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The Romance Book Club meets online monthly to discuss romance from consent and kissing to feminism and friendship. This month we will be joined by romance author Beverly Jenkins to discuss her new novel, Wild Rain, the story of a female rancher who forges her own path in the wake of the Civil War. Registration: https://www.bookmarksnc.org/romance-book-club
Avon Wild Rain is the second novel in acclaimed historical romance author Beverly Jenkins's newest series Women Who Dare. It's a cinematic adventure, with snow-capped mountains, majestic forests, and plenty of Old West atmosphere — including some truly nasty, wrath-deserving villains. But it also provides a perspective on African American life years after the end of the Civil War, when Black people lived in communities not yet poisoned by Jim Crow laws. Spring Rain Lee is the sister of Dr. Colton Lee, hero of Jenkins' previous novel Tempest, now married to Regan Carmichael, the heroine...
Embed iframe src "https://www.npr.org/player/embed/966404855/966466106" width "100%" height "290" frameborder "0" scrolling "no" title "NPR embedded audio player" If you've picked up a book with very fit, very attractive Black people dressed in 19th century clothing on the cover, there's a good chance it's by Beverly Jenkins. Jenkins is the undisputed queen of the Black 19th century romance. She writes about Freedmen's towns that were founded by the formerly enslaved after the civil war, about teachers teaching children and adults to read (something that was forbidden for the enslaved). Of ...
We talk to romance author Beverly Jenkins about writing her first ever 'cinnamon roll' hero and the status of a TV series based on her novel 'Forbidden.'