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as cold as winter, and then when I heard her scream, I felt a warmth that felt like the sun was shining just on me and my daughter. When Rosa, with tears streaming down her face, passed Talley to me and I looked into the baby’s face, I cried, but this time the tears that streamed down my face were tears of pride and joy. This crying thing ain’t that bad after all. I know I might be alone again in my life, but I will never be lonely. The girl I’ve been waiting for has finally arrived.

Raymond was right: One person can alter your life forever when you least expect it. It was finally time to embrace life and never question where or to whom it might lead.

I’ve learned that you have to be able to flow. Any way the wind blows is cool with me.

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JULY 2002

Copyright © 2001 by E. Lynn Harris

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2001.

Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.

Song lyrics to “Any Way the Wind Blows” by Bobby Daye.

Copyright © 2001 BobbY DayE MusiC, Inc.

The Library of Congress has established a record for this title.

eISBN: 978-1-4000-3300-3

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Table of Contents

Cover

About the Author

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Part 1 - Side A

Chapter 1 - Yancey’s Big Reign

Chapter 2 - Bart’s Sweet Revenge

Chapter 3 - Basil’s Back

Chapter 4 - Motown’s New Diva

Chapter 5 - Drop ’em, Bart

Chapter 6 - Basil’s New Year’s Gift

Chapter 7 - Love … Peace and Yancey B

Chapter 8 - Bart Meets Miss Chicken

Chapter 9 - Calls Come … But Not the One

Chapter 10 - Yancey’s First Family Dinner

Chapter 11 - Bart’s Big Day/ A Change in the Weather

Chapter 12 - Stop in the Name of Lust

Chapter 13 - The Red Carpet

Chapter 14 - Stray Boyz

Chapter 15 - A Cold, Cold Wind

Chapter 16 - I’M Ready for My Close-Up

Chapter 17 - Ain’t Too Proud to Beg

Chapter 18 - Other Divas and Cp Time

Chapter 19 - The Rodeo Kings …(Or Queens)

Chapter 20 - The Dirty D.L.

Chapter 21 - Annie Get Your Switchblade

Chapter 22 - Seconds …

Chapter 23 - 3-D: Doug, Dee Dee & the Diva

Chapter 24 - Do You Hear What I Hear?

Chapter 25 - Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Chapter 26 - A Diva Duet

Chapter 27 - Steam Heat

Part 2 - Side B

Chapter 28 - Basil’s Pride and Joy

Chapter 29 - Lines from Lavonya

Chapter 30 - Top Forty

Chapter 31 - When Trouble Calls, You Betta Listen

Chapter 32 - Reunited

Chapter 33 - Don’t It Make my Gray Eyes Blue

Chapter 34 - The Lawyer and the Liar

Chapter 35 - Diva Dearest

Chapter 36 - Beauty Bonding

Chapter 37 - May I Serve You?

Chapter 38 - Bart’s Big Break

Chapter 39 - Desmond the Delicious

Chapter 40 - The Liars Who Lunch

Chapter 41 - Show Me Love … Please

Chapter 42 - Movin’ on Up

Chapter 43 - Friends and Strangers

Chapter 44 - Who Can I Turn To?

Chapter 45 - The Big Payback

Chapter 46 - Judgment Day

Chapter 47 - Bart’s Escape from New York

Chapter 48 - When the Worm Turns

Chapter 49 - Batman Returns

Chapter 50 - I’m A Survivor

Chapter 51 - You Make me Feel Brand-New

Chapter 52 - You’Ve Got A Friend

Chapter 53 - There’s No Place Like Home

Chapter 54 - Happy Birthday, Yancey

Chapter 55 - We Fall Down

Chapter 56 - Promises, Promises

Chapter 57 - The Diva is Dismissed!

Club Mix (The Finale)

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