say amen again by reshonda tate billingsley

MAMA’S BOY will have readers engrossed in thoughts of what they would do if facing the same situation, and inevitably having the conversation with others-a page-turner and conversation-starter all in one. And when long-hidden secrets and shocking lies come to light, throwing Jamal’s case and his destiny into a tailspin, all Gloria can do is pray that the truth-and a mother’s unconditional love-will be enough to redeem the mistakes of the past and, ultimately, save her son. With ruthless prosecutor and Houston mayoral candidate Kay Christensen hungering to put another young thug behind bars, Gloria will face her biggest battle yet.

Once she finds him, she has to decide whether to turn him in or help him run.

And all of Jasper-even the reverend’s congregation-rushes to judge the teen they thought they knew.īut Gloria Jones knows her son best, and she races to find Jamal before the law does-to the outrage of her workaholic husband. Now, as the national spotlight shines on a town already rife with racial tension, Jamal is a murder suspect on the run. The breaking TV news rocks Jasper, Texas, to the core: a white police officer is fatally shot in a scuffle with three black youths-and a cellphone video captures Jamal Jones, the sixteen-year-old son of esteemed Reverend Elton Jones, escalating the tragic encounter. After all, where can an unmarried mother-to-be go but to the Lord? Rachel has a few choice answers for exactly where Mary can go…but as these expectant moms do battle, hostilities erupt into a drama unlike anything Zion Hill has ever seen! Something has to give, and while Rachel contemplates everything from transferring her lifelong church membership to packing up and leaving Lester, she knows deep down God is calling her to forgiveness.When her son is in trouble, a heartbroken mother finds the courage and faith to save him, in ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s powerful family drama MAMA’S BOY-a novel as timely as today’s headlines. Her baby may or may not be Lester’s, but Mary’s doing all she can to win sympathy and turn her fellow churchgoers against Rachel-even threatening to blackmail Pastor Adams with a paternity agreement. The spirited Houston congregation featured in bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s Let the Church Say Amen and Everybody Say Amen has a major scandal unfolding-and, as always, the outspoken Rachel Jackson Adams is at the heart of the drama.Īs the First Lady of Zion Hill, Rachel is not only Pastor Lester Adams’s wife-she’s currently his eight-months- pregnant wife, who’s going toe-to-toe with Lester’s onetime mistress, congregant Mary Richardson, also pregnant.

Say amen again by reshonda tate billingsley