition and moral conflict.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Romance/Contemporary Romance
Authors: Carl Weber
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