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    Forces of Nature
    Forces of Nature
    Forces of Nature
    Audiobook7 hours

    Forces of Nature

    Written by Cheris Hodges

    Narrated by Shari Peele

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    No one is going to tear down the farmland that's been in Crystal's family since the turn of the 20th century - especially not the multimillion dollar suits behind Welco Industries. And until Welco's president meets with her, Crystal wages a fiery one-woman protest to prove she means business. When he finally appears, Douglas Wellington III is far from the elderly curmudgeon she expected. Crystal issues a challenge: spend one week on the land he wants to destroy. He agrees, if only to be alone with her.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 12, 2013
    ISBN9781470347468
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    Cheris Hodges

    Cheris Hodges was bitten by the writing bug early. The 1999 graduate of Johnson C. Smith University is a freelance journalist and always looks for love stories in the most unusual places. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she is trying and failing to develop a green thumb. www.cherishodges.net

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      Using romance clichés and often-stilted language, Hodges pits two small-town African American adversaries against each other over a family farm. Organic farmer and community do-gooder Crystal Hughes is threatened by scion Douglas Wellington III when his development company wants to buy her land to build a business park. Since Hughes Farm was the first African American land owned in the county and now suppports a house for wayward girls, Crystal refuses to sell it. Douglas, pressured on the one hand by a gung-ho board of directors and on the other by his godfather, is adamant about building there. In between is their instant attraction to each other, which forces long-held grudges and long-buried family history to emerge as others get wind of Crystal and Douglas’ growing love. Plagued by anomalies and inconsistencies, this romance will frustrate readers. — Pat Henshaw