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BEFORE REDEMPTION
Nikki Lucas and Dino Cochran met sixteen years earlier, when Nikki was a street
hustler boosting CDs, and Dino owned one of the most successful nightclubs in
inner-city Detroit. After spending a night together, Nikki ends up pregnant.
Although Dino had previously warned her not to read anything into their
one-night stand, Nikki was certain that a man as kind as Dino would ultimately do
the right thing. Until she uncovers secrets about Dino that tears her world apart.
Devastated, Nikki leaves Detroit.
Sixteen years later, Nikki is the struggling owner of a small diner in Monroe,
Florida. Although her friends try to encourage her to join the church and get right
with God, she has been stung too many times to make that move. She, instead,
works hard and tries to raise her rebellious teenage son the best way she can.
When Nikki had left Detroit, Dino, feeling guilty, had suffered enormous losses
that forced him to confront his own demons. Now, sixteen years later, he is head
of the national council of churches and one of the most powerful men around.
He arrives in little Monroe after a scandal erupts within one of his member
churches. Both Dino and Nikki are shocked to see each other again, and try to
downplay their feelings for each other. Especially Nikki, who never told Dino
that she was pregnant, and had told her son that his father was dead. But when
her son is arrested in a baffling case involving the local football hero, and the
entire town turns against him, Nikki has no choice but to bury her stubborn pride
and go to Dino for help. Both she and Dino fight hard for the liberty of their son,
with Dino hiring the best lawyers in the country, including a woman with more
than the law on her mind. Their forced togetherness causes Nikki to not only
confront God's love for her, but the true depths of her love for Dino.
372 pages
Nikki Lucas and Dino Cochran met sixteen years earlier, when Nikki was a street
hustler boosting CDs, and Dino owned one of the most successful nightclubs in
inner-city Detroit. After spending a night together, Nikki ends up pregnant.
Although Dino had previously warned her not to read anything into their
one-night stand, Nikki was certain that a man as kind as Dino would ultimately do
the right thing. Until she uncovers secrets about Dino that tears her world apart.
Devastated, Nikki leaves Detroit.
Sixteen years later, Nikki is the struggling owner of a small diner in Monroe,
Florida. Although her friends try to encourage her to join the church and get right
with God, she has been stung too many times to make that move. She, instead,
works hard and tries to raise her rebellious teenage son the best way she can.
When Nikki had left Detroit, Dino, feeling guilty, had suffered enormous losses
that forced him to confront his own demons. Now, sixteen years later, he is head
of the national council of churches and one of the most powerful men around.
He arrives in little Monroe after a scandal erupts within one of his member
churches. Both Dino and Nikki are shocked to see each other again, and try to
downplay their feelings for each other. Especially Nikki, who never told Dino
that she was pregnant, and had told her son that his father was dead. But when
her son is arrested in a baffling case involving the local football hero, and the
entire town turns against him, Nikki has no choice but to bury her stubborn pride
and go to Dino for help. Both she and Dino fight hard for the liberty of their son,
with Dino hiring the best lawyers in the country, including a woman with more
than the law on her mind. Their forced togetherness causes Nikki to not only
confront God's love for her, but the true depths of her love for Dino.
372 pages
BEFORE REDEMPTION