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A twist-filled novel of seduction and suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of Every Womans Dreamand the Neighbors series. Best friends Lola Poole and Joan Proctor-Riley have finally found the love and excitement theyve always longed for. Online dating an endless line of wealthy, no-strings-attached lovers is the perfect escape from their unfulfilling lives. And between Joans selfish husband and Lolas hateful, demanding relatives, the hotter these ladies secret activities get, the more they crave - and the more reckless they become . . . When rugged trucker Calvin Ramsey comes into Lolas sights, hes a surprising answer to all her prayers. Hes kind and responsible - and delivers sexual healing like shes never known. What Lola doesnt know is that Calvin loves women to death - literally. And every caring moment and seductive promise draws her deeper into his inescapable, fatal fantasy . . . Praise for Mary Monroe "Mary Monroe is an exceptional writer and phenomenal storyteller!" - Kimberla Lawson Roby, New York Times bestselling author of Here and Now "Impossible to put down." - Susan Holloway Scott, national bestselling author of The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr "An epic novel that spans a generation. . . . Theres a great twist in the final chapters that will have readers pounding the table." - Library Journal "Engaging, provocative, disconcerting and shocking, as the author shrewdly characterizes the hazards when adults play dangerous games with strangers." - RT Book Reviews
About the Author
I am the third child of Alabama sharecroppers and the first and only member of my family to finish high school. I never attended college or any writing classes. I taught myself how to write and started writing short stories around age four. I spent the first part of my life in Alabama and Ohio and moved to Richmond, California in 1973. I have lived in Oakland since 1984. My first novel THE UPPER ROOM was published by St. Martin's Press in 1985 and was widely reviewed throughout the U.S. and in Great Britain. An excerpt is included in Terry McMillan's anthology BREAKING ICE. I endured fifteen years and hundreds of more rejection letters before I landed a contract for my second novel, GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY. It was published in October 2000 by Kensington Books. GOD DON'T PLAY is my seventh novel to be published, and it landed me a spot on the prestigious New York Times Bestsellers list for the first time! My eighth novel, "BORROW TROUBLE," was released December 2006. My ninth novel, DELIVER ME FROM EVIL, was released September 2007 and my tenth novel, SHE HAD IT COMING, was released in September 2008, and my eleventh novel THE COMPANY WE KEEP, will be released March 2009. I won the Oakland Pen Award for Best Fiction of the Year in 2001 for GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY. I won the Best Southern Author Award for GONNA LAY DOWN MY BURDENS, in 2004. I am divorced, I love to travel, I love to mingle with other authors, and I love to read anything by Ernest Gaines, Stephen King, Alice Walker, and James Patterson. I still write seven days a week and I get most of my ideas from current events, the people around me, but most of my material is autobiographical.
