num_pages: 336
description: Erica Shaw spends her week babysitting the country's bestselling authors for one of the top publishing companies in New York City. But on Friday nights she escapes to D.C. where her sexy-lipped musician boyfriend Warren Prince works and performs. Their connection is fierce and the couple promises to never miss a weekend together. But when real life walks in an overbearing father an alcoholic mother office politics and a lucrative job contract the couple starts unraveling at the seam. Tempers flare violence breaks while new lovers eagerly wait in the wings to claim both of them.Drenched in the perils of passion and the sweet-sounds of jazz Johnson dives deep into the world of ambition and the stumbling blocks of family. Clever fast-paced and sexy Love in a Carry-On Bag is a modern day love story that marks the healing power of forgiveness and begs the question how much baggage is really too heavy to carry.Sadeqa Johnson is a captivating novelist who extrapolates the forces that pressure passion and sex in modern times. In the tradition of Terri McMillian and Omar Tyree the distinctive style she has cultivated will smolder and smoke long after the last page has been turned. Jackson Taylor author of The Blue Orchard
language: English
title: Love in a Carry-on Bag
publisher: 12th Street Press