For Love and Grace (For Love and Grace Series #1) (Paperback)

by Kendra Norman-Bellamy (Author)

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Product Description
Dr. Gregory Dixon and Attorney Derrick Madison had a modern day biblical David and Jonathan friendship. They are closer than most brothers until Gregory performs a life-saving surgery on Grace, a beautiful college senior who was involved in a car accident that took the life of of Derrick's mother.

When Derrick finds out about the operation, he abruptly and abrasively ends his life-long friendship with Gregory. Meanwhile, Gregory's doctor/patient relationship with Grace turns into a deep, abiding love as he nurses her and watches her regain her healthy following the tedious brain surgery, causing a greater strain between the former friends.

Sherry, Derrick's wife is torn between her friendship with Gregory and Grace and her love for her husband. Agreeing with Gregory's decision to perform the surgery, she searches for a way to support Gregory's new life and love while trying to understand the grief and guilt that her husband is experiencing from his mother's untimely demise.

Will their friendship survive such a tragic event? --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author
Kendra Norman-Bellamy, daughter of Bishop and Mrs. H.H. Norman of Macon, Georgia is a native of West Palm Beach, Florida. She currently resides with her husband and two daughters in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Aside from her writing ventures, she is also employed as an underwriting assistant and is an AFAA certified fitness professional, teaching kickboxing, aerobics, body works and total body conditioning. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Kimani Press (November 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583145494
• ISBN-13: 978-1583145494
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (97 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #286,860 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Christian fiction : An auspicious debut!, July 28, 2003

By	Alvin C. Romer "The Jackal" (Miami, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Love and Grace (For Love and Grace Series #1) (Paperback)

If ever a book can grab you in the first few chapters and hold your attention long enough to know that it's character-driven and not a generic read, then you know that you have a good book. I read For Love And Grace and came away convinced that this author is destined for a graceful future. Kendra Norman-Bellamy has penned a love story extolling virtues of likable men seldom seen in lieu of the penchant to show them in sordid situations. Seldom too, will you find novels written where romance is not based on sex, sex, and more sex! Real life situations work best when storylines are woven to give poignancy to the process of eliciting genuine page turners.

When Derrick Madison lost his mother in a tragic car accident he immediately looks for reasons to justify angst gone awry by blaming others, and not allowing the better part of valor be instrumental in the healing process. The gist of this story involves Grace a college student who was involved in the aforementioned mishap. Enter Dr. Gregory Dixon, Derrick's best friend who falls in love with Grace and opens a can or worms that prove to be troublesome and somehow manages to bring to the fore the real meaning of friendship. I was able to read into the author's reason for writing such a book that would raise the sensibilities of strong male charisma amid the need to make viable decisions. Moreover, I saw how one can really bring back together friendship gone bad, how to deal with misguided guilt, learning how to let remorse guide forgiveness, and most importantly, in allowing a higher spiritual awareness define the real reason to fall in love. All of this is inherent in this book!

This is billed as Christian Romance, but the author articulates with clarity and the aplomb of a seasoned writer. It manages to render a heartfelt storyline allowing the characters to define substance, thus taking it way beyond the usual confines of a stereotypical debut novel. Kudos to you Kendra, we welcome this and look forward to the sequel.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Books....Talented Writer, June 16, 2005

By	Keven Hart (Kentucky) - See all my reviews

As a black man, I love books that glorify black men. I was introduced to the writing of this author by a book store owner in my town. I asked for good fiction where men weren't made to look like snakes and her first words were "Have you read anything by Kendra Norman-Bellamy." With the option to bring the books back for a refund if I didn't like them, I walked out of the store with every one of her titles. That was Saturday. Today is Wednesday. I read all four of her books in five days and I loved every one of them. I can't say that I've experienced love like the folks in A Love So Strong, For Love & Grace, and Because of Grace, but it was kwel to read about black love and survival despite the odds and the forces that fight against them. I'm more of a Jhordan kind of guy in Crossing Jhordan's River. I got issues, but I'll bust a ni**** in the mouth if he messes with my family. All of these books were great and it was good to read about brothers who fought for their women and the survival of their marriage. I think I'm a fan.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Score one for the brothas, January 29, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: For Love and Grace (For Love and Grace Series #1) (Paperback)

For starters, I admit that I am too embarrassed to sign my name to this review. Why? Because I'm a grown a-- man and I actually enjoyed reading this love story. Love stories aren't quite something that brothas are proud to admit enjoying reading. I actually found this book under a chair at an airport while I was on business travel. My flight got delayed and I was reading it just to try and keep my sanity during the wait. I was so engulfed in this book that time just flew by. Even when I loaded for my flight, I kept right on reading. I was so hyped at how this book promoted men and kind of gave them the crown that most books like this save for the women. Even Derrick, who by the way was my favorite character. He was bull-headed and at times aggressive and even got way out of line a time or two, but he was never depicted as a bad person. He was very real to me. In fact, I found a lot of me in him. Greg, as "perfect" as he seemed to be was real to me to because he was a carbon copy of my half-brother. My brother got married seven years ago and still treats his wife like rare gold and is always thinking straight, always optomistic and always catching the eye of every girl in the office. As much as I'd like to hold on to this book and re-read it or pass it along to another brotha to read, I don't have those kind of balls. I'm going to give it away to the first Goodwill that I see and if anybody asks me if I wrote this review, I'm going to lie and say no. Yes, I loved the book. But as man as I am, I ain't man enough to tell nobody that I loved it. To the author, keep writing books just like this and if I'm somewhere where I dont' know nobody and nobody don't know me, I'll buy it.