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Washington Post Book World calls her work "extraordinary" and "energetic"; Entertainment Weekly termed it "enthralling"; USA Today praised her honest, gritty depiction of everyday living and "passion between and beyond the sheets." Now, with the bold true-to-life drama, humor, and piercing insight that made her books Knowing and One Better national bestsellers, Rosalyn McMillan delivers her sexiest, most powerful novel yet--set in the vibrant heart of the American automobile industry, where four very different people--and passions--are about to collide... Blue Collar Blues

One of Detroit's biggest auto manufacturers, Champion Motors is a world divided between white collar and blue collar--and ruled by the law of overtime. Everyone hungers to be a "white collar" worker with more money...someone who can make--and take--the most out of life...

-Thyme Tyler. Educated and ambitious, she is the industry's only female African American plant manager. For her there is no compromise when it comes to her job--or her love for her white husband, Cy, a company executive. But her struggle to gain complete professional parity will reveal the bitterest of betrayals, and force her to risk the one thing she values above all else...

-Ron Davis. The plant's fiery union leader, he protects his people and stays cool even at ground zero of red-hot labor unrest. Yet his refusal to confront his failings will throw his private life into a firestorm, where the only way out promises heartbreaking loss...

-Khan Davis. Ron's brilliant, feisty niece, she left college behind for the lure of big money at Champion--and the temptations of an irresistibly sensual older lover. Fate surprises her, forcing her to decide what matters most--and what she really needs...

-R. C. Richardson. Champion's biggest car dealer, he built his fortune and won his spirited Japanese/African American wife, Tomiko, through breathtaking risks and long-shot schemes. Now his lust for the big win--and Khan's body--is pushing him dangerously close to losing it all...

Sexy, scandalous, always surprising, Blue Collar Blues sizzles with the dreams and desires of bold characters who seize the best life has to offer.

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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.

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So many parts of Ginger Montgomery's life satisfy her. Her husband, Jackson, is a strong black man whose powerful sense of self and intoxicating sexuality hold her enthralled. Her lucrative auto factory job has brought her a spectacular home in Detroit and a promising future for her four lively children. Yet Ginger can no longer ignore the restlessness deep within her soul - the education she put aside, the goals she never quite attained, the dreams she deferred to help those who depended on her the most. It's time she realized her own talents and identity through the challenges of the white-collar world just within her grasp. But Ginger soon finds there is no leaving behind the pain and insecurities of the past... or the family ties that seem to strengthen and limit her all at once. And she soon discovers that her love for Jackson - whose jealousy and controlling nature threaten far more than her dreams - may be a heartbreaking illusion that no amount of passion can sustain. Knowing everything she cherishes is at stake, Ginger must chart the farthest limits of responsibility, ambition, and love - and perhaps find a fulfillment only the hardest of choices can bring.