The Team - Softcover

"An engrossing debut novel that will surely put Perkins on the 'black authors' A-list." - Booklist"

A BLACK WOMAN IS DETERMINED TO RECOVER FROM RAPE IN THIS CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PAGE-TURNER In this heart-wrenching story about one woman's refusal to let her past destroy her future, Gwen Fagan must overcome her frightening past in order to embrace her future. Gwen Fagan, a driven young black professional, doesn't much care that her social life is nonexistent. Until ex-basketball star Xavier Dean joins her firm. Xavier is a figure from Gwen's past, unknowingly linked to an event she has buried and tried to forget: and when the two slowly develop a mutual attraction, Gwen adamantly hides the fact that in college, ten years previously, she was brutally roaed by his friend and team-mate. As her relationship with Xavier deepens, Gwen finds it more difficult to cope with the burial of so much unresolved pain. When her rapist returns to Atlanta with his NBA team, events unfold that will change all three of their lives forever. THE TEAM is a fast-paced, dialogue driven take on a contemporary relationship that offers a shattering depiction of the psychic cost rape exacts on even the strongest-seeming survivors.