When an insecure, bi-racial woman begins a cloak-and-dagger love affair with a Japanese American man

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cheap hawaii plane tickets When an insecure, bi-racial woman begins a cloak-and-dagger love affair with a Japanese American man, she is intent on keeping her bigoted family in the dark albeit with devastating consequences. On the night of her brother cheap hawaii plane tickets s murder, Deena Hammond stumbles upon Takumi Tanaka, lost and on the wrong end of a .32. After rescuing him from the certain fate driving through the hood in a Porsche will bring, a sweet kind of friendship begins. A balm for her grief. Maybe, Deena likes to think, it happened the day her white mother cheap hawaii plane tickets killed her black father. Or maybe, it was always a part of them, like DNA gone bad. Whatever the case, Deena knows that her family would never approve, hell, never acknowledge cheap hawaii plane tickets her fast-growing love for Takumi. And had he never made love to her that way, in that unraveling, soul-searching sort of way, she could ve done the same. But love s a devil that way.
So, their game begins. One where they hide what they are from everyone. Anyone. And Tak understands this for now. After all, Deena s career hinges on the favor of her mentor and boss, his hard-ass of a father. And the Hammond family is already stretched thin with grief. Yet, each step Deena takes toward family and career cheap hawaii plane tickets brings her closer to an acceptance she s never had. And away from him.
Tak paused to pluck a seashell from the sand. Chipped and polished by time, it shone under the glint of a fast setting sun. I don t know the answers, he said. But they seem to be in things like this, he held up the shell.
He shrugged. Well think about it. What s a shell? It s just a a hard, protective outer layer. He hurled it in the ocean. The same is true with family. They re an outer layer, a protection from the world. At least that s what they re supposed to be. He paused. Think about what happens when you screw with an animal that has one of those hard shells. What does he do?
And dead, if not close to it. So, our hypothetical turtle, who s able to stand our shell transplant, needs another shell, another form of protection. And so do you. Tak handed the grooved and sand-polished subject to Deena. She looked down at it.
Shewanda Pugh is a native of Boston s inner city, though she now lives in sunny Miami, Florida. She has a bachelor s degree in Political Science from Alabama A M University and a Master s in Writing from Nova Southeastern University. Fueled from a young age, her passion for crossing societal boundaries like race, class and culture, cheap hawaii plane tickets is the inspiration for both her cluttered bookshelf and her writing. When she s not busy obsessing over fiction, she can be found traveling, nursing her social networking addiction or enjoying the company of loved ones.
A family s love is a difficult thing to understand and a difficult thing to do without. cheap hawaii plane tickets Thanks for the excerpt and giveaway. junegirl63 at gmail dot com Reply Delete Shewanda Pugh August 14, 2012 5:51 PM
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