To Buy a Vow, Chencia C. Higgins
To Buy a Vow, Chencia C. Higgins
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To Buy a Vow

Author: Chencia C. Higgins

Narrator: Denise Wallace

Unabridged: 6 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: EKOL Media

Published: 10/15/2019


Synopsis

What if we could buy a vow to right our wrongs?
For Nedra Phillips, the strain of portraying a strong Black woman to outsiders is finally taking its toll on her. Her marriage to her college sweetheart has begun to fizzle out, with conversations dwindling down to nothing and intimacy becoming sporadic at best. Unwilling to endure the stigma of being a 30-something divorcee, she does everything in her power to hold onto her marriage, but Chris isn't just on a different page, he's in a whole other book entirely. Despite their disconnect, her vows meant something to her and marriage is supposed to be forever. When all seems lost, she makes a last-ditch effort in hopes of generating results, but what exactly does a Hail Mary look like between friends and lovers?
Jermaine Hawkins is nearing the end of a prominent career playing professional basketball and is ready to put his retirement plan into action. That plan includes many things but most important on the list is putting an end to his status as a hermit and starting a family. A chance encounter with a firecracker of a woman makes him think he's found his capital F. But whether that F is for "future" or "frustrating" is to be determined. Can Jermaine convince Nedra that everything happens for a reason while also getting her to give him a chance at something real?

About Chencia C. Higgins

Chencia C. Higgins is just a girl from Texas who has made it her mission to create stories in which sassy, southern Black women are loved out loud. In 2019 she won a Romance Slam Jam Emma award for her debut paranormal romance, Janine: His True Alpha. When she isn't hunkered down in her writing cave, Chencia can be found with her nose in a book, saving recipes on Pinterest for things she’ll never make, and dreaming about travelling even further south for the winter.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Annette on July 15, 2020

I absolutely loved To Buy a Vow! This was such a heartwarming love story. It pulls you in from page one. I want to say Chris did Nedra dirty but, he really didn't. I understand why he asked for a divorced but, the way he went about it was all kinds of wrong. He definitely should've handled that bett......more

Goodreads review by Tsholonki on August 27, 2024

The bar was set really high for me with Book 1 l: To Buy A Vow. One of those stories that prove that marriage doesn't always end because of infidelity or betrayal but someone you just aren't on the same frequency and that's exactly the case with Chris and Nedra, the way in which Chris did it was def......more

Goodreads review by Erica on May 13, 2021

Marriage is hard and sometimes it just don’t work out but there is a way to dissolve your marriage with some grace. Unfortunately Nedra’s husband Chris failed on this. In this read we met Nedra Phillips - a gun enthusiast - who is married at the beginning of the read. She is mad and confused as to w......more

Goodreads review by Diane on June 27, 2018

Very good This was a super sweet read, I only wish that it had been longer. There was a lot to unpack and while it was definitely well written, I feel that Nedra and Jermaine deserved more development.......more

Goodreads review by Katie on October 15, 2022

This author is a new favorite of mine, but this book didn’t quite hit for me. As usual, I liked the writing and the characters, but the pacing felt off to me. We only get to really see the MCs together for the last 25ish%. To me, the middle of the book dragged a bit and then at the end it felt rushe......more