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Alicia Black Sullivan, the daughter of celebrated Reverend Curtis Black, pledges never to repeat her father's failures. Married to Phillip, the church assistant pastor, she faces a tangled web of faith, love, and her growing compulsion for shopping. Her attempts to balance promise, faith, and desire set her and Phillip on a path toward confronting their own emotional debts and the possibility of replicating the very errors she vowed to avoid.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Family & Domestic Fiction/Marriage & Divorce Fiction
Authors: Kimberla Lawson Roby
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