“For immediate release. Anvil Press is proud to announce the late summer publication of B. B. Kemp’s, The Trojan Stiff. Read or listen to the audio version of The Trojan Stiff, where you’ll meet Michael N. Marino, a bold and irreverent, unforgettable protagonist who gets away with murder, or does he? According to Kirkus Review, The Trojan Stiff is a lovingly crafted tribute to the Mafia blockbusters of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s: The Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas, Once Upon a Time in America. It’s hard not to root for the mob from Zipporah, Missouri, when being bad looks so good (and is so much fun)! The Trojan Stiff is for those who love elaborate murder plots and how the bad guy convicted of murder avoids jail. Inspired by a true story, the names of characters, places and incidents in The Trojan Stiff are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual event is purely coincidental.”

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In 1899 ten-year-old Olivia Truluck’s home in Missouri is torched by the Ku Klux Klan. Olivia and her family leave the Show-me state to settle in the Greenwood District, north of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Starting with the 1905 Tulsa oil boom, both Blacks and Whites prosper, but tragedy comes with World War I, followed by the 1918 influenza epidemic. During two disastrous days in 1921 hundreds of Black people are slaughtered, Olivia Truluck’s house is destroyed for the second time and nothing is left of Black Wall Street.

It was a forbidden love. She was born an African Princess in 1790, only to be sold into slavery. He was from a wealthy White family in New England. Even though forbidden by the church, the joining of John F. Webber and Sylvia Hector was the first nineteenth-century mixed marriage. Forbidden Love offers a new historical perspective of Texas’ founders and early America’s attitude toward people of color that has carried forward to this day. How John and Sylvia overcame racism and prejudice is written on the pages of the historical novel Forbidden Love.