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Fire & Brimstone by Laurinda D. Brown
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A daring new writer who isn’t afraid of tackling the big issues—parenting, homosexuality, and religion—makes her debut in this rollicking, lusty, and searing tale of a gay single mother struggling to find meaning, employment, love, and God without losing herself in the process.

Chris Desmereaux has her own special relationship with God, and it doesn’t include raising hell six days a week and repenting on Sundays. Her lover, Gayle Evans, sees nothing wrong—or hypocritical—about that arrangement. Gayle is the minister of music at their local church, and she delights in leading the congregation in joyful, foot-stomping song once a week. But Chris is secretly ashamed of sneaking around with her lover and wonders how Gayle can guide nearly a thousand upright congregants while carrying on a secret lesbian affair. She is starting to have major issues with their relationship, as well as with her entire life. But a change is coming to Memphis that will challenge the faith, belief, and tenuous bond of both women. For Chris, it is a journey fraught with perils, pitfalls, and temptation that will take her in unexpected directions and could lead to a second chance at love.

An exhilarating and liberating tale of one woman’s odyssey of self-enlightenment sans the usual guideposts, Fire & Brimstone is both a wickedly sexy story and a modern-day parable about what it means to be black, Christian, and lesbian today. Written by a uniquely gifted storyteller, it is a novel like no other in recent contemporary fiction.

Laurinda D. Brown was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, and is a graduate of Howard University. She lives with her two daughters in Hampton, Virginia. This is her first novel.
Undercover by Laurinda D. Brown
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In Fire & Brimstone, Laurinda D. Brown began the turbulent love story of Chris and Gayle, two women struggling with finding comfort in each other and in themselves while teetering on the verge of self-destruction. Chris Desmereaux and Gayle Evans. Two women. Two mothers. Two lovers testing the boundaries of 21st century morality with two lives torn between different ideas of right and wrong.
Now in UnderCover, the author expands the story, introducing Nathaniel, the monogamous lover of Patrick, a high roller at the Memphis nightclub where Nathaniel transforms himself into a female diva before a standing-room-only crowd until Patrick breaks his heart. Devastated by his lover's rejection, Nathaniel leaves his flamboyant former life behind and reinvents himself yet again.

This time it's Nathaniel, the committed family man -- a loving husband to his wife, devoted father to his three children, and brother-in-law to Chris. Patrick is a distant, still-seductive memory?until financial woes force Nathaniel to return to his old fast-money way of life. This fateful decision culminates in exposure -- and Nathaniel's subsequent downward spiral. Domestic crises abound as Nathaniel struggles with painful issues surrounding his sexual identity, and he must face the ultimate truth about himself in a harrowing climax. UnderCover is a powerhouse novel by a gifted storyteller.

About the Author
The author, Laurinda D. Brown, is native of Memphis, TN and a graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC. Her motto is, "When you follow your passion is – your passion being what God gave you the zest and the talent to do – the rest falls into place."

Collen Dixon, author of the award-winning Simon Says and Behind Closed Doors
UnderCover is a compelling mix of humor and drama that is hard to put down.

Sable Magazine/Nghosibooks
Laurinda Brown's tales of everyday life in the heterosexual and homosexual communities are stories we want to keep coming.