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The Best-Kept Secret
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Kimberla Lawson Roby's fans can't get enough of the Reverend Curtis Black, that self-justifying, greedy, womanizing flimflam man who is one of the biggest rascals ever to step into a church. In this outing, Curtis is starting over. He has a new job and a new wife, and of course he's convinced himself that this time he'll be good. But Curtis hasn't ever made a promise he could keep, and before long, he's up to his old tricks. The difference now is his third wife. She's unlike any woman Curtis has met before. And for the first time in his life, Curtis just might have met his match. Watch the sparks fly! Contains mature themes.
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Unabridged
Street Date:
05/05/2015
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ISBN:
9781494529857
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Kimberla Lawson Roby. (2015). The Best-Kept Secret. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.

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Kimberla Lawson Roby. 2015. The Best-Kept Secret. Tantor Media, Inc.

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Kimberla Lawson Roby, The Best-Kept Secret. Tantor Media, Inc, 2015.

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Kimberla Lawson Roby. The Best-Kept Secret. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc, 2015.

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        Rev. Curtis Black has finally changed his ways: no more close encounters with temptation, either of the flesh or of the wallet, just a simple existence running his new church and loving his young wife of two years, Charlotte, and their son, Matthew. But readers who relished Black's down-and-dirties in Roby's Casting the First Stone
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