Lovejoy — Daphne Simpkins

Lovejoy took her breath away with his first kiss. Then he went after her money.


Or at least that's how it felt when the elder in her church, Franklin Lovejoy, invited Cindy Bell, a staid church lady, to Sunday lunch for the first time.


Desire happened, and it wasn't just for the bread pudding with whiskey sauce.
Lovejoy happened to Cindy Louise Bell.
But to be truthful, she happened to him, too.
This love story happened between a man and a woman and what plays in the background are all the great love songs that tell the histories of other loves when romance was vital and desire a form of intrigue and surrender that makes life feel like the inspiration for them all.


Oh, love. Oh, desire. They both make fools of otherwise sensible people. But they both also bring music, some sparkle, and a new view of not just the sun setting over the gulf but a different way of seeing one another and love itself.


Lovejoy is that story. And, yes, it is set in a Southern church, but the environment of worship is often a place where desire for something more than yourself is explored.


If you know that the experience of desire is different than its reputation, Lovejoy is for you.
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Daphne Simpkins is an Alabama writer and a church lady who usually writes from a different vantage point about church life in the South through her Mildred Budge books. She has also written books on caregiving and family life in the South. Befriend her on Facebook, Twitter, or LInkedin.com. Church ladies, like writers, can never have too many friends.