When Sexy Came Black to Cleveland

Warning: These berries are dipped in dark chocolate!

At age 23, beautiful Odessah Johnson seemed to have everything that a 23-year-old could have where she lived. Not adding up to much, she didn't want any of it. She was fed up with merely surviving-without a home, without parents, without cash, without a man who loved her, and without a future or a hope. She was even tired of her angelic children who were becoming more and more invisible to her-all three of them. When Odessah meets an international businessman who shows her how women are treated from his part of the world, she decides that this is the lifestyle that she and a few of her friends-the Blackberries-would never again-if they had anything to do with it-live without. After some groomin' and stylin', there would be only one thing left for her to do . . . take a drag from her Newport, drop the 'O' from her name as if it were a puff of smoke falling from her glossy lips, and let it encircle and cast spells all over Big Dirty Cleveland.