Celebrate Juneteenth With a Good Romance
The Brightest Day: A Juneteenth Historical Romance Anthology by Kianna Alexander My rating: 4 of 5 stars I live in a small town in North Central Florida where, until recently, we had monuments to the Confederacy in our public square and in the naming of public buildings. A special day like Juneteenth resonates in our community as a very real celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation freeing enslaved people throughout the South. This outstanding collection celebrates the 19th of June (and if you don't know why that's a holiday, each story explains it), and the brave women and men who were strong in the face of adversity, whether it was a Jim Crow rail car of the late 19th c. or the Freedom Riders of the 1960s. Some of the stories are Inspirationals, some are straight historical romance (with some sensuality), all are well-written and entertaining. Since this collection was released I've read more by these authors, all of whom are talented storytellers, and I a...