From Across the Divide — K. Victoria Chase

A prodigal son returns home to discover what is truly important in life: family, freedom, and love. 

Freedman, Alabama--1963 

With the charms of debauchery fading, Eric Montgomery travels home in search of a fresh start. Shadows of his past trail him to a place of division and desolation...and not only in his mind. The fractured faith of his youth is tested among the injustice of his people and the lure of a beautiful--but holy--black woman. 

The return of her best friend is an answer to prayer in the most unexpected way. The boy Elie Brown knew is now a man; one whose kiss compels her to a choice forbidden by her people. They can't even sit together in the same restaurant; how can their love survive? 

An interracial Christian romance.