Books by Sandra Hopkins

It wasn't the life she had dreamed of when she married Asher Jr. Deloris thought she was marrying into one of Stewart, Virginia's most prestigious families. The family is first introduced in Sandra Hopkins first novel, "The Dark One." Her father had always told her that she was destined to be special. She had denied this specialness her whole life, but now she needed to pull on these special abilities and teach her daughter how to control what she had inherited. Her daughter brings two spirits together that had searched 400 years for each other. The spirits belonged to Adama, who had allowed herself to be captured in Africa, and her true love Kwame. She died loving and looking for him, but never found him. She believed that her spirit would live on through one of her children and it would find Kwame. He had been told as a child that he was named for a stolen warrior and dreamed about a special woman his whole life. Would he and she find the love and the life they had always wanted.

Two detectives take thirty years between them to solve the murders that surround Marcy Morton and her father, Asher. She is convinced during her developmental years by her self-centered stepmother that she can't be beautiful because she is darker than a paper bag. She spends the same thirty years discovering who she is; that her complexion doesn't diminish her beauty and to learn to love herself. Who is really the dark one?