02431cam a2200337 i 4500 2675739587 TxAuBib 20260205120000.0 151002s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015036346 9781476748887 paperback $14.00 1476748888 paperback $14.00 (OCoLC)987275390 TxAuBib rda Billingsley, ReShonda Tate. A Blessing & A Curse / ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray. Blessing and a curse. First Gallery books trade paperback edition. New York : Gallery Books, 2016. 275 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes gallery readers group guide. "First ladies of the Baptist church and sworn frenemies Rachel Jackson Adams and Jasmine Cox Larson Bush are stunned to learn they may have more in common than they thought--like who's their daddy--in the scandalous new collaboration between national bestselling and award-winning authors ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray. A heated American Baptist Coalition election. A murky murder cover-up. An outrageous reality TV show. What in heaven's name kind of drama will holy rivals Rachel Jackson Adams and Jasmine Cox Larson Bush--prominent first ladies of the Baptist church--get themselves into next? Since he first met Jasmine, Rachel's father Simon Jackson has had a funny feeling about her. She eerily resembles his first teenage love. After doing some digging, Simon makes a shocking revelation--Jasmine may be his daughter. Rachel thinks the idea is absurd, but to pacify her ailing father, she sets out to debunk his theory. When Jasmine discovers what's going on, she heads to the Jackson Family Reunion in Smackover, Arkansas, in search of the truth. With her sidekick Mae Frances by her side, this big city girl isn't ready for the country ... or for the over-the-top family that she may have to claim as her own"-- Provided by publisher. 20260205. Bush, Jasmine Larson (Fictitious character) Fiction. African American women Fiction. African American churches Fiction. Murray, Victoria Christopher, author.