From the #1 Essence
bestselling and award-winning author Victoria Christopher Murray comes Stand
Your Ground, a new novel about two women who are faced with the same
tragedy.
A black
teenage boy is dead. A white man shot him. Was he standing his ground or was it
murder?
Janice Johnson is living every black mother’s nightmare. Her seventeen-year-old son was murdered and the shooter has not been arrested. Can the D.A. and the police be trusted to investigate and do the right thing? Should Janice take advantage of the public outcry and join her husband alongside the angry protestors who are out for revenge?
Meredith
Spencer is married to the man accused of the killing and she sees her husband
and the situation with far more clarity than anyone realizes. What she knows
could blow the case wide open, but what will that mean for her life and that of
her son? Will she have the courage to come forward in time so that justice can
be done?
#1 national
bestselling and award-winning author Victoria Christopher Murray’s Stand
Your Ground is a pulse-pounding meditation on race, motherhood, marriage,
and vigilante justice that will have readers spellbound until its shocking end.
Print Length: 368 pages
Publisher: Touchstone (June 30, 2015)
Publication Date: June 30, 2015
Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc ISBN: 978-1476792996
Genre: Christian Fiction
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Praise for Stand Your Ground
"Murray has written a tension-packed novel around the hot-buzz national
topic of an unarmed black youth shot by a white male, an act then
subjected to the Stand Your Ground rule as a legal defense tactic. . . .
Murray’s writing admirably shows the often overlooked human emotions
following racial violence. . . . The pulled-from-the headlines storyline
will captivate readers." —Library Journal (starred review)
“With artful descriptions, Victoria put me inside their hearts and minds. I did not just enjoy this read, I lived it." —Michelle Lindo Rice, bestselling author of the Able To Love series
“With artful descriptions, Victoria put me inside their hearts and minds. I did not just enjoy this read, I lived it." —Michelle Lindo Rice, bestselling author of the Able To Love series
Meet the Author
Victoria Christopher Murray is the Essence bestselling author of more than twenty novels including: The Ex Files, Lady Jasmine, and The Deal, the Dance, and the Devil.
Winner of the African American Literary Award for Fiction and Author of
the Year (Female), Murray is also a two-time NAACP Image Award Nominee
for Outstanding Fiction. She splits her time between Los Angeles and
Washington, DC. Visit her website at www.VictoriaChristopherMurray.com.
