The Jazz Flower is a follow-up to Forbidden Circles, which ends
with Nora Johnson and Douglas Stills expecting their first child.
In The Jazz Flower, the child is born. Later, the couple has two
more children. But it is their first child, Rosa, who takes center
stage. Rosa Johnson Stills grows and blooms into a beautiful
mocha-hued jazz singer in 1930s and '40s Washington, D.C. During
those years, Rosa challenges her light-skinned grandmother, Lilly,
who low rates her dark skin color and her jazz dream. Rosa also
fights her rival, socialite Iris Haywood, in an endless effort to
possess her first love, Attorney Alan Covington. Because of a
long-ago pact their families made, Alan is pledged to Iris. And
Iris will never let him go. Eventually, Rosa relocates to New York
City to take a singing job at The Blue Phoenix nightclub and to try
to forget Alan. In New York, Rosa dates Jackson Parker, a
racketeer. But Alan is in her arms whenever he's in New York on
business even after he and Iris are married. Parker threatens to
kill Rosa if he catches her with another man. prejudice, obsession,
and murder, as it transports readers from D.C. to New York, to
Paris, France, on its way to a riveting conclusion.
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