Simply Cheris. . .

Maurice Goings and Kenya Taylor have loved each other since they shared a childhood kiss. As their senior prom rolls around, Maurice, star of their high school football team, tells Kenya his true feelings. PART ONE: Gold seemed to be the color for prom that year. All of the dresses that showed up in the store windows were golden. Form fitting and not at all what Kenya Taylor wanted for her senior prom. Kenya wanted to feel like a princess, even if she wasn't going to prom with prince charming. As she walked into the Buckhead boutique, she thought about the invitation that she'd gotten to the prom from her classmate, Shaun Hawkins. He was a nice enough guy, but they were just friends. And though she'd been fighting her feelings since she was eight years old, the one guy she wanted to go to prom with was Maurice Goings. Unfortunately, Maurice wanted nothing more from Kenya than friendship. They'd grown up together, played hide and seek in her grandmother's yard...

Rico Carlson wasn’t used to hearing no. But that was what the shapely red head standing in his office just said to him. No, she’d said with an attitude and with finality. But he was holding all of the cards and he knew that. “Miss Norris,” Rico said, leaning back in his leather desk seat and kicking his Italian loafer clad feet up on the desk. “I own the property where you and your father have that non working farm and I will do with it what I damn well please. You can take my offer of five hundred thousand dollars or you can leave with nothing.” She leaned across his desk giving him a birds eye view of her creamy cleavage. “I’m not taking a thing and we’re not going anywhere. That non working farm, as you call, it is a historic landmark.” “And history is always being rewritten.” Pounding her hand on the desk, she glared at him and Rico didn’t intimidated easily, but those hazel eyes trained on him as if they were heat seeking missiles aimed at his heart. If looks could ...