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Best Book by Local Author

COME WITH ME, SHEBA **2005 Miami New Times Selection** **Best Book by Local Author** "Another convoluted Magic City tale, written in a style that lurches between Charles Willeford's blunt prose and Carl Hiaasen's hysteria, the story Allen has concocted is unmistakably Miamian. A mystery man, an oddball millionaire, and a violent criminal who goes by the unfortunate nickname "Lethal Coon" revolve around the title protagonist in this adrenalized revel by the author of Hoochie Mama and Churchboys and Other Sinners." "Come With Me, SHEBA--a fudge sundae of a read, hot and heavy sex slathered into cool prose. Sweet. Lingering like cream. I lapped it up." --Vicki Hendricks, author of SKY BLUES "Coon is a black male character unlike any other. He is portrayed with depth, insight and fury like only a black male writer could portray him. If you love Preston's writing in the Brown Sugar book series or from his previous novel Hoochie Mama or his story collections, then Come With Me, Sheba will not disappoint." --Carol Taylor, editor of the award-winning Brown Sugar book series, in which Preston L. Allen has published his novella, Nadine's Husband "It is with fear and trembling that Allen navigates the geography of black bodies--long ignored as proper suject of aesthetic inquiry--towards self awareness and freedom." --Geoffrey Philp, author of Benjamin, My Son

And the Winner is . . .

CHURCHBOYS AND OTHER SINNERS! **Winner of the Sonja H. Stone Prize in Fiction** **Shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Award**

For more information on Churchboys and Other Sinners, contact Carolina Wren Press 120 Morris Street, Durham, NC 27701 tel: (919) 560-2738 fax: (919) 560-2759 carolina@carolinawrenpress.org www.carolinawrenpress.org

HOOCHIE MAMA!

**A Gold Pen Award finalist** **A Mosaicbooks Top 3 Bestseller** "A fine, fine page turner!" "It will keep you guessing all the way to the end, and then you will be pleasantly surprised." "The Hoochie Mama cop M Gantry is a delicious creation. I can't wait for the sequel."

Author's Choice!

BOUNCE! "I love this book. Of all the books I have written, this one is the closest to my heart, the closest work to revealing my soul. When you read about Cindique, you read about me." --Preston L. Allen "You will laugh, you will cry, you will not be able to put this book down. This little book is a masterpiece." "Preston L. Allen's Bounce bounces its way into your heart. This book is a treat. A love story like no other."

BOUNCE

A novel by Preston L. Allen "When the truth isn't good enough, there's always the lie." "A Romatic tour de force!" "Lusty, sexy, honest, heart-wrenching." "You will pull for Cindique to win her red man all the way to the end . . . then you will cry."

Catch the Fire!!!

HOOCHIE MAMA, the book that started it all! # 3 on Mosaic Books' Hot Books An Amazon.com Bestseller Finalist for the Gold Pen Award A Miami International Bookfair readers Choice Selection As Featured on NPR /WLRN A taut, sexy, thinking man's thriller! Get Your Copy Today!

The Reviewers Rave About Hoochie Mama!! "Reminds me of the movie Pulp Fiction."--Michael Fisher "He gets into a woman's head like no male writer I know."--Amazon.com "M Gantry is the next Cleopatra Jones."--Jason Murray's Listmania "Surprising and suspenseful."--Rawsistaz Reviewers "It grabs you by the short hairs until you cry out mercy. Mercy!"--Lee Kline "Dark and surprising like Silence of the Lambs."--Amelinda Fernandez "A work of intense suspense, supreme fiction. You can't NOT read this book."--Amazon.com "A chilling suspense thriller that had me looking over my shoulder."--Redbank

"Nadine's Husband"

Pam meets Johnny. Sparks fly.

"If He Only Knew"

The plot thickens.

"Who I Choose to Love"

This is how Johnny met Nadine.

"The Day After You"

Johnny and Pam meet one last time, or is it?

And now--a book of erotic travel stories

In "Southernmost Triangle," meet Ceddy, and Chaddy, and Mavis in the steamiest, kinkiest love triangle ever--nominated for the Henry Miller Award on Nerve.com.