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From #1 Essence bestseller, ReShonda Tate Billiingsley, a touching and funny story of faith, love, and tenacious friendship.
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Characters/People edit
- Audra: Single mother,intelligent,loving,desperate to find a father for her
- Juanita: Independent,loves material wealth and men with titles.Loyal to her friends. Hurt by the past childhood issues that have plagued her. Hasn't forgiven her mother.Love Rev.Wiley but self sabotages her relationships with men
- Marshall Wiley: Devout man of God. widowed and loyal Pastor of Higher Elevation Church. Understanding,gentle,has a personal relationship with God. Is celibate and a man of his word. hard working, fair and loves Kuanita, however, he will not place his relationship with her over his relationship with The Lord.
- Lewis Jackson: An opportunistic womanizer who has the hope of becoming the Pastor of a well known Atlanta church. marries a woman who can help him in ministry. Arranged marriage that he realizes he is not in love with her. Hedonistic and selfish
- Davis: Hard working man, faith filled. Father of a daughter. Divorced from first wife but in love with cosandra. communicative,tender,thoughtful,spiritual and romantic.He becomes the husband to Coco and her best friend.
- Sonny Fuqua: A deranged NBA player who is the ex-boyfriend of Coco. He is abusive and she loses a baby and then almost her life. Sonny ends up dying at knife point the same way his father who also had a bad temper, ended up dead in a bar room brawl.
- Andrew: Audra's son.
- Coco: Sweet, loyal and loving friend. Inspires her mother to leave her abusive marriage after over 30 plus years. Strong woman who develops her relationship and her purpose with God. Out of the 3 friends least looking for a mate, CoCo ends up marrying Davis..a good man, and becomes a stepmother to his daughter.
- Neil: Add a description of this character.
- Vera: Holy Toller...Pastors crew member. A spiteful, holier than thou woman at higher elevation Church
- Michelle: Lewi's wife and co pastor in building their dream church. Aware of her boyfriend/husbands philandering ways and yer, she is ok with it. She is in for money and status over love
- Mama
- Chris: Andrew's father. An ex to Audra. Friend of a professional player who runs into hard times as a result of being on the wrong side of the law. Not a stellar father.
- Lucy: Holy Toller and Church drama queen
- Angie
- Joann: Exhausted,vengeful and tired wife of Neil. She plots a revenge on Juanita for the infidelity of her marriage.
- Deacon Barrett: A good man. Quiet, loyal to his Pastor and Church family. Detests drama. An overall good character who should have been more developed. what was known of this character was honest,and decent/
- Tyler: The place where CoSandra is from.Tyler texas
- Lester
- Adams
- Jared
- Cosandra
- Shawnda
- Mrs. Warren
- Addie
- Marcus
- Raheim
- Rachel
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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