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The Reverend Curtis Black is surely one of the cleverest ne'er-do-wells ever to set foot in a church. In this new tale, Curtis is starting over. He has a new job, a new wife (again), and a newfound will to follow the straight and narrow path of righteousness. Or so he thinks. While his spirit may be willing, the wayward preacher has a particular weakness when it comes to female flesh. Curtis hasn't ever made a promise he could keep, and before long, he's reverting to old ways. The difference now is his third wife, a woman unlike any he's encountered before. And for the first time in his life, Curtis just might have met his match…

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Kimberla Lawson Roby. (2006). The Best-Kept Secret. Unabridged Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Kimberla Lawson Roby. 2006. The Best-Kept Secret. Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Kimberla Lawson Roby, The Best-Kept Secret. Blackstone Audio, Inc, 2006.

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Kimberla Lawson Roby. The Best-Kept Secret. Unabridged Blackstone Audio, Inc, 2006.

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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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