One Step Further

"One Step Further," is the continuing story of Cynthia Harris, a young African American woman from Alabama.

After graduating from college, through hard-work and determination Cynthia achieves an amazing position as an advertising executive in New York City and was recently promoted to Vice-President. She is successful, engaged to her college sweetheart, and all is right with the world. That is, until she returns home for a high school class reunion, and her wonderful world begins to crumble. Cynthia realizes that no matter how much time passes, there is always that one amazing love, which keeps rearing its ugly head, and has the potential to destroy everything she has worked for. However, the passion and intensity of what could have been keeps pulling her back into a moment of madness, forgetting that the relationship was toxic and not worthy of her love. Finally, Cynthia is forced to face the love ghost of her past, to bring the madness to an end.

Vanessa Brown is a proud graduate of Alabama State University, with an undergraduate degree in Business Administration. Her academic and social experience at ASU, coupled with strong family values has played a major role in the development of her personal and professional life. Vanessa Brown enjoys a very strong bond with her beloved ASU. She credits her professional success to her HBCU experience and the firm dedication of the faculty and staff of ASU. Only a graduate of ASU, will understand that bond, as well as the gravitational pull, which exists within, each time there is the honor to walk the campus of O' Mother Dear. Without a doubt the HBCU experience is extraordinary and forever life changing. Vanessa Brown received her MBA from the University of Phoenix. After thirty-six wonderful years in banking, healthcare, higher education, and surviving the lockdown of a pandemic, Vanessa Brown rediscovered her passion for writing. In addition to her love of writing, she enjoys quiet time on her patio listening to soothing jazz music, while savoring great Southern seafood. Currently, Vanessa Brown lives in Mobile, Alabama, also known as the birthplace of Mardi Gras.