The Perfect Mistress (39 page)

Also by ReShonda Tate Billingsley:

Mama's Boy

Finding Amos
(with J. D. Mason and Bernice McFadden)

What's Done in the Dark

Fortune & Fame
(with Victoria Christopher Murray)

A Family Affair

Friends & Foes
(with Victoria Christopher Murray)

The Secret She Kept

Sinners & Saints
(with Victoria Christopher Murray)

Say Amen, Again

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Holy Rollers

The Devil Is a Lie

Can I Get a Witness?

The Pastor's Wife

Everybody Say Amen

I Know I've Been Changed

Let the Church Say Amen

My Brother's Keeper

Have a Little Faith
(with Jacquelin Thomas, J. D. Mason, and Sandra Kitt)

And check out ReShonda's Young Adult titles:

Drama Queens

Caught Up in the Drama

Friends 'Til the End

Fair-Weather Friends

Getting Even

With Friends Like These

Blessings in Disguise

Nothing but Drama

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