JJ Murray, I’m Your Girl

I'm Your Girl

JJ Murray

Kensington, November 2006. $15.00

ISBN: 0758213972

African American librarian Dee-Dee Anderson enjoys living in Roanoke, Virginia, but bemoans the lack of a man in her life, or for that matter any real tight friends. At night she reviews books using the name Nisi, as she believes that next to a hunk, a book is a girl's best friend.

Writer Jack Browning returns books he borrowed from the library where Dee-Dee works and meets her. They are attracted to one another, but both have problems to overcome if a relationship is to form. He still grieves the deaths of his wife and their son in a car accident, while she still envisions her mother informing her to heed Henry Ford's advice when it comes to the color of her man; though nice, Jack is too pale to fit mama's parameter.

I'M YOUR GIRL is a fabulous interracial romance, starring two likable nice people who have issues, even without dealing with how family, friends and neighbors react to the race question. The storyline rotates perspective between the two leads, so that the audience obtain a full taste of how each sees the other, and how those close to them either support (some reluctantly with lip service) or scorn their relationship. JJ Murray provides a deep character driven drama, filled with humor and pathos that holds the audience who want the couple to make it together.