GOTTA KEEP ON TRYIN' by Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant is the long awaited sequel to the smash hit, Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made.

Gayle and Pat’s continuing story explores the way lessons not learned from the past can poison the future, the toll professional success can take on personal relationships, and the healing potential of forgiveness. Pat and her husband Marcus must deal with a paternity crisis after a teenager shows up, claiming to be Marcus’s daughter. Gayle has her own family drama, as the ghost of her gambler husband Ramsey continues to cast a shadow over her attempts to start a new life with her daughter Vanessa. Will the new business Pat and Gayle have started together crash and burn as a result? Real, honest and relatable, Gotta Keep on Tryin’ ultimately shows a life-long friendship at its best.

Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant, with five novels to their credit, have been best friends for 25 years and have turned a friendship into the most successful and enduring writing collaboration in African American fiction. Donna attended Barnard College and is a graduate of New York University. A Brooklyn native, she currently lives in the borough with her husband. Virginia is a former high school English teacher from Buffalo, New York attended Fisk University and is a graduate of SUNY at Buffalo. Virginia now lives in New Jersey.

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