Fiction Books
The Prodigal Son’s Girlfriend Series
Life on a prosperous Bahamian farm is not good enough for the talented young Manny Hawkes. So, when he gets the chance to go and take a bite out of the Big Apple, he seizes it. There, he finds everything he could wish for – fame, status, money…and true love.
When Porchia meets Manny, she can hardly believe her good fortune. After the string of losers she’s dated, Manny seems like all she could possibly want in a man. She has no idea how unworthy he is of her, of the vices he so effectively conceals.
But when his secret life catches up to him, it destroys his glittering career and his relationship with Porchia. As if that weren’t bad enough, an economic disaster shakes the very foundations of the society they live in. A humbled, desperate Manny finally learns his lesson. But has he learned it too late?
Book One: The Governor’s Ball
"He's Handsome, Talented, And A Preachers Son. Where Could She Go Wrong?”
Is it a Cinderella story dream come true…
or a day time nightmare…
or a horror style story in the making?
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Cat Island in the Bahamas is too humble of a beginning for ambitious Manny Hawkes. So when the chance comes for him to showcase his talents in the Big Apple, Manny seizes it, forsaking his family and the values they raised him with. He quickly scales the ladder of success, and enthusiastically embraces the temptations and vices of big-city life.
New Yorker Porchia de León has always hungered to find true, lasting love with that one special guy. Instead, she ends up with one loser after another. Not until she wakes up in a hospital bed does Porchia realize she’s been looking for love in all the wrong places. She promises herself, from then onward, to put God first in her life.
But when she meets Manny, it is love at first sight for them both. Could he be the one Porchia was searching for all along? And would Porchia be enough to lure Manny off the path to self-destruction?
Book Two: Emmanuel’s Fall
"He's Reached The Top... But How Far is The Bottom"
Who Is Fooling Who?
Is it a relationship or disaster in the making?
Lies are not alibis - Just a devil in disguise.
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Now a star on New York’s biggest radio station, Manny Hawkes finally has it made. Money. An exciting career. And Porchia…his beautiful, devoted girlfriend.
But Manny’s got to have his cake and eat it, too. When the consequences of his secret, sin-filled life suddenly become public, they devastate first his career and then his relationship with Porchia. Deciding she’s had enough, Porchia turns her back on Manny, her dreams of happiness with him – or with any man – apparently ruined forever.
Then a national catastrophe strikes, which threatens the stability of the very society they live in. With Porchia’s heart broken, Manny’s career in shambles, and life itself as they know it about to be upended, is there any hope at all for their love?
Book Three: Alive Again
" Life Was Good Now. Why Take A Second Chance With The One Who Betrayed Her?"
Fool me once shame on you! - Fool me twice shame on me!
Fool me thrice…perhaps the whole thing was a shame from the beginning!
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As the country struggles to recover from a severe economic crisis, Porchia de León struggles to recover from her own personal failures. With new found resolution, she manages to create a new life from the wreckage of the old – that is, from her disastrous breakup with former radio star Manny Hawkes. She finally makes God her first priority, but how can she be the woman God wants her to be, while anger and unforgiveness still linger in her heart?
Manny, once on top of the world, now finds himself at the bottom of the heap. A starving, homeless vagabond, his need for alcohol exceeds even his hunger for food. In his desperation, he cries out to God, and with the kindness of strangers he manages to escape the harsh streets, return home to the Bahamas, and to the loving arms of the father who never gave up hoping for him.
But his return to his home, his family, and his God leave Manny still feeling incomplete. He yearns for a second chance with Porchia, but fears he may now be way too late for that. Will he succeed in his desperate attempt to win her back?