Love's Sweet Melody: Decades: A Journey of African American Romance, #5

By Kianna Alexander

*LOVE'S SWEET MELODY is part of the Decades: A Journey of African American Romance series. Each book explores a decade between the 1900s and the 2010s. This book covers the 1940s.*

Autumn, 1946

Warner Hughes returns home from war with the lingering effects of battle. Abandoned by his sweetheart and ostracized by his community, he feels he has no real home.

Elizabeth "Betty" Daniels has one love: music. Betty's family wants to see her married, busy with affairs of the home, leaving no time to pursue her art. 

Warner's only solace is in the sweet melody of Betty's music. To Betty's mind, marriage means giving up the freedom to pursue her art. Can Warner let love in, and can Betty make room for love?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kianna Alexander
• Release date: May 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386695189

Kianna Alexander

Kianna Alexander wears many hats: doting mother, advice dispensing sister, and voracious reader. The author of more than twenty novels, she currently lives in her home state of North Carolina.

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