Plucked from her rooftop during the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Monique Devareaux has nothing in the world but the clothes on her back. She is taken to an evacuee shelter in Dallas, Texas and is befriended by an affluent woman who introduces her to a world of wealth and power.

Stan Brickman is a billionaire businessman who changes the course of Monique's life. He is also a married man. Determined to win her, Stan pursues Monique relentlessly, trying to convince her that his marriage is over. Unsure of her feelings for this man, Monique concentrates on rebuilding her life. But danger lurks in the shadows .

Mel Hawkins walks out of jail amidst the chaos after Hurricane Katrina and blends in with the other evacuees. After Monique rebuffs her in a chance encounter at the Dallas shelter, Mel seeks revenge. Will Monique regain her life or will Mel shatter it with one act of violence?

What happens when lust, depravity, and ego make themselves known in a setting of utmost venerability?

Born to two poor rural high school dropouts, Mike Robertson is a young white man called to preach at an early age. Janice Johnson, a young black woman four years older than Mike, is drawn to this teenage tent preacher. As husband and wife, they leave their modest origins behind and rise to lead a megachurch empire in Dallas, Texas.

The journey from obscurity to religious superstardom is fraught with many challenges, including racial discrimination, drugs, deception, moral depravity, sexual assault, and a murder attempt-all in the name of religion.

Spanning more than fifty years, this engaging novel focuses on this determined interracial couple who learn that life can take them from the humblest beginnings to the highest of heights, even as they struggle to maintain their perspectives.

Jonathan Mumbai is a member of a species closely related to humans. Humans are classified as Homo Sapiens. Jonathan Mumbai is a member of a species known as Vampire Sapiens, a forgotten relative of man lost to history and lore. Thought to be erased from the earth, Jonathan Mumbai has been in a three-hundred year hibernation, but he is awake now.Mumbai is on a mission to resurrect his race and plans to use the frailties of humans as his vehicle to recreate a Vampire Sapien nation. ESSENCE Bestselling author D.T. Pollard was born in Henderson, Texas, and currently lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He is married and has one son.

OBAMA GUILTY of BEING PRESIDENT WHILE BLACK examines how the shadows of oppressive Jim Crow laws played a role in the hate spewed towards the 44th President of the United States. The role of race and gender was front and center during the presidential campaign. How a woman was used as a human shield by the Republicans is also clearly illustrated. Barack Obama received a mandate in the general election. A few months later, it was a curious sight to witness people gathered around town hall meeting sites bearing signs depicting the President as Hitler, socialist or a tyrant. Some even carried guns and a pastor prayed that Obama would die. A Republican Congressman even called President Obama a liar on national television during his health-care speech to a joint session of CongressThere was something much deeper at play with President Obama and it centered on his race. Find out how questions about the President's birth, religion, economic policies and patriotism were all smoke screens for feelings as old as the United States itself.

What happens when lust, depravity, and ego make themselves known in a setting of utmost venerability?

Born to two poor rural high school dropouts, Mike Robertson is a young white man called to preach at an early age. Janice Johnson, a young black woman four years older than Mike, is drawn to this teenage tent preacher. As husband and wife, they leave their modest origins behind and rise to lead a megachurch empire in Dallas, Texas.

The journey from obscurity to religious superstardom is fraught with many challenges, including racial discrimination, drugs, deception, moral depravity, sexual assault, and a murder attempt-all in the name of religion.

Spanning more than fifty years, this engaging novel focuses on this determined interracial couple who learn that life can take them from the humblest beginnings to the highest of heights, even as they struggle to maintain their perspectives.

The United States experienced the emergence of an economic crisis in the last quarter of 2008 that was the worst since the Great Depression. It quickly became evident that the cause of this financial meltdown was a perfect storm of multiple factors including irresponsibility, greed and lax oversight. Some hardworking citizens found themselves living in foreclosure riddled neighborhoods and tent cities that the author has labeled - TARP Towns - after the Troubled Assets Relief Program approved by Congress in October of 2008. ESSENCE bestselling author D T Pollard expresses a unique view on the economic crisis that exploded onto the scene in 2008 and describes how that financial downturn may save the United States of America from itself.

Plucked from her rooftop during the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Monique Devareaux has nothing in the world but the clothes on her back. She is taken to an evacuee shelter in Dallas, Texas and is befriended by an affluent woman who introduces her to a world of wealth and power.

Stan Brickman is a billionaire businessman who changes the course of Monique's life. He is also a married man. Determined to win her, Stan pursues Monique relentlessly, trying to convince her that his marriage is over. Unsure of her feelings for this man, Monique concentrates on rebuilding her life. But danger lurks in the shadows .

Mel Hawkins walks out of jail amidst the chaos after Hurricane Katrina and blends in with the other evacuees. After Monique rebuffs her in a chance encounter at the Dallas shelter, Mel seeks revenge. Will Monique regain her life or will Mel shatter it with one act of violence?