Minority Of One

By B. A. Binns

Neill is a walking statistic; Black, teenaged, and gay. He was strong enough to come out to his family in 8th grade and sensitive enough to know just how much that truth hurt the older brother he worships. He is also intelligent enough to fulfill his family’s dream that he become a doctor - a dream he doesn’t share. But after disappointing his family once, he can’t imagine doing so again.
Sheila is young and white, a former poor little rich girl (now just poor) facing life with a mother whose continued infidelity caused her father’s suicide. When Sheila arrives at her new home in Chicago’s inner city she finds herself one of only a handful of white students. She sees no hope of ever being happy again.
At first glance the only thing Sheila and Neill have in common is the on-going affair between her mother and his older, married brother. But invisible ties draw these two outliers together. When Sheila’s mother is found dead, and Neill’s brother is arrested for the crime, they have to become a team to keep the real killer from going unpunished and to make their own unique futures.
Minority of One is a story for anyone who has ever felt friendless and alone, the only one of their kind. It’s for everyone who ever found someone special, someone willing to go to the mat to help uncover the truth about themselves and find their rightful place in the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: B. A. Binns
• Release date: Mar 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9780988182189

B. A. Binns

B. A. Binns is a Chicago Area author who writes to attract and inspire reluctant readers with stories of “real boys growing into real men...and the people who love them.” After graduating Hyde Park High School, she obtained degrees in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin and Michigan State University; and in Computer Science from Roosevelt University, and DePaul University. Her writing skills were honed at Chicago State University and Harper College. She does talks and classes on domestic violence and teens, attracting teen boy readers, and multicultural literature.She finds writing an exercise in self-discipline, and the perfect follow-up to her life as the eldest of five children, an adoptive parent, and a cancer survivor. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America, the Chicago Writers Association, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association). In 2009 her work won the Oklahoma Romance Writers Finally a Bride Contest and the Rose City Golden Rose Contest. In 2010 she was a finalist in the RWA Golden Heart® contest. Her favorite quote is from Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Easy reading is damned hard writing.”She is the YA “genre-ista” on the Romancing the Genres group blog at romancingthegenres.blogspot.com.

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