Contemporary Black Romance · The Verrett
The End of the Bar
For thirty-one years he has come in on the first note. For thirty years she has seated the room. Neither of them has ever asked for a thing.
Elouise Verrett is seventy-three, nineteen years a widow, and runs the door of her family's New Orleans supper club. Percy "Peach" Delahoussaye is sixty-one, the horn man who has played the club's Wednesdays since 1995. When he gives up his Sunday gig, he mentions where he'll be at one o'clock. She comes. And she keeps coming.
Coffee becomes her house on Josephine Street, and she finds out the body she put away with Wendell's suits still wants. Then her family finds out, and her nephew does the arithmetic out loud: no pension, no house, just a horn. When Peach asks for one thing more than a Sunday, Elouise tells him no, nicely, so he will believe it. And for the first time in thirty-one years, he doesn't come in on the first note.
A grown-folks later-in-life romance with a Black hero and heroine, live horns, opinionated family, real heat, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Perfect for fans of Kennedy Ryan and Tia Williams.
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Black & African AmericanLater in LifeContemporary
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