Little black girl lost 4 : the diary of Josephine Baptiste

Revealing the roots of Johnnie Wise's family tree, the author takes readers to Nigeria where a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, preparing to marry a much older man, escapes with her young lover on the night before the arranged marriage is to take place on a Dutch slave ship bound for America where she becomes Josephine Baptiste. Love stories. Detective and mystery stories. In this powerful story of love, loss, pain and forgiveness, Carin Douglas, the girlfriend of Monty, aka "Money Monty"--A notorious street thug with more money that most of his peers on the street--wonders if love is enough to save them from bold power moves, betrayal and explosive violence In this fourth gripping installment of the series, the author shows fans what has made Johnnie Wise the person she is, and takes readers all the way back to her beginning: to the story of her grandmother, Josephine Baptiste, a 16-year-old Nigerian girl who is captured by Dutch traders and sold into slavery