Author Description

This is a novel for the doubters and the believers, for the storytellers and the secret keepers, for every soul making footprints on life's serpentine road. Mahogany Sunshine captures the yearning's of an abandoned child, the desires of a young woman coming of age in a Bible Belt town filled with people whose lives and lies don't always align. Jae Hicks' debut novel is an instant American classic, and a must read page turner. Abandoned by her parents at an early age, and tormented by a reality she can't understand, Heaven tells the story of her small town from the candid perspective of a budding young woman who has seen too much, and heard more than she is allowed to share. Heaven's hometown of Beulah is overrun with secrets and lies, woven together in an unraveling quilt of stories, exposing a town full of questionable church folks that are all too familiar in the strangest ways imaginable. Heaven speaks with the honesty of a wide eyed child, and the indignation of an adult who has endured far too much. Mahogany Sunshine is at once poetic, lyrical, poignant, and provocative. Heaven's voice will whisk you away on a journey that you won't soon forget, and challenge you to re-imagine why you doubt and the way you believe.