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Skin Deep
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Skin Deep is a captivating novel about racism, love, rejection, understanding and acceptance.
Melanie Hutchins’s world seems to be slowly coming back together after her son’s motorcycle accident left him permanently brain damaged. It’s been difficult to accept that the son she loved so much will never be normal again, but she knows life must go on. What Melanie is about to discover about her other child will shake her world once again and bring another mountain for her to climb.
A few weeks before Christmas Melanie discovers her beautiful nineteen year old daughter is pregnant by a young black man. The little town goes into an uproar as the news spreads about the white girl and the soon to be birth of her biracial child. In this small North Carolina town interracial relationships are looked down on by both races. Morgan is fired from a family owned Christian Book Store so as not to shame the family name (and they call themselves Christians!) Still, the young girl vows to keep the unborn child even though she has become the town scandal.
It doesn’t take long for Melanie and Morgan to find out who their true friends really are, including Melanie’s fiancé.
As Melanie struggles with mixed feelings about the birth of her first grandchild, matters get more complicated when she notices her fiancé has a change of heart when he discovers the shocking news. He becomes distant and cool towards Morgan making it obvious he too, is a racist. Melanie starts to question her marriage to a man that cannot love her family unconditionally.
The answer becomes obvious when the day before her wedding Melanie faints in a local furniture store falling into the arms of store owner, David Price. When Melanie awakens, she finds herself looking into his seductive brown eyes and immediately feels a warm wave pass over her body. She feels her face flush, her palms become sweaty and her heart is pounding. All are symptoms her grandmother told her would happen when she met her true soul mate.
Melanie tries to convince herself the feelings she felt when meeting David couldn’t have been real. But how could she deny the signs, her flushed face, her sweaty palms, her pounding heart? She couldn’t, nor could she deny the burning desire to see him again.
Melanie’s love life takes a shocking twist that challenges her heart and changes her life forever.
As a nurse at a small psychiatric hospital, Melanie’s job takes her on a roller coaster of emotions as she meets Jason, who says goodbye to ghosts that have haunted him for 10 years.
Tiwanna, a young fifteen year old girl, lashes out at God for forsaking her in the worst torment of her life.
Then there’s Scarlet, whose admission to Eastside Hospital turns out to be a blessing from God.
In this captivating romance novel Melanie searches her heart, as God teaches her heart first hand, race is only Skin Deep, racism is to the bone.
Skin Deep is a captivating novel about racism, love, rejection, understanding and acceptance.
Melanie Hutchins’s world seems to be slowly coming back together after her son’s motorcycle accident left him permanently brain damaged. It’s been difficult to accept that the son she loved so much will never be normal again, but she knows life must go on. What Melanie is about to discover about her other child will shake her world once again and bring another mountain for her to climb.
A few weeks before Christmas Melanie discovers her beautiful nineteen year old daughter is pregnant by a young black man. The little town goes into an uproar as the news spreads about the white girl and the soon to be birth of her biracial child. In this small North Carolina town interracial relationships are looked down on by both races. Morgan is fired from a family owned Christian Book Store so as not to shame the family name (and they call themselves Christians!) Still, the young girl vows to keep the unborn child even though she has become the town scandal.
It doesn’t take long for Melanie and Morgan to find out who their true friends really are, including Melanie’s fiancé.
As Melanie struggles with mixed feelings about the birth of her first grandchild, matters get more complicated when she notices her fiancé has a change of heart when he discovers the shocking news. He becomes distant and cool towards Morgan making it obvious he too, is a racist. Melanie starts to question her marriage to a man that cannot love her family unconditionally.
The answer becomes obvious when the day before her wedding Melanie faints in a local furniture store falling into the arms of store owner, David Price. When Melanie awakens, she finds herself looking into his seductive brown eyes and immediately feels a warm wave pass over her body. She feels her face flush, her palms become sweaty and her heart is pounding. All are symptoms her grandmother told her would happen when she met her true soul mate.
Melanie tries to convince herself the feelings she felt when meeting David couldn’t have been real. But how could she deny the signs, her flushed face, her sweaty palms, her pounding heart? She couldn’t, nor could she deny the burning desire to see him again.
Melanie’s love life takes a shocking twist that challenges her heart and changes her life forever.
As a nurse at a small psychiatric hospital, Melanie’s job takes her on a roller coaster of emotions as she meets Jason, who says goodbye to ghosts that have haunted him for 10 years.
Tiwanna, a young fifteen year old girl, lashes out at God for forsaking her in the worst torment of her life.
Then there’s Scarlet, whose admission to Eastside Hospital turns out to be a blessing from God.
In this captivating romance novel Melanie searches her heart, as God teaches her heart first hand, race is only Skin Deep, racism is to the bone.
188 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 19, 2009
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January 13, 2023
A great book about how a family deals with a interracial relationship and biracial baby in the early 70’s in the South.
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