James Earl Hardy

Things are definitely "jood" (better than good) for 15-year-old Raheim Errol Rivers, III. A senior at Brooklyn Technical High School, he's on track to become salutatorian of his graduating class. He's juggling early admissions offers from Yale, Harvard, and MIT. He's dating an "older woman": 19-year-old New York University sophomore Maxine "Max" Edgewood. But the chocolate icing on his yellow layer cake is his father, Raheim Errol Rivers, Jr., and godfather, Mitchell Crawford, reuniting after four years. Errol is ecstatic when Raheim moves back in with he, Mitchell, and Mitchell's five-year-old daughter, Destiny. But he soon discovers that making room for another Rivers man in their home is easier said than done.

In a final chapter in a series by the author of Love the One You're With, Mitchell receives an unexpected dream job offer at the onset of his forties but wonders if he will ever find true love, while Raheim, newly out of rehab, hopes that a starring role will finally launch his career. Reprint.

When his partner of two years travels to Hollywood to make his first film, idealistic Mitchell "Little Bit" Crawford finds himself challenged to stay faithful in the wake of several temptations, the greatest of which is a new relationship with musician Montgomery "Montee" Simms. Reprint. 20,000 firs