This book was inspired by a real-life shooting that took place in May 1980. The black president of the National Urban League, Vernon Jordan, was shot as he was getting out of the car of a 36-year white woman, Martha Coleman, at 2 a.m. in Fort Wayne. The story hit newspaper headlines.Describing a similar incident, this fictional story captures the flavour of racial attitudes and interracial relationships in the 1970s when liaisons between white women and black men raised eyebrows. Karen Anderson, a white socialite living in Fort Wayne, offers a lift to an African student. It awakens a hidden urge to try the exotic. Her act of kindness sets her on a path leading to a series of sexual liaisons with black men from the inner-city ghetto. Finally, she gets embroiled in a shooting scandal. The press hounds her. She goes into hiding. Only to be unwittingly snared into the services of a black pimp. Can she escape?The theme of the story is of a woman who thinks that she has her life under control. A minor event leads to an uncontrollable obsession. It turns her life upside down. She makes choices. The choices make her the wrong woman at the wrong time and at the wrong place.Read the book to know what happens next.WARNING 18+: This book contains material that may be considered offensive to some readers, which includes interracial relationships, graphic language, explicit sex, and adult situations.
Details
Publish date | November 21, 2017 |
Publisher | Independently Published |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 220 |
ISBN | 9781973342632
1973342634 |