Living in the Middle
About this ebook
1896, New York City/Tulsa: James Montgomery II, a 35-year-old Manhattan playboy, discovers that his family’s fortune has been reduced to almost nothing when his parents pass away. He attempts to rebuild his finances with a risky oil prospecting venture, which takes him to Tulsa.
James falls in love while in Oklahoma, but hides his relationship---Tulsa isn’t ready for a mixed-race couple. Soon, there is a child on the way and his business deal falls apart. James is out of options financially and struggling to find a way personally. He receives an unorthodox proposal that offers a financial solution at a great personal cost. Should he accept it and go back to living the life to which he’d become accustomed in New York, or stay and find a way forward with his new family? Pick up a copy to find out.
TICKET TO TULSA is a short-story prequel (word count 9600), which sets the stage for events that will transpire eighteen years later In the associated novel, LIVING IN THE MIDDLE.
About the author
A. Robert Allen has published four novels and two short-story prequels in his Slavery and Beyond series. All are stand-alone stories connected by theme. He writes historical fiction that transports readers to times and places immediately before or soon after the end of slavery. A. Robert is a long-time higher education professional and resides in New York. The first volume in the series, Failed Moments, is a fictional account of Allen’s ancestors in 1790 during the slave revolution in what would become Haiti and later in 1863 during New York’s Draft Riots. The second volume, A Wave From Mama, immerses readers in racially charged post Civil War Brooklyn and gives an interesting look at the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. The third book in the series, Minetta Lane, takes place in 1904 in a downtown New York neighborhood that lives by an unusual race-based code. The prequel to this third volume, Minetta Mornings, takes place twenty-five years earlier. His most recent release, Living in the Middle, transports readers to perhaps the most violent and significant incident of racial violence in U.S. history, the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921. The prequel to this novel, which takes place in 1896, is entitled Ticket to Tulsa. Find out more about the author and his works at his website: http://arobertallen.com