ENHANCE YOUR BOOK CLUB
1. ReShonda Tate Bilingsley has a knack for exposing her characters’ deepest flaws—but shows that there’s always a path to redemption. Select another title from her collection to read with your book club. Compare and contrast the flaws of the characters with What’s Done in the Dark and analyze through what devices the author communicates these traits.
2. Was there a time in your life when you needed to forgive someone? What about forgiving yourself? During your next book club meeting, ask everyone to share an experience with forgiveness and how it helped bring them peace (or regret).
3. Steven’s heart condition, which ultimately led to tragedy, set off the majority of events in What’s Done in the Dark. Support heart health awareness by scheduling a physical with your doctor or collecting donations from your book club to give to the American Heart Association.
4. It’s book club happy hour! Serve virgin margaritas and piña coladas at your next meet-up for a fun, festive treat—sans booze and bad decision-making.
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RESHONDA TATE BILLINGSLEY’s #1 national bestselling novels include Let the Church Say Amen, I Know I’ve Been Changed, and Say Amen, Again, winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Visit www.reshondatatebillingsley.com, meet the author on Facebook at reshondatatebillingsley, or follow her on Twitter @Reshondat.
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ALSO BY RESHONDA TATE BILLINGSLEY
Fortune & Fame (with Victoria Christopher Murray)
A Family Affair
Friends & Foes (with Victoria Christopher Murray)
Sinners & Saints (with Victoria Christopher Murray)
The Secret She Kept
Say Amen, Again
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Holy Rollers
The Devil Is a Lie
Can I Get A Witness
The Pastor’s Wife
Everybody Say Amen
I Know I’ve Been Changed
Let the Church Say Amen
My Brother’s Keeper
Have A Little Faith (with Jacquelin Thomas, J. D. Mason, and Sandra Kitt)
The Motherhood Diaries
Help! I’ve Turned Into My Mother
AND CHECK OUT RESHONDA’S YOUNG ADULT TITLES
Drama Queens
Caught Up in the Drama
Friends ’Til the End
Fair-Weather Friends
Getting Even
Blessings in Disguise
Nothing But Drama
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2014 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Billingsley, ReShonda Tate.
What’s done in the dark / ReShonda Tate Billingsley.
pages cm
1. Adultery—Fiction. 2. Betrayal—Fiction. 3. Guilt—Fiction. 4. Loss (Psychology)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3602.I445W43 2014
813'.6—dc23
2014013159
ISBN 978-1-4767-1492-9
ISBN 978-1-4767-1502-5 (ebook)