Sammy lived a happy life, he had a loving wife and a good job. One fateful day he comes home early to surprise her but she has a bigger shock for him. Now he is forced to live a double life. He never planned on his life being like this or the things he has done. He is only here because of what she did to him and he did what any man would. Now he has to keep up the lies and pretend to be someone else entirely. He will not let anyone get in his way and will go to great lengths to keep it that way.
Joseph Gomez (1890-1979) was ordained a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1948. This biography of Gomez provides a history of black life during the early 20th century and chronicles the political and religious stuggles of the first autonomous black church in the US.
The year is 1909, St. Louis, when Hester Cunningham takes a position as a live-in helper for Mr. Jonathan Davis, a widower with a small child. Hester believes caring for this man's daughter will make up for her own childhood when she ran away after a dispute over a family locket, believing her father no longer loved her but only her stepsister and new stepmother. Soon after Hester takes the job, she develops feelings for her employer and he reciprocates, but Jonathan is newly engaged. Hester then discovers his fiancée is none other than her own stepsister, Melanie, who she hasn't seen in ten years. Since Hester has taken on a different name and is now a grown woman, she is able to conceal her identity for a while, but not the growing attraction she has for Jonathan. Hester tries to fight the feelings she shares with Jonathan, and to keep her identity a secret, but Melanie finds Hester wearing the locket, causing her to discover who Hester really is. Will her stepsister ruin everything for Hester, forcing her to leave once again? Or has destiny brought Hester back to the family she left behind and to the man she was meant to have.
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