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  <about><![CDATA[Brooklyn Darkchild is a 47 years old mother of nine with a life long passion for writing. A New York transplant born and raised in the borough of Brooklyn, Ms. Darkchild has called Cincinnati, Ohio her home for the past twelve years. Her debut novel, This Ain't No Hearts and Flowers Love Story Pt 1, won the 2008 Reader Views Book of the Year Award in the Great Lakes/Regional category as well as placing third in the Spiritual/Religion category. Currently a day care teacher, Ms. Darkchild is scheduled to publish This Ain't No Hearts and Flowers Love Story Pt 2  in September 2009 and the sequel, We Still Ain't Got This Right, in September 2010.<br/><br/>]]></about>
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    <![CDATA[Which is worse: to love your mother fiercely only to lose her? Or never to have had a mother at all? Obie and Princess never debated this issue. They were equally motherless; it's what forever binds them. Obie is a former street child and junkie's son; Princess was raised in splendor on Park Avenue. When Princess is three, Obie is her babysitter; when she's thirteen Obie's her best friend and confidant. At eighteen Princess dreams of being an R&amp;B Diva and Obie, whose &quot;Rags-to-Riches&quot; transformation into a music video superstar/director captured America's attention, knows just how to make that dream come true. Their lifelong bond grows into mutual attraction yet Princess isn't satisfied being one of Obie's groupies. Inevitable the two fall head-over-heels in love. Social-class differences, color complexes and being stalked by an ex-boyfriend strain their budding relationship until, on the closing night of her second tour, the ex shows up uninvited and unwanted and Princess disappears with him. But it's when Obie's abandonment issues crash head first into Princess's need for emotional distance that the fireworks really begin. Then the question becomes: Can a motherless child ever truly open his or her heart enough to love someone else? ]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this second part of the Obie and Princess saga, the Princess who returns to the mansion is far different, both physically and emotionally, than the Princess who left with Einstein the night before. Promoting her latest CD release gets temporarily lost in the scramble to pick up the shattered pieces of her life, yet Obie finds Princess's &quot;Carry On As Usual&quot; attitude a bit hard to take. Forced to separate by conflicting career demands, both Obie and Princess wonder how long they can make this relationship work. Then three deaths in a row rock them to their very core. It's the final tragedy however that pushes a still-fragile Princess over the edge, leaving Obie to wonder if, or how, they can ever make things right. Can anything save Princess except God? ]]>
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