We Take This Man [Paperback]

Candice Dow (Author), Daaimah S. Poole (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 7, 2009

Dwight and Tracey Wilson are living the ideal life with their two children in a brand new home in Florida. They are both excited when Dwight is offered a promotion at work, but the downside is that the job is located in Maryland. After much discussion, Tracey decides that she does not want to leave their new house. Dwight makes the decision to accept the position and return home on weekends.


Alicia Dixon has spent her life hating and not trusting men after her father mistreated her mother, but she can't help but fall for the new guy in her company...Dwight. They both try to fight their attraction to one another, but it proves to be a losing battle-Alicia is everything that his southern wife is not.


When Alicia ends up pregnant, Dwight decides to end things with Tracey, but the process proves not to be as easy as Dwight had hoped.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Dwight and Tracey Wilson have two children and a committed marriage, until Dwight is offered a major promotion that will take him from Florida to Maryland and Tracey is unwilling to move. Dwight takes up with co-worker. Alicia Dixon at his new job, and when she gets pregnant, he marries her, not knowing that his divorce was never finalized. Alicia's excitement (I had snagged an endangered species: a successful black man who loved me) is short-lived when Tracey arrives to reclaim Dwight. Wanting to do the right thing for both women and all his children, Dwight, Tracey and Alicia embark on an unconventional solution that forces them all together. Veteran authors Dow and Poole team up to tell this complicated story, but this tale of a weak man who can't or won't make a choice is less than compelling. Women will leave this book wondering how Dwight was able to land one of these women, let alone two, and will be mystified at what exactly the women are fighting so hard to keep. (Jan.)
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About the Author

Candice Dow is a native of Baltimore, MD and graduate of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Johns Hopkins University. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a Software Engineer. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Rho Xi Omega Chapter in Baltimore, and enjoys mentoring teenage girls. Candice is the author of four novels: Caught In The Mix, Ain't No Sunshine, A Hire Love, and Tappin' On Thirty. She is currently hard at work on her next novel.

Daaimah S. Poole began writing in a black and white copybook and wrote every time she had the chance. After finishing her first novel, she got a deal with Kensington books. Her titles include: Yo Yo Love (12/03), Got A Man (07/03), What's Real (05/05), Ex-Girl to the Next Girl (05/06), and All I Want Is Everything (09/07).

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (January 7, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446501832
• ISBN-13: 978-0446501835
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 1 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,055,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Candice Dow is a native of Baltimore, MD and graduate of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Johns Hopkins University. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a Software Engineer. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Rho Xi Omega Chapter in Baltimore. Candice is a frequent traveler and loves to analyze love, life, and relationships, and seeks to expose the answers in works of fiction.

Candice's titles include Caught in the Mix, Ain't No Sunshine, A Hire Love, and Tappin' On Thirty.

To share your thoughts with Candice, please email her at [e-mail]. She would love to hear from you.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How Did We Get Into This Mess?, December 18, 2008

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Donnica Carter "AKA DCSquared" (Marietta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We Take This Man (Paperback)

Dwight and Tracy Wilson are happily married with two children and living the good life. They just purchased Tracy's dream home in Jacksonville, Florida. The good life is destroyed when Dwight is offered a promotion, but has to move to Maryland. Tracy selfishly decides that she wants no part of it and will not be moving. She sends Dwight on his way. Alone in a new city, Dwight takes comfort with his coworker, Alicia Dixon. The attraction is mutual but they both respect that he is a married man. As time goes on and Dwight realizes his marriage with Tracy is crumbling, he leans more and more towards a relationship with Alicia.

Alicia finds out that she is pregnant and the whole game changes. For years, she has declared never to get married or have children. In the blink of an eye, life changes. Dwight ends his marriage to Tracey to start a new life with Alicia. Life could not get any better. That is because it got a whole lot worse.

Candice Dow and Daaimah S. Poole come together for a great collaboration with We Take This Man. The story is told from the point-of -view of both women. The back and forth between the women is hilarious. The drama is never ending. The solution they come up with is unbelievable. Another book that I read in one night. You will not want to put this down. You will be on the edge of your seat wondering what will happen next. I have never read anything by Dow but I read Poole's, Yo Yo Love. I highly recommend We Take This Man for fans of both authors.

Donnica Copeland
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Could you Take this Drama??, March 25, 2009

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Nealinda Stewart "Author of Torn and Turned O... (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: We Take This Man (Paperback)

We Take This Man was a interesting read but I found myself PUTTING myself in Alicia and Tracey's situations and saying HELLLLLLLL NAW!

Meet Tracey, the high school sweetheart and wife of Dwight Wilson. She was the spoiled, mom/wifey type who was used to getting her way at all costs! She loved to hide her shopping bags from Dwight and basically it was all about her. Dwight gets a job offer for a position in MD and decides to accept. Tracey and her selfishness is NOT having that! So because she didn't want to leave her home, she allows her husband to go to another state without her and his family! What women in their right noggin would do such a thing!

Meet Alicia with her savvy, sassy and loving life personality is not happy about this newcomer/new boss coming into the company. Dwight starts the new position and although Alicia is not feeling his existence, she likes how he does the job. Long work nights leave these two no choice but to get to know each other better. No feelings turn into good feelings for the both of them and the drama unfolds. In the meantime, Dwight and Tracey long distance marriage is NOT working out. So, he decided that divorce is the best solution. Tracey decided to contest it but doesn't let Dwight know that. While in MD, Alicia finds out she's pregnant and Dwight decides to marry her......DRAMA and more f-----DRAMA!!!

I have to admit, I struggled to read this because these women made some dizzy azz decisions and I wanted to shake both of them!!

Candice with her vivid imagination and amusing writing style had me laughing so hard and Poole added her witty yet calm style of writing and this collaboration was wonderful! Kudos to both Ladies!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Unsure how I feel, January 8, 2009

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T. Gleichner "http://reviewfromhere.com" (Fox Cities, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: We Take This Man (Paperback)

Tracey Wilson has everything a woman could want in a husband. He is a good father to his children, a loving husband to her, and he is educated and earns a good living...good enough for Tracey to have a brand new home in Florida, and not have to worry too much about her spending habits.

But, all that changes when Dwight gets offered a promotion at work - it is a $40,000 a year increase in pay but there is a catch - he will be relocated to Maryland. After a lot of discussion, Tracey decides that she is going to stay behind in Florida and Dwight will fly back on the weekends. I for one never understand how people think this will work, especially when there are children involved. But so goes the story.

Dwight is totally devoted to making this new job work out, and ends up missing weekends with his family. He is so busy that he forgets to call, and even when he is "home" his mind is still on work. And on Alicia.

Alicia Dixon works at the company that Dwight gets transferred to, and there is an immediate attraction. But, Alicia is upset because she feels that she was slighted for the position that is now Dwight's. As they continue to spend more time together, they find out that they have much in common and Dwight sees that this is what he has been looking for - someone to completely support him and not decide to stay behind in a different state. Alicia knows that Dwight is married, but feels as if he is fair game - what kind of wife would let their man move to another state and only see them on weekends?

Dwight decides to file for divorce - he has everything he needs in Alicia and realizes he has been unhappy with Tracey since her refusal to move. But things aren't going to be as easy as he thinks.

I have never read anything by Candice Dow or Daaimah, and although the content of the book was troubling to me (with the affairs and the way they decided to work things out in the end) I must say that the writing was excellent. I am unsure if I would recommend this book or not. I for one think that most women are stronger than they are portrayed in this book, but again let me stress the word most.