After an impressive run in hardcover as the #1 Blackboard bestseller for four consecutive months, a Featured Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club, and a Black Expressions Book Club selection, "Casting the First Stone" now joins It's A Thin Line (Dafina Hardcover, May 2001) on the Dafina list for its trade paperback edition. With each book, Kimberla Lawson Roby becomes more firmly established as a writer who captures the voice, the emotional life and the heart of her readers. Filled with complex and engaging characters", Casting the First Stone" is the story of a woman torn between salvaging the marriage which has given her both happiness and heartbreak, and savoring her first sweet taste of independence.Tanya Black has everything a woman could want: a fulfilling career, a beautiful daughter, an elegant home, and a handsome, charismatic husband who is pastor of a prominent Baptist church. And yet, Tanya can no longer deny that the calm surface of her life hides a growing turbulence. Her husband Curtis, once a supportive partner and passionate lover, has grown remote, and Tanya has the uneasy feeling that her comfortable life is about to change forever.When Tanya discovers disturbing truths about Curtis, she is plunged into a bittersweet journey of discovery. For while she learns painful new lessons about love, betrayal, and sensual temptation, she also discovers, within herself, the wisdom to celebrate the victories that are hers alone.