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Also by ReShonda Tate Billingsley:

Miss Pearly's Girls, March 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
A Little Bit of Karma, October 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
The Stolen Daughter, June 2020
Paperback / e-Book
More to Life, September 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
The Book in Room 316, July 2018
Paperback / e-Book
Seeking Sarah, August 2017
Paperback / e-Book
A Blessing & A Curse, April 2017
Paperback / e-Book
Fortune & Fame, March 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Friends and Foes, January 2014
Paperback
A Family Affair, August 2013
Paperback / e-Book
The Motherhood Diaries, April 2013
Paperback
The Pastor's Wife, May 2011
Mass Market Paperback
Friends to the End (Good Girlz), December 2008
Paperback
Getting Even: Good Girlz, May 2008
Paperback
With Friends Like These, April 2007
Trade Size
Blessings in Disguise, January 2007
Paperback
Nothing But Drama, November 2006
Trade Size
I Know I've Been Changed, February 2006
Trade Size
Let The Church Say Amen, August 2004
Paperback / e-Book

Also by Victoria Christopher Murray:

A Pair of Aces, June 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Harlem Rhapsody, February 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The First Ladies, June 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Pride, April 2023
Paperback / e-Book
The Personal Librarian, July 2021
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Wrath, January 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Greed, June 2019
Trade Size
Envy, June 2018
Paperback / e-Book
A Blessing & A Curse, April 2017
Paperback / e-Book
Lust, February 2017
Trade Size
Stand Your Ground, November 2016
Mass Market Paperback
Stand Your Ground, July 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Forever An Ex, June 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Fortune & Fame, March 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Friends and Foes, January 2014
Paperback
Never Say Never, June 2013
Paperback / e-Book
The Ex Files, May 2013
Mass Market Paperback
Sinners & Saints, November 2012
Mass Market Paperback
Destiny's Divas, June 2012
Trade Size / e-Book
Sinners And Saints, January 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The Deal, The Dance, And The Devil, June 2011
Trade Size
Sins Of The Mother, June 2010
Paperback
Lady Jasmine, June 2009
Paperback
Veronique, March 2009
Trade Size
Diamond, March 2008
Trade Size
The Ex Files, June 2007
Trade Size
Grown Folks Business, June 2005
Trade Size
Temptation, October 2001
Paperback

A BLESSING & A CURSE
By: ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Victoria Christopher Murray

Gallery Books
April 2017
On Sale: April 18, 2017
Featuring: Rachel Jackson Adams; Jasmine Cox Larson Bush
304 pages
ISBN: 1476748888
EAN: 9781476748887
Kindle: B00LD1OTVG
Paperback / e-Book
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Multicultural African-American | Women's Fiction

First ladies of the Baptist church and sworn frenemies Rachel Jackson Adams and Jasmine Cox Larson Bush are stunned to learn they may have more in common than they thought—like who’s their daddy—in the scandalous new collaboration between national bestselling and award-winning authors ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray.

A heated American Baptist Coalition election. A murky murder cover-up. An outrageous reality TV show. What in heaven’s name kind of drama will holy rivals Rachel Jackson Adams and Jasmine Cox Larson Bush—prominent first ladies of the Baptist church—get themselves into next?

Since he first met Jasmine, Rachel’s father Simon Jackson has had a funny feeling about her. She eerily resembles his first teenage love. After doing some digging, Simon makes a shocking revelation—Jasmine may be his daughter. Rachel thinks the idea is absurd, but to pacify her ailing father, she sets out to debunk his theory.

When Jasmine discovers what’s going on, she heads to the Jackson Family Reunion in Smackover, Arkansas, in search of the truth. With her sidekick Mae Frances by her side, this big city girl isn’t ready for the country…or for the over-the-top family that she may have to claim as her own.