Friends 2 Lovers: The Whole Truth Book Series

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

Flesh and Blood ended on Father's Day with a mask coming off. The quiet housekeeper who served Anthony Richards snapper on Key Biscayne, who stood behind every chair in the old man's house for fifty-three years, is Doreen, the mother he was told had died when he was three. She is alive, and she is sitting at his table.

Doreen will tell her story once, from the beginning, in her own order, and not one word sooner. So in a summer when nobody can come close, Claude and Kelly Richards learn to wait beside a man who has been waiting his whole life. Kelly, who counts every name in this family twice, realizes she never once counted the woman under the banyan tree, and writes her name at the top of the page. Reggie Dixon has to reckon with the woman who raised half of him in his mother's kitchen. Marcus finds out he has his grandmother's hands. And while the government keeps building its case, dangerous men are growing curious about anyone who heard what was said at that dinner table.

How much of a mother's story is a son owed, and what will it cost Claude and Kelly's family to hear the rest?

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Quotes from The Whole Truth

“Every one of us is sitting here. That's the whole score.”

— Doreen

“You can tell me anything, baby. I may not answer it.”

— Doreen

“I loved you on your own account. You hear me? Not for anybody else's. Don't you let anybody take that from you.”

— Doreen

“Then you know some columns don't total. You just draw the line under them and write what's there.”

— Doreen

“A woman who'll carry a chair across a cemetery to a stranger, you hold on to.”

— Doreen

“Thank you for this family, the one we were born to and the one we chose, in this one life that we live.”

— Anthony

“Everybody in this family talks, Dad. You were the one who listened.”

— Claude

“You write us all down so nobody in this family gets left at the gate.”

— Claude

“A page nobody will swear to isn't evidence. It's a rumor with a postmark.”

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