Welcome to Clacksdale

Superstar business mogul Aaron Robbins was determined to become the richest black man in the world before he hit forty, and the richest man on earth by fifty. But the handsome hard-driving go-getter was struck down by a horrific tragedy that changed his outlook on life forever. Instead of chasing more riches and more power, he learned to love God and goodness and to follow after righteousness in his new life. He found himself, fifteen years later, in a small country town on assignment to clean up the troubled church there. A no-nonsense man of principle, he intended to do just that. What he never intended to do was to fall in love. But that was before he met the Hurricane.

Tracie Caine, derisively called the Hurricane by many in her hometown, was a force of nature that didn't suffer fools at all and didn't take any gruff from anybody. She spoke her mind no matter who was in front of her, was honest in her dealings and comportment, and was an unlikely businesswoman who refused to let the doubters and naysayers destroy her dreams. While raising two teenage sons alone, she was working overtime to keep her struggling Bed and Breakfast in her hands and out of the hands of the conniving bank that wanted it. A woman with no room for love or anything remotely resembling happiness, she was chasing legacy for her sons and respect for herself. But that was before she met Aaron, the only human being that ever looked beyond her tough exterior and saw her wounded heart.

And when trouble finds Tracie on every hand, it is Aaron who comes to her rescue. And despite the townspeople, who decide to hold his affection for Tracie against him by threatening his powerful leadership position in the national church, he refuses to let her down like everybody else in her entire life always had.
But can two people so polar opposite ever find true happiness?
And will the townspeople ever stop holding their pasts against them?

Welcome To Clacksdale is a new, feel-good novel by veteran romance author Teresa McClain-Watson, who also writes as bestselling novelist Mallory Monroe.