Overview
Sharon Robinson has captivated readers with Stealing Home, her memoir of a life growing up in the public eye, and Jackie's Nine, a book for young readers about the nine heartfelt, hard-won values that helped her father, Jackie Robinson, achieve his goals. Now, she has turned her pen to a new genre to delight a new audience of readers: the lovers of romance novels. STILL THE STORM is an engrossing story of betrayal, forgiveness and triumph set against the backdrop of political drama in a wealthy Connecticut suburb.
Drawing from her own first-hand knowledge of the political campaign process and life in the public spotlight, Ms. Robinson has written a strong, savvy heroine who readers will immediately embrace. Jennifer Kelly is a fiery, free-spirited professional fundraiser who returns to her hometown to confront her father and the past after learning that she has a half-sister she has never met. When she returns home, she is quickly drawn into the political web of Michael Wingate, Connecticut's first African-American to run for the U.S. Senate and the candidate her father, Moses, Michael's political mentor, is about to endorse. Moses agrees to help Jennifer find his other daughter on one condition: Jennifer must remain in Connecticut and lead Michael's fundraising efforts during the last stage of the campaign. Thrust into the frenzied pace of the campaign, Jennifer and Michael discover a shared passion for politics and each other; while just weeks into her work, shocking yet true revelations about the candidate are uncovered that threaten his Senatorial bid and their budding romance. How Jennifer handles finding her half-sister, falling in love and coping with hurt and disappointment takes the reader on this one woman's courageous, whirlwind attempt to "still the storm" within.
Whether writing for adults or young readers and with the same sensitivity that she has brought to her non-fiction books, Sharon Robinson, once again, weaves the value of commitment (one of the nine highlighted in Jackie's Nine and a common thread across her career) through STILL THE STORM. Readers are certain to be seduced by these characters and turn each page eager for more.
About the Author
Sharon Robinson is the vice president of educational programming for Major League Baseball and serves on the Board of Directors of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. Prior to joining Major League Baseball, she had a 20-year career as a nurse-midwife and educator, teaching at such prestigious universities as Yale, Columbia, Howard and Georgetown. Ms. Robinson is the author of Stealing Home (HarperCollins) and Jackie's Nine (Scholastic). She has a son and resides in New York City and St. Croix.