Love Tornado
A Novel
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Publisher Description
Pastor Albertina Merci, the former blues singer turned minister, juggles rap, romance, family, and faith in the third book in this delightful series.
The unexpected arrival of fifteen-year-old rapper J Love hits Pastor Merci with the force of a whirlwind. When J’s mother is killed in a tragic bus accident, Albertina is named his legal guardian. The situation quickly complicates her budding romance with Mario, the owner of a thriving L.A. café.
As Albertina struggles to keep things on an even keel, J embarks on a dangerous journey of his own. Seduced by Bishop Henry Gold’s daughter Damitra, J abandons his career as a gospel rapper and joins the flashy, materialistic world of gangsta rap. Pastor Merci must draw on every ounce of faith she has to bring everyone’s voyage to a happy ending.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this third book about Pastor Albertina Merci, the feisty African-American blues singer-cum-evangelist, Albertina takes in her teenage godson, J Love, a gospel rapper who's just lost his mom. As J Love slowly works through his grief and learns some lessons in responsibility, he and Albertina encounter other characters: Bishop Henry Gold, the ambitious T.D. Jakes styled megachurch pastor who tangled with Albertina in Stay Out of the Kitchen!; his daughter Damitra, a sultry gospel singer who's hot for J Love; and in an underdeveloped subplot Albertina's nephew Patrick, whose non-Christian wife is finally plunging into the baptismal waters. The best part of this series remains its heroine, a font of spiritual wisdom who can still throw down the blues like nobody else.
