Where Secrets Lie : What You Do in the Dark, Will Come out in the Light

by Mahogany Star

• ISBN13: 9780978959906
• ISBN10: 0978959906
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-01
• Publisher: Mahogany Star Pub

Summary

What if you had the life that every woman dreams of? Beauty, brains and street smarts, a lethal combination. A rich husband and friends you can trust. Life could not have dealt you a better hand of cards. Then the deck of cards that you have had built your whole world upon, begins to fold. Your dream has become a nightmare, and you are starting to wonder if things are ever what they seem. From an early age, Giselle (Gigi) forms a bond with a few girls from her neighborhood that share her good looks and her quest for the dollar bill. Shelby is bold, beautiful and a true fashionista, while Mo is gorgeous low key and smart. Simone, is drop-dead gorgeous, determined and driven. The local hustlers are always willing to spend their money on the girls, but after Gigi loses someone close to her to the game, she finds what she considers is a better way into a life of fabulousity. She marries what she deems the perfect man. He is fine, educated and legitimately wealthy. What more can she ask for? With the exception of her snooty mother in law, her family life is picture perfect. To suit her new status, as the wife of a Buppie, Gigi transforms herself into someone no one recognizes, but in the process she loses sight of what s going on around her. When she takes the blinders off, she is devastated. The people she holds closest to her heart, her friends and her husband, among others, have been keeping secrets. Emotional pain and revenge give rise to Gigi s need to keep some secrets of her own. Only, her secret may come with deadly consequences. You think you know someone, and then you find out where their secrets lie.

Author Biography

Mahogany Star was born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, NY in a working class single parent home. The child of a teenage parent, she was reared by her maternal grandmother. Although she spent most of her childhood living in the ôprojectsö, she enjoyed her childhood growing up in Brooklyn. Though Where Secrets Lie is her first novel, Star is hoping to make it only the first in a collection of urban novels that readers will find it hard to put down. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two children.