Onedia N Gage

Promises, Promises Onedia N Gage

"What the world needs now is love, sweet love," popular words from yesterday that we keep singing today. It is the journey of love traveled by the heroine in Onedia N. Gage's novel that entices us to travel down that same road. Dr. Antoinette M. Harden, affectionately known to her family, friends, and colleagues as "Toni," is a well-respected pediatrician, and adorned by many in her community. With the love and support of her close friends, Darius, the tall dark and handsome man every woman wants in her life, and Jelly, the sister-friend who is real enough not to be threatened by Toni's many accomplishments, Toni blazes through life. By choosing to love Toni gets bruised along the way, a failed relationship with her father that leaves her with questions until that relationship meets head on with her future does she attempt to get the answers that will allow her to choose to love again. Toni will meet the man, Philip, who she will love unconditionally, but not before Jonathan who she stayed with for no good reason except it wasn't time for the wonders of Philip. Toni learns in life that until you know what you don't want, will you know what it is that you do want.