One Better (Paperback, New ed)

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With her bestselling debut novel, Knowing, Rosalyn McMillan charged mainstream fiction with fresh insight and forceful true-to-life drama, and established herself in the first rank of African-American contemporary authors. Now she more than fulfills her great promise with a powerful, extraordinary new novel -- the story of two generations of successful, independent women...

Spice Witherspoon. Desperate to free her children from misery and poverty, Spice harnessed ambition with an unparalleled sense of style to establish Southern Spice, an elegant, world-renowned restaurant. She has since become one of Michigan's wealthiest, most respected community leaders. Yet in spite of her success, she must decide between the unexpected love of two very different men -- even as she fights to shield her two troubled daughters from the devastating secrets that can destroy all she's fought to build...

Sterling. Spice's brilliant, beautiful youngest daughter craves her mother's love -- and courts it with rebellion. Trapped by a dangerous lover and the endless high of drugs, she finds herself sliding to a new low, where only a miracle love can save her...

Mink. Sterling's older sister had a hunger to win that made her one of the nation's first female African-American airline pilots. Instead of rejoicing in her success, she pushes her goals ever higher, alienating herself from her family and plunging into a reckless affair ...

Carmen. Spice's lifelong friend was the heart and soul of Southern Spice's success. But when a dangerous addiction threatens her life, she must realize the limits of friendship and face a shattering truth ...

Golden Westbrook. A dynamic civil rights activist and leading preacher, he offered Spice a man's deepest love and commitment. He would inspire her in ways that would bring her joy, desire, and heartbreak -- as well as the promise of life's sweetest rewards ...

With One Better, Rosalyn McMillan truly comes into her own, delivering an exotically sensual, breathtakingly glamorous, and unforgettably poignant story of mothers and daughters, dreams and hopes, desires and illusions...and everyone's search to define for themselves that one true happiness.

An Alternate Selection of The Literary Guild and of Doubleday Book Club

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