Come With Me, Sheba

About the Book

Sheba Mathis seems to have it all. A handsome fiancé and a successful business in an upscale Miami mall. But all is not as it seems. Sheba's fiancé is anything but faithful. Worse yet, he scarcely conceals his contempt for her poetry (in her notebooks and in her heart).

Along comes the lowly Sol, who dares to woo the beautiful but sad businesswoman by reciting her own poetry to her. When her fiancé finds out, he uses his influence to get Sol fired from his job as a mall security guard.

Much to everyone's surprise, Sol returns the next day as the manager of the shoe store across from Sheba's shop and begins to charm her again. And again, her fiancé gets him fired.

When Sol returns a few days later, as manager of the blue jeans store, Sheba is definitely intrigued. He is handsome, intelligent, and persistent. But the mysterious air around him makes her cautious.

What is his connection to the rich entrepreneur Michael Montel? To the street thug Lethal Coon? How does he know so much about her? How can he recite poems she has never shown him-poems she has never shown anyone?

"Come with me, Sheba," Sol invites. "Come to my world for just one night, and you shall have all your answers."

Sheba accepts. And the trouble begins.

About the Author

Preston L. Allen is a recipient of a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature. His short works have been published in numerous literary journals, including the Seattle Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Brown Sugar (Plume Penguin, 2000). His short-story collection, Churchboys and Other Sinners, is the winner of the Sonja H. Stone Prize in Literature (Carolina Wren Press, 2003). He is the author of the romantic novel Bounce and the best-selling mystery/thriller Hoochie Mama, which is set in Opa-Locka, Florida, the Baghdad of the South, where he grew up. He teaches writing in Miami, Florida.