Love on the Line

Identity attitudes and culture collide as a mother anddaughter''s values and backgrounds are challenged by everyone around them inthis newly updated version of a Laura Castoro classic.Thea Morgan—noThornton—is thrilled about starting life with her new husband Xavier. After so many years apart it was truly a blessingthat they found each other again. But the new life is going to take someadjustment. Used to being high-powered lawyer Thea is having difficulty balancingthat with her new role as the preacher’s wife in small town Arkansas. And thetownspeople in Xavier’s new parish are watching her life a hawk—most of allMrs. Hattie Patterson the chairwoman of Pastoral Relations Committee who hasher own ideas about how things should be done. With her demanding job and lightskin Thea will have to go far to prove to the people—Mrs. Hattie—of St.Hurricane AME Church that she can be who she is and still be one of them.On the other side of the country Thea’s daughter Jesse is having anidentity crisis of her own. Off at college and away from those who’ve known herfor her entire life Jesse has the chance to reinvent herself. But is it achance worth taking? The child of a light-skinned black woman and a white manJesse has blond hair and blue eyes. No one would know her heritage if shedidn’t tell them leaving Jesse to face a difficult realization: is she forginga new path in life free of any preconceived notions? Or is she hiding heridentity and denying her roots?With skill and graceLaura Castoro deftly examines issues of race and women’s place in the worldthat fans new and old will revel in for years to come.