love honor and betray by kimberla lawson roby

The pace, slowed by too much stilted dialogue and clunky exposition, accelerates in the last pages, preparing the way for the next novel. Just when Matthew’s involvement in a high-school hostage situation seemingly reunites the couple-now remorseful, Charlotte is even trying to act motherly toward Curtina-Michael’s estranged wife Sybil, and Tom, who has his own agenda, threaten to expose her betrayals. Charlotte enjoys a passionate Palm Beach weekend with Michael, an old flame re-ignited via Facebook. 4, including Raven, the church’s CFO, and a hot-to-trot parishioner named Sharon. As their marriage disintegrates, Curtis is tempted by a number of predatory females all too willing to be wife No. While carousing in a Chicago jazz club, Charlotte meets Tom, with whom she trysts drunkenly in a sleazy motel. Curtis’ refusal to abandon the girl starts the cycle of revenge affairs spinning yet again.

She resents Curtina’s presence in her household and insists that Curtis consign her to one of Tabitha’s relations. Charlotte, predictably, doesn’t consider them even. (That liaison resulted in a child, now deceased, whom Charlotte tried to pass off as Curtis’ own). The affair with Tabitha was Curtis’ payback for Charlotte’s adultery in a previous installment. Curtis’ lover Tabitha, stricken with AIDS, dies, leaving her two-year-old daughter Curtina in her baby-daddy Curtis’ care. However, another viper (the couple’s domestic road has been a rocky one as regular readers will know) lurks in the gold-plated nest.

His family, wife Charlotte and their son Matthew, enjoy all the perks of Black’s success, including entrees to Ivy League schools and shopping sprees at Tiffany. Eighth in Roby’s Reverend Curtis Black series, this time featuring Curtis’ clueless third wife, Charlotte.ĭespite his checkered past as clerical babe magnet to the entire Chicago-land African-American community, Curtis has emerged unscathed and wealthier than ever as pastor of his own megachurch in ex-urban Chicago.

Love honor and betray by kimberla lawson roby