Friends 2 Lovers: Flesh and Blood Book Series

Coming soon. Volume Eight of the Friends 2 Lovers series is on its way.

It is Father's Day, and an old man on a silver-headed cane has just laid a faded photograph on Anthony Richards's tablecloth and called him son. The powerful man Anthony testified against before a federal grand jury is the father who watched him from across the street for fifty-six years, and now Claude and Kelly Richards have to hold their family together while the ground shifts under all of them.

Within days there is an arrest at dawn, a courtroom list with Anthony's name on it, and a new word at every table: brother. Reggie Dixon, the man raising Kelly's birth daughter, Lori, is suddenly Anthony's family by blood. In the Bronx, Marcus Greer opens a letter from the father he has never known and has to decide whether to pick up the phone. Claude, who knows what it means to be claimed by a man who was never required to, parks across the street and waits. And Kelly does what she always does when the truth gets expensive. She counts every name at the table, twice.

But some debts are older than anyone at that table, and loyalty runs in more than one direction. When blood and paper say different things, which one decides who is family?

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Quotes from Flesh and Blood

“We came the long way, though. That's the only way that counts.”

— Claude

“You don't count the ones who said they would. You count the ones who came.”

“A man could sit beside you at a table and still be across the street.”

“You're not useless. You're waiting. It's a different job.”

“That's not a reason. That's an inheritance.”

— Marcus

“Go so you aren't him.”

— Marcus

“I know you can't go in. Go anyway.”

— Marcus

“Nobody opens anything alone in this house.”

— Anthony

“They argued like two people who weren't afraid the other one would leave.”

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