My wife's lover

By Johnson, R. M.

Subjects: Family secrets, African Americans, Fiction

Description: "Two years ago, Stan's wife Erica told him she was pregnant by another man. Erica begged for Stan's foregiveness and asked him to raise the baby because the biological father, Michael, wanted nothing to do with him. Contracts were signed transferring custody and all fatherly rights to Stan. He happily raised and loved the boy for two years; life with his wife and new son was wonderful. Then one day Stan walks into his living room to find Erica and Michael in a tearful embrace; a horrific tragedy occured and Michael wants his son back. Frightened and looking for answers, Stan is reassured by his attorney father the signed documents are ironclad and there's no need to worry. But things change: sex with Erica is awkward. She no longer trusts Stan with her son. He finds text messages to Michael and discovers she's been talking to her old lover. Are they conspiring against him to take Stan's son from him? Stan fights to keep his family together, but when information regarding a unspeakable act Stan commits, suspiciously falls inot Michael's hands--information Stan had only told his wife--Michael uses it as blackmail against Stan. But Stan has had enough. Abandoned as a child by his own father and forced years ago to surrender custody of his older daughter, Stan does not take lightly a man attempting to steal his wife and son from him. He will do whaterver he must not to keep his family together, including take a life. " -- Page [4] of cover.