Single Mama's Got More Drama

November 24, 2008
Vanessa Cain returns in Perrin's over-the-top sequel to Single Mama Drama
. With her fiancé dead and his wife hounding her for her condo, Vanessa is in desperate straits. Ex-boyfriend Lewis has proposed marriage and financial stability, but her heart belongs to Chaz, a motivational speaker who left her after she lied to him. Vanessa must also contend with Byron, her daughter's deadbeat father, who has been growing increasingly aggressive in his demands to see his child. The book doesn't lack for drama, but it is deficient in most other areas: the characters—including Vanessa—are unbelievable, and the writing is as pedestrian as the plotting is clumsy.

February 15, 2009
Unbeknownst to Vanessa, her deceased fianc', Eli, was married, and now his widow is hounding her about the South Beach condo she bought with him. She wants Vanessa out, but single-mother Vanessa wants to stay so her young daughter, Rayna, will have some stability. Now Vanessas ex-boyfriend, Lewis, wants to marry her, and, to top off this already complicated situation, Raynas father, who abandoned them when she was pregnant, now wants to be a part of his daughters life. And someone is following her. Perrin whips up lots of drama as her beautiful African American heroine faces one crisis after another while looking for love and caring for her daughter.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)