Lastly, I just want to say thanks to you, the readers, for the support. If you purchased a book, told someone about me…I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I’ve said it before, without you, there is no me. I hope that I am able to inspire someone to take a chance and follow a dream. It’s never easy, but usually worth it.
It’s been said that a dream deferred is a dream denied. Who wants to sit around wondering what could have been? Don’t Ever Wonder…
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About the Author
DARREN COLEMAN graduated from Bowie State University, where he majored in elementary education and minored in communications. He is the founder of NVision Publishing and author of the Essence bestsellers Do or Die and Before I Let Go. Coleman has written a screenplay and currently has a filmin the preproduction stage. He lives in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
www.darrencoleman.net
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Advance praise for Don’t Ever Wonder
“Darren Coleman is a super storyteller. Don’t Ever Wonder if this book is a page-turner; it is a sizzling-hot page-burner!”
—Marissa Monteilh, author of Hot Boyz
“It’s hot!! Darren Coleman captures sensuality and eroticism through the written word. It takes you there and has you biting your bottom lip! Three cheers for the brother!”
—Justine Love, “The Sexpert,” host of Lovetalk and Slowjams (WPGC, Washington, D.C.’s number one radio station)
Praise for the Essence bestseller Before I Let Go
“Darren Coleman keeps it real. He creates outstanding characters and drama that make you want to keep turning those pages. This is Waiting to Exhale of the 2000s.”
—Shannon Holmes, author of B-More Careful and Bad Girlz
“Darren Coleman establishes himself as one of the premier male voices of our time.”
—Patty Rice, bestselling author of Somethin’ Extra and Reinventing the Woman
also by Darren Coleman
Before I Let Go
Do or Die
Credits
Designed by Chris Welch
Cover illustration by Anthony Carr
Author photograph by Curtis Catrell
Copyright
DON’T EVER WONDER. Copyright © 2005 by Darren Coleman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books;.
ePub edition July 2005 ISBN 9780061743436
Coleman, Darren.
Don’t ever wonder: a novel / Darren Coleman.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-059486-1
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Epigraph
Contents
1: Once Upon a Time
2: The Honeycomb Hideout
3: It Takes a Fool to Learn
4: Yearnin’ for Your Love
5: How Sweet the Sound
6: Out of the Frying Pan
7: The Notion or the Motion?
8: Without a Strong Rhyme to Step To
9: Sweet-and-Sour Sugar
10: Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
11: If Heaven’s Missing an Angel
12: Truth Hurts
13: No Ordinary Love
14: The Crossroads
15: Not your Average Girl
16: Love Electric
17: Masters of Disaster
19: Where Do We Go from Here?
20: Just What I Needed?
21: Now…for the Moment You’ve Been Waiting For
22: Time Waits for No Man
23: Lovely Inspiration
24: Truth Hurts
25: Just Don’t Wanna Be Lonely
26: One More Round
27: Don’t Forget Your Way Home
28: Thicker than Water
29: A Story to Tell
30: Don’t Ever Wonder
31: Don’t Wanna Be a Player No More
Don’t Ever Wonder
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Advance praise for Don’t Ever Wonder
also by Darren Coleman
Credits
Copyright
About the publisher