LaShaundra Seale
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Traci, a spunky, twenty-something has two immediate goals in life. One is to finish college, the other is to start a career. She’s determined to let nothing get in her way, especially men. The last thing she wants is to become some man’s wife and have his brats. So there will be no falling in love or making love for her anytime soon. That is until she meets Buddy, a tall, dark and handsome young man, who wants to get to know her better. Will she be able to resist?
Traci’s best friend and polar opposite, Essie wants nothing more than to settle in the arms of a man. Charles is the super sexy factory-worker she has set her eyes on. She wants to wed him, and bed him, and have lots of his babies. Essie will let nothing or no one get in the way of what she wants. Too bad Charles has other plans and other women in his life.
The twist and turns of these four young lives will have you turning the page to see what could possibly happen next. The surprises no one will ever expect, including an untimely death will have the reader crying and laughing as they indulge in this voyage of joy, happiness, and triumph.
Though this is her first published novel, LaShaundra Seale has been writing every since she can remember. Throughout high school and college she wrote poems, plays, and short stories. She grew up in a military family and had the pleasure of living in Europe, as well as many states in the U.S.
LaShaundra is an avid reader and writer. She's currently writing her second novel. She lives in Texas with her husband and their son.
LaShaundra has a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from The University of Texas at Tyler.
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Chapter 1
Traci tightly buttoned her twin sweater set up to her neck. The crisp forty degree day in the small town of Somerville, Texas was nothing compared to the frigid cold winters of Chicago. Everyone in Somerville was scurrying about in big winter coats trying to escape the cold.
Traci was used to escaping things. Escaping bad relationships, escaping dead ends, and escaping the mean streets of Chitown. Although she had been very reluctant at first to move to the small, backwoods town, it had definitely turned out to be one of he better decisions she had made in a while.
She was able to save her money by living in a garage apartment owned by her friend's parents. This was something she could never do in Chitown. First of all no one there would ever rent anything out for under a grand a month, and in the city you could never trust strangers enough to live in their garage.
Somerville was different, everyone knew each other, spoke to each other, or was related. The women were good homemakers, and the men were hard workers, most used their backs and Traci wasn't interested in any of them. Shoot, she had only been on a handful of dates in the two years she had lived in the quaint little town. Those had turned out to be friendships because she wasn't interested in cleaning no man's house, cooking his food, or raising hiss little nappy-headed brats.
Besides, after moving to Somerville she had got saved and turned her troubles over to the Lord. And everyone knew any "real" Christian girl wasn't giving up any before marriage. The few dates she had been on never turned into a second date once this was realized. But that was fine cause she was happy working days at the library on the black side of town and taking a couple of night courses at the local community college. She was bound and determined to be the total opposite of the whorish, man-stealing legacy her mother had left behind.
