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    Vivid

    By Beverly Jenkins

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    “Jenkins’s well-drawn characters and seamless incorporation of black history result in a fresh, winning historical.” –Publishers Weekly

    “Beverly Jenkins has reached romance superstardom!” –Detroit Free Press

    It's 1876 and Dr. Viveca Lancaster is frustrated by the limits placed upon female physicians of color. When she is offered the chance to set up a practice in the small all Black community of Grayson Grove, Michigan she leaves her California home and heads east. The very determined Viveca is one of the few nineteenth century Black women to graduate from the prestigious Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, so she knows all about fighting for her rights. But she may need more than determination to face down the distractingly handsome Nate Grayson, the Grove's bull-headed mayor.

    Nate Grayson goes to the train station expecting Dr. V. Lancaster to be a man. Of course he does. But when the lovely dark-skinned Viveca introduces herself, he is at first speechless…then full of some very loud and very choice words, ordering her back on the train and out of his town! It's 1876 and women aren't supposed to be doctors, men are. Nate Grayson is prepared to fight for that belief.

    However, he isn't prepared for this extraordinary beauty’s stubbornness and fire, nor for the vivid way she heals, then steals his heart.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNYLA
    Release dateJan 15, 2001
    ISBN9781617508684
    Author

    Beverly Jenkins

    Beverly Jenkins is the recipient of the 2018 Michigan Author Award by the Michigan Library Association, the 2017 Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the 2016 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for historical romance. She has been nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Literature, was featured in both the documentary Love Between the Covers and on CBS Sunday Morning. Since the publication of Night Song in 1994, she has been leading the charge for inclusive romance, and has been a constant darling of reviewers, fans, and her peers alike, garnering accolades for her work from the likes of The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, and NPR. To read more about Beverly, visit her at www.BeverlyJenkins.net.  

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    • 4/5
      Vivid by Beverly JenkinsA historical romanc but more.Includes lots of historical facts in detailed story form. An example is the establishment of the first black church. And the selling of slave brothers and sisters.Not something I expected in a romance novel. I felt like I was attending a lecture at times and it distracted s bit from the story itself. Doctor Viveca Lancaster travels to Grayson Grove, Michigan to become the town’s doctor. Nate Grayson wasn’t aware he was hiring a female doctor and isn’t pleased when Vivid arrives. But she sure is pretty and seems to know how to help folks he sees quickly. The romance of Vivid and Nate is inevitable as they both are attracted to each other. That Nate has a child already make Vivid’s heart melt. After the half way mark, the couple is intimate as often as they can be. The scenes are detailed once Vivid learns of La Petit Morte. The little death is managed often considering the couple is only engaged. Complications arise through a hawk, a sister, another doctor and a threat to the children. I’d say it’s a sweeping saga because it does seem to cover years but in reality no more than a couple of years.Excerpt:“Vivid’s partner in crime had been her late Grandmother Maria, founder of the Female Plotting Rebelling Society. Grandmother Maria believed that all females regardless of age, race or circumstances should always be plotting rebellion to better the state of women. Vivid had been raised as a practicing co-conspirator.”Excerpt from Vivid by Beverly Jenkins
    • 5/5
      I loved the Community aspect of this book. blacks coming together and being protective over one another, definitely not like today. The relationship between Nate and Dr Viveca was enchanting and smoldering hot! I liked the family dynamics of the Graysons and Abigails defiance of Mr. Crowley. She taunted that man for years. The rich history lessons told throughout the book were fantastic, native people, scholars, politicians, and the game,lacrosse. All very wonderful. I would recommend this book to people who don't mind a little history mixed in with their historical romance.