A Deeper Love

About the Book

Coffee will make you black. Beauty is skin deep. The brown paper bag test. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You're too dark to wear bright colors.

The mind is a powerful thing. Developing negative thoughts through what the mind receives can be detrimental to any human being. Paula Travis knows this well because most of her childhood she heard words that destroyed her self-esteem, and her self-love. She grew up believing that because of her skin color she was not worthy to love herself or to be loved by another, until Angel. Angela Reynolds, known to her friends as Angel is an aspiring writer, who works for a local Atlanta theatre company. During a season that people consider the most joyous and loving time of the year, Angel finds herself at a lesbian bar on Christmas Eve soaking her wounds in rounds of Cape Cods. Her lover of two years has dumped her. Angel never expected to meet Paula Travis that night, a woman who would change her world forever. Through this brief encounter, Paula and Angel begin a new relationship and journey towards a deeper love. With the help of a few friends, these two women search for a place in their hearts and minds where negative beliefs no longer exist and only love prevails.

About the Author

Shonia Brown is a native Atlantan who began her writing career at the young age of 10 with several notebook binders of the tales of an all black soap opera, and romance novels. Later in life she recognized there was a need to tell a different kind of story, when she realized she was also a part of another community. She knew that the black lesbian and gay male didn?t always have a true identity in literature, and wanted to be apart of the revolution that would change this, and thus began to create her first lesbian novel.

In addition to writing novels, Shonia is also a professional technical writer, and entrepreneur. She has always tried to acknowledge the blessings that God has bestowed upon her by sharing these gifts with others. It is through her experiences that Shonia has realized how important it is to encourage the love of reading, and to help others bring together their talents for the total success of all those involved and effected by these alliances.