"...an eloquently written novel that speaks to the heart." - Danelle Petersen from Readers' Favorite New Year's Eve. Tantalizing games. A shocking murder.
It's New Year's Eve 1912. In Atlanta, Georgia, the bustling African American neighborhood of Auburn Avenue is thriving more than it ever has. Professor Marion Franklin, a lecturer of Performing Arts at the historically black college of Atlanta University, feels better than ever. After years of trying, she and her husband Jack Franklin, an admired and successful owner of several African American barber shops in the area, are enjoying raising their baby son - Jack Harold Franklin Jr. Their baby, Jack Jr., is now eight months old and growing every day. But Marion and Jack soon find their happy family interrupted when they both attend the New Year's Eve/birthday celebration for the illustrious Reverend Ephram Johnson at Auburn Avenue's newly opened Odd Fellows Building.
Reverend Ephram Johnson of Auburn Avenue's First Congregational Church is preparing to enter 1913 with a bang! As he and his charismatic wife, First Lady Edna Johnson, celebrate the biggest party night of the year with what seems to be the entire Auburn Avenue community, the night is filled with riotous laughter, glittering fireworks, and scrumptious delicacies. But as the night carries on, Jack and Marion receive a note that says, "Solve this riddle and retrieve this item by midnight or he dies." Jack and Marion must now race against time or someone in the crowded building will become the victim of a heinous murder. Will they make it in time? Who is the assailant that will carry out this crime and who is this mystifying "he" the culprit is after? Insistent on solving this mystery, Marion and Jack Franklin embark in this hair-razing tale where they face shocking twists, encounter dangerous confrontations, and expose devastating secrets.
A New Year's Eve party with murder on the guest list. Welcome to Auburn Avenue!
