REAL SECRETS REVEAL

I am preparing to release my second novel REAL SECRETS. This novel was actually the first novel I ever completed over 10 years ago. I am finally ready to release it to the world. The story details a young woman's troubled life and her attempts to overcome her obstacles. I have included an excerpt below and would love to hear your comments and feedback.
Darren looked into her eyes and saw the hard, cold truth…she couldn’t give it up, not for him and not for D.J. Stripping had become an addiction for her; he didn’t know if it was the money that she had to buy anything that she wanted, or if she felt some sort of power when she took her clothes off and had grown men acting like a bunch of little boys.                    Darren walked out of the room and went into the living room to sleep. Tamara knew that if he felt this strongly about her work that it would be worse if he found out that she had been doing private parties. That’s where she had been tonight. The whiskey had helped her to endure what she had to do. What he didn’t realize is that she wasn’t a natural drinker and didn’t enjoy it much. But when she performed at private parties she needed it, and she did one to two parties a week now. Private parties…were the one thing he really hated more than stripping.
She had promised him that she would never do that and she had promised herself the same thing in the beginning when she first took the job 4 years ago. She knew that Darren would never understand. They were so close to paying off their car notes and credit cards and she had a nice lump sum to make a down payment on a home for them that would keep their mortgage payments low. She needed at this point to make as much money as she could. The sooner she got everything paid off and the sooner that she saved enough money to pay off her final 2 years of college, the sooner she could quit her job.
She wasn’t proud of what she did and she didn’t even know how she had allowed herself to sink to this depth, but in this “man’s world,” with no skill sets a woman had to do what she had to do. Hell she had made $2500 tonight alone and that was enough to pay the rent and all of the utilities. She knew from watching her parents that she couldn’t depend on a man to take care of her. Her mom never worked and always depended on her dad to take care of the family. He gave her mom an allowance that she was supposed to take care of everything with except for their bills. And when he finally died her mom had to sell the house, get a minimum wage job as a cook in a school cafeteria and get government assistance to get back on her feet. That wasn’t a life she envisioned for herself. Her mom was a strong woman, but Tamara felt that the humiliation from the government being in her business was something that she couldn’t endure for herself or her son.
If you enjoyed this excerpt from my second novel REAL SECRETS, follow me at the link in the right hand corner above for more reveals in upcoming weeks. The release of this book is scheduled for October, 2012. JUST A PIECE OF THIS WRITER... C. MICHELLE RAMSEY