Böcker av Sandra Hopkins

He had to endure the changes that were happening to his life. He couldn't control them, but he could survive if he could hold on to the pieces of his life that were important. The things that were food for his soul were the healthy relationships he had with his family. He was still active in baseball and basketball, and he enjoyed his time on the field and the courts. Now his career was finally on track and working at his grandfather's company as a designer was all he had ever dreamed it would be. He had to resist letting go of those things vital to his existence.But there was no lover with whom he could share his life and love. To add to his loneliness was the heartache of losing someone that had always been a part of his life.As he stood over his grandfather's grave, he said aloud, "You drive a hard bargain old man, but I accept your challenge. It's time for me to become the captain of the ship, even with this heavy heart."He remembered a quote from his favorite childhood book, "Blind as a Bat, Wise as an Owl". His grandfather had read the story to him until he started reading himself at four years of age. The line that fed his spirit now was, "To fight pain is to anger it and pain always win." And Kwame Jr (KJ) let his tears flow.

Dalilah's psychic abilities were exceptional and exhibited by her as early as her sixth year of life. Those special abilities had brought her new stepfather into her life. She was at her biological father's funeral when she realized that she could communicate telepathically with someone in the room, other than her mother. She was able to see her mother's dreams and when she saw the man who had been in them, she spoke to him through telepathy. Eighteen months later he married her mother and committed to be a father to her and her siblings. Her ability to undergo materialization, disappearance or teleportation was first displayed in the author's second book, "The Magic in Being Special". In the same book, her mother discovered that Dalilah's ability of channeling had given her a playmate that was the spirit of a little boy, who was killed in the house where they lived. He died in the author's first book, "The Dark One". Her exception artistic skills allowed her to draw a detail picture of her Aunt Shelley's abductor in the author's third book, "Battered, But Not Broken". In the same book, Dalilah's psychic skills helped her exposed the fact that her Aunt Shelley was being beaten when she touched her bruises. With her clairvoyance and remote viewing skills, she could see or have vision in mental flashes that included pictures of people, scenes, objects, spirits or symbols and colors.But none of her skills or abilities foretold of the diversions life had planned for her.

It wasn't the life she had dreamed of when she married Asher Jr. Deloris thought she was marrying into one of Stewart, Virginia's most prestigious families. The family is first introduced in Sandra Hopkins first novel, "The Dark One." Her father had always told her that she was destined to be special. She had denied this specialness her whole life, but now she needed to pull on these special abilities and teach her daughter how to control what she had inherited. Her daughter brings two spirits together that had searched 400 years for each other. The spirits belonged to Adama, who had allowed herself to be captured in Africa, and her true love Kwame. She died loving and looking for him, but never found him. She believed that her spirit would live on through one of her children and it would find Kwame. He had been told as a child that he was named for a stolen warrior and dreamed about a special woman his whole life. Would he and she find the love and the life they had always wanted.

Two detectives take thirty years between them to solve the murders that surround Marcy Morton and her father, Asher. She is convinced during her developmental years by her self-centered stepmother that she can't be beautiful because she is darker than a paper bag. She spends the same thirty years discovering who she is; that her complexion doesn't diminish her beauty and to learn to love herself. Who is really the dark one?