Uptown: A Novel

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Veteran authors Virgina DeBerry and Donna Grant are back with a story following a wealthy African American family caught up in a storm of scandal, sex, betrayal and greed. Heir to a real-estate empire, Dwight is willing to do anything to fulfil his father's dream - Dixon Plaza, a luxury high-rise development on Central Park North. His cousin, Avery, however, has inherited a share of the property Dwight needs - and the situation goes from awkward to explosive when she starts dating a reporter on an undercover mission to uncover the truth behind Dwight's initiative.

Author Bio

Virginia DeBerry was a successful plus-size model, former Vice President of BB/LW modeling agency and served as editor-in-chief of Maxima magazine before becoming a novelist. DeBerry is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo. She currently resides in central New Jersey. Donna Grant spent more than a decade as a model for catalogs and advertisements. Grant has been featured on the pages of Essence, McCalls, Family Circle, and Woman's Day, as well as appeared on Good Morning America, and Live with Regis and Kathy Lee. Grant served as the Managing Editor of Maxima before her writing career. A Brooklyn native, she is a graduate of New York University and still lives in the borough with her husband.