The Hottest Book For Summer '05

GROOVE
By Geneva Holliday


Geneva Holliday's juicy novel brings a lighter touch to African-American erotica, setting the sexual escapades amidst the real-life folly and drama of four very different friends during one incredibly hot summer in New York City. This funny, sexy book has something for everyone!

GROOVE is the story of Geneva Holliday and her closest friends. Geneva is struggling to raise her fifteen-year-old son, Eric, in the projects in Harlem with a low-paying job and no romantic prospects other than booty-calls with her ex-husband, even though he’s remarried. And she’s being stalked by the head of her weight-loss program. She feels like she’s down and out, but if she only knew what her friends were up to... Girl, she’d be patting herself on the back!

Noah is gay and out and has a wonderful man waiting for him in London, but he's recently gone on the down low—secretly dating women since Beyoncé Knowles videos started getting him hot. Chevy spends her limited funds on weaves, colored contacts, and silk wrapped nails hoping to snag a rich man. She just borrowed $5,000 from their friend Crystal for emergency surgery. Crystal doesn't know it was for breast augmentation—and she's got no idea that her wealthy, together-seeming boyfriend, Kendrick, only agreed to move in with her because his drug habit left him unable to pay his own rent. And is she the only one who thinks Chevy looks pregnant?

By the end of the summer the truth comes out and each of these friends has to face the music...and the DEA officers surrounding them in a hospital emergency room in Brooklyn.

Published by Broadway/Doubleday (a division of Random House)
Available in Bookstores nationwide June 26th, 2005

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