Author Sherman Smith explores the controversial topic of dating someone from another environment and background in his debut novel. Mike Daniels, a contemporary African American man, is the typical bachelor. He's a security guard in Washington, DC, and in a no-win, frustrating romance with a beautiful, sexy, but very materialistic, social climbing woman, Lisa Harris. Although Mike thinks he is in love with Lisa, she is spoiled, and her relentless criticism of his financial struggles is becoming more abrasive every day. His thoughts about leaving Lisa are hastened when he discovers that she's having an affair with her new supervisor. Mike's friend, Ron, also has problems with love, but he thinks he's doing fine as a bachelor. An attractive broker and womanizer, Ron has had his share of women, none of whom he has felt serious about; that is, until he meets Monica Williams, a beautiful young law intern, who has no problem getting any man she wants. Once Ron meets Monica, he realizes he's ready to give up his playa ways. However, as soon as Monica tires of playing and moves to Chicago for a new job, he realizes that he has let the right one get away. Mike, appreciating the value of potential true love, convinces Ron to go to Chicago to win Monica back. Mike's life is transformed when he meets Renee Jones, a young college student who lives in Southeast DC. A girl from the ghetto, Renee has never dated a man like Mike. Ironically, Mike has never dated a woman like Renee either. Mike has considered women like Renee to be hoochies, chicken heads, and hood rats. Ironically, Renee has considered men like Mike to be corny, soft, and boring. After only dating thugs and hustlers, Renee realizes that maybe she needs a change. It isn't until she pursues a relationship with Mike, the type of man that she thought she would never date, that she learns that opposites do attract.

Opposites Do Attract

Literature & Fiction

Sherman Smith

United States

Supreme Publishing, LLC

In the much anticipated sequel to "Opposites Do Attract," readers will follow the life of Lisa Harris after her tumultuous break-up with her former boyfriend, Mike Daniels. Whatever happened with Lisa Harris after Mike left her? Did she eventually find that one true love? Or did she continue with her destructive path as a self-centered and egotistical woman, ruining her chances at happiness along the way? After starting a new career at a top advertising firm in Washington, D.C., Lisa Harris began dating Victor Hodges; a handsome and successful doctor. She enjoyed all the perks of being the girlfriend of a rich doctor, and things were starting to look a lot better for her. With a new career and a new love, Lisa seemed to finally be happy. And then she met Malcolm Hargrove; a sexy and talented coworker who made it his business to pursue Lisa at all costs. Lisa will become entangled in a web of love and heartache as she tries to make the best of an unrealistic romance with a rich doctor, while doing her all to resist the charm of an attractive coworker, yet wondering if she could ever get her former lover, Mike Daniels, back. In "Someone Like You," Lisa Harris will take readers on a roller coaster ride of trials and tribulations as she struggles with the tough decisions of chasing an old love or accepting the path of virtue that has ultimately been placed for her. What will be the outcome?

Someone Like You

Supreme Publishing

San Francisco, 1950: The residents of the Honeysuckle Rose Hotel - musicians all - are a quirky bunch each with their secrets, addictions, sins of their own making, traumatic issues that weigh down upon their shoulders, nightmares from the past, or dreams of things the way they ought to be. Earl Crier, a blind, bluesy crooner, is their heart and soul, until one day when a policeman sees a tall black man mugging - hugging a blind white man on the front steps of the hotel, this house of cards begins to fall. As the blues man falls silent can the Honeysuckle Rose survive?

Silencing The Blues Man

Genre Fiction

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