Five Steps Black
The Journey: Steps Worth Taking
What would you do if you woke up one morning not recognizing who you were? How would you adjust? Would you ever be the same?
Charlie Johnson, an up-and-coming attorney at a prestigious law firm in Georgia, is on track to have the best year of his life. Tonight, everyone is gathered to witness him be named the youngest Junior Partner in his firm’s history. He's on top of the world; nothing can stop him. As the celebration weaves its way into the early morning hours, Charlie’s late start on the first day of his new position sends him racing on a stormy, wet highway, where moments later he's careening into circumstances he never saw coming.
With the damage caused by the accident and the chaos that ensues, Charlie’s mind is pushed into a world he can’t quite make sense of. In this new and completely altered reality, Charlie awakens feeling disoriented and baffled. Why are they calling me Charles? Who are these people and why are they speaking to me like that? As he looks into the mirror to examine any damage, he is startled by the face glaring back at him.
Forced to venture well outside the comfort zone that his life of White privilege previously afforded him, Charles must learn to navigate a world he does not recognize. Is this really happening? Ill-equipped to traverse this new reality, Charles must rely on the people around him to fill in the back-story that seems to be missing from his memory. The world and its darker realities of social injustice, systemic racism, and a broken legal system start to reveal themselves in many painful and eye-opening episodes in both the cases he finds himself working, and in the realities of his new, yet very real, life.
Five Steps Black affords the reader a unique opportunity to walk in someone else’s shoes for a moment and experience a world that was previously invisible.
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"Five Steps Black is a compelling story, told from an unique perspective, that is relevant in today's world. Well worth the read."
"Reading Five Steps Black was an incredible experience. This story brings you into a character that also needs to learn about the world's problems. Be brought along on the experience and learn. This book is going places. Bound to be a best-seller."
"Compelling - both in its unique plot and its particularly timely content. The characters will have you experiencing everything from anger, frustration, pain and even hate, simultaneously with love and laughter. A best-seller in the making."
Coming Soon! Momma J - A Trilogy
Two Different Worlds, One Special Love
In this insightful story of love and friendship, you're taken on a journey of a surprising friendship that develops between two women from very different worlds. Julia's world has opened up in ways she never thought possible - meeting her prince charming and creating a life she never could have imagined. After seven years, she gets to embark on the world of motherhood. As she learns to navigate the changes that this announcement brings to her marriage, she gets introduced to another young mother-to-be, LeAnn, who enters their home and their family.
On the road that follows, these two vastly different individuals learn to navigate hardships and victories, joy and pain, blessings and devastating loss. From a place where two very different worlds collide, we get to watch as one's strengths inform the other's weaknesses and vice versa as they learn how to bring out the best in each other.
First of the series coming in the fall of 2024!
