Lace&honor - Paperback

by Sammie Ward (Author)

After two years of college, Kayla Perry runs out of money and joins the army to complete nursing school. Specialist Marissa Poe is a white girl from Idaho who dates only black men, and plans to get out of the army in two weeks and attend Penn State in the fall. When her latest boyfriend treats her badly and the army upsets her academic plans, Marissa goes through a transformation that will change her life forever. Liz Shupe is from Louisiana, a civilian, and an army wife. She and Kayla are closer than close, but she can barely stand Marissa and no one knows why. Liz is ecstatic to find out she's pregnant, but that joy is short lived when her husband is deployed to Iraq, and she's forced to deal with a threatened pregnancy alone. It's only by facing their demons that the women learn to overcome their shortcomings.

Author Biography

Sammie Ward is an author and publisher who began writing confessions and short stories on the advice of a friend. She has written confession short stories for Black Confessions, Black Secrets, Bronze Thrills, Jive, True Black Experience, and True Confessions magazines. She formed Lady Leo Publishing in September 2004, an independent electronic publishing company specializing in publishing confessions, short stories, and novellas. Her novel, In the Name of Love, was voted Best New Drama and Fiction of the Year by the Disilgold Literary National Association. She earned an Editor's Choice Award from the YOUnity Book Club for the novel It's in the Rhythm, and in 2007 the novel was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. That same year, YOUnity Guild of America presented her an award for Most Outstanding Female Self-Publisher for her novel 7 Days.