Years ago, long before the girl power, Black Girl Magic and the Me-Too movements, I watched Angela Jolie in the movie Laura Croft Tomb Raider. I was in love with movies again. I thought. Wow! Finally, an attractive woman in a lead role where she carries everything. She played the role of an adventurer, normally inhabited by a man. Think Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones series or Nicholas Cage in the National Treasure series, both men played adventurer roles. Their movies were quite popular with moviegoers.
While watching Tomb Raider again, years later, I thought to myself. How come there aren’t more action movies like this with women or minorities in main roles. Why aren’t they the stars of show? Is it because nobody would pay to see movies like this? I’d go see it. I bet I could find plenty of other folks would too. When Marvel brought Luke Cage to Netflix and it was so popular, I thought yay! Finally, a handsome Black man was starring in an adventure series that was popular enough to warrant a second-year renewal. Black Panther sealed the deal. It drew international appeal and acclaim as third most watched and popular movies of all time.
Still I wondered. What about me and folks like me? Where’s my ‘shero’? I decided I’d write a series of books about a Black lesbian (code name Dutch Chocolate) with a background in NYPD as a sergeant in East Harlem, joining the army and going to the Middle East in Intel then returned to work in one of NYPD’s specialized street crime units. She eventually decides to become a PI.
In this third novel, I decided to add a mystical indigenous people ingredient. Since Dutch is single again and intends to stay that way for life. She still feels guilty about the two special women who died because they knew and loved her. I thought, what kind of woman would bring Dutch back to world of caring and love? I decided she would have to be equal or more than Dutch in terms of leadership, intellect, empathy, physical strength, street-smarts and people sense. And I introduced Game Warden Linda Whitehawk. I also presented Linda’s visionary, soothsaying grandmother G-MA who is more than a match for both women.
Once again, I must say how much I had fun writing the series. I hope you will enjoy reading Dutch Chocolate3: Blood Lust, the third novel in the Dutch Chocolate Series.
Available for pre-order 2/10/21. The release date is 3/02/21.
Here are the links for: Dutch Chocolate3: Blood Lust
Kindle USA: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08WC99FDS
Kindle UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08WC99FDS
Amazon Print: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08WJTPT36
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1068595
Book Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x35Cw4tZHo&feature=youtu.be
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