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The sequel to Monroe's first novel, God Don't Like Ugly (2000), revisits the lives of Annette Goode and her family and friends. After years of having no contact with her father, Annette reaches out to him. She and her father begin corresponding, and she finally makes the trip from Ohio to Miami for a visit. Annette's relationships with men have been disappointing. When she meets Jerome, she finally has a man who wants and loves her. When his uncle reveals to the family at their prewedding celebration that she sold her body, her past catches up with her and her future changes. Heartbroken and saddened, she seeks comfort from her childhood friend, Pee Wee Davis. She has also been tormented by the secrets of murder at the hands of her unstable friend, Rhoda. So after years of not speaking to one another they reconnect. Annette has to wrestle with the truth and with friendship and love to decide what is best for her. Lillian Lewis
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Growing up, Annette Goode thought all men were as low-down as the father who abandoned her. There was Mr. Boatwright, the boarder who abused her for years-until her best friend Rhoda murdered him. And what about the men she slept with to earn the money she needed to run away from her life? None of them was exactly the picture of chivalry. But now, after decades of soul searching and heartache, Annette has reunited with the father she never really knew. She￯﾿ﾽs severed all ties with the dangerously unstable Rhoda. And finally her real life has started to take shape. Or so she thinks...

Things start to fall apart at-of all places-Annette￯﾿ﾽs own pre-wedding celebration, where a guest reveals that the beautiful bride-to-be once turned tricks for a living. When her fianc￯﾿ﾽ pulls a disappearing act, Annette reunites with Pee Wee Davis-the man who has been her on-again, off-again sweetheart since childhood. It￯﾿ﾽs not a great life, but it￯﾿ﾽs a pretty good one.