A Change Had to Come

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Kensington Books
Publication Date
2012
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English

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Leticia Langley is used to fighting for what she wants. That's how she wound up being the first in her family to graduate from college. So what if she's never had a date? All that's about to change when she gets herself a job as a food columnist for The Journal--and treats herself to a makeover that will transform her life.With her hot weave and a dazzling new wardrobe that shows off her curves, the opposite sex suddenly takes a shine to Leticia. Except for Max Baldwin--a colleague who accuses her of trying to knock him down on her stampede up the corporate ladder. But Leticia is determined to stand her ground and get her due. And as she finds herself being offered more tantalizing prospects, including a trip to Africa, she also wins the respect--and admiration--of her handsome one-time nemesis, Max. Now she'll have to decide if she wants to let down her guard, and let in the one man she could get serious about. Praise for the Novels of Gwynne Forster. . . ". . .Wise and wonderful as it points out, once again, the importance of honesty and appreciating what you have while you have it." --Publishers Weekly on A Different Kind of Blues "Touching, thought-provoking, and will make you think twice about ever keeping secrets from the one you love." --Kimberla Lawson Roby, New York Times bestselling author on If You Walked in My Shoes

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Leticia doesn't have it easy. She delays college to care for her ailing father, then works as a short-order cook to pay for her education. She spends all her time studying to graduate at the top of her class at Howard University, then immediately lands a job at a newspaper in Washington, D.C. Her success has left Leticia with little time to work on her social skills or her appearance. So she gets herself a hair weave and new clothes, and finally, at 31, the former dateless drudge revels in the attention of flirtatious men. The only man who seems immune is Max Baldwin, the paper's top journalist. When Leticia works her way up from food columnist to news reporter, they compete for the best stories. As Leticia's experience with men expands, she realizes that Max is the one man who sees her for herself and that great things may come if only she can learn to trust. An uplifting African American romance that will leave readers cheering.--Engelmann, Patty Copyright 2009 Booklist

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Popular author Forster (A Different Kind of Blues) charts the course of a young African-American journalist, her love life and her eye-opening trip to Africa. Leticia Langley is a lucky young woman fresh out of college: not only has she landed a job as a food columnist at Washington, D.C.'s The Journal, she's been quickly promoted to features reporter. Meanwhile, however, Leticia's voluptuous "best friend," her two-faced cousin Kenyetta Jackson, decides to make a play for Leticia's current crush. While Leticia's discovering Kenyetta's betrayal, she's also overcoming distrust of another potential love interest, Journal colleague Max Baldwin. An assignment about the roots of obesity in African-American women takes Leticia to Nigeria and Kenya, resulting in a renewal of her career prospects and passions, as well as the novel's best passages. Though hardly unusual to the genre, Forster puts a fanciful, prerecession gloss on Leticia's media world that keeps it several steps removed from reality. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Booklist Reviews

Leticia doesn't have it easy. She delays college to care for her ailing father, then works as a short-order cook to pay for her education. She spends all her time studying to graduate at the top of her class at Howard University, then immediately lands a job at a newspaper in Washington, D.C. Her success has left Leticia with little time to work on her social skills or her appearance. So she gets herself a hair weave and new clothes, and finally, at 31, the former dateless drudge revels in the attention of flirtatious men. The only man who seems immune is Max Baldwin, the paper's top journalist. When Leticia works her way up from food columnist to news reporter, they compete for the best stories. As Leticia's experience with men expands, she realizes that Max is the one man who sees her for herself and that great things may come if only she can learn to trust. An uplifting African American romance that will leave readers cheering. Copyright 2009 Booklist Reviews.

Copyright 2009 Booklist Reviews.
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Publishers Weekly Reviews

Popular author Forster (A Different Kind of Blues) charts the course of a young African-American journalist, her love life and her eye-opening trip to Africa. Leticia Langley is a lucky young woman fresh out of college: not only has she landed a job as a food columnist at Washington, D.C.'s The Journal, she's been quickly promoted to features reporter. Meanwhile, however, Leticia's voluptuous "best friend," her two-faced cousin Kenyetta Jackson, decides to make a play for Leticia's current crush. While Leticia's discovering Kenyetta's betrayal, she's also overcoming distrust of another potential love interest, Journal colleague Max Baldwin. An assignment about the roots of obesity in African-American women takes Leticia to Nigeria and Kenya, resulting in a renewal of her career prospects and passions, as well as the novel's best passages. Though hardly unusual to the genre, Forster puts a fanciful, prerecession gloss on Leticia's media world that keeps it several steps removed from reality. (Oct.)

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