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This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.
Song lyrics to “Any Way the Wind Blows” by Bobby Daye.
Copyright © 2001 BobbY DayE MusiC, Inc.
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Table of Contents
Cover
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Part 1 - Side A
Chapter 1 - Yancey’s Big Reign
Chapter 2 - Bart’s Sweet Revenge
Chapter 3 - Basil’s Back
Chapter 4 - Motown’s New Diva
Chapter 5 - Drop ’em, Bart
Chapter 6 - Basil’s New Year’s Gift
Chapter 7 - Love … Peace and Yancey B
Chapter 8 - Bart Meets Miss Chicken
Chapter 9 - Calls Come … But Not the One
Chapter 10 - Yancey’s First Family Dinner
Chapter 11 - Bart’s Big Day/ A Change in the Weather
Chapter 12 - Stop in the Name of Lust
Chapter 13 - The Red Carpet
Chapter 14 - Stray Boyz
Chapter 15 - A Cold, Cold Wind
Chapter 16 - I’M Ready for My Close-Up
Chapter 17 - Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
Chapter 18 - Other Divas and Cp Time
Chapter 19 - The Rodeo Kings …(Or Queens)
Chapter 20 - The Dirty D.L.
Chapter 21 - Annie Get Your Switchblade
Chapter 22 - Seconds …
Chapter 23 - 3-D: Doug, Dee Dee & the Diva
Chapter 24 - Do You Hear What I Hear?
Chapter 26 - A Diva Duet
Chapter 27 - Steam Heat
Part 2 - Side B
Chapter 28 - Basil’s Pride and Joy
Chapter 29 - Lines from Lavonya
Chapter 30 - Top Forty
Chapter 31 - When Trouble Calls, You Betta Listen
Chapter 32 - Reunited
Chapter 33 - Don’t It Make my Gray Eyes Blue
Chapter 34 - The Lawyer and the Liar
Chapter 35 - Diva Dearest
Chapter 36 - Beauty Bonding
Chapter 37 - May I Serve You?
Chapter 38 - Bart’s Big Break
Chapter 39 - Desmond the Delicious
Chapter 40 - The Liars Who Lunch
Chapter 41 - Show Me Love … Please
Chapter 42 - Movin’ on Up
Chapter 43 - Friends and Strangers
Chapter 44 - Who Can I Turn To?
Chapter 45 - The Big Payback
Chapter 46 - Judgment Day
Chapter 47 - Bart’s Escape from New York
Chapter 48 - When the Worm Turns
Chapter 49 - Batman Returns
Chapter 50 - I’m A Survivor
Chapter 51 - You Make me Feel Brand-New
Chapter 52 - You’Ve Got A Friend
Chapter 53 - There’s No Place Like Home
Chapter 54 - Happy Birthday, Yancey
Chapter 55 - We Fall Down
Chapter 56 - Promises, Promises
Chapter 57 - The Diva is Dismissed!
Club Mix (The Finale)
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