The author, co-founder of Women Writers of Color, offers this story about a New York district attorney who returns to her childhood home in New Mexico, where she meets a man who makes her question everything she values.

Night always precedes the dawn of a new day. A midnight ordeal is real and cruel, and everyone goes through it. Your scars can become your strength if you know how to go through the Baca of life.Delays are not denial. Anything that delays to come also delays to leave. The fulfillment of God?s promises arrives in its season. Your midnight might be lasting, but it cannot be everlasting. The eternal and lasting power is absolutely with Jehovah, for He has given everything under heaven a time and a season. Job 14:14b says, ?All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.? Relax! Midnight is not designed to be everlasting. It has an expiration.

HE DISTURBED HER SENSES Her gruff neighbor unsettled Sara Murdoch with his mesmerizing stare. But when escalating threats proved Sara's childhood nightmares were only too real, Nat Sanderson took action. Why a reclusive mountain man knew how to secure a perimeter and soothe a woman's fears was a mystery Sara swore to solve once she and her daughter were safe. The past he'd thought buried should have kept him away from a woman and child in danger. But when Nat held a shaken Sara in his arms, he knew his own worst nightmare had returned. He could no more refuse to protect them than he could deny that he and Sara would be lovers. Not with evil poised to strike…just before dawn.

Before Dawn He cried so loud. He cried so sad. During his birth, his mother almost lost her life trying to save his. There were so many complications that some people said he would have been better off if he had been still born, rather than to have lived. He was an ugly baby. He cried a lot when strangers held him. They outwardly scorned him, and they secretly abused him. A big brown medicine ball worn over his bulging naval caused him to be cut off from his little friends much of the time. He grew up in a kind, loving, and faithful sharecropper family. But he saw suffering in his family early. When he was just six years old, his family was thrust out of their home and cast into the wilderness. This happened because his parents tried to make progress. They tried to buy some land and break the sharecroppers curse from the family. The wilderness living experience was tough. His mother's faithful prayers helped the family to cope; the barren land, the creeks, the woods, the wild animals, the things that crawled the earth. Meeting miss Dolly, a scary but sad woman, and seeing his brother dangling over fast moving water after falling off the foot log were terrifying experiences for him. Could he pull himself up by his bootstraps? Well, he started a self-assessment program in seventh grade. He left home at age sixteen hitch hiking, down a long, lonely, dangerous highway. He was searching for a schoolhouse.

Chase Vickers never knew a day of fear. From one secret mission to another he'd stared down danger--until the blackout hit Boston, and Chase's only love became the target of revenge. Lily Garrett, the woman he'd loved and walked away from eight months ago. Finding her wasn't diffi cult; fi nding her pregnant was. Lily had always hated Chase's secret, dangerous life, but now, on the run in a dark city, Chase knew he was her only hope for survival. And their baby's. For the fi rst time, the daredevil-turned-daddy knew bone-chilling, pulse-pounding fear. This was one mission where he couldn't fail. Not when his baby's life was at stake....

Kole Omotoso, one of Nigeria's major writers, is always provocative. His writing is informed by a passionate concern for society and politics in Nigeria. This major work is a blend of fact and fiction dramatizing the first one hundred years of Nigeria. Most of the characters and incidents inthe book are real; the narrative is conceived and written as a novel. The story covers riots, uprisings, private hopes and griefsand coup d'etats -a history marred by violence, with an outcome satisfactory to none. The book was received as a major contribution to African writing, in its innovative style, and was awarded Special Commendation in the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1989 , which described it as providing a more profound understanding than is available in conventional history books and novels.