2 Books Published by E-Fect Pub on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Steamy Page-turner Shocks and Surprises From Beginning to End He’s baaaack! Following on the heels of his best-selling debut novel Real for Me, Eric E. Pete takes you to the hot and sizzling city of Houston, Texas, where we find that Someone’s In the Kitchen (in more ways than one). View the world through the eyes of best friends and former college roommates: Reggie, a single playboy who is best described as cocky and conceited…but also caring, and Neal, a sensitive hulk of a man who is experiencing the downside of matrimony. Reggie, a successful supervisor with a major insurance company, is a smooth manipulator who has no plans of settling down or slowing down anytime soon. On the other hand, Neal, the head chef at a popular Houston eatery, is a dedicated husband who is trying to balance the troubles of a difficult marriage with the pursuit of his dreams. Both friends are impacted by what has happened in their pasts. Find out how each of them reacts as their story unfolds! Contemporary African-American fiction has a bold new chapter with this witty, stylish novel, which deals with the tests life gives and how the darkness of the past can shape the future. You won’t want to put it down!

First-time novelist Eric E. Pete leads you on a wild ride through the fast-paced lives of fascinating singles in his novel Real for Me. The story is told alternately through the eyes of Glover (a beautiful, charming, and confident woman) and Maxwell (a recent arrival to the coast searching for something better), and feautres an ensemble cast of witty and memorable characters. Glover has everything going for her-looks, brains, friends, and a successful fiance’ who comes from "old money"-but is grappling with her increasingly serious relationship with him. Meanwhile, Maxwell is struggling to get out of a personal and professional rut. Glover and Max’s lives are on separate courses until fate intervenes in the form of an employment application and the roller coaster ride begins! In a contemporary and realistic style familiar to most, the story Real for Me takes place in Los Angeles and its environs and paints an intriguing and often humorous tale of friendship, honor, loyalty, and love from the African-American perspective.