"Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright...Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC's elite wealthy Black families, and his par­ents don't let just anyone into their fold. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William's family and grant her the life she's been searching for"--
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ISBN: 9781982197360
ISBN: 9781638086796
Physical Description:print369 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher:New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
General Note: Copies must be checked out as a set.Set contains 7 regular and 3 large print copies.