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Myles and Brenda meet during a snowstorm by accident at a crowded bar. Myles invites Brenda back to his home to wait out the storm—an offer she accepts. Over the weekend, this pair discovers much about each other: divorces, a shared love of jazz, and hopes for the future. But most of all they discover their immediate, irrefutable love for each other after only a few short days. Neither has ever felt this kind of longing intimacy for another person, even during their past marriages. After the storm passes, the two are already devoted fully to each other in body and soul. As time passes, the couple meets friends and extended family. Brenda’s family is mostly estranged from her, and Myles family consists of Aunt Babs, his mother's twin sister, who raised him after his mother's death. Aunt Babs only wish is that her nephew will have children to carry on the Covington name.
Norman has created a novel expressing the true, deep, heartfelt love that every reader is looking for in life. While weaving this narrative, he adds issues that are dealt with every day in the lives of African Americans. He shows how once jealousy has begun, it will continue through generation after generation until someone makes a stand for what he or she believes in, which inspires his readers to live life with an open mind to all ethnic backgrounds. The author generates his passionate characters, Brenda and Myles, to express how fast true love can develop and how that love can spread to family and friends—making everyone's life better, not just the couple’s. He conveys to his readers that all obstacles, large and small, can be overcome by love. He has crafted a truly romantic story that will grasp the hearts of all his readers.