4 Books Published by Walk Worthy Press on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

This "Essence" bestselling novel shares the story about a successful black Christian woman who must make crucial life decisions.

Since childhood, the young reverend Joshua Clay has had a gift to speak God’s word with great eloquence. Now, in the midst of the Depression in the 1930s, Joshua is asked to be the first Negro minister in years to do missionary work in South Africa. Determined to minister Christianity’s soul-sustaining joys, Joshua soon discovers the racial turmoil beneath the country’s Eden-like beauty. As the government ruthlessly passes apartheid laws, Joshua finds his strength and faith tested to its limits.

When the members of the Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church prepare for its one-hundredth anniversary celebration, the unexpected death of the pastor sets the congregation at odds over who the replacement pastor should be.

Kyla and Jefferson Blake count their 16 years together as a wonderful blessing from God. Their marriage is passionate, their daughter is a joy, Jefferson’s medial career is prospering and they have loyal friends.

Kyla knows her newly divorced and lifelong friend, Jasmine, is desperately unhappy and no amount of prayer or encouragement seems to help. But what Kyla doesn’t know is that Jasmine has a plan to move her life forward with the type of man she feels she should have married in the first place.

A man like Jefferson.

Alexis Ward, Kyla’s, best friend, is single and successful and willing to wait for the right man for all the right reasons. But, when "Mr. Right," Dr. Brian Lewis, finally appears she finds herself facing a new challenge. Does she really have to walk away from what she believes in order to have a man in her life?

As people who love God, Kyla, Jefferson and Alexis discover, each in their own way, what happens when they truly allow God to be first in their relationships.

Full of contemporary characters who struggle to keep their strength, friendships and daily lives framed by the Word of God, Temptation is a novel no reader will soon forget.