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Alicia is a normal seventeen-year-old but do not be fooled. Despite her young age, she has endured more than her fair share of trials and tribulations above and beyond the generic teenage problems young people are faced with these days. AWOL parents will force the best of us to do anything to support ourselves, tap into our survival instincts and make us grow up sooner than we should. There is no lack of independence where Alicia is concerned, living by herself in her uptown New York apartment and feeling content with her chaotic life until the unexpected occurs. Alicia is undoubtedly thrust into the world of the supernatural when her colleague is a night-walker and she is chosen by the King of the Earth, Guanynola to save his one and only love Matuatua, the Queen of the Sky before the world is plunged into darkness for all of eternity. When the supernatural world and the mortal world are against you, where can you turn? Can she save both the worlds or will she die trying?

J. Marie Darden delivers the sequel to Enemy Fields with this powerful coming-of-age novel about identity and finding peace by finding yourself.Dignity Jackson is having an identity crisis. She is a child of interracial parents, and the ambiguity of her ancestry is confusing her more than ever. Since her mother has abandoned Dignity at age three, and since her father has died before she is born, Dignity has been raised by her strict Aunt Lette and Uncle Sam. And though she is raised with love, she still feels out of place. No one ever explained to her how race affects her identity and her path to self-discovery. At age eighteen, Dignity accepts a scholarship to Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Yet she still doesn't seem to fit in. Dignity's neurotic quirks make it difficult for her to bond with Sal, her Italian boyfriend, and her friends, Stacy and Khalil. A pilgrimage through the South helps Dignity uncover many truths about her heritage. It is there, on her road to self-discovery and acceptance, that Dignity realizes the past may be the key to her future. Author J. Marie Darden, herself an alumnus of Morgan State University, perfectly captures the fundamental essence of attending a historically black university. With dynamic characters and a passionate protagonist, Finding Dignity will lead readers not only on Dignity's journey, but on a journey of their own.

Against the backdrop of Kentucky in the 1970s—and against all odds—a black woman and a white man find a love that transcends race, class, and condemnation.J. Marie Darden's magnificent love story is set in 1971—a time of war not just in Vietnam or the streets of Washington, but also in Bourbon County, Kentucky. When the Mandarenes, a wealthy white family, move into the deserted mansion across the field behind her house, Sister takes a job with them. She soon finds herself in the middle of a drama that will change the racial balance of her town by falling in love with Evian, the youngest son in the Mandarene family. In haunting prose and beautiful images, Enemy Fields is a moving story full of insight into human hearts caught in the crossfire of one of the most volatile and violent periods of American history.