The Love We Had

by Natalie Dunbar

Book Overview

A Young Woman Is Forced To Choose Between The Secure Life Or A Passionate One; Imani's relationship with Perry was doomed to failure. A high-flying basketball star, he found the temptations of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158571058X
• ISBN13: 9781585710584
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Genesis Press (MS)
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.8" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

I Love Him; I Love Him Not

Imani has loved Perry for as long as she can remember, but because he is a player she sends him packing. She then devotes he attention to her modeling career. Months later she is shopping , when she sees Perry with a mothe that she immediately thinks is his. Perry tell her it's his nephew. Into Imani life come the handsome, well eduacted Judge Damon, who places a diamond to die for on her hand. But wait there is a fly in the milk the Judge has a law clerk who is intersted in him, she flirts every chance she gets. Imani gets the modeling job of her life, and guess who is assigned to work with her on the lovely island, yes it's Perry. Working together daily is throwing a monkey wrench in Imani planse to marry the Judge. Perry admitts he loves her but that he want beg or wait to long. When she sees the Judge with the law clerk at an ungodley hour of the morning and the embrace they are in she now has second thoughts about her marriage to him. Imani realizes she loves Perry, and wants to be his wife. But she knows he want ask her to marry him again, Imani bite the bullet and proposes to him, with the promise to love him forever.

True Love

Love, trust, and compassion are the makings of the powerful and stirring romance novel by Natalie Dunbar, The Love We Had. Imani Celeste is a beautiful African American model whose dreams have been scattered. She has always wanted a man who could provide a good life for her and someone that she could love. Imani is troubled and just getting over Post Partum Depression, which has left her at the lowest point in her life. She is forced to care for her critically ill mother although she was kicked out of the family home at seventeen when she wasn't at fault. Imani spots Perry, her ex-lover in a local grocery store and notices that he has a baby with him. She is hurt and devastated. There were rumors that after their breakup that Perry was dating a pregnant starlet and engaged to be married and it's been almost a year since she has seen him. She looks at the baby and realizes how much he looks like Perry. Her eyes fill up with tears and she thinks about when she was carrying Perry's baby.Judge Damon Kessler is just the type of man Imani is searching for. He is stable and has a good standing in the community and definitely financially able to give Imani the best life. He loves her with a passion and is everything that Perry is not. However, through a chance encounter Imani and Perry are forced to deal with their feelings. They must learn to forgive each other and not forget the love they had.Dunbar takes romantic fiction to a new level with this fast paced easy to read novel and the storyline is excellent. While the plot is somewhat predictable it's what happens in between that makes this novel a winner. I enjoyed reading the novel because I am a native Detroiter, so I saw some of the names of some of the characters as being similar to some very prominent people who live in Detroit. I look forward to reading other works by this author.Reviewed by Dorothy Cooperwood

Good follow-up story

For anyone who has never read Natalie Dunbar, she is a woman of magnificent creativity with a sense of reality. BEST OF FRIENDS was her first book with Indigo and I found that story to be very fulfilling. This is also the book that you first meet Perry and Imani. Imani, the beautiful model, and Perry, the fantastic basketball player, have been split for a year at the beginning of THE LOVE WE HAD. They run into each other at a grocery story with Perry's nephew (that Imani thinks is his son by another woman). They quickly get over that misunderstanding and try to forge a friendship, At the same time, we have Damon, the older man in Imani's life. He is a well respected judge who has quite a female following. While these two men try to win Imani's affection, her mother (who had kicked her out of the house at age seventeen) has cancer and is dying. The bond between those two is stagnant, at best. I will not give away the rest of the story. Just to let you know, Imani becomes engaged to Judge Damon but Perry is waiting for Imani, so they can rekindle THE LOVE THEY HAD!

Great Book To Read

I just finished Natalie Dunbar's new book and it was so good! Imani had been through so much in the past with being kicked out by her mother at seventeen when she wasn't at fault and then losing Piston's Basketball player, Perry's baby and going through post partum depression. The story begins when she spots him in a grocery store and is sure the baby is his and a starlet he'd been linked with in the gossip magazines. Taking care of her now critically ill mother, staying away from Perry, and trying to marry the kind of man she's always wanted is more than she can do. Despite the trials of Perry and Imani, they can't forget the love they had. True love triumphs over all.