Chocolate City

Dinah Williams had it all; a man who loved her, a luxury apartment and a

promising legal career. But, one weekend trip to Chocolate City with her

best friend Liza changed how she saw her life and who she saw it with,

when she meets Liza's cousin, the handsome and exciting Andre

Lewis and is swept away by a night of passion that causes her to leave

the safe world she's always known.



But that's just the beginning when she discovers that there are 13

woman to one man, thanks to her wacky and zany friend Charlotte, a

postal worker whose comical nature gets her through the rough times;

Teresa whose been seeing the same married man for years, and

Dolores a single mom raising a young daughter.



Dinah soon discovers that Andre leads a double life, the dark side of

which puts their lives in danger. But with the help of her friends, can she

save them both?



Obsession runs deep in this controversial novel that takes a vivid, funny

and often painful look at black life, black love and the pursuit of the

American dream on the streets of Washington, D.C. in the mid '70's.