Lynn Emery

Gotta Get Next to You: Louisiana Love Series: City Girls Lynn Emery

Jacket Description/Back: A MAN NAMED TROUBLESmart, good-looking, and newly divorced, Andrea Noble thought coming home to Louisiana would be the perfect cure for her Big City Blues. But her new position as director of the floundering, badly disorganized Bayou Blue Health Clinic is bringing this sistah nothing but grief. And it doesn't help that the one man who comes to her rescue is tall, charming, righteously handsome -- and has "serial lover" written all over him. Jamal Turner is a hot chocolate dream to be sure -- the kind of man who could add real fire to the slow, sultry evenings in a sleepy small town. Andrea knows what that kind of trouble's about -- and she's determined to keep cool, no matter how badly her body burns for what she's missing and Jamal's got. But Jamal is a man on a mission and not here for love -- though the fine, independent lady he's secretly been hired to investigate is suddenly doing something serious to his heart... Commendation Quotes: "A gifted storyteller, Emery weaves [tales] of romance and mystery.... She offers up a rich variety of personalities and characters in her writing that defy any racial stereotype". Baton Rouge Sunday AdvocateNotes about Other Books: SOULFUL LOVE WITH A NEW ATTITUDE FROM Harper TorchIf You Want MeCRAZY THING CALLED LOVE COVER TO COMEBrief Description: Originally published: New York: HarperTorch, 2001. Brief Description: Newly divorced Andrea Noble comes home to Louisiana to a new life as director of a health clinic, but discovers that the job is nothing but grief, and the one man who comes to her rescue has "serial lover" written all over him. Biographical Note: Mix knowledge of voodoo, Louisiana politics and forensic social work with the dedication to write fiction while working each day as a clinical social worker, and you get a snapshot of author Lynn Emery. Lynn has been a contributing consultant to the magazine Today's Black Woman for three articles about contemporary relationships between black men and women. For more information visit: www.lynnemery.comMarc Notes: Originally published: New York: HarperTorch, 2001.; Newly divorced Andrea Noble comes home to Louisiana to a new life as director of a health clinic, but discovers that the job is nothing but grief, and the one man who comes to her rescue has serial lover written all over him.. Publisher Marketing: Andrea Noble leaves Detroit and her big city blues when she returns to her small hometown. At least that what she thinks. Bayou Blue, Louisiana has changed. When she takes over a small health clinic Andrea begins to uncover foul play, missing drugs and medical equipment. Lee Matthews is hired to find out just what's going on at the clinic. He's a sharp private investigator who has to consider everyone suspect. Lee just hopes that Andrea is the woman he thinks she is. Lee and Andrea fight each other, then fight as a team to save a young man's life, the clinic that her small community needs so much, and most of all the love they've finally found in each other's arms. Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 03/26/2001 pg. 69 (EAN 9780380813049, Mass Market Paperbound)

Bookpage 05/01/2001 pg. 28 (EAN 9780380813049, Mass Market Paperbound)

Contributor Bio:  Emery, Lynn Lynn Emery is a native resident of Louisiana. A licensed clinical social worker, she has been an expert consultant for articles on relationships and single women for the popular magazine Today's Black Woman. Her first novel was recognized by Romantic Times Magazine for Excellence in Romance Fiction in 1995. In 2000, she was nominated for the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award in Multicultural Romance Fiction.