Leslie Audiobook (Free)
- Heather Alicia Simms
- 4 h 30 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2002-08-01
Summary:
To some she’s intelligent and beautiful.
To others she’s happy and dangerous.
At the historically black university of Dillard University in the lush mystical city of New Orleans, the stunning and serious Leslie Beaudet is struggling with a dark secret of power in a global that is tugging her in many different directions.
In the eyes of her Haitian immigrant father, Leslie is normally a queen who should get more than the damaged dreams and carnage of poverty. To her Black Indian mother, she actually is a way to obtain about Leslie satisfaction and strength, a reason to carry on. To her younger sister, already a mom of two and a high school dropout, Leslie may be the only person who cares enough to share her woes. To her brother, she actually is the victim he didn’t safeguard. To her college peers and instructors, Leslie is definitely a driven, resourceful student, probably to succeed, however impenetrably private.
When a series of murders befall her New Orlean’s community they stage in Leslie’s direction. Slowly, her close friends and relatives realize they’ve hardly ever really known Leslie — a complicated young woman terrified of failure, struggling with unpleasant family members secrets, praying for protection that has eluded everyone around her, and craving the energy to change her destiny, a power that was concealed from her as yet…when it’s too late to avoid her.
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