The Quartermain

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Thisbook is an entertaining fictional story with compassion, wit and romance.¿ It chronicles the lives of a group ofaffluent African Americans from diverse backgrounds.¿ These people have all become successful inthe careers they have chosen.SteveHurley, a very wealthy man, had been in a relationship with a younger womanmany years ago.¿ Their lives cross againat the Quartermain and he begins to think they can rekindle their relationship.¿ Then, quite coincidentally he learns that heis actually her father.¿ This revelationnearly drives him crazy.Thestory also brings out the emotional struggles of Shannon Davis who was raisedin foster homes; the envy she feels towards her friend Kristen, whom she reallyadores.¿ She is afraid to put her trustin men, because she feels the only man who ever cared for her walked out of herlife.¿ However, she is a determined womanwho struggles to be a success with her own business.¿ In the end, she is shocked to find out shehas inherited a vast fortune.