"Sometimes life is not always black and white. Sometimes it is the color of love." Two novellas of the pre-civil rights south. THE BOY NEXT DOOR, a love story between a black woman and a lonely white child. Follow them into hell, the Black Water swamp, in their desperate struggle to remain together against all odds. FLOTATION JONES, a murder mystery swirling around a young black girl with a musical gift that may save her life and that of the watermelon man who loves her.