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Dirty Laundry
Where are all the good men at? Are they married, in jail or on the down low? LAYLA JAMES and her thirty-something girlfriends, CHANEL DOUGLASS, REESE MARTIN and SKYE CHANDLER ask themselves. Or maybe they are looking for love in all the wrong places?
LAYLA, a successful financial advisor is stuck on the one man she can’t have: her live-in boyfriend Conrad, who won’t commit. CHANEL, a bartender turned hair stylist doesn’t want to end up like her mother with five kids and on welfare, but yet she continues to date thugs, jailbirds and men with baby-mama drama. REESE, a promising interior designer has the perfect image of her ideal mate. She’s had her wedding planned out since she was nine-years-old. A virgin, she’s saving herself for the right man but instead of finding Prince Charming, all she finds are playas. SKYE, a former supermodel has no trouble finding a man, be it a movie star, professional athlete, or younger man - too bad she’s aging and her career is on the downward spiral. Despite their heartbreak, failed relationships or lives being turned upside down by a life-altering events; the four women realize that the bonds of sisterhood are stronger than what they have with any man.
Dirty Laundry is a frank view of single women and the complexities of dating in the new Millennium. At times, funny and sexy, at times tender and sad, but always true-to-life, you’ll enjoy delving into the rich lives of these four women.
LAYLA, a successful financial advisor is stuck on the one man she can’t have: her live-in boyfriend Conrad, who won’t commit. CHANEL, a bartender turned hair stylist doesn’t want to end up like her mother with five kids and on welfare, but yet she continues to date thugs, jailbirds and men with baby-mama drama. REESE, a promising interior designer has the perfect image of her ideal mate. She’s had her wedding planned out since she was nine-years-old. A virgin, she’s saving herself for the right man but instead of finding Prince Charming, all she finds are playas. SKYE, a former supermodel has no trouble finding a man, be it a movie star, professional athlete, or younger man - too bad she’s aging and her career is on the downward spiral. Despite their heartbreak, failed relationships or lives being turned upside down by a life-altering events; the four women realize that the bonds of sisterhood are stronger than what they have with any man.
Dirty Laundry is a frank view of single women and the complexities of dating in the new Millennium. At times, funny and sexy, at times tender and sad, but always true-to-life, you’ll enjoy delving into the rich lives of these four women.
- GenresAfrican American Romance
241 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 10, 2012
About the author
Yahrah St. John
154 books362 followersYahrah St. John is the International author of forty two books. When she’s not at home crafting one of her sexy romances with compelling heroes and feisty heroines with a dash of family drama, St. John can be found in the kitchen cooking one of her gourmet meals discovered on the Food Network for her husband. Or this thrill-seeking junky can be found traveling the globe seeking out her next adventure.
A graduate of Hyde Park Career Academy, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Northwestern University. St. John is a member of Romance Writers of America, but is an avid reader of all genres. St. John lives in sunny Orlando, the City Beautiful.
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February 21, 2016
Meet Layla, Reese, Chanel and Skye: four long time friends with everything going for them…except their relationships with men. The ladies are vastly different in temperament, looks, career choices and pastimes, but are entirely too much alike when it comes to matters of the heart.
Layla has been in a semi-committed relationship with Conrad for five years, impatiently waiting for him to marry her. Semi-committed because only she brings that element into their relationship, while he continued on living life as a single man while in the midst of their relationship. After numerous failed attempts to get him to marry her, she has a choice to make of either accepting the status quo or seeing him as the selfish, string-along guy her friends have been telling her for years that he is.
Reese has it all worked out. She knows exactly what she wants and won’t stop until she gets it. The problem is love eludes her and she can’t pay to make her dream come true. Although she has everything, her inability to attract the right man to marry her and who will understand her unique circumstances has started to affect her self esteem. Will desperation make her take matters into her own hands and if she does, will it grant her the results her heart yearns for?
Chanel is beautiful, feisty and hardworking. She’s also plus-sized and can’t see past the size of her assets to know that her size is no indication of the type of man she deserves. After a string of hook-ups and situationships, she takes a breath and a step back to reassess her life, only to run into Craig….a man who sends her world into a tailspin. Is he all that she’s dreamt of or is he only masquerading as the real thing?
Skye is beautiful, bold, rich, and powerful. She lives life on her own terms. Men can’t seem to get enough of her. But she’s a diehard commitment phobe. Once was more than enough for her to let her heart lead and where it led her changed the course of her life forever. Now, she’s sworn off ever needing anyone or letting anyone get close enough to hurt her again. But even superwoman has frailties….
The characters in this book are fun, loyal to their friendship, in their thirties and on the ball! Like so many women, their dreams of the white picket fence, 2.5 kids and the successful black husband has elude them. These are the upscale girls living next door, the girlfriends from college, the relatives we can identify with. St. John has done a fantastic job penning their stories. I found myself laughing at their antics, crying at their struggles, rejoicing at their triumphs...seeing pieces of myself in each of them. This was a thoroughly enjoyable read and I look forward to reading the next installment.
4.5 stars
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Reviewed by Tumika Patrice Cain
Layla has been in a semi-committed relationship with Conrad for five years, impatiently waiting for him to marry her. Semi-committed because only she brings that element into their relationship, while he continued on living life as a single man while in the midst of their relationship. After numerous failed attempts to get him to marry her, she has a choice to make of either accepting the status quo or seeing him as the selfish, string-along guy her friends have been telling her for years that he is.
Reese has it all worked out. She knows exactly what she wants and won’t stop until she gets it. The problem is love eludes her and she can’t pay to make her dream come true. Although she has everything, her inability to attract the right man to marry her and who will understand her unique circumstances has started to affect her self esteem. Will desperation make her take matters into her own hands and if she does, will it grant her the results her heart yearns for?
Chanel is beautiful, feisty and hardworking. She’s also plus-sized and can’t see past the size of her assets to know that her size is no indication of the type of man she deserves. After a string of hook-ups and situationships, she takes a breath and a step back to reassess her life, only to run into Craig….a man who sends her world into a tailspin. Is he all that she’s dreamt of or is he only masquerading as the real thing?
Skye is beautiful, bold, rich, and powerful. She lives life on her own terms. Men can’t seem to get enough of her. But she’s a diehard commitment phobe. Once was more than enough for her to let her heart lead and where it led her changed the course of her life forever. Now, she’s sworn off ever needing anyone or letting anyone get close enough to hurt her again. But even superwoman has frailties….
The characters in this book are fun, loyal to their friendship, in their thirties and on the ball! Like so many women, their dreams of the white picket fence, 2.5 kids and the successful black husband has elude them. These are the upscale girls living next door, the girlfriends from college, the relatives we can identify with. St. John has done a fantastic job penning their stories. I found myself laughing at their antics, crying at their struggles, rejoicing at their triumphs...seeing pieces of myself in each of them. This was a thoroughly enjoyable read and I look forward to reading the next installment.
4.5 stars
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Reviewed by Tumika Patrice Cain
September 16, 2023
Dirty Laundry
This was a interesting story about four friends and their quest for happiness. They have been friends forever and have seen each other through good and bad. They're extremely supportive of each other in whatever they aspire especially with affairs of the heart. It was an extremely heart warming story of the ups and downs of life.
This was a interesting story about four friends and their quest for happiness. They have been friends forever and have seen each other through good and bad. They're extremely supportive of each other in whatever they aspire especially with affairs of the heart. It was an extremely heart warming story of the ups and downs of life.
February 21, 2016
Meet Layla, Reese, Chanel and Skye: four long time friends with everything going for them…except their relationships with men. The ladies are vastly different in temperament, looks, career choices and pastimes, but are entirely too much alike when it comes to matters of the heart.
Layla has been in a semi-committed relationship with Conrad for five years, impatiently waiting for him to marry her. Semi-committed because only she brings that element into their relationship, while he continued on living life as a single man while in the midst of their relationship. After numerous failed attempts to get him to marry her, she has a choice to make of either accepting the status quo or seeing him as the selfish, string-along guy her friends have been telling her for years that he is.
Reese has it all worked out. She knows exactly what she wants and won’t stop until she gets it. The problem is love eludes her and she can’t pay to make her dream come true. Although she has everything, her inability to attract the right man to marry her and who will understand her unique circumstances has started to affect her self esteem. Will desperation make her take matters into her own hands and if she does, will it grant her the results her heart yearns for?
Chanel is beautiful, feisty and hardworking. She’s also plus-sized and can’t see past the size of her assets to know that her size is no indication of the type of man she deserves. After a string of hook-ups and situationships, she takes a breath and a step back to reassess her life, only to run into Craig….a man who sends her world into a tailspin. Is he all that she’s dreamt of or is he only masquerading as the real thing?
Skye is beautiful, bold, rich, and powerful. She lives life on her own terms. Men can’t seem to get enough of her. But she’s a diehard commitment phobe. Once was more than enough for her to let her heart lead and where it led her changed the course of her life forever. Now, she’s sworn off ever needing anyone or letting anyone get close enough to hurt her again. But even superwoman has frailties….
The characters in this book are fun, loyal to their friendship, in their thirties and on the ball! Like so many women, their dreams of the white picket fence, 2.5 kids and the successful black husband has elude them. These are the upscale girls living next door, the girlfriends from college, the relatives we can identify with. St. John has done a fantastic job penning their stories. I found myself laughing at their antics, crying at their struggles, rejoicing at their triumphs...seeing pieces of myself in each of them. This was a thoroughly enjoyable read and I look forward to reading the next installment.
4.5 stars
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Reviewed by Tumika Patrice Cain
Layla has been in a semi-committed relationship with Conrad for five years, impatiently waiting for him to marry her. Semi-committed because only she brings that element into their relationship, while he continued on living life as a single man while in the midst of their relationship. After numerous failed attempts to get him to marry her, she has a choice to make of either accepting the status quo or seeing him as the selfish, string-along guy her friends have been telling her for years that he is.
Reese has it all worked out. She knows exactly what she wants and won’t stop until she gets it. The problem is love eludes her and she can’t pay to make her dream come true. Although she has everything, her inability to attract the right man to marry her and who will understand her unique circumstances has started to affect her self esteem. Will desperation make her take matters into her own hands and if she does, will it grant her the results her heart yearns for?
Chanel is beautiful, feisty and hardworking. She’s also plus-sized and can’t see past the size of her assets to know that her size is no indication of the type of man she deserves. After a string of hook-ups and situationships, she takes a breath and a step back to reassess her life, only to run into Craig….a man who sends her world into a tailspin. Is he all that she’s dreamt of or is he only masquerading as the real thing?
Skye is beautiful, bold, rich, and powerful. She lives life on her own terms. Men can’t seem to get enough of her. But she’s a diehard commitment phobe. Once was more than enough for her to let her heart lead and where it led her changed the course of her life forever. Now, she’s sworn off ever needing anyone or letting anyone get close enough to hurt her again. But even superwoman has frailties….
The characters in this book are fun, loyal to their friendship, in their thirties and on the ball! Like so many women, their dreams of the white picket fence, 2.5 kids and the successful black husband has elude them. These are the upscale girls living next door, the girlfriends from college, the relatives we can identify with. St. John has done a fantastic job penning their stories. I found myself laughing at their antics, crying at their struggles, rejoicing at their triumphs...seeing pieces of myself in each of them. This was a thoroughly enjoyable read and I look forward to reading the next installment.
4.5 stars
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Reviewed by Tumika Patrice Cain
August 24, 2012
I really enjoyed this book. At first I thought it was going to be a woe as me plight of the black woman dating kind of book, but it really turned out to be something different and good. All of these women had the same bottom line issue, but all of their situations were totally different, and really relate-able. This book had a lot of drama, bad relationships, good relationships, hurt, and a wold of pain. But these woman came through it all. I would have like to see Travis and Layla's storyline wrapped up a bit better, we are left hanging there. Also what was Skye's outcome, and what happens to Chantal? It looks like there is the making of a sequel here which I would gladly read.
June 19, 2016
Sister/Friends
Kayla, Chanel, Reese, and Skye are four sister/friends with four different levels of education, self-esteem, family problems, man problems, jobs, and beliefs. A well written story, I enjoyed watching these ladies grasp hold of their issues both individually and collectively.
Kayla, Chanel, Reese, and Skye are four sister/friends with four different levels of education, self-esteem, family problems, man problems, jobs, and beliefs. A well written story, I enjoyed watching these ladies grasp hold of their issues both individually and collectively.
August 24, 2012
Dirty Laundry was a ok read.To me it wasn't enough drama and to much was left out in the End.What happened with Skye? Where did Travis Go? It was a lot of things I needed to know Didn't read about it being a part 2 so I'm left hanging. Still a good read just wish it would of been better.
June 25, 2016
I wld have enjoyed this book a lot more if there were not soooo many blank pages.
Will read the next book in the series to find out how these women are faring. I sincerely hope to not experience the same disconcert I ng missing pages. Somehow that just kills the buzz.
Will read the next book in the series to find out how these women are faring. I sincerely hope to not experience the same disconcert I ng missing pages. Somehow that just kills the buzz.
November 9, 2016
Spilling the Tea!
What a great book. Telling stories about four different women who faces similar situations and all looking for the same thing which is love. This book also teaches you about not settling for anything or anyone.
What a great book. Telling stories about four different women who faces similar situations and all looking for the same thing which is love. This book also teaches you about not settling for anything or anyone.
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